Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

What this video is

Released March 19, 2013, 'Mirrors' arrived as the second single from The 20/20 Experience — Timberlake's first album in seven years — and marked a pivotal shift in his artistic identity from dance-pop performer to emotionally mature auteur. The video is a tribute to his maternal grandparents, Sadie and William Bomar, who were married for 62 years until William's death in December 2012. At 8 minutes, the video…

Why it matters

A landmark in the cinematic turn of mainstream pop music video production. 'Mirrors' demonstrated that a pop single could sustain an 8-minute, narratively complex, performance-minimal video and achieve mass commercial and critical success simultaneously. Its VMA Video of the Year win validated the…

The director

Italian-Canadian director and photographer (born 1965, Pescara, Italy; raised Hamilton, Ontario). Studied painting and photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Began career as fashion photographer before transitioning to music video direction.…