Petite Meller - Aeroplane

What this video is

Released in August 2019, 'Aeroplane' marked Petite Meller's return after a three-year hiatus following her 2016 debut album Lil Empire. Written aboard a flight to Rio de Janeiro, the song fuses samba rhythms with club-oriented synths and North African percussion — a sonic map of Meller's multicultural identity as a French-Israeli artist rooted in philosophy, jazz, and world music. The video extends her signature…

Why it matters

A key document of late-2010s indie art-pop, the video exemplifies a micro-genre of philosophy-inflected, fashion-auteur pop video-making in which the director-artist relationship is closer to a cinematic collaboration than a promotional exercise. A.T. Mann and Petite Meller's multi-year…

The director

Asaf T. Mann is a film director and architect with international recognition for hyper-aesthetic, fashion-oriented music videos. He is a long-term creative collaborator with Petite Meller (Island Records / Warner Chappell), having directed videos for her…