Ever wonder what genius looks like mid-haircut?
All About US is an interesting foray into the thinking and the technology that lies behind the most popular tracks from Peter Gabriel's US album. It contains documentary coverage of the thinking behind the most popular music videos together with the actual music videos themselves. It includes rare interviews and behind the scenes footage of Gabriel as he finishes his album and gets his haircut ready to go out on tour. It also features some of the 11 contemporary artists who were commissioned by Gabriel, in an innovative approach to marketing, to create works inspired by the songs.
Production
Gabriel commissioned 11 visual artists as marketing—radical then, still cool now.
Direction
Coulson captures creative chaos without sanitizing the weird.
Director
Michael Coulson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This dropped when MTV still played videos and 'multimedia' meant something—Gabriel was essentially building his own streaming platform before streaming existed.
Sinéad O'Connor appears during the peak of her commercial power, right before her SNL Pope-photo controversy—making this a time-capsule of two artists at very different career moments.
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