The best moment on A Head Full Of Dreams,
Coldplay’s soupy mess of a new album, is the moment when Beyoncé shows
up on the song “Hymn For The Weekend.” That perfect human being has now
graciously donated more of her time so that Coldplay could make a video
for the song. The clip, from director Ben Mor,
features Coldplay performing at what appears to be an Indian street
fair and wandering into the city while fireworks explode above. Beyoncé
never appears onscreen with the boys; instead, she plays some sort of
Bollywood screen queen, which is some pretty decent casting if you
ignore the whole cultural-appropriation angle. It’s a beautifully shot
video, and I like the part where Chris Martin hangs his head out the
window of a moving car, like a dog.
LA electro duo OOFJ first got together in New York while working on Lars Von Trier’s movie Melancholia. And today they once again find themselves at the intersection of music and film. Along with director Jonathan Turner, they apply some cinematic savvy and subtle CGI in their new “Don’t Look” video. A love story unfolds as two human-like cyborgs a la I, Robot explore each other’s bodies and movements between cuts of synchronized dances and trippy CGI sequences. The video isn’t sexually charged, but there are some wonderfully weird moments within the journey through the cyborg body. OOFJ’s track takes on a scoring capacity, with layers of playful synth elevating the wonder and intrigue of the cyborg figures. Check it out over at Nowness.