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Fleur & Manu

A momentous wait demands a momentous video. It&#39;s been 16 years since the last time The Avalanches released new music. Now its finally arrived, it was beholden on Fleur Fortune&nbsp;(from Fleur &amp; Manu)&nbsp;to produce something substantial for the first video. And Fleur has&nbsp;certainly delivered.&nbsp;The video for Frankie Sinatra&nbsp;takes a Harmony Korine-esque depiction of the Southern United States as a carnival of strange, and then runs with it at full speed towards full-on surrealism.Everyone here sips a drink that glows as if irradiated - the effects of which blur the lines of perception. Dogs operate heavy machinery, food comes to life and fishermen find themselves in a Vietnam War flashback, complete with assault weapon/brass instrument hybrids.It&#39;s a rich tapestry of great looking, funny scenes, and a seemingly massive logistical undertaking. Everything down to the casting has been executed meticulously. A music video worthy of the band who brought us the crazy genius of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0" target="_blank">Frontier Psychiatrist</a>.

Australia

Division

Jules de Chateleux

PJ Sodaski

Mathias Boucard

Marie Charlotte Moreau

Philippe Roch

Mathematic

Vincent Heine

Christina Flannery

Glen Goetze

Alternative

The Avalanches 'Frankie Sinatra' by Fleur Fortune (Fleur & Manu)

The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra

Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s visually arresting&nbsp;video for Drake&#39;s track Energy sees the hip-hop star&nbsp;bravely embodying a number of major North&nbsp;American personalities&nbsp;- including Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama and&nbsp;Miley Cyrus.Bold as brass, in your face, and in its way, quite testing&nbsp;- just how many celebs can you spot being &#39;Drake-ified&#39;?&nbsp;Start by checking out the video on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.4ab17a39-2720-11e5-96c5-a5b38f6c42d3" target="_blank">Apple Music</a>.&nbsp;

United States

Roman Pichon Herrera

PJ Sodaski for Peligroso

Matias Boucard

Delphine Genest

Roxane Faure Huet

Guillaume Marien 

Lucas Salton

Hip Hop

Drake 'Energy' by Fleur & Manu

Fleur &amp; Manu's Groundhog Day tribute for Skrillex's Doompy Poomp, which dropped on Groundhog Day, is actually better than Groundhog Day.

Lien Moulin

Simon Chaudoir

Jean Luc de la Montagna

Susan MacQuarrie

Andrée Jade Hélie

Clémence Cuvelier

Daniel Rodrigues

David Deveaux

Nicolas Larrouquere

OWSLA

The Creators Project

Techno, Dance

Skrillex 'Doompy Poomp' by Fleur & Manu

Fleur & Manu x Skrillex - Doompy Poomp

And now for something explosive. And also tender, and thought-provoking.&nbsp;Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s latest video, for the Sydney trio Movement&#39;s track Ivory, is a frank exploration of sexual intimacy between a young couple. It&#39;s all about&nbsp;sex - but it&#39;s also about love.&nbsp;A young couple, nude, recline on a bed, and then they begin to perform sex. It is real and natural,&nbsp;but then it becomes frozen, abstracted &ndash; literally framed - where both parties view themselves from without,and then becomes lost in surrealism. &nbsp;This is brave work - and frankly, very French - with courageous performances from the boy and girl. Maybe it will be the&nbsp;most controversial of the year so far - for all the right reasons.&nbsp;

Carl Nilsson

Eddy Penot

Modular

Movement 'Ivory' by Fleur & Manu

Movement - Ivory (NSFW)

Their first video for Gesaffelstein is multi-nominated for awards at UK Music Video Awards 2013. And&nbsp;here&#39;s Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s&nbsp;follow-up,&nbsp;for the head-banging DJ/producer&#39;s Hate Or Glory, which expands&nbsp;on the&nbsp;enigmatic gold glove motif of Pursuit with an allegory on the corrupting effect of power and riches.&nbsp;We&#39;re down in the &#39;hood to witness a young gangster&#39;s brutal rise to dominance &ndash; and then his uniquely extravagant method of&nbsp;demonstrating his accumulation of wealth. Like a&nbsp;sort of King Midas in reverse, he gold-plates himself. Now that&#39;s a bold statement, and frankly, you&#39;re asking for trouble...

France

Jorge Pallares

Michael Ragen

Jean Davi

Loïc Andrieu

Christopher Dahdah

Victoria Aronson

Haley O'Neil

Paul Crehange

Home Digital Pictures

Jehan Bard-Bouazza

Thomas Van Maele

Fred Brandon

Dance

Electronica

Gesaffelstein 'Hate Or Glory' by Fleur & Manu

Gesaffelstein - "Hate or Glory" (Official Music Video)

Fleur &amp; Manu have created an intoxicating tour de force of arresting imagery for the thumping techno of French DJ Gesaffelstein&#39;s Pursuit, with an enigmatic continuing thread - a golden gauntlet that turns up on the fist of a various members of a mysterious, powerful clan.Typically combining live action with exceptional VFX work &ndash; from regular collaborators at Paris post houses Mathematic and Machine Molle &ndash; it&#39;s hypnotic, and delicious. Who cares about the meaning &ndash; you probably won&#39;t want it to end.&nbsp;

Mark Zarka

Nicolas Loir

Zelda Bensoussan

Claude Neron

Gabriel Kerlidou

Isham Zarhar

Benjamin Renaud

Olivier Benoist

Elise Bouquet

Corinne Gues

Cédric Kerguillec

Machine Molle

Parlophone

Techno

Gesaffelstein 'Pursuit' by Fleur & Manu

GESAFFELSTEIN - PURSUIT (Official Video)

It started with Midnight City, then continued with Reunion. Now here&#39;s the concluding part of Fleur and Manu&#39;s epic kids-with-superpowers trilogy for M83 - for Wait. And things don&#39;t exactly get wrapped up neatly in this one.At first we&#39;re in the aftermath of the confrontation at the climax of Reunion with the leading telekinetic girl, then we&#39;re in outer space with her boy adversary, and a sequence which isn&#39;t so much influenced by Kubrick&#39;s 2001, as an exact reconstruction (before he becomes the Boy Who Fell To Earth...)But this project was always about creating eyepopping blockbuster movie moments &ndash; and this is arguably the most satisfying of the lot.&nbsp;

M83 'Wait' by Fleur & Manu

M83-'Wait'-by-Fleur-and-Manu

&nbsp;After their M83 videos, Fleur and Manu continue exploring the world of the superhuman and supernatural in a far more intimate fashion with this delightful promo for New Zealand's Connan Mockasin.Fleur and Manu revisit the levitation found in the Midnight City and Reunion vids for M83, but here they happen during the course of a one-shot where the camera happens upon a astonishing ceremony in a forest, involving a group of intriguing characters.Producer Jules de Chateleux reveals that it took two hours to shoot in three takes - followed by three months of post production to create the beautiful effects of human weightlessness..."It's thanks to two geniuses," says Jules. "Vincent Heisne at Home, &amp; Jf Fontaine at MachineMolle. They erased everything..."

Mounia Mebarki

Marie Mezeray

Emma Skowronek

Yoan Petitcoulaud

Carole Gehendges

Nadine Bournazeau

Connan Mockasin 'Faking Jazz Together' by Fleur & Manu

Connan-Mockasin-'Faking-Jazz-Together'-by-Fleur-and-Manu

Fleur &amp; Manu deliver their sequel to M83&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/10/19/m83-midnight-city-by-fleur-manu/" target="_blank">Midnight City</a> with another brilliant, extraordinary promo for the band.Huge in scope, the cinematic treat features the same scary kids with even scarier powers and more brilliant VFX courtesy of Machine Molle.For the eagle-eyed amongst you there&#39;s a lovely tribute to Adam Yauch...

Christelle Tastet

Helmi

Mathieu Plainfosse

Mathilde Cathelin

Sarah Zarka

Sameul Danesi

OB Management

M83 'Reunion' by Fleur & Manu

M83-'Reunion'-by-Fleur-&-Manu

With a little help from footage sampled from friends and family, Fleur &amp; Manu mix it up big style with this delightful ever-evolving promo for Canyons.
&quot;We shot more than 75% of this and we used all the formats we could - 35mm, 16mm, Super8, VHS, Mini-Dv, 5d, etcetera,&quot; explains producer Jules De Chateleux.
&quot;Footage was shot in Australia, France, USA, Canada and Israel, amongst others. Then we started a two week edit process, which we&#39;re quite proud of. It&#39;s an object that wants to capture a moment, a mood.&quot;
&nbsp;

Carole Guy

Helmi Charni

Gopal Gopy

Roxane Roullier

Vincent Heisne

Canyons 'When I See You Again' by Fleur & Manu

Canyons-'When-I-See-You-Again'-by-Fleur-&-Manu

The track has already had a million hits, and now Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s video for M83&#39;s Midnight City introduces a set of Village Of The Damned kids with very special powers (courtesy of some awesome VFX).Fleur &amp; Manu - who have three nominations at the upcoming MVAs for their vids in the past year for Bag Raiders, Etienne de Crecy and Tricky -&nbsp;have achieved movie-style scale with this, thanks to the exceptional 3D and AE work out of Machine Molle and Home Digital Pictures respectively. Feels like this story is just beginning...

Bertille Muguet

Manu Rasseneur

Esther Pottier

Cindy Baune

Ethan Zarka, Lucien Nicou, Elisa Noyez, Louise Guillaumin, Gaspard Nemeta, Edward Meeks, Marie

John Moule

Ghilsain Badey

Tiphaine Lozupone

M83 'Midnight City' by Fleur & Manu

M83-'Midnight-City'-by-Fleur-&-Manu

Here comes a corker. Etienne De Crecy&rsquo;s No Brain is a massive unapologetic slab of thumping retro-electro, and Fleur &amp; Manu&rsquo;s video is awesome exercise in appropriately head-frying psychedelic CGI &ndash; with a surprising and equally nutty live action ending.Etienne has been using the cube as a central feature of his scenography since 2007, and Fleur &amp; Manu used that geometric shape as their inspiration and starting point (and quite possibly Nobody Beats The Drum&rsquo;s&nbsp;Grindin&rsquo;). But then they&rsquo;ve gone completely bananas.This was made in full 3D using Maya animation software at admirable Paris post house Mathematic &ndash; and it will soon be available in stereoscopic 3D. Which is very exciting &ndash; but to be honest, this is mind-meltingly brilliant anyway.

Etienne De Crecy’s No Brain by Fleur & Manu   

Etienne-De-Crecy’s-No-Brain-by-Fleur-&-Manu---

The everyday story of a young lady and her little pal - who turns out to be a bit of a party animal. 
An absorbing and cautionary tale of an unusual friendship for Aussie DJs Bag Raiders by Fleur &amp; Manu, the Paris-based directing team who directed the gripping pulp-narrative video for Tricky's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/08/17/tricky%E2%80%99s-murder-weapon-by-fleur-manu/" target="_blank">Murder Weapon</a> last year. 
Fleur and Manu actually shot this in Bangkok, and worked with a chimp named Ho - renamed Coco for the video. "He was a bad ass to start with," says producer Jules De Chateleux. "But he turned out to be the greatest dude ever."

Flavie Doubesky

Bag Raiders’ Sunlight by Fleur & Manu 

Bag-Raiders’-Sunlight-by-Fleur-&-Manu-

First single from Tricky&#39;s Mixed Race album (Domino, September 27th) is Murder Weapon - a reworking of the classic 90s dancehall hit from Jamaican Echo Minott.Accompanying the release is this dark, compelling promo from directing duo Fleur &amp; Manu, shot at a boxing club in Paris. Tricky takes on the role of a boxer, one who refuses to rise to the violent taunts from a couple of meatheads...

Charlotte Boulin

Francois Lafon

Tricky’s Murder Weapon by Fleur & Manu

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