RoBERT- Les jupes - RoBERT- Les jupes

What this video is

Released in July 1992 in France via Columbia Records, 'Les Jupes' by RoBERT (Myriam Roulet) belongs to a transitional moment in French alternative pop and early synth-pop, positioned between the late-1980s Eurodance wave and the mid-1990s consolidation of French electronic music (which would culminate in acts like Daft Punk). RoBERT's style — described as fairy-like, gothic, and baroque-electronic — was an outlier…

Why it matters

A rare early document of Michel Gondry's pre-Björk French period, 'Les Jupes' captures the director's emerging surrealist and recursive visual grammar in a low-profile French alternative pop context. It sits within a small body of early-90s French art-pop videos that bridged European synth-pop…

The director

Michel Gondry (born 8 May 1963, Versailles, France) is a French filmmaker and music video director. He began his career directing videos for French pop-rock band Oui Oui, of which he was the drummer. His early French music video work, including 'Les Jupes'…