Directors without borders
May 28, 2020

How to make music videos in times of lockdown?

Drake's 'Toosie Slide' features the singer in a black balaclava, moving through the mostly empty Toronto mansion. Haim sisters perform solemn choreography at a safe distance from each other on a cracked outdoor basketball court in 'I Know Alone'. Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s charity duet, 'Stuck With U', intermixed pixelated visions of teenage fans dressed for the proms they will never go to with glimpses of celebrities like Chance the Rapper and Gwyneth Paltrow slow dancing in their immaculate houses. In Squarepusher's 'Detroit People Mover' a wireless printer on the floor of the actual Detroit People Mover -a monorail that travels a nearly 3-mile loop around downtown - spits out photographs that were shot in the city during the late 1970s and ’80s, when the mass transit system turned tourist attraction was built.