Bluvertigo - L.S.D. La Sua Dimensione (videoclip)

What this video is

Released in 1995 as part of Bluvertigo's debut album Acidi e Basi ('Acids and Bases'), this videoclip belongs to the first wave of Italian alternative rock acts gaining serious domestic MTV exposure. Bluvertigo, formed in Milan in 1992, were among the most experimentally ambitious Italian bands of their generation. The title L.S.D. is a double acronym — ostensibly standing for 'La Sua Dimensione' ('Its/His/Her…

Why it matters

Key early artifact of Italian 1990s alternative rock visual culture; demonstrates the genre's ambition to engage with fine-art and conceptual video aesthetics. The Orlowski-Gligorov collaboration foreshadows later Italian indie-art crossovers and remains a reference point for the aesthetic…

The director

Alex Orlowski (Alessandro Orlowski, b. Parma, 20 Sept 1967) is an Italian film director and art director who began as a musician and producer before shooting his first music video in 1991. By the mid-1990s he was one of Italy's most prolific videoclip…