Dave Johnson
Dave is a double Cannes Gold Awarded Creative Director and Screenwriter with over 20 years’ experience working with some of the world’s most iconic brands and creative agencies.
He has both a Writer and Art Director background and loves to create bold, disruptive work that moves people. His approach is strategically rigorous, conceptually driven, and executionally arresting. He now brings all of this insight and know-how to Generative AI.
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ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
CREATOR: Dave Johnson
SONG: Games Without Frontiers FROM Peter Gabriel 3
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
CREATOR: Dave Johnson
SONG: Games Without Frontiers FROM Peter Gabriel 3
Video info:
Games Without Frontiers has always been a favourite from Peter Gabriel's oeuvre, a song that brilliantly lampoons the absurdity and dangers of political games, power struggles, and the theatre of war. Tragically, it feels as pertinent today as ever. That made me keen to choose it, and my hope is that the heightened, surreal, and narrative approach I’ve taken complements the song’s mix of satire and menace.
Working with AI felt like a natural extension of Peter’s experimental spirit in music videos - a way to amplify the song’s themes and push the visual language far beyond what a conventional music video budget would allow. The mind boggles at what it might have cost to achieve this the traditional way.
Song info:
Games Without Frontiers is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's third solo album, released in May 1980.
Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Steve Lillywhite.
Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.