The repressed desire for something more is visually resolved by re-experiencing what you now see. Opening sequences…and the loneliness gets blown away.

An expression of a feeling as real in spirit as the cinematic coordinate of La Nouvelle Vague, Dan Black’s (tip of the U.K.’s Wonky Pop spear) music video for “Symphonies” strides through bunches of title sequences we’ve grown up with. A few of these dawning moments include a Lynchian/Cardiffian lost highway, the neon of Tron, and a Saul Bass speedboat. Black -himself a cross between Ferris Bueller and Sonny Crockett- slides and drives under his lyrics, themselves playing the supporting role of credits. This glorious primal therapy, this dual coronation of sorts, is brought to us by Paris-based Chic & Artistic.

We would just like to add that this study of title sequences en masse becomes coldly, fascinatingly recontextualized. Lopped from the body of the film and gathered as they are sometimes bears us an odd guilt. Work like this, a blowtorch of invention, keeps us on. You too.