Bjork – All is Full of Love

Bjork’s music video ‘All is full of Love’ is an outstanding piece of visual art. Thinking outside the box, to convey a message of love and lust, Bjork catches the attention of her viewers with her unusual masterpiece. The assembly of a female robot with the face of Bjork, brought to life, is then seduced by a second female robot also wearing Bjork’s face.

If Bjork’s intentions for this video are to ensure that her viewers watch the full feature from beginning to end while soaking in the vocals to attempt to piece together meaning and thought; then she succeeds. while the video is ephemeral, the idea of robotic life and a metallic passion lingers. the use of metal and white light gives the impression of a cold, mechanical and unfeeling world. Shortly into the video we are shown sparks of light as the robot is assembled and brought to being.

The use of sparks, I feel, represent not just the beginning of life, but also the sparks of passion ignited between the two robots. Giving a human emotion to the building of a machine: the ultimate pathetic fallacy. The use of a creamy liquid within some of the scenes, running over the metallic shell gives the impression of bodily fluids and therefore triggering an image of sexual joy within the viewer.

Deciding to depict both robots as herself gives further depth into this message she wishes to convey. One of self-love; learning to love yourself, find yourself beautiful and letting yourself enjoy pleasure. To humanize two robots within her message of love is a stroke of genius. What better way to depict the emotion of love than to give this feeling to an inanimate object, letting the emotion bring metal to life.

Bjork ensures that with the use of a bizarre and unusual video plot, her music video not only shocks, entertains and stuns her viewers, but also gives a topic of discussion and one to remember. I cannot say that I will forget the ‘robot sex scene’ any time soon, or the message behind it.