Synopsis
Sébastien Tellier presides over a surreal suburban fantasy where a group of women in lingerie lounge around him, flirt with the camera, and turn an ordinary home into a bizarre erotic playground. Tellier maintains his characteristically detached, deadpan presence while the women pose, dance, and play with their underwear. The video's strangest visual joke comes from hot dogs, which are treated as comic symbols of lust and excess. Hidden-camera-style shots add to the deliberately provocative, knowingly ridiculous mood.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Kilometer" was released as the third single from Tellier's 2008 album "Sexuality," with the single campaign arriving in April 2009.
- The video's production was credited to El Nino. Its deliberately provocative tone matched the broader erotic concept of "Sexuality," an album produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk.
- Tellier described the song's aesthetic as a meeting between Justin Timberlake-style American sensuality and cold German precision, comparing its mood to a long motorway journey.
- The production leans into comic exaggeration rather than straightforward seduction. Contemporary coverage singled out the hot dogs and an underwear-mounted camera concept as the clip's most memorable inventions.
- The single was supported by a substantial remix package, including versions by Aeroplane, A-Trak, Arpanet, Moulinex, and Donovan.
- The Aeroplane "Italo 84" remix became particularly prominent in electronic-music circles, drawing on disco and Italo-disco references while keeping the original song's sensual atmosphere.