Air — Playground love. Story behind the video

Like many contemporary directors who started with music videos and then moved to full-lengh films, Sofia Coppola, the daughter of the great Francis Ford Coppola, also began her career with bands. In 1995, a friend and a member of Sonic Youth Thurston Moore gave her a book about five sisters living in the Detroit suburbs under the severe control of puritan parents. The novel inspired 24-year-old Sofia to make her first film. When the author’s permission was received, she approached Brian Reitzell, the co-author of Sofia’s first short picture.