So, loyal readers, I’ve had some wrenches thrown in my schedule this past week, making it more difficult for me to blog lately. Suffice it to say, getting my car back will help. I’ve got some drafts I’m working on and hope to get a brand new entry with in-depth analysis up tomorrow.
In the meantime, who doesn’t love music videos? So, from time to time when I get a little too busy, I thought I’d share a self-curated retrospective of music videos from a female director. If she were a dude, like Michel Gondry, we may call her an “auteur”. But since there’s no female equivalent in French for “author,” I thought I’d just make up a word (I’m a quarter French, so I’m sure the Académie française is cool with it). I really wished I could do this for my thesis. With a self-authored blog, fuck it. Make up some words, says the bloggess.
Oh, and in the spirit of gynocriticism, I’ll only focus on the music videos these directors have done with female artists or female-led mixed gender musical acts. Tonight, we focus on Sophie Muller, who I kept hoping would get her own Directors Label DVD. Since she’s famous and the people she works with are often also famous, embedding is tricky business. For the sake of consistency, just click on the artist’s name.
Annie Lennox
“Walking on Broken Glass”
Diva
Hole
“Miss World”
Live Through This
No Doubt
“Simple Kind of Life”
Return of Saturn
Sade
“King of Sorrow”
Lovers Rock
Nelly Furtado
“Turn off the Light”
Whoa, Nelly!
PJ Harvey
“This Is Love”
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
P!nk
“Family Portrait”
Try This
Dixie Chicks
“Not Ready to Make Nice”
Taking the Long Way
Garbage
“Bleed Like Me”
Bleed Like Me
Lily Allen
“Smile”
Alright, Still
The Kills
“U.R.A. Fever”
Midnight Boom
Unfortunately, YouTube no longer has Björk’s “Venus as a Boy,” one of my all-time favorites videos, but you can watch it here.
