If you’re at home alone, feeling sad ’cause you’re ill and can’t dive in the snow as you dog outside, well, this video’s gonna wake you up. That’s what happened to me watching to Yea Yeah by Matt & Kim, from their first album. This indie rock duo from Brooklyn is on stage from 2005, and each video they make is something crazy and amusing. An example? One of the most succesful is Lessons Learned, where they get naked in Times Square in a cold day of February, leaving passers-by astonished.

Yea Yeah is one of the first videos they made, directed by Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor. This guy’s such a polyedric figure that escapes any definition. He worked as video director, installation artist, curator, tour manager, photographer and many other roles, each time producing great works. This is the way he describes his attitude towards making a video in an interview by All That We’ve Met:

“I treat working with a band like it’s a collaboration. Each time there’s the band and me, we both contribute ideas that make the final video. There are music videos that are just made that the director has an idea and the band is just stuck in them; they’re just puppets and there’s nothing that the band can do to contribute to the video. I like making videos in which the band is as much a collaborator -beyond that they’re providing a song.”.

In Yea Yeah you’ll see Matt & Kim dressed in white, playin’ white instruments in a white cardboard kitchen. Then a little box appears on the screen, showing you tomatoes, and you know what’s gonna happen -dont’ you? White kitchen + tomatoes = food battle. The way Matt & Kim try to go on playin’ is spite of the food shots is the funnier thing. Do you remember Sing video by Travis? I’m sure Yea Yeah will amuse you the same way.