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The music video for " Risky ", written and directed by Meiert Avis, also won the first ever MTV " Breakthrough Video Award ".

The ground breaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's ( Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری ) ideas of " Nostalgia for the Future ", in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s.

Additional inspiration was drawn from Jean Baudrillard, Edvard Munch's 1894 painting " Puberty ", and Roland Barthes " Death of the Author ".

The surrealist black and white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects techniques.

Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for " The Last Emperor " in London.

Sakamoto also appears in the video painting words and messages to an open shutter camera.

Iggy Pop, who performs the vocals on " Risky ", chose not to appear in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot.