Video: Björk – “the gate”
Björk has released a video for “the gate,” the debut single from her upcoming album Utopia. It’s a collaboration with Andrew Thomas Huang, the artist and filmmaker who also directed videos for Björk’s Biophilia album and the VR clips for Vulnicura, and Alessandro Michele, creative director at Gucci.
The elaborate, special-effects-heavy video following in a long tradition of amazing, lavish Björk videos. It features the singer playing a flute in an otherworldly meadow, surrounding with uncanny ambient sounds, before transitioning into a highly abstract realization of “the gate,” as mentioned in the lyrics.
A little more than two minutes in, the magnitude of Gucci’s collaboration will become clear, when Björk reappears. You can take a virtual tour of the dress Alessandro Michele designed for the video via Gucci’s Instagram here, which apparently took “550 hours to…
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