In the 90s there were 3 very creative directors : - Michel Gondry - Chris Cunningham - Spike Jonze I'd recommend you check their music videos.

Some of the older music videos are really ingrained in my memory for me - particularly Aha!'s "Take On Me" video, which was a composite of real and hand drawn cartoon imagery all done in the pre digital editing days. Clever stuff.

The early Michael Jackson clips when morphing and digital editing was still in its infancy are also still really cool to look at (particularly "Black & White")

They may seem really dated and cheesy now, but in their day, it was pretty cutting edge stuff.

One of my favourite "physical effects" music videos (for lack of a better term) is http://nigelstanford.com/Cymatics/

Check out OK Go's other videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/OkGo

Smashing Pumpkins Ava Adore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWwvQKGjLI

Goodshirt Sophie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePo9G-Rzr9k&list=PLCFB19EC4B...

Goodshirt Blowing Dirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLBfBtknxk&index=8&list=PLC...

AJJ - Goodbye, Oh Goodbye (make sure to watch the whole thing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDVCpm10SQI

Their video for End Love is exactly the opposite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw

REM - Imitation of Life is amazing : https://youtu.be/PbgKEjNBHqM Here is a visualization of what has been done : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ew-E3jfK5U It's a 20 seconds sequence.

The band Goodshirt from the late 90s had some pretty interesting but low budget one take/reversed music videos.

The Pharcyde's video for "The Drop" was filmed entirely in reverse. They apparently worked with a linguist to work out mouth movements that would sync to the lyrics when played backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0

It's a really cool effect -- except for a few bits where objects fall upwards and the like, there's nothing too strikingly "off" about the motion in the video, but you can tell that something's up. It doesn't form an uncanny valley, though -- there's still an overarching "organic" feeling to the thing.