Justice- “Stress” ; Dir. Romain-Gavras
Notice the perfect cinematography for this aggravating song. The subtly central mise-en-scene and active yet simple narrative of French street youths make this a charged and compelling video, but these are not the reason I draw your attention to it.
Though the relatively simple video is irrelevant in any high-brow issues such as race, gender, class, or anything taught to be of importance in the lecture hall, it is remains a video worth watching as it shows high-level creativity on a low budget can easily trump the exercises in catering to the lowest common denominator pushed out by Hollywood’s harem of pop music whores (i.e. Bieber, 50 cent, etc). There is no booty shaking, no making it rain, and no generic dance choreography.
For the sake of preventing the degeneration of aesthetic taste in music video, more videos like these need to be made.
