Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal

What this video is

Released in 2008 after a 19-year gap in Grace Jones's studio output, Corporate Cannibal arrived during a period of acute global financial crisis and rising anti-corporate sentiment that would later crystallize in the Occupy movement. The video's complete rejection of conventional pop-video spectacle — no dancers, no set, no color, no costume — functions as a formal embodiment of its lyrical thesis: that corporate…

Why it matters

A landmark in conceptual music video production, Corporate Cannibal demonstrates that the genre could function as pure visual philosophy. By reducing the video to a single distorted body against a black void — zero narrative, zero set, zero color — Hooker and Jones established a template for…

The director

Nick Hooker is a US filmmaker and Creative Director who previously worked in film development in London for Working Title, Miramax, and Fine Line Features. He served as Creative Director Content at Framestore, producing work for Vanity Fair, U2, and Grace…