Broken Girl Media

“Black Hole Sun” — Soundgarden

When I look back on this after almost thirty years, I am impressed with what director Howard Greenhalgh managed to achieve on a no-doubt razor-thin budget in 1994. The morphing and other CG was primitive, but BHS actually does a better job of using these new tools artistically than just about anything else of the era.

In addition to having his fingerprints on videos from half the major acts of the ‘90s, Greenhalgh coincidentally also made a forgettable video for one of my favorite songs of the early Aughts, Zero 7’s Destiny. Fortunately, someone had Tommy Pallotta make a better one, and the result was beautiful. I’ve always loved rotoscoping, and this was some next-gen stuff that was ripped off by other directors for years to come.

NOTE: I loved this song so much, but it took me fifteen years to find out that I was listening to Sia the whole time.