The White Stripes - City Lights

What this video is

Released in September 2016, eight years after The White Stripes' final studio album and five years after their official dissolution, 'City Lights' surfaced as an archival rarity — originally composed for the 2005 album Get Behind Me Satan but left unreleased until Jack White rediscovered it during Third Man's 2015 Record Store Day vinyl reissue project. The video's release coincided with Jack White Acoustic…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of the Gondry/White Stripes visual language: maximally stripped of production apparatus to achieve maximum emotional resonance. Where earlier collaborations ('Fell in Love With a Girl,' 'The Hardest Button to Button') deployed kinetic ingenuity, 'City Lights' inverts the…

The director

Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963, Versailles, France) is a French film director, screenwriter, and musician. He began directing music videos for his band Oui Oui before Björk recruited him to direct 'Human Behaviour' (1993). He earned Grammy nominations for…