Music Video
The music video for "Since I Left You" was directed by Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling, both members of the Blue Source video direction team. It follows the story of two miners in a black-and-white world who find a passage into a dance studio situated in a colour world. The majority of the video consists of the miners dancing with two ballerinas, ending with one of the miners fading back into black-and-white. The Avalanches had originally envisioned a video concept involving synchronized swimmers on an ocean cruise liner, but their record company rejected it.
The clip later won Best Video at the 2001 MTV Europe Music Awards. Pitchfork Media placed it at number four on their list of the Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s, with writer Scott Plagenhoef noting that the video "transform the disparate and the out-of-place into something new and joyful, and it does that with the right blend of heart of surrealism."
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