Spot where Bob Dylan strolled down the street in Duquesne Whistle video

The music video for Bob Dylan's 'Duquesne Whistle' — the opening track from his 2012 album Tempest — was filmed on the streets of Downtown Los Angeles and directed by Australian filmmaker Nash Edgerton. The video intercuts footage of Dylan and his cohorts wandering through the city with a darkly comic narrative involving a man whose persistent attempts to woo a woman on the same streets lead to increasingly violent consequences. It's a Tarantino-ish short film wrapped around a Dylan song about trains and longing.

Dylan himself appears throughout, strolling down downtown LA streets in his characteristic hat and sunglasses, seemingly oblivious to the carnage playing out around him. The contrast between Dylan's serene presence and the escalating violence around him gave the video a cult following, and Edgerton's direction was widely praised for finding an imaginative visual counterpart to the song's rolling, deceptively cheerful feel.

The Downtown Los Angeles streets used in the shoot have the slightly faded grandeur typical of that part of the city — wide pavements, old commercial buildings, the occasional dash of neon. Dylan walking through them looks entirely at home, which is perhaps the point: he's always been a city wanderer, and the streets of any American city could plausibly be the ones he's always moved through.