Help! I'm trapped in Peter Gabriel's award-winning 1986 music video for Sledgehammer!
Help! I’m trapped in Peter Gabriel’s award-winning 1986 music video for Sledgehammer!
This is possibly the most influential short film of the last 40 years.
Not in terms of its aesthetic or techniques, but how in moving the music video beyond “live concert performance” or even “the band directly acts out the lyrical themes”, it was upstream of basically every one – which through the 90s represented an unprecedented period where short films were a culturally central form of art – since