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The Wilderness Downtown

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Initial release
  
2010

Music director
  
Arcade Fire

Director
  
Chris Milk


Awards
  
Clio Award for Interactive

Similar
  
Just A Reflektor, This Exquisite Forest, Last Day Dream, Evolution of Verse, Waves of Grace

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"The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive multimedia video coded in HTML5 and was published to show off the capabilities of the new Google Chrome browser. Directed by music video director Chris Milk and involving the work of a number of Google employees led by Aaron Koblin as well as digital production company B-Reel, it features the "We Used to Wait" song from the Arcade Fire album The Suburbs. It was one of three Grand Prix winners at the 2011 Cannes advertising awards in the Cyber category.

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The Wilderness Downtown Wikipedia