Superbus - All Alone

What this video is

Released in June 2012 as the lead single from Superbus's fifth studio album 'Sunset' (Polydor/Universal Music France), 'All Alone' represents the band's most internationally oriented creative gesture: a French-language pop-rock song thematically and visually set in Los Angeles, directed by a French expatriate filmmaker working in California. The video's LA street setting literalises the song's lyrical longing for…

Why it matters

Represents a mature phase of French pop-rock crossover production, in which Francophone bands adopted Anglo-American music video conventions — location shooting, cinematic lighting, fast-cut editing — while retaining French-language lyrics. The warm, high-contrast Los Angeles aesthetic situates…

The director

Mark Maggiori (b. June 16, 1977, Fontainebleau, France) is a French-American multidisciplinary artist: painter, graphic designer, musician, and music video director. Trained at Académie Julian in Paris and Walt Disney Animation France. Served as lead…