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.

‘I liked it. It’s a device I use quite often, taking titles or phrases from ordinary situations and trying to put them up against a slightly different background that will give them a new slant.

It’s an area I’m much more interested in than a totally fabricated, artificial world. For ‘Games’ I was thinking about adults behaving like kids, countries behaving like kids in the way that modes of behaviour that were unacceptable in normal society were perfectly acceptable on an international scale.’ - pg