1. Unkle - Rabbit In Your Headlights

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
by Unkle
This video has been highly acclaimed by critics since its release in 1998. Directed by Jonathan Glazer, the video is particularly interesting due the many ways the film can be interpreted. The video uses diegetic sound over the video, which is fairly unusual for a music video, but that the diegetic sound sometimes growing as loud as the song itself, which suggests that the video is focused on telling a story more than promoting the song, although this story is very visceral and for this reason does not tell the story by a properly constructed plot, but more by the feelings brought up by the happenings of the person the camera follows. I try to avoid using the word character, as really, he has none, and seems to only serve the purpose of interacting with other elements in the film. The video gets more intense with the music, the power of this grows. At the start of the song, the man is only holding up the traffic (which can be thought of as one entity). The traffic then starts to move around him, and as the music grows louder, instruments enter and the song becomes more intense, the cars begin to hit him more and more regularly, either due to him being invisible, inferior or someone the traffic wants to kill. The end of the song, Thom Yorke's signature 30 second long vocal notes enter, and the man throws off his parka and stops, destroying the car before it hits into him.