Lacquer - Behind (Clip officiel)

What this video is

Released under BMG France in 2002, 'Behind' by Lacquer (Stéphane Jounot, a Nantes-born French electronic artist) emerged at the tail end of the international 'French Touch' moment — the global fascination with Parisian electronic production that had defined the late 1990s. Jounot's aesthetic drew explicitly on 1980s influences filtered through introspective electropop songwriting. The commissioning of Michel and…

Why it matters

Represents a rare intersection of French Touch electropop and the American road-movie visual tradition, mediated through the Gondry brothers' minimalist-conceptualist video language. The no-performer, journey-as-video format was ahead of its time as a format later popularized in the age of YouTube…

The director

Michel Gondry (b. May 8, 1963, Versailles, France) is a French filmmaker and music video director. He directed Björk's 'Human Behaviour' (1993), earned Grammy nominations for Best Music Video, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal…