Since I Left You – The Avalanches

Australia, 2001

© 2000 Modular Recordings. (Drennen / Schauer / Webb)

Film
A picture of a miner in a white shirt and black pants dancing with a blonde woman in workout clothes
Rob Leggatt

It seems fitting that for a band with such an unusual musical reputation like The Avalanches, the accompanying visuals to ‘Since I Left You’ would be so unique as well. Directed by Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling from the Blue Source art collective, it manages to combine familiar pop culture touchstones like Flashdance (1983) with the utterly surreal as two miners burrow through a black and white world into full colour.

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Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling

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Australia
Production dates
2001

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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Australia → MA-04. Music Video

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