Björk - All Is Full of Love (Radio Strings Mix) (Original 4K Music Video)

What this video is

Released in June 1999, 'All Is Full of Love' arrived at the precise cultural moment when fin-de-siècle anxiety about technology, bodies, and posthuman identity was at its peak. The video translated Björk's vision of a 'white, frozen' heaven that 'melts because of love' into a cinematic language of cybernetic assembly and same-form robotic intimacy, proposing that machines could serve as vessels for genuine…

Why it matters

The video is a canonical document of late-1990s art-electronic music video practice, representing the apex of the Warp Records-adjacent visual aesthetic that Chris Cunningham pioneered. It synthesised trip-hop's sensual languor with IDM's machine-logic and art-installation ambitions, producing a…

The director

Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970, Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English video artist and music video director. Early career work included prosthetic and animatronic design for film, culminating in animatronic design for Stanley Kubrick's A.I.…