Light up the Void  

Nick Cave and Gaspar Noé meet in the woods: the hypnotic music video for We No Who UR

At the start of 2013, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released "We No Who UR," the first single from their fifteenth album, Push the Sky Away. For the music video, the band collaborated with Gaspar Noé, known for his transgressive and hypnotic cinematic works. The result: a stark and unsettling visual journey, a far cry from the director's usual excesses.

The camera follows a solitary figure moving through a dark forest, bathed in a cold, diffuse light. The atmosphere, both mysterious and oppressive, perfectly complements the introspective tone of the song. Unlike his films, Noé opts for subtlety here: no spectacular effects, but an almost meditative shot that captures the viewer's attention and creates a feeling of poetic strangeness.

Cave's lyrics, speaking of intimate and inexorable knowledge — "We know who you are…" — resonate with the atmosphere of the video: a blend of fascination and awe. Critics hail this marriage of music and film as an unexpected yet successful one, where visual minimalism amplifies the song's emotional depth.

In short, We No Who UR is not just a music video: it is a short sensory experience, a nocturnal stroll into the heart of Nick Cave's simultaneously dark and captivating universe, guided by the inimitable eye of Gaspar Noé.