Fairy tale clips

TINT “Wolf IS Stupid”

In the video “Wolf Is Stupid” Girls from the group TINT , dressed as the main character of the fairy tale “Red cap” , try to attract the attention of the object his love - a wolf. The end of the video strikes with originality, as it differs from the usual sad end of a fairy tale.

Oh My Girl Closer

Clip "Closer" is a fairy tale, not based on an already existing story. The mysterious forest and the ruined castle bring their niche. However, some details are still borrowed from fairy tales "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Little Red Riding Hood" , which adds even more magic to the clip.

Boyfriend "Obsession" , "Witch" , and "Bounce"

A fabulous band is indispensable here Boyfriend has at least three clips that reinterpret old fairy tales.

TWICE "TT"

Although it has a more fantasy theme, it also includes characters from well-known stories that deserve a mention. In this crazy video you can discover characters like Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid and Tinker Bell fairy.

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All 50 clips of the great sorceress Bjork: from the most prosaic to the most fabulous

official channel. The directors apparently did not have access to the singer herself so that she could perform her own song in the frame. And this nullifies all efforts: yes, the psychedelic computer animation is colorful and smooth, but the main character

49. "Play Dead" (dir. Danny Cannon, 1993)

The classic genre of clips "a song from the film's soundtrack is edited to fit frames from the film" does not suit this artist as much as possible. At least in this case: she is a full-blooded witch-sorceress , and not some noir femme fatale with Harvey Keitel.

48. "The Comet Song" (dir. Maria Lindberg)

If there is a movie that Björk fits perfectly into the soundtrack, it's the movie about Moomin and the Comet. The problem is that, despite the aesthetic coincidence, this is still a clip in an unsightly soundtrack genre: this time, Björk does not appear at all in frame . Still, looking at the slightly ominous footage of the classic 1970s animated series with the artist's slightly ominous music is already a treat.

47. Violently Happy (dir. Jean-Baptiste Mondino, 1994)

Equating fairytale whimsy, fiction, otherness and mental disorder has always been an exercise in bad taste. Photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino captures Björk and fashion models portraying stereotypical patients in a mental ward. Perhaps, is the most critical clip of the singer - perhaps she herself agrees, since she did not post the work on her YouTube channel.

46. "The Dull Flame of Desire" (dir.

Another fan-created video contest entry, only this time Björk provided them with video footage of the performance to work with songs. Three directors collaborating via email turned the footage alternately into a constellation dance, a dirty photocopy, and a process of mocking the character's face in The Sims . At certain moments it looks visually curious, but in general it is absolutely meaningless: surely a raw video recording of the performance of the duo Björk and singer Enoni would have made a stronger impression.

45. Lionsong (dir. Inez & Vinood, 2015)

Björk performs one of his best songs in an ugly dandelion costume made from latex. Her face is in shadow almost all the time, the background is mostly empty. There is no dramatic arc. Performance videos definitely need to be shot the wrong way!

44. "Family" (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, Björk, James Merry, 2016)

An interactive video in which the viewer (player?) has to help Björk sew up a hole in her chest as she swims through a cave. In the second half, the singer collects universal energy and becomes a goddess. All this is too straightforward to be a fairy tale , more like a colorful but boring computer game.

43. "Earth Intruders" (dir. Michel Oselo, 2007)

For some unknown reason, the outstanding French animator Michel Oselo ("Kirika and the Witch") did not turn Björk into a toon. Instead, he simply made her living face fly against the backdrop of African dancers painted in the signature silhouette technique. A puzzling experiment.

42. Venus as a Boy (dir. Sophie Müller, 1993)

The most influential pop videomaker of the MTV and YouTube eras, Sophie Müller has a hard time fitting into Björk's magical universe. The singer performs a ritual with eggs, but not golden ones, but chicken ones; later strokes a bearded dragon, but this is not a fabulous creature, but a domestic lizard. All this time, the director does not come up with anything better than pouring the snow-white light of studio spotlights over the singer's face. This, of course, does not suit her too much, so it is not surprising that the video became the first and last collaboration of two artists from different worlds.

41. "Moon" (dir. Björk, Inez & Vinood, M/M Paris, James Merry, 2011)

When shooting a self-portrait, Björk for some reason hides his own performance behind stealing the attention of the red wig , stock Full screen moon and screenshots from your mobile app with interactive visualization of the album. Sometimes less is better.

40. Stonemilker (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, 2015)

A 360-degree video from a time when it was still a curiosity. Björk sings on two beaches and at some point splits into three twin sisters. Despite this magical assumption, the clip looks very prosaic. Genuine involvement the need to rotate the camera after each careful step of artist cannot be called. However, the contrast between the bright yellow dress with sequins in place of the heart and the cloudy weather is quite sweet.

39. Blissing Me (dir. Tim Walker and Emma Dalzell, 2017)

Björk in a light dress sings tenderly and dances gracefully in a white room. It would seem that more is not needed for a performance video. However, bright makeup and black lenses make her look more like not a fairy tale heroine, but rather cosplayer from fantasy festival . This is not necessarily bad, but in this case it is tritely untrue: we will not get tired of repeating that Björk is not a cosplayer, but the most natural sorceress .

38. Hunter (dir. Paul White, 1998)

One of several nude portraits in Björk's clip art. The singer with a clean-shaven head sings in her trademark expressive manner and tries on a polar bear computer filter mask ( clip predicted some of the features of modern mobile applications ). Alas, the director could not find a genuine emotional exposure, unlike other similar clips of the artist, here.

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Another artist's appeal to the aesthetics of a computer game, this time a little more inventive. A 3D model of Björk made up of arteries and interference, prays, flirts, or fights with Lovecraft's octopus monster. Later, it turns into a dancing salute, eventually dipping the entire screen space into a dazzling white light. It would really be nice to play such a game.

36. "Where Is the Line" (dir. Gabriela Fridriksdottir, 2005)

Perhaps Björk's scariest video. The singer in the barn gives birth a heart-rendingly screaming creature smeared in sour cream . The artist Gabriela Fridriksdottir created this work for the Venice Biennale, and this explains a lot: we have a good performance, but this is not a musical performance. The singer in the frame does not perform the song at all and, frankly, is lost among the sacks of grain put on her and (reviving) haystacks.

35. "Black Lake" (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, 2015)

Not a music video from the Internet, but a video installation (there is even a two-screen version at once), which is not necessary to watch, but can be in the museum, pass by. On the screen, everything unfolds extremely slowly: Björk crawls and sneaks through the cave; at the fifth minute, blue lava erupts; on the tenth - the singer flies up. Incompatibility with YouTube emphasizes both the extremely large-format canvas and the inability to view the work in one sitting without running into advertising. Better wait for the clipography retrospective on the big screen, or at least on the white museum wall.

34. Isobel (dir. Michel Gondry, 1995)

Metamodernist surrealist Michel Gondry cosplays for some reason surrealist retroman Guy Maddin. A grainy black-and-white picture in the spirit of early cinema (it is the exploitation of this aesthetic that Maddin's entire filmography is devoted to) eats, blurs and removes potentially sticky images from the viewer (a water piano, airplanes in glass bulbs). That rare failure of a singer that makes you sleepy.

33. "Cocoon" (dir. Eiko Ishioka, 2002)

A naked Bjork with a clever Japanese perm emerges from the crowd of doppelgangers, after which slowly pulls blood-red threads from her own nipples, which eventually wrap her in a suffocating cocoon. The possible bodily horror of this concept in practice turns into a toy action with puppet emotions - it looks more funny than heartbreaking.

32. "Possibly Maybe" (dir. Stefan Senawi, 1996)

Bjork performs the composition, perhaps, in the largest number of different images in the entire clipography. Among them are a radiant goddess, a neon teenage girl, a disheveled music lover, a lady in a bathrobe painting her lips and others. Alas, external details (computer effects, lighting, make-up, costumes) do not enhance the effect of the performance, but distract from the performance. The minimalistic video for "Big Time Sensuality" by the same director was much more interesting.

31. Joga (dir. Michel Gondry, 1997)

Not people dance to the composition “Jóga”, but Icelandic rocks, rivers, volcanoes. Despite 's screensaver-level effects from the 1990s , it's an impressive concept. But, whatever one may say, a video where the artist herself does not perform, by the standards of modern YouTube, does not look like a full-fledged clip: it is rather a background visualization for the official audio uploaded to the platform.

30. "Notget (second version)" (dir. Warren du Pré and Nick Thornton Jones, 2017)

Two performances of the masked singer: first the face is hidden witch jewelry , and later the artist transforms into a shining jellyfish. The action of the clip is static, and covering Björk's face has always been a dubious decision, but it's still hard to deny the spectacular images.

29. “Tabula Rasa” (dir. Tobias Gremmler, 2019)

The moment when the singer completely lost her human appearance: in the video for “Tabula Rasa” Björk is either a mollusk, or a coral, or a predatory flower . It is insanely interesting to look at her exactly until the moment when it becomes clear that, along with a curious appearance, the director did not come up with any interesting activities for the heroine, except for hanging in weightlessness and singing.

28. «Losss» (dir. Tobias Gremmler, 2019)

Björk is now playing two coral flower mollusks that communicate with each other by singing. It all looks again extremely alien and futuristic , however, it is difficult to see an understandable emotional narrative in this communication. Rather, it is a meaningless conversation with your own reflection in the mirror.

27. "Utopia" (dir. Warren du Pré and Nick Thornton Jones, 2017)

The most alien production based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream": on a peach-lit stage, either unprecedented flowers or shells are scattered , and Björk herself plays the flute with the Fairy Orchestra . Despite the abundance of computer graphics, this is a distinctly theatrical performance, the spatial boundaries of which I really want to expand. Within these limits, however, the action is impressive.

26. Quicksand (dir. Dentsu Lab Tokyo, 2016)

Unexpectedly Lynchian creation. Björk, wearing a frightening mask, is lit by a strobe light, and energy spheres and discharges of unknown origin are flying around. The clip was filmed in a Tokyo museum and shown in 360-degree format on YouTube live, and is now only available in two-dimensional recording made by fans.

25. "Atopos" (dir. Vidar Logi, 2022)

The energetic video for the lead single from the singer's new album can only be described as an "underwater tea party rave in Wonderland". The video deviates somewhat from the high-tech, futuristic experiments that the singer has been doing in recent years. The local costumes and props are almost the first time in the singer's clipography that they smell of nostalgia. Well, everyone is allowed to do it sometimes, the main thing is not to unstick and not settle in the past forever.

24. Ovule (dir. Nick Knight, 2022)

The great photographer Nick Knight in 2022 shoots Björk not as a princess, fairy or witch (her usual incarnations), but as a prima donna queen . The oval frame is completely filled with a stunning scarlet dress, the singer herself towers over the camera. Everything looks as expected from Knight, truly majestic, but still we are not sure that this image suits the artist. The video really comes to life only in those moments when a note of childish spontaneity or, say, animal fury runs across her timeless face.

23. Hidden Place (dir. Inez & Vinood, M/M Paris, 2001)

Nude Björk licks her lips, cries neon tears and snorts mercury snot . The clip-portrait shot by four photographers at once is static, but the central image in it is emotionally diverse. But this is not yet the peak of the portrait video in the artist's clipography.

22. Arisen My Senses (dir. Jesse Kanda, 2017)

Non-scary body horror: Björk sings from under the translucent membrane of a cocoon, producer Arka relaxes nearby on black soil. Having hatched from the cocoon, the singer greets her colleague, who bows in response. Everything is very simple, but bright details like 's bilingual larva's mouth, Arch's leather suit, and Björk's segmented wings make it impossible to take your eyes off the screen.

21. “Hyperballad” (dir. Michel Gondry, 1996)

Lying against the backdrop of mountains and power lines, Björk has two dreams projected onto her face at once: in one she performs on stage, in the other, as the singer Glucose turns out to be a character in a computer game. Director Gondry asks an interesting question: what if the career of a pop star is not real life, but rather a dream? But, alas, does not give any answers.

20. "Mouth Mantra" (dir. Jesse Kanda, 2015)

One of the most monstrous and disgusting ideas in the history of not just clip making, but the whole cinema is to shoot the performance of the song from inside the mouth of artist (it's impossible to describe - must be seen). Like it or not, such a characteristic is also a kind of achievement. Björk must be given her due: even in the title of a living classic, she is not afraid of the wildest experiments.

19. "Human Behavior" (dir. Michel Gondry, 1993)

Björk's first video perfectly defined her main visual aesthetic for years to come: the dark fairy tale aesthetic . In the night forest, a hedgehog appears not in the fog, but in the headlights; killer teddy bear; the singer herself, flying with a moth to a light in a hut. It all doesn’t really add up to a single story, but it’s impossible to break away: for director Michel Gondry, this is also a breakthrough work, where all his infantile, self-made, anti-cinema gluing and effects turned, against all odds, into real cinema.

18. Oceania (dir. Lynn Fox, 2004)

Björk, whose face is covered in crystals, plays either the Little Mermaid or Ursula. Around her circle computer jellyfish and slightly more fantastic representatives of the marine fauna . Even twenty years after the premiere, the environment in this video looks futuristic, the only problem is that it is difficult to fully believe that the singer is really in a fabulous environment, and not just in a high-tech studio.

17. "Ancestress" (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, 2022)

The song "Ancestress" is dedicated to the death of Björk's mother, but the funeral procession from the video is more like a ritual sacrifice. The mourners led by the singer look too creepy: her mask resembles a hatchet hammered into the skull, and her make-up is war paint. Be that as it may, the long action is captivating and looks detached from the folk tradition of any culture. Creating completely new rituals, free for the audience's interpretation, is one of the important talents of Björk and her video makers.

16. "Alarm Call" (dir. Alexander McQueen, 1998)

Björk, floating on a raft through the jungle, singing to alligators, giant insects, anacondas and other tropical monsters - this is the Snow White we deserve. At the end, the artist herself turns into a piranha - this must be seen. The clip was directed by fashion designer Alexander McQueen and, oddly enough, succeeded in a cinematic rather than a design sense; however, the tattered lace, off-white dress, chosen for the heroine, also fits perfectly with the aesthetics of the jungle.

15. "Who Is It" (dir. Dawn Shadforth, 2004)

In the middle of a coal desert, Björk dances and sings, surrounded by sinister plump boys with bells, wearing a dizzying dress that looks like a beehive or to the big bell . This creation, again, by Alexander McQueen, makes watching the video a must in itself, but director Shadforth also shoots the light of the setting sun in an extremely picturesque way. You don't need more for the gold standard Björk video.

14. Mutual Core (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, 2012)

In the 2010s, Björk and her most frequent visual partner of the period, Andrew Thomas Huang, asked themselves: what should a fairy tale look like in the new millennium? The first attempt to give an answer is already more than successful: the singer in Malvina's wig performs a ritual with dancing stones, which eventually merge together, form a volcano and start an apocalyptic eruption. At the same time, the rocks have the faces of cyborgs, and computer graphics on the screen are extremely photorealistic. Yes, this is not yet absolute futurism, but it is by no means classic or retro.

13. Big Time Sensuality (dir. Stéphane Senawi, 1994)

Stefan Senawi is a rare clipmaker who extracts the pure magic of cinema from almost nothing. There is not a single special effect in the video (except for games with speeding up and slowing down time), and in its urban fantasy it relies only on pairs from New York manholes, dancing on a platform moving along the roadway and bizarre grimaces of artist . This material is fascinating, but for five minutes of running time, in fairness, it is barely enough.

12. I Miss You (dir. John Crisfeilusi, 1997)

The storyteller Björk was bound to become the heroine of her own cartoon sooner or later. Everything turned out in a perfect way, because the clip "I Miss You" is not an ordinary craft in the "good night, kids" genre, but is the crazy work of the most cruel and provocative animator of his generation John Crisfeilusi ("The Ren and Stimpy Show"). Here Björk tries to escape from a lustful scorpion, her naked body is eaten by piranhas, and after dancing with a three-dimensional cowboy spaceman (better not ask), she herself tears open a chicken with her bare hands. Perhaps Björk has never come so close to vulgarity and kitsch, but in a strange way this aesthetic experiment works.

11. It's in Our Hands (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)

In a good movie fairy tale, the choice of visual technique is inseparable from the choice of imagery. In the "It's in Our Hands" video, lo-fi storyteller Spike Jonze makes the ingenious decision to capture Björk Thumbnail using infrared night mode. The singer sings against the background of giant mushrooms, cones, herbs, snails, grasshoppers and jellyfish; her eyes sparkle like a cat's. It is precisely because of the earthiness of a monochrome, noisy image that this is a truly magical sight.

10. Crystalline (dir. Michel Gondry, 2011)

In their mature careers, Michel Gondry and Björk simultaneously discovered the ability to create images that do not belong to any time at all. The animated-game clip "Crystalline", where the artist dances among the crystals on the Moon, was released ten years ago, but without peeping into Wikipedia now it would be difficult to say whether this is a video of the XX, XXI or XXII century . Yes, everything is drawn without computer graphics, and in the unforgettable climax of the video, everything crumbles and shakes to drum and bass. But it was the use of these supposedly outdated techniques that allowed the artists to inscribe their work into eternity.

9. "Army of Me" (dir. Michel Gondry, 1995)

On the second album, Björk's music became much more electronic (which remains to this day). So Michel Gondry in his second video for the singer shot not a classic, but an ultra-modern fairy tale. To an industrial beat, the artist drives a giant tin truck, visits a gorilla dentist, and commits a terrorist attack at the contemporary art gallery. Analogue details like rotten teeth under the hood and a diamond in the singer's mouth also found a place - and in general, this is a surprisingly coherent and exciting story.

8. «Declare Independence» (dir. Michel Gondry, 2007)

A stunning political metaphor from the eternal children of Björk and Gondry, made using thread, gouache and a skate ramp. The artist yells her metal separatist anthem , and the director simply shoots a closed system on several poorly fixed cameras, in which the townsfolk are filled with protest energy and ideological enlightenment. More of a nightmarish vision than uplifting, but that seems to be the whole point.

7. "Wanderlust" (dir. Encyclopedia Pictura, 2008)

It's amazing how organically living Björk fits into the animated fantasy in the "Wanderlust" video. She floats along a mountain river riding a shaggy plasticine bison , only a slightly different ghost clings to her back, and downstream the path is blocked by a giant water god from Japanese engravings. The directors demonstrate filigree navigation through mixed visual techniques: when telling a fairy tale, no one managed to convey the scale of the action, capture the imagination and convince of what is happening more effectively.

6. "All Is Full of Love" (dir. Chris Cunningham, 1999)

Incredibly influential and cinematic clip. Without a frighteningly sterile aesthetic, all modern sci-fi would not exist - from the game "Portal" to the movie "Ex Machina". It should be noted that in 1999 the love story of two robots from the assembly line was a fairy tale from the future , and now it is a nostalgic fairy tale from the past. Now we know that artificial intelligence is not humanoids, but a faceless code; and the great music video maker Chris Cunningham is not a promising cinematographer, but a man whose career by and large did not take place: he shot his masterpieces before the age of thirty, and then unsuccessfully developed a full-length debut for a couple of decades. One way or another, we continue to believe in beautiful fairy tales, and therefore we do not doubt Cunningham's inevitable comeback.

5. "It's Oh So Quiet" (dir. Spike Jonze, 1995)

A lo-fi homage to the color musicals of the golden era (with a song already composed in 1949), where technical imperfection is more than offset by sheer cinematic energy. Of course, Spike Jonze, who shot skate videos the day before, doesn't know how to get widescreen without blocking the horizon and confusing the colors of the (Cherbourg) umbrellas. But only he could come up with such ideas as petite jazz singer doing somersaults, mailbox dancing, final crane shot of the artist rising to the sky . But what if the best musical in the world does not at all suit technical perfection? Spielberg and Chazelle, who have been soullessly trying to revive the genre in the 21st century, have a lot to learn from Jonze.

4. The Gate (dir. Andrew Thomas Huang, 2017)

This is the fairy tale of the future, which in a hundred years will look like a fairy tale of the future. Björk is at unidentifiable universe among unidentifiable beings ; in the dark, she sends bursts of energy from her heart into the chest of an artificial digital human. Everything shimmers and shines with colors unknown to our eyes, but the words of the song return what is happening to an understandable emotional dimension: the line “I care about you - take care of me” is repeated in a circle. In a full-length movie, it would be difficult to withstand such a degree of unprecedented effects and mysteriousness of what is happening, but in seven minutes of the video, Andrew Thomas Huang does not for a second allow us to remember that we are watching a human creation, and not a vision sent from another planet.

3. "Pagan Poetry" (dir. Nick Knight, 2003)

A visual series that greatly enhances the effect of an already over-emotional composition about love: sex digitized to the degree of pure geometric abstraction ; close-ups of nipple and skin piercings on the back; finally, the naked singer Björk herself, on whose face one can see pure despair. The case when the portrait of the artist is not just a fixation of beauty in the moment, but a large-scale and dynamic story of raw feelings.

2. “Bachelorette” (dir. Michel Gondry, 1997)

“Bachelorette” by Michel Gondry is that brilliant example when a five-minute video fits not just a “clip”, a cut of images, but a full-fledged big story - novel, opera, feature film . If this is a fantasy novel, then it is gloomy and gothic: from a black-and-white story about a girl whose life is controlled by a magic book, you want to quickly escape. If this is cinema, then it is the most recursive and metamodern: the staging-within-a-staging-within-a-staging-within-a-staging is at least one level superior in complexity to Gondry's colleague Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York. Finally, if this is an opera, then it is certainly a musical tragedy: the floristic end of the world comes so majestically and irreversibly in the frame.

1. "Triumph of a Heart" (dir. Spike Jonze, 2005)

Björk, who lives on a farm, suffers from loneliness, being married to a cat in an alcoholic T-shirt. Björk is having a drink with her friends in a pub, the countryside beatbox choir is singing in the background . And here is a pseudo-documentary shooting, where drunken Björk smashes her forehead on the asphalt, laughs and immediately cries. The next morning, Björk exhales a fume in the form of drawn pink hearts.

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