Director Study: Jesse Kanda

Jesse Kanda's style of directing is a very artistic and contemporary approach, he creates his videos without committing to a conceptual vision, making his work very "fluid" as he calls it in an interview. Some consider his works such as TRAUMA repulsive, with the same people considering his work with FKA Twigs for her video for Water Me to be pure beauty. The way Kanda presents traditionally disturbing or gross material in away that makes them seem so beautiful and angelic is what inspires me about him.

The highly conceptual narratives Kanda weaves into his video often go missed until the audience knows they must read into his videos deeper than the surface. This is most likely why he chooses very contemporary and conceptual musicians to match his creative thinking. Although Kanda says in an interview that the video is purely him and the music is purely the musician, but the musician may have a starting point for Kanda; but ultimately it is his creative vision. 

Kanda's work with Arca is very "out of the box". Their work together is considered more of an artwork than just a music video, this works with both artists styles as both are fairly underground; although within their fields they are considered geniuses. It is clear that Kanda has a clear style in is work which doeskin make it a appeal to the masses of mainstream audiences, because of its content which is considered by some disturbing and others confusing. Its almost like the magical, distorted reality of Kanda's video is so different and new its too much for the mainstream to comprehend. Much like Chris Cunningham's collaborations with Aphex Twin; when the two started working together the content was ahead of its time, so it confused the masses and intrigued the artistic niche. I believe Aphex Twin/Chris Cunningham in one of Kanda's influences along with Paul White and artists like Bjork.