Radiohead - Knives Out

What this video is

Released in August 2001 as the second single from Radiohead's Amnesiac — itself a companion piece to Kid A (2000) — 'Knives Out' occupies a pivotal moment in British rock: the post-Britpop dissolution, when guitar-oriented indie bands were either fragmenting or radically reinventing their sound. Radiohead had already broken from guitar-rock orthodoxy with Kid A, and Amnesiac deepened that rupture. 'Knives Out' was…

Why it matters

Represents the intersection of British post-rock experimentation and auteur music video culture at the turn of the millennium. The video exemplifies Gondry's signature single-take, in-camera choreography methodology and contributed to the emerging canon of music videos treated as short narrative…

The director

French filmmaker and music video director born 1963 in Versailles, France. Began career directing videos for his band Oui Oui before Björk commissioned him for 'Human Behaviour' (1993), launching a prolific music video career with artists including Daft…