Photo by Tom Bland
Just this month, a cataclysmic video for electro veterans Massive Attack's "Splitting The Atom" dropped, prompting a bunch of speculation over its message and more directly, what kind of monster that is at the end. The video's dark sprawl however, is a vision of French director Edouard Salier. A visual arts renaissance man, Salier has created acclaimed projects in film, photography, graphic design, commercial ads and pretty much everything else that can come from a mind that Pratt students will probably be studying one day.
With a unified focus in landscapes and illusion, Salier's work is far from repetitive and having drummed up clips for artists as diverse as Raphael Saadiq and Air, the director melds music and imagination to build visuals transcending each. Though he's as yet underutilized stateside, here are 5 videos you should know directed by Edouard Salier...
Massive Attack "Splitting the Atom'"
RELEASED: 2010
• Salier's wondering balloon tour of a Gotham suspended gives the Massive Attack single an even more detached tone considering the mayhem revealed at the video's end. According to the director his mission is to make people question themselves, but all we're left wondering is why more people haven't used him?
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