Travis - Re-Offender

What this video is

Released September 2003, 'Re-Offender' marks Travis's most emotionally direct work, anchored in the darker themes of the '12 Memories' album. The single arrived during a period of post-Britpop recalibration in UK indie rock, as many acts from the late-1990s wave adopted more introspective, sonically restrained approaches. Anton Corbijn's direction amplifies this gravity: his well-established visual grammar of…

Why it matters

A landmark in early-2000s UK indie video production, 'Re-Offender' demonstrates how the post-Britpop generation used high-prestige directors — here, Anton Corbijn at the height of his music-video reputation — to lend emotional and aesthetic credibility to difficult subject matter. The video's…

The director

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn (born 20 May 1955, Strijen, Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and feature film director. He began as a music photographer around 1975 and rose to prominence via NME in the late 1970s. He has directed…