GASPAR NOE'S MUSIC VIDEOS

Noe has often spoken about the limits of feature-length narrative cinema and tests out many of his techniques in the short format, such as music video.  These projects often allow him to focus on the image.  Despite there uniquness, there are certainly overarching themes and signatures that are at work in his feature films as well. 

"With a short [film] you are allowed to do whatever you want. It's like if you have a girlfriend and she tells you that you can do whatever you want. That's very exciting."

-Gaspar Noe

JE SUIS SI MINCE
by Arielle.

INSANELY CHEERFUL
by Bone Fiction.



PROTEGE-MOI

by Placebo.

Warning this video features explicit sex.  The song is a French version of Placebo's PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.  The translation was done by Virginie Despentes, a French novelist and filmaker.  She is the director of BAISE-MOI, which we will watch later in the course.  It shows a working relationship between Despentes and Noe, as well as a possible link between the song and themes associated with these directors and the New Extreme.

"There is no line between art and pornography. You can make art of anything. You can make an experimental movie with that candle or with this tape recorder. You can make a piece of art with a cat drinking milk. You can make a piece of art with people having sex. There is no line. Anything that is shot or reproduced in an unusual way is considered artistic or experimental."

-Gaspar Noe