Indie veteran Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, has jumped into his time machine and traveled back to 2011 – the year of the brilliant M83 album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming. Now, he has a new video of “My Tears Are Becoming A Sea” to share.
The revisiting of Hurry Up We’re Dreaming involves a larger video trilogy project for the album tracks “Midnight City,” “Reunion,” and “Wait,” directed by Sacha Barbin and Ryan Doubiago. Gonzalez will also drop a 10th-anniversary orange vinyl edition of the album (April 15 via Mute).
Doubiago clarified in a press release: “this story takes place 10 years earlier in order to highlight the first moment one of these children uses their supernatural gifts.
On the way to the hospital and moments before his birth, the child’s parents are victims of a horrible car accident. The unborn child is forced to use his powers to save them from within the womb.
The idea was to show the literal birth of a superhero. We wanted to place this story in a realistic and universal setting. We think that the panic created by this magnificent moment speaks to everyone.
We also wanted to pay homage to the mothers who are too often absent from the mythology of superheroes. And finally, to go beyond the codes of the genre to carry a symbolic message of hope where future generations would come to save us from a dark fate.”