Sébastien Tellier - Comment revoir Oursinet ? (Officiel Video)
From his album "L'Aventura" : https://recordmakers.com/album/l-aventura-84
Free remixes on https://soundcloud.com/recordmakers/sets/comment-revoir-oursinet-ep (Matias Aguayo, Darius, Cesare) !
Directed by Carly Blackman
Follow Sebastien :
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Letter about the video
When I first heard the track “Comment revoir Oursinet”, it instantly made me think of a forgotten era, or passage in time that can never be retrieved again. This song for me is not only about the nostalgia of a lost childhood but also a lost moment, in both pop culture and society. This bittersweet nostalgia evoked images from the past in my mind, and I thought of searching for archive footage from Detroit in the US. Detroit at the end of the 1960’s and early seventies was the height of the American dream. It was experiencing an economic post-war bliss based on it’s thriving car industry. Now all that remains is an impoverished ghost town, but a mythology around it’s modern day appearance has been created and fascinates artists everywhere. Detroit is a metaphor for the fragility and dangers of capitalism, something I am acutely aware of with our present environmental crisis. I wanted to create a dialogue between the now and then, the power of dreams and how art can bridge this gap. I wanted to situate the boy of Sebastien’s childhood with the man now, the socialist French economic difficulties versus the industrial boom that was the American South.
The cinematic nature of Sebastien’s music brought me back to the musical culture of the 1970’s, and the orchestral arrangements that featured through-out pop music. For me it represented a moment of hope and decadence that is forever lost and can only be re-interpreted by extremely talented musicians.
After days of searching through archives and online videos I found some home movies on super 8 film, made by a 17 year old boy and his friends in Detroit and Florida. It captured the essence of that time, their imagination and intimate friendship. I was so moved by the innocence, youth and appearance of this endless American summer that I decided to track down the family of the boys in the film. Thanks to the miracles of the internet, I was able to locate the young man who was behind the camera all those years ago. He is living in Indiana, and has led an incredible life. He is blind now, but his vision of the world continues to inspire all the people who come into contact with him.
We began to correspond by mail and a creative friendship was born. He agreed to let me use some of the images from his adolescence to illustrate Sebastien’s music and create an original music video. I have since been invited to Detroit by Jim and his family. Our connection has inspired the idea to collaborate on a cinematic project together based on his youth and experiences in Detroit. This époque that has drifted into the realm of fiction, is rich in magical memories for him, both tragic and euphoric, as he cruised in fast cars he also watched friends being drafted for war in Vietnam…
The Director, Carly Blackman
Free remixes on https://soundcloud.com/recordmakers/sets/comment-revoir-oursinet-ep (Matias Aguayo, Darius, Cesare) !
Directed by Carly Blackman
Follow Sebastien :
http://facebook.com/sebastientellierofficial
http://twitter.com/sebtellier
http://recordmakers.com
http://facebook.com/RecordMakers
http://twitter.com/RecordMakers
http://instagram.com/recordmakers
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Letter about the video
When I first heard the track “Comment revoir Oursinet”, it instantly made me think of a forgotten era, or passage in time that can never be retrieved again. This song for me is not only about the nostalgia of a lost childhood but also a lost moment, in both pop culture and society. This bittersweet nostalgia evoked images from the past in my mind, and I thought of searching for archive footage from Detroit in the US. Detroit at the end of the 1960’s and early seventies was the height of the American dream. It was experiencing an economic post-war bliss based on it’s thriving car industry. Now all that remains is an impoverished ghost town, but a mythology around it’s modern day appearance has been created and fascinates artists everywhere. Detroit is a metaphor for the fragility and dangers of capitalism, something I am acutely aware of with our present environmental crisis. I wanted to create a dialogue between the now and then, the power of dreams and how art can bridge this gap. I wanted to situate the boy of Sebastien’s childhood with the man now, the socialist French economic difficulties versus the industrial boom that was the American South.
The cinematic nature of Sebastien’s music brought me back to the musical culture of the 1970’s, and the orchestral arrangements that featured through-out pop music. For me it represented a moment of hope and decadence that is forever lost and can only be re-interpreted by extremely talented musicians.
After days of searching through archives and online videos I found some home movies on super 8 film, made by a 17 year old boy and his friends in Detroit and Florida. It captured the essence of that time, their imagination and intimate friendship. I was so moved by the innocence, youth and appearance of this endless American summer that I decided to track down the family of the boys in the film. Thanks to the miracles of the internet, I was able to locate the young man who was behind the camera all those years ago. He is living in Indiana, and has led an incredible life. He is blind now, but his vision of the world continues to inspire all the people who come into contact with him.
We began to correspond by mail and a creative friendship was born. He agreed to let me use some of the images from his adolescence to illustrate Sebastien’s music and create an original music video. I have since been invited to Detroit by Jim and his family. Our connection has inspired the idea to collaborate on a cinematic project together based on his youth and experiences in Detroit. This époque that has drifted into the realm of fiction, is rich in magical memories for him, both tragic and euphoric, as he cruised in fast cars he also watched friends being drafted for war in Vietnam…
The Director, Carly Blackman