shots Selects...Top 10 Björk Music Videos
Work by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham features in our guide to the iconic Icelandic singer's best
10. Big Time Sensuality
Director: Stéphane Sednaoui
If one video created the public stereotype of Björk, it's this one, with the whole video her being adorably eccentric on the back of a flatbed truck.
9. Human Behaviour
Director: Michel Gondry
Björk's debut (except for a forgotten album she recorded at the age of 12) from Debut, Human Behaviour also introduced non-French audiences to Michel Gondry, who would be part of the holy trinity of music videos (Gondry, Jonze, Cunnigham, all of whom you will meet below) for the next decade.
8. I Miss You
Director: John Kricfalusi
For this, Björk tapped Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi for a video that's maybe the weirdest thing in a large canon of weird Björk videos. Mixing 2D and 3D animation, it features a naked Björk wearing condoms-cum-cloches on her breasts in one of its more normal moments.
7. Innocence
Directors: Fred & Annabelle
The winner of a global competition to provide a music video for the Volta track, Fred & Annabelle bring the album art to life to glorious effect...and then adds some giant babies and bears for good measure.
6. The Gate
Director: Andrew Thomas Huang
In a recent interview, Björk described this record as her 'Tinder album,' and we'd definitely swipe right if this vid's anything to go on.
5. Triumph of a Heart
Director: Spike Jonze
Another Björk vid, anpother collab with an all-time music video great. In her last of three promos with Spike Jonze, she tells the story of a woman, her beatboxing troupe, and the business suit-wearing cat who loves her.
4. It's Oh So Quiet
Director: Spike Jonze
Her first vid with Jonze, meanwhile, is an all-time classic, bringing a '90s spin on the '50s Golden Age of the Hollywood musical complete with wall backflips, tyre choreography and a dancing post box.
3. Hidden Place
Directors: M/M Paris and Inez and Vinoodh
Sometimes the simplest ideas can be the most effective, as with this work that's just a close up on Björk's face as we track liquid flowing across it.
2. Notget VR
Directors: Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Although Björk has previous dabbling with the latest technology (her Wanderlust video came in 2D and 3D version, and her Biophilia app was released with an app), Notget is the best combination of Björkness (Björkocity?) with tech, as viewers dance with (and through) a multicoloured-CGI Björk creature.
1. All is Full of Love
Director: Chris Cunningham
Quite simply a stunning achievement. Despite being nearly 20 years old, the CGI is still amazing, and culture as varied as I, Robot, Ex Machina and the new Paloma Faith single cover have ripped it off lovingly referenced it ever since.
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