This is one of the videos i made for my senior thesis project at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Last fall, I asked ten friends from various bands to each record a cover for a song of his or her choosing (as long as it was a love song), and then I chose 3 of them to use for music videos. Originally, my interest was to explore the cultural significance of the Love Song, but the project evolved and my focus eventually shifted to the cross-over between so-called 'high art' and popular culture, namely independent music and its relationship to visual art.
Audrey Pic of the band Envelopes recorded this cover of the Mountain Goats' song "No Children" and sent it from Paris. The video is a deconstruction of the landmark French New Wave film "Á Bout de Souffle (Breathless)" by Jean-Luc Godard. I like the sense of humor inherent within the essentially tragic love stories of both the song and the film. Audrey and I did a lot of e-mailing back and forth about relationships while I was working on this project and eventually we developed a cohesive philosophical foundation that went something like, "Fuck it, dude." In retrospect I think we're both full of shit.