Music: horses canter along highways and through city streets in French director Quentin Baillieux's music video for Can You Do It by Charles X (+ movie).
Illustrated as a cross between an elite equestrian event and an urban car race, the film follows the animals and their jockeys as they speed along crowd-lined roads.

"This confrontation of two worlds provides a starting point for the film," Baillieux told Dezeen. "The first scenes incorporate a mixture of codes and conventions that stem from both cultures."
Baillieux first heard US musician Charles X on the radio in France, and immediately contacted his record label with a proposition to collaborate and an initial sketch.

"Right away I loved what he embodied; it was hip-hop but you could hear that he was also influenced by soul and Motown, which have been genres that I have always taken a keen interest in," the director said.
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They began working on the video for Can You Do It in October 2015, deciding that a mix of "the street and the elite" would be an apt visual concept to accompany the track.

The director modelled the film's city setting on Los Angeles, with the race starting in the San Fernando valley ? where Charles X grew up ? and culminating downtown.
"The race itself allows the film to grow with the camera, able to explore a variety of locations in Los A...