Matt Daniels, who directed the superbly brooding video for Damien Jurado’s Caskets, and the indie-quirky Lolita for Throw Me The Statue, has directed another exceptional video with true cinematic scale. Like in Caskets, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band’s Albatross, Albatross, Albatross features members of the band in a period drama, and in a stunning location. [...]
VV Brown meets HB Brown, and they go to town with the outfits. On a distinctly martial theme as it happens. In fact, it looks like they raided ‘Military Uniforms, early to late 19th century’ room at the V&A for this one. That’ll be Harvey drawing upon his fashion masters degree again… VV Brown Game [...]
Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) directed by Jake Nava leads the way in nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards. Nava’s Single Ladies (right) is up for Video of the Year, and several more besides including Best Direction, as this year MTV has sensibly reinstated the professional categories – celebrating cinematography, art [...]
Directing legend Julien Temple has signed to Just Another Film Company for music video representation. The director of iconic features and documentaries including The Great Rock N’ Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners, The Filth And The Fury, Glastonbury and The Future Is Unwritten, has also directed numerous videos, for the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Neil Young, [...]
One big song from The Big Pink gets a sumptuous treatment from Tim Saccenti, who appears to have taken the naked girls from the band’s cover artwork, rebuilt them in ice – and then blown them to bits, sensibly capturing the action at 1000fps. Take that, ice maidens! Tim has been busy, as ever. His [...]
Formally part of the Youth Club directing team, this is Matt Nee’s first outing on his own and he had this to say about the video: “A short day in a sweatbox with lungs full of feathers and a great crew turned into a really enjoyable solo debut. Part of the excitement was frantically shooting [...]
Extreme lo-fi video slice-and-dice for the unpronouncable Dananananaykroyd by Stephen Agnew, that’s been selected as video of the week on Cerys Matthews’ show on 6music. Stephen explains that the video was shot in sunny Glasgow “with help from the Glasgow city council and Botanic Gardens and hindrance from some nosey community support officer.” Probably called [...]
His videos for London Elektricity’s All Hell Is Breaking Loose and Mistabishi’s Printer Jam were evidence of his considerable talent as a 3D animator, and now Kenny Frankland has provided a lot more with his new Nextmen and Ms Dynamite vid. A classic martial arts movie scenario – with the band and their guest vocalist [...]
Faux Tales’ first foray into the pop video world results in a dark, sexy, filmic fantasy for Mr Andre – his first release since his whirlwind life with Katie Price came to a sticky end. They had this to say about the shoot: “This is very much inspired by the fashion photography we thrive on. [...]
After a triumphant show hosted by Adam Buxton at the Latitude Festival in July, and a brilliant Horror special presented at the Big Chill by guest host Corin Hardy earlier this month, BUG concludes its summer festival tour with an exciting appearance at the Reading Festival this coming weekend. Adam is back with a special [...]
