GasparNoé

|AnimalCollective

|Applesauce|2013

The music video “Applesauce” , made in 2013 by Gaspar Noé For Animal Collective, this is essential. raw sensory experience . Filmed in close-up on the face of a woman eating fruit, the minimalist setup is quickly overwhelmed by a a deluge of strobe flashes and saturated colors. True to his extreme aesthetic, Noé transforms the song into visual attack , playing on the retina as it plays on perception in  Irreversible  or  Enter the Void.

The result, hypnotic and sometimes harrowing, tells no story: it Immerse yourself . Between impulse, ephemerality, and psychedelic abstraction, Noé delivers a music video that feels more like a physical experience. than musical staging — a radical gesture, in perfect affinity with the frenetic energy of Centipede Hz.