Futureffects who did the I disappear video has an interview with the director of photography Dave Rudd where he talks about the shots. He also explains a lot about the music video and say:
DR: Each one of the guys had their own tribute to their own classic film. For instance the scene with the dry lake bed and Kirk being chased by the biplane, was a tribute to North by North West, the Hitchcock film. We wanted to do it one step better. Now we have the technology that was not available to them at that time. The rotunda scene with Jason was a cross between Midnight Express and Brazil. In Midnight Express everyone is walking in a circle and the guy walks in the opposite direction which is a tribute to that as well as the uniformity of Brazil. James did a sequence from Bullet, the Steve McQueen film. Finally, the scene with Lars jumping out of the building was a tribute to the Die Hard movies.
You can see the full interview here
