Dutch animator/artist Han Hoogerbrugge has made a trilogy of videos for electro-party dudes The Young Punx, all featuring a continuing cast of characters: the malevolent white-shirted clown, the skull and the chicken. His latest Young Punx vid is definitely his bounciest yet. And if the world-vision of Mr Hoogerbrugge intrigues you, then check out more [...]
Another blast of outstanding music video creativity on the big screen happens tonight at the BFI Southbank with BUG 04. The show is completely sold out, so if you have a ticket – lucky you. It’s going to be a doozy. And to get in the mood, this is how BUG 03 ended and brought [...]
The new Mika vid is the first ever by five young French animators collectively known as Bonzom – and they could hardly have made a better job of expanding upon the psychedelic world of Mika’s album artwork and website. For a start that was a eminently sensible move because the artwork – strongly influenced, of [...]
We calculate this is the fourth unapologetically confident video for serial dress-wearer Kate Nash by Kinga Burza, and it’s certainly the best since the one before last. It’s also the most colourful since the first, for Ms Nash’s spoof-like Caroline Is A Victim. We’ve read somewhere this a bit like Lily Allen’s Alfie (directed by [...]
If you go down to the woods tonight… well, Hundred Reasons have vacated the place, making way for an altogether spookier affair involving a blindfolded, pregnant girl terrorised by demonic audio tape. Ridiculous as that sounds, it works. In fact it’s clever. Directed on a shoestring by Blake Claridge of Woking-based Middlefield Pictures for a [...]
Compared to some of her previous, the new KT Tunstall video is noteworthy simply for having the singer-songwriter foresquare in front of camera, playing herself. Chris Bran, who recently completed a documentary on KT which has become a very successful addition to the Drastic Fantastic album package, has taken a welcome simple approach, so you [...]
BUG 04 is this Thursday, November 29th – and the latest instalment of The Evolution Of Music Video at the BFI Southbank is selling out fast. There’s just a few seats left for another big night of global music video creativity, including a few surprises and exclusives, all hosted in his inimitable fashion by Adam [...]
This may not be the most cerebral video you’ve ever seen – well, it definitely isn’t – but as is his wont, Jonnie Malachi sprinkles good vibes, high spirits and a bit of humour into this piece of dance fluff. And it makes us want to find our scratchy ol’ copy of Groove Is In [...]
Ramon & Pedro are clever sausages. So when Hocus Pocus play their unseasonably sunny Gallic soul-funk in front of their projectionist pal’s slideshow, all kind of weird stuff starts happening. It takes something of the graphic bombardment of the Justice DANCE video and adds another dimension.
Shane Davey’s straight-ahead performance video for Hundred Reasons is distinguished by its setting: it was shot at night in the middle of the New Forest. Nicely photographed by Crighton Bone, it’s been No. 1 on the MTV2 rock chart, ahead of the likes of Gallows, 30 Seconds To Mars and the Foo Fighters. We’re talking [...]
