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"Thirst" (2019): Gaspar Noé electrifies SebastiAn in a sweltering club

In 2019, Gaspar Noé directed one of the most striking music videos of the year for SebastiAn: "Thirst," the first single from the French electronic producer's second album, eight years after "Total." The result is a feverish short film where Noé's edgy aesthetic meets SebastiAn's raw sound.

Shot in the humid darkness of a Parisian club, the video follows a simple yet explosive scene: a man harasses a young woman, and one wrong move triggers a brutally violent fight. Noé films the eruption with his usual style – shaky camera, aggressive strobe lights, total sensory immersion – reminiscent of the visual excesses of  Climax or the hysterical tension of Lux Æterna, filmed the same year.

In just over three minutes, Thirst condenses the filmmaker's signature style: a confined space, bodies in a trance, and the gradual build-up of tension that threatens to implode. The producer appears briefly, surrounded by his clique, as a disillusioned witness to the spiral of violence.

Hailed by the specialized press, the video established itself as a natural collaboration between two artists sharing a common taste for excess, raw energy, and the staging of loss of control. With Thirst, SebastiAn finds in Gaspar Noé a visual mirror to the intensity of his music, and Noé, a miniature canvas on which to distill, once again, his shocking cinema.