Jackson and His Computerband - Dead Living Things

What this video is

Released in September 2013 to accompany the album Glow — Jackson Fourgeaud's long-awaited sophomore LP on Warp Records after an eight-year hiatus — the video for 'Dead Living Things' sits at the intersection of French electronic music's art-cinema ambitions and the broader 2010s revival of noir visual language in music video production. Directed by Alexandre Courtès, a central visual architect of the French Touch…

Why it matters

Represents a mature strain of post-French Touch IDM/electronica where music video production aspired to art-cinema legitimacy. The Courtès-directed video extends the tradition of visually auteurist electronic music videos (Daft Punk, Justice) into darker, more decadent surrealist territory,…

The director

French artist and director of music videos and feature films. Studied at Penninghen art school. Began career designing album artwork for Cassius, Daft Punk, and Air, and designed Daft Punk's iconic helmets. Began directing music videos in 1999. Won a Grammy…