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"False Flags", the most overtly political song Massive Attack have done up to this point was inspired by the civil unrest centered around Paris which resulted in fierce rioting in the french capital during October/November 2005. These events inspired 3D in the making of the track as it became a commentary on the state of the European Union, a far more direct message than the vague decade-old Eurochild image which had a similar idea behind it.
"False Flags" was released on the compilation album Collected. It was also the b-side to the Live With Me single.
The False Flags video features a man of Middle Eastern descent throwing a Molotov Cocktail bomb in super slow motion, in a parallel to the Paris riots in 2005 that directly inspired the song. The budget for the video was approximately £7000, making it the cheapest Massive Attack promo video by a sizable margin. The camera used to shoot the super slow-mo scenes in the video was a Phantom V5.1 digital high speed video camera capable of filming at a 1000 frames per second.
The video for False Flags won an award at the Music Vision Awards 2006. It was for Best Cinematography in a music video and was presented to the Cinematographer, Tom Russel.
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