Falentin’s video for Burial and Four Tet features clips from Godard’s Une Femme Mariée and Adolf Winkelmann’s Die Abfahrer, which, appropriate to the spirit of collaboration, he’s spliced together.

Tanasie uses Philippe Garrel’s short film La cicatrice intérieure for Widowspeak’s “Harsh Realm”:

And Sean Omlor sets Garrel’s silent film Le révélateur, to Jim James’ cover of George Harrison’s “Long, Long, Long”

Burkhart ranges slightly askew, wandering outside the sanctioned realm of New Wave, but the spirit remains, like in his videos for Purity Ring’s “Lofticries” and Chairlift’s “Amanaemonesia,” which is filmed alongside clips of Jack Cardiff’s Girl On A Motorcycle (starring Marianne Faithful).

IamNoSuperman’s video for Real Estate’s “Easy” is perhaps the most far-removed from France and its New Wave, but this video features scenes from Haro Senft’s 1973 West German film, Mondtag, and it is awesome:

Maybe it’s true that what once was scrappy and renegade for an earlier generation, is now the nostalgic appropriation of today. But for those who love the New Wave (obviously guilty) and a lot of the music sampled in these videos (guilty, again), the fact that this music and these films are finding each other feels like kismet. Supporting fan videos is really just another way of supporting the larger music experience, and if these videos make you want to go out and see Hiroshima Mon Amour, you’re all the better for it. After all, sometimes the fans grow up to make the real thing.