Urban Dystopia—Massive Attack’s Splitting the Atom [Weekend Watch]

January 16th, 2011

I love both the music of Massive Attack and the work of Edouard Salier. Bring them together and set their work in an urban setting and I’m in heaven (even if it is a dystopian one!)

Here’s what Salier had to say on his video for “Splitting the Atom”

The fixed moment of the catastrophe. The instant the atom bursts on the beast, the world freezes into a vitrified chaos. And we go through the slick and glistening disaster of a humanity in distress. Man or beast? The responsibility of this chaos is still to be determined.

Director : Edouard Salier
Commissioner : Svana Gisla
Production : Scream Park, Paris
Executive Producer : Anne Lifshitz
Post Production : Digital District
Post producer : David Danesi
CGI : Jean Lamoureux, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux, Jimmy Cavé
Art & Compositing : Julien Michel, Xavier Reyé.
Flame : Christophe Richard