ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Mike Bennion

SONG: Before Night Falls FROM: Passion

Video info:

This piece is a visual poem, attempting to complement the exotic and sacral nature of the music. It is heavily inspired by the 1969 film ’The Colour of Pomegranates’ by Sergei Parajanov. It uses a similar minimalist, old school film grammar, real locations, no camera moves, no special effects, no actors just ordinary people, symbolic gestures whose meaning has been lost over time. A combination of my subconscious and the whims of AI has produced something we don’t understand, and that is what hopefully holds our attention, to figure out the puzzle.

Song info:

Before Night Falls is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album Passion, released in June 1989.

Music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.
The Ney flute plays a traditional Armenian melody.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

[Passion] was one of the most important records for me – an opportunity as a writer to try to do a different sort of job than I usually do. The brief for The Last Temptation Of Christ was to create something that had references to that time and that part of the world, but that had its own character and was to be timeless in a way.

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ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Lightbrush

SONG: In Your Eyes FROM: So

Video info:

The nearly 6-minute music video for “In Your Eyes” was generated entirely with Luma and Deforum, combining a few different styles of a.i. Animation, including long-form keyframe animation. Clips were selected, and edited with Adobe After Effects.

Song info:

In Your Eyes is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album So, released in May 1986.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘In Your Eyes’ was the first thing that I’d recorded, I think, with Youssou and it was very important for that reason. It was around the time I was going to Africa and really getting inspired by a lot of the music I was hearing there, particularly rhythmically and vocally. I’ve described Youssou’s voice as “liquid gold” and I think when he comes in singing on that track it’s just a fantastic moment. We’ve since gone on to do a lot of other things, but that was one of the most exciting.
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ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Tristan Zand

SONG: Road to Joy (Dark-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info

The song I had the honour of working with simply made me feel good: pure, positive musical energy with a groove that reaches the heart through the ears. It felt essential not to alter that core musical experience, so I aimed to create a subtle visual layer, one that echoes the strong rhythm section while leaving space for the viewer to explore the melodies and lyrics.

In a time when generative AI often blurs the line between real and synthetic, I felt it was important to leave visible traces of the various tools and techniques I used. I also wove in visual references to Peter’s past work, those familiar codes that still linger in our shared visual memory.

Song info:

Road to Joy is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Dark-Side Mix, by Tchad Blake.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘I'm working on a project which is partly a story focused around the brain and how we perceive things and this song connects to that. It deals with near-death experience and locked-in syndrome situations where people are unable to communicate or to move. It's an amazingly frustrating condition. There have been some great books and films about this subject, but at this point in our story the people looking after our hero manage to find a way to wake him up. So, it’s a lyric about coming back into your senses, back to life, back into the world.’ - pg