Very slowly, after about 25 years, taking the literal approach to directing music videos may be coming back into fashion. That's if Tom Werber's engrossingly surreal and ultimately chilling video for Villagers' Earthly Pleasures is anything to go by...

Villagers' Conor O'Brien sings of a man on a voyage of discovery, and Tom illustrates his fantastic journey from bathroom to battlefield to being balanced on the knee of a goddess – while in his Y-fronts. Here's inventive visual storytelling completely in tune with the songwriting - and there's a great performance by Jean Baptiste Fillon as the (very mortal) man.

Tom Werber: "It's an illustrative interpretation and it's been interesting to see people's reactions to that! It was a decision I made when I heard the song, which has a very strong story to it.

"I decided to treat the song as if it were a script. That's quite unusual for music videos - I certainly wouldn't do it for everything - but in this case I really like the result."