French directing collective AB/CD/CD deliver their own particular brand of surrealism via this promo for brother and sister duo Singtank – aka Josephine and Alexandre de La Baume.
Josephine is in mid-pursuit of her brother, when she is confronted with this massive mountain of doors, immaculately pieced together into an unfathomable maze, that could be described as ‘Escher-esque’. Or, alternatively, a bit like Monsters Inc.…
Singtank
The Party (Warner Music)
Director: AB/CD/CD
Prod co: Partizan
Producer: Arthur Cantin
DoP: Mathieu Plainfosse
Line Producer: Anne Laure Godinho
1st AD: Pascal Venturini
Stylist: Jennifer Eymere
Editor: Gopal Puntos @ Royal Post
Colourist: Muriel Archambeau @ Royal Post
Flame Artist: Micha Sher
VFX: Royal Post
VFX: FIRM
Commissioner: Lucie Leguen
Singtank official website
A young man sits alone in his flat, he appears trapped, contained, waiting for something until there is a knock at the door…
Like his acclaimed TV promo for Luther last year, Caswell Coggins’ new film Knock At The Door is rich in explosive movement.
This is a short dance film featuring dancer and co-choreographer Anthony Missen, from Manchester-based dance company, Company Chameleon – with music by Mean Red – created as part of the C4 Random Acts series. But it’s just as much about the atmospheric direction and stunning camerawork (by Deane Thrussell) as the choreography.
The film is one of a series of three dance based films, the second and third shoot in March and will feature dancers from the dance company,The Ballet Boyz.
Knock At The Door
Director: Caswell Coggins
Producer: Kwok Yau
Performer: Anthony Missen
Choreographer: Anthony Missen & Kevin Turner Company Chamelion
Music: Mean Red
Executive Producer: Dave Graham
Prod co: Crossfire
1st AD: Kerry Green
DoP: Deane Thrussell
Steadicam operator: Billy Trevitt
Focus Puller: Mike Linforth
Gaffer: Genki Mcclure
Art Director: Bobby Cousins
SFX Technician: Neal Chapman
Wardrobe Stylist: Richard Simpson
Make Up: Karina Deichler
Editor: Toby Conway-Hughes
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
Online Editor: Skippy
Post FX: Two Rivers Partnership
Special Thanks: Location Lighting Love Film Productions Rushes Post Production Unit Post Production Prime Focus World Marshall Street Editors
Watch: here
Shot in a disused warehouse in East London over one night late last year, Dan Shipton translates the grit and throb of Adam Tyler’s glam-stomping Like A Drug with this moody and darkly-lit promo…
Adam Tyler
Like A Drug
Director/Creative Director: Dan Shipton
Producer/Artist Manager: Chris Yates
Co-Producer: Steven Brown
Editor: Mike Green
1st AD: Jenny Liggett
2nd AD: Ross Nicholson
DP: Mark Nutkins
Focus Puller: Luke Cairns
Gaffer: Adam Bell
Clapper Loader: Ben Foat
Grade: Lucky Cat
Art Director: Adrian Gee
Assistant Art Director: Neil Clarke
Make-up: Soleil Jackson
Costume Designer: Jo-Ann Doherty
Costume: Chloe Adele
Production Assistants: Frankie Boyle, Richard Bradley
Production trainee: Michael Davis
Adam Tyler official website
Fred Rowson has directed his debut promo for Police Dog Hogan – the band who boast Blink boss James Studholme as their lead singer – for their heartfelt ballad (conceived by Guardian columnist Tim Dowling, written by the band) Shitty White Wine (featuring on their eponymous 2010 album).
The urban cowboy in Fred’s nicely cinematic video is the supercool Joe Campling – with a proper stunt horse…
Police Dog Hogan
Shitty White Wine
Director: Fred Rowson
Producer: Emile Rafael
DoP: Jaime Feliu Torres
Editor: Ryan Beck
Jon Campling as The Cowboy
Thursday, 26. January 2012 - 10:43 pm |No comments »
As well as his splendid animated Retox video, Michael Panduro has directed this eyeful for another raucous bunch of death-metallers called Fuck The Facts.
This one, for A Coward’s Existence, involves the graphically medical use of an endoscopic camera and a quite scary Dude (played by Jakøb Møgelvang). Michael describes this one as “experimental” and it certainly gets quite messy.
But if you can stand the noise, you can probably stand the projectile vomiting…
Fuck The Facts
A Coward’s Existence (Relapse Records)
Director: Michael Panduro
Producer: Michael Panduro, Casper Haugegaard, Ib Valentin
DOP: Michael Panduro, Casper Haugegaard, Ib Valentin
Editor: Michael Panduro
Make Up: Mille Merian Thybo
Dude: Jakøb Møgelvang
Retox provide the right royal racket that is the charmingly-titled Ten Pounds of Shit in a Five Pound Bag (from the album Ugly Animals).
Michael Panduro provides the marvellous hand-drawn animation about the man enduring all manner of unpleasantness. Michael did all the images himself – about 820 in all – shooting some reference-video for the movements and then drawing on top of that at 12fps.
You will wince, but it’s excellent work…
Retox
Ten Pounds of Shit in a Five Pound Bag (Three One G / Ipecac Recordings)
Director, animator: Michael Panduro
Prod co: Seigfried Prods
Filmmaker/artist Maximilla Lukacs brought the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit – the sisters Johanna and Clara Söderberg – to the perfect place to shoot the video for Emmylou, the sisters’ homage to Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons: The Joshua Tree National Park.
And not only is Joshua Tree a very special place in Gram Parsons lore – it was a place he loved, it was where he died and was buried – to add to the sense of occasion, the shoot took place on Gram’s birthday…
“Joshua Tree was a sacred place for Gram Parsons as it has been for me,” says Maximilla. “To be able to film this in the park on his birthday was such an honor. The video itself is an act of magic, a ceremony, a connection with the ghosts of the past.
“Driving into that park at daybreak with the beautifully haunting sound of Johanna and Klara singing a Gram song a cappella in the car still gives me goosebumps to think about. I hope that Gram was smiling. I think he was.”
First Aid Kit
Emmylou (Wichita)
Director: Maximilla Lukacs
UK rep: Somesuch & Co.
DoP: Dave Mcfarland
Stylist: Miss Kk
Hair Stylist: Candice Birns
Makeup Artist: Bethany Mccarty
Prop Stylist: Alia Penner
1st Ad: Todd Weaver
2nd Ad: Andrew Tonkery
1st Ac: Ben Moen
Steadicam: Luke Rochelo
Producer: Wes Olson For Connect The Dots Inc
Coordinator: Meghan Gallagher
Editor: Maximilla Lukacs
Color Correction: Ida Svenonious / The Chimney Pot
Special Thanks: Joshua Tree National Park
Watch: Quicktime movie
Thursday, 26. January 2012 - 12:30 pm |No comments »
Phil Griffin shoots singer James Morrison in a large space in this lively performance promo for the rousing Slave To The Music, complete with some tasty acrobatic choreography from Paul Roberts.
James Morrison
Slave To The Music (Universal)
Director: Phil Griffin
Producer: Leanne Stott
Production Company: Partizan
DP: Will Bex
AD: Sam Le Page
Art Director: Nick Ellis
Choreography: Paul Roberts
Editor: Ed Line @ Final Cut
Colourist: Simone Grattarola @ Rushes
Commissioners: Tamara Brooks & Bob Brimson
James Morrison official website
Thursday, 26. January 2012 - 10:30 am |No comments »
UK/Swedish electronic dance duo Punks Jump Up team up with directors Davey Ahern and Charlie Doran for the retro orgy of colour that is the promo to Get Down.
“The band referenced certain 80′s videos they liked with a particular aesthetic,” says Charlie. “The lighting in particular was very important in achieving this. All camera effects were created on site using various old school lenses to keep with the 80s analogue look and feel”.
Punks Jump Up
Get Down (Kitsune)
Directed by: Davey Ahern & Charlie Doran
DoP: Charlie Ryan
Produced by: Davey Ahern
Edited by: Charlie Doran
Lighting by: Charlie Ryan
Graded by: Dan Moran
Make up: Nelson Catarino
Dancers: Lucile Troquet, Babsi Lippe, Kate Edmunds, Emma-Rebbecca Sly
Props Supplied by: Lee Gordon
Thanks to: Lizze McQuade for hair accessories & David David for sequin dress
Punks Jump Up official website
Wednesday, 25. January 2012 - 10:45 pm |No comments »
In Claire Kurylowski’s video for kool thing’s Light Games, androgenous girls relight the fire of their relationship with the help of magic crystals (of an unusual kind) on a night out in Berlin.
Light Games is from female electronic duo kool thing’s debut EP. British director Claire Kurylowski (who’s based in Berlin) has been in the official selection at the London Short Film Festival, won the Daily Motion Prize at A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival (ASVOFF) and also bagged a Kodak Award for a commercial she directed whilst still at film school.
Claire was interviewed by L-mag about the video. But in case you can’t read German, here’s a short translation: “For me the story was about seeking to re-find a sense of wonderment lost. In this case something has been lost in the relationship between the two women and the one left hurt decides to seek something to replace that feeling.
“I didn’t set out to make a specifically lesbian video, it purely happened that for me the natural inclination and inspiration of the song text was to portray the story unfolding between two women. But in this case I think this type of story has a universalism. Losing someone, or the sense of excitement and fulfillment in a relationship and what someone does in reaction to this. I am glad it is a story that unfolds between two women because it isn’t often I see positive, accurate or not overly stereotyped representations of lesbians in commercial music videos.”
Kool Thing
Light Games
Director/Producer/Editor: Claire Kurylowski
DoP: Adam Scarth
1st A.D.: Wouter Jaspers
Starring: Emme Preisler, Sophie Lee, Majada Daria Ramadan, Julia Trentau, V
Production design: Tom Bonynge
Lighting/Camera Assistant: Charles Gouvea
Styling: Emme Preisler
Wednesday, 25. January 2012 - 5:03 pm |1 comment »
London-based production company Stamp has announced a creative partnership with LA-based production company DNA, which will see much of DNA’s roster of directors represented for work in the UK by Stamp.
Directors on DNA’s roster now repped by Stamp in the UK include Francis Lawrence – director of some of the most successive music videos ever, including Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance; Rich Lee, who last month delivered the video for Will.I.Am’s T.H.E. (above) featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger; and Julien Lutz, who recently completed a high-profile UK spot for Yeo Valley, and is now repped by Stamp for commercials. Lutz – aka Director X – and Nigel Dick, both with DNA in the US, are repped elsewhere in the UK – Director X (Julien Lutz) at Luti Media; Nigel Dick at Bikini.
Stamp – who’ve just moved to new offices in Hoxton Square – also recently signed British directing team Ben + Lewis. Their recent projects included the Crystal Fighters video for Champion Sound, a crowdsourced viral for Nokia and films for Allsaints and Vivienne Westwood. Ben Strebel, from Ben + Lewis, also recently directed the acclaimed promo for Clock Opera’s Once And For All.
Wednesday, 25. January 2012 - 2:30 pm |No comments »
We Have Band ingest jewels and sacrifice wax effigies of themselves in Alex Turvey’s new video for Where Are Your People, under the watchful eye of a cloaked shaman.
The video was inspired by a scene from Jodorowsky’s wonderfully bizarre The Holy Mountain and shows the band performing a ritual to shed their images by melting wax likenesses of themselves.
The band members kindly let Alex’s team cover them in blue gloop and take plaster casts of their bodies. Prosthetics studio Die Mortal used the casts to construct life-size figures from coloured wax over the course of a month. And Alex worked again with talented art director Chris Jarratt to create the video’s striking look.
We Have Band
Where Are Your People (Naive)
Director: Alex Turvey
Executive Producer: Tamsin Glasson
Producer: Amelia Wise
Producer on set: Kate Graham
Production Company: Colonel Blimp
Director of Photography: Daniel Trapp
1st Assistant Director: Sascha Marden
Gaffer: Matt Hall
DIT: Deane Thrussell
Art Directior/Set Builder: Chris Jarratt
Design: Alex Turvey/Chris Jarratt
Costume & Styling: Laura Clayton
Wax Effigies: Die Mortal
Make Up: Alison Dunwell
Shaman: Mark Thompson
Art Assistants: Jo Peel / Thomas Bird
Editor: Max Windows at Stitch
Post Production: Alex Turvey
Grade: Marty McMullan at Rushes
Commissioner: John Moule
Watch: here
We Have Band official website
