Bjork's 'All is Full of Love'

Bjork's 'All is Full of Love" displays the artist as unique and individual. The music video was directed by Chris Cunningham and won numerous awards, such as an MTV award for breakthrough video, as well as being nominated for a Grammy.

The video uses primarily black and white mise en scene which adds to the clinical feel of the setting. At several points within the video (for example 1:08) we see a close up of a red image on the robot; the first colour featured. As the camera zooms out, it is seen that all the machinery has this logo on, reminding us that the robot is manufactured and branded. As the camera cuts to show the second cloned Bjork-robot, it can be seen that she too has the image printed onto her body work. The location and colour of the image creates suggestions of their hearts and lust they feel.

The camera acts in a mechanical manner similar to both the machinery in the video and the mechanical sounds featured in the song, tying together and creating a relationship between music and visuals. Multiple high angled shots are used throughout, so the audience are literally and metaphorically looking up to the robots; despite being manufactured, they still have love. Long shots are used as the cloned robots 'get intimate', which displays the machinery still fixing and altering them. The use of long shots creates a contrast between the bleak, stark, mechanical and clinical setting and mise en scene, with the passion of the two robots. The opening and ending of the video mirror each other, as the camera pans up from the darkness of wires beneath the light of the robots, creating again a stark constrast, and showing the robots in a positive bright light, creating images of a clinical mechanical kind of heaven.

Similarly to the camera-work, the editing is also very mechanical. There are many cuts between the robots and machinery to remind us of the setting whilst emphasising the fact that the characters are not human. All the cuts are in perfect timing with the music which adds even further to the machine-like feel of the over all piece. There are multiple hooks within the video, for example the fact that the robots are clones, and leave the audience wondering what they will do, and how the video will progress.

Overall, the video creates issues surrounding two areas. Firstly, it leads the audience to question whether they too act like manufactured clones, whilst also leading to the question, or anticipation, of what the technological future will bring. The black and white mise en scene adds to this feeling, suggesting the simplicity of both of these questionable areas.