Sébastien Tellier - L'amour et la violence

What this video is

Released in 2009 as a single from Tellier's landmark album 'Sexuality' (2008, Record Makers), this video arrives at the apex of the Paris electronic music scene's global influence — the same ecosystem that produced Daft Punk, Justice, and Phoenix. Tellier had represented France at Eurovision 2008 with 'Divine', dramatically raising his international profile. The video's intimate, warmly-lit, unhurried aesthetic…

Why it matters

Represents the peak of 2000s French nu-disco as high-art form — slow, sensual, deliberately anti-MTV-commercial in pacing. The video's aesthetic codified a mode of European electro-pop visual language that influenced subsequent decade of lo-fi warm-toned indie pop music video production globally.…

The director

Roman François Coppola (b. April 22, 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and music video director; son of Francis Ford Coppola. Founder of The Directors Bureau production company. His music video work earned a Grammy…