Au bord du matin, lyric video sample

Style and material

The noise of a train, bread passed across a table, and days without you that take up too much room: “Au bord du matin” is a French song about missing someone, soft and a little aching. A train window clouded with mist, with a cup on the sill. The words are wiped into the mist on the glass, and the scene moves on to a bakery breakfast table, with scored bread crust, flour on a board, jam on a plate, pressed butter and kitchen twine. Each line takes the material of its own object, so the table and the window tell the song instead of a single background.