Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – “We No Who U R”

A quick spoiler: Nothing happens in this video. It’s just a shadow slowly looming its way through a forest, with no twist at the end. But I still sat nervous through the entire thing, waiting for some sort of hammer to drop, and that’s entirely because Gaspar Noé’s name was on this thing. Up until the final second, I was ready for something on the level of the face-caved-in scene from Irreversible. That’s how you know a filmmaker has power: When his mere name turns a stretch of experimental nothingness into a harrowing experience.