“Hello, Future” Music Video Challenge – the finalists
Friday, 3. June 2011 - 6:26 pm
The “Hello, Future” Music Video Challenge – a competition that invited up-and-coming filmmakers to make a video for one of three tracks from the new Moby album Destroyed – received nearly 600 entries by the deadline of May 9th.
Now Moby’s partners of the competition – Saatchi & Saatchi, Vimeo and BUG – have decided upon the ten finalists to the Challenge.
Here they are:
The winner – selected by a panel of judges from the competition partners, and including Moby himself – will be announced and their video screened at the 21st Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on June 23rd.
The winner will also be offered the chance to work on a project in one of Saatchi & Saatchi’s key offices around the Saatchi & Saatchi Global Network.
3. June 2011 - 7:07 pm
some of these are pretty good, which just goes to show….
there are plenty of mugs out there willing to work for free.
and you can get a lot when you exploit people with a giant inflatable carrot on a stick that deflates as soon as you get close.
R.I.P. Flynn
R.I.P. Career
well done everyone!
3. June 2011 - 7:26 pm
that was quite harsh mug…………but i liked it.
we are all mugs in some way searching for a way up the pyramid where a select few can stand proud.
but i don’t think the makers of this challenge are after a profit…………a naysayer could argue that MOBY and SATCHI and VIMEO are after some cheap advertising time with the cool folk but lets hope their main objective is to allow 10 stars to shine in some small way.
who knows, one of those stars could be the next PT Anderson and make a film one day that really says something.
angry MUG………….i’m just amazed there aren’t more voices on this site with something to say about certain events this week………….its a huge thing that has happened and i think it signals the turning of a corner for music videos and the production companies that make them…………….flynn and factory said goodbye this week and this is very very sad for all the amazing producers and runners and PA’s and directors who kept these homes alive.
4. June 2011 - 2:43 am
can someone clear up the whole flynn thing? I dont get what they have to do with this
4. June 2011 - 1:26 pm
Agreed, can someone clear up how Sophie Muller, Alex & Liane, Sam Brown, Wiz, Paul Gore, Jamie Thraves etc etc are all now without a production company, while every other video on Promo News seems to be cheerfully ripping them off, with a fraction of the budget?
4. June 2011 - 2:33 pm
blah blah blah, get fucked production companies come and go, making music videos was never the most lucrative business going. if you didn’t see this coming your nave as shit. directors get signed elsewhere we all move on! dont lose sleep over it!
4. June 2011 - 5:12 pm
I thought Martin Rodahl’s one was pretty fucking slick. But I was a little uncomfortable with the racial stereotyping. So just to clarify.. white people propose to each other and lay around on the grass watching clouds… black people beg and shoot each other, have I got that right?
4. June 2011 - 6:04 pm
Love the SCI FI floating one- so simple, so haunting! nice cuts between sex and violence. 50 bucks? really? – not bad at all.
5. June 2011 - 12:28 pm
@cadburys > Don’t start polemics where there is anything to complain about. In the assailant band, there is one black, one white and last one could be latino or white at 01:58
5. June 2011 - 4:35 pm
@whocares > yes you’re absolutely right..the “assailant band” are a real melting pot.
6. June 2011 - 12:01 pm
does anybody know when “Assailant Band IV” is out? Nice video by the way whocares…
6. June 2011 - 11:25 pm
My concern is with the video “Be the one” from the Manship Society. The video seems to have some sense of originality and it is in fact a very clever idea to those who never read the short story of Julio Cortazar “La Continuidad de los Parques.” To those of you who wish to read it here is the link http://www.literatura.org/Cortazar/Continuidad.html
The link is in spanish, if you wish to read it in english, google it.
The story is almost exactly the same, so i think the video shouldnt be one of the winners.
20. June 2011 - 2:33 am
I was one of these “Mugs” who submitted a video for the contest. It kind of left a sour taste in my mouth. The odd thing, I was e-mailed by the company doing the judging and was informed that my video was the finalist. I was stoked! I waited for the top 10 to be posted and the day that they were, my video wasn’t included. I emailed the company asking what the deal was and was informed that they did an unformal, unofficial voting round for the top 50. Mine was part of the top 50. By their rules and judging criteria on the vimeo site, they screwed up. Wish they never contacted me!
Here’s my video!
http://vimeo.com/23462979