ROMAIN-GAVRAS & Urban Spaces

ROMAIN-GAVRAS: music video cinematographer/director, seems to capture the raw essence of various urban spaces around the world. Here, have a look,
-what's interesting to me is the way in which he explicitly shows the dirtiness, the griminess, and rawness of these urban spaces. The grittiness and 'ugliness' of theses spaces come across as really something quite beautiful.

DJ MEHDI, Signatune from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Simian Mobile Disco, I Believe from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Jus†ice, Stress from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.