Music Video
see all genres ›Music films place a particularly special emphasis on sound, whether as dramatic musicals, documentary portraits of musicians or abstract evocations of rhythm and melody.
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Act of Being Polite
After gaining notoriety for their burn-it-down deconstructionist covers of popular hits (including songs by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and James Brown), the anonymous Residents produced their own insincere iteration of a Top 40 chart. The second of their "One Minute...Watch Movie
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In the Beginning Was the End
"De-evolution," the idea that mankind is on a downward spiral of regression, was initially espoused by deconstructionist rockers Devo as a joke until the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State (including band members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh),...Watch Movie
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Moisture
After gaining notoriety for their burn-it-down deconstructionist covers of popular hits (including songs by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and James Brown), the anonymous Residents produced their own insincere iteration of a Top 40 chart with the "Commercial Album" (composed entirely of forty...Watch Movie
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The Simple Song
The fourth and final segment of the Residents' "One Minute Movies" (appropriately titled THE SIMPLE SONG) finds the band in a jazzy cakewalk around a dead piglet covered with candles. In keeping with the theme of the "Commercial Album" and the song's title, the handful of lyrics keep everything...Watch Movie
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Work on Me
A love that transports through time and place. Inspired by iconic NYC love scenes from the 1970's, and an ode to Maya Deren's MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON. This meticulous craft of cutting-on-action proposes a dance as if it were literally occurring in front of you, like a live performance.Watch Movie
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Cet air-là
Cet Air là is a famous french song from 1963, sung live by NY singer April March in acapella with Julien Gasc. The couple is singing while flying over a superimposed 16mm projection of a stop motion animation of a series of clouds, birds, bubbles, smoke machines and glitter, the song has the...Watch Movie
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The Hands That Shaped Me
This short twelve minute music film is a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Pellington and the New York rock band The Indecent. Focusing on a true story of loss and dissonance, the film features the triplets Emily, Maddie and Bo Brout. The film is part musical eulogy and...Watch Movie
