Radiohead - The Best Of DVD

Legendary video director Michel Gondry had just made his first movie when he directed the video for "Knives Out," a characteristically awe-inspiring, one-shot video tracking the breakdown of a relationship, including a human version of the board game Operation. And the beautiful, ghostly feel of "I Might Be Wrong" was created by Sophie Muller, more generally found directing videos for the likes of Gwen Stefani and Beyoncé, shooting Thom and Jonny Greenwood on a no-lens pinhole camera.

While Radiohead's later videos may have tended toward the leftfield, the video for "There There," the first single from Hail To The Thief, directed by Bristol-based animation director Chris Hopewell, was arguably the band's most popular and widely-seen video for years when it arrived in 2003. Part-Bagpuss, part-Brothers Grimm, it won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Directed Video that year.

Radiohead have encouraged directors to interpret their music in a singular fashion, and Thom Yorke in particular has been prepared to go to great lengths to realise a great concept, as demonstrated with "No Surprises," the final video from OK Computer. Director Grant Gee, who was working with the band on their acclaimed documentary Meeting People Is Easy, persuaded Thom into a helmet that fills up with water. It's an unforgettable (and potentially very dangerous) one-shot video as the viewer watches Thom hold his breath.
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