The top of this website reads what is likely Michel's mantra: "It has always been my goal to make people feel alright when they watch my work." While his best known role is as visual magician, he occasionally tackles dramatic, less feel-good storylines in his videos (Fire on Babylon, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Knives Out). For a live version of the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter, a fire-branded song of war and redemption, Michel sketches one of his darkest stories. Set in a middle class suburb, it is a tale of a destructive family, with footage that is also scratched up and pock-marked. An elder teenage son comes home to find his parents fighting in the kitchen, with his younger brother under the dining room table, sketching battles in his notebook. When the father grabs his yelling wife, the son intervenes and is pushed to the ground. His mom scathingly chides her son, "This is all your goddamn fault anyway." The son grabs his brother and they escape to perhaps an uncle's house, where they steal the keys to a truck and vanquish to a friend's hostel. There he finds his girlfriend kissing another guy, and another battle ensues while some buddies play a destructive video game projected on the wall. They escape again, this time breaking into a school, where, in true Gondry style, the colors fade to black and white, and they conduct a battle against an animated chalkboard drawing of a tank. They use their desks as a bunker, shooting chalk bullets out of the desk's metal legs. When security arrives, they run, steal a van, and drive to the beach. As the song reaches its end, the boys rest wearily in front of the surf, and the colors return to the world in a huge saturated, psychedelic wave. With his younger brother sleeping on his lap, the older son looks tired and angry, and aware that the war is not over.