Mad, brilliant metal-punk CGI by Lucio Arese, with music by Yu Miyashita. A short, sharp, head banging VFX treat… Yu Miyashita Mimic Design, modeling, animation, direction, production: Lucio Arese Compositing, editing, cinematography: Lucio Arese Soundtrack: “Mimic” composed by Yu Miyashita – Album: “Noble Niche” (Mille Plateaux/MP 307)
Starring a bunch of misfit cheats named Martin Luther BB King and Dave Boring amongst others, Remy Cayuela delivers a humourous take on the Olympics in his promo for the Naïve New Beaters. Naive New Beaters Jersey (Cinq7) Director: Rémy Cayuela Production company: Frenzy (Paris) DP: Martial Schmeltz Editor: Edouard Mailaender
For Emmy The Great’s God Of Loneliness promo, Chris Boyle delivers this excellent black comedy starring Peepshow‘s Isy Suttie and Shazad Latif from Spooks. Half music video, half short film, the story peeks behind net curtains to reveal a happily macabre, odd-ball world where a woman will stop at nothing to have the perfect date [...]
In Abteen Bagheri’s fascinating promo for Blood Orange’s I’m Sorry We Lied, a young girl picks up a biker, takes him out for a good time, lures him to a motel room and… well it doesn’t end well for the biker… Blood Orange I’m Sorry We Lied Director: Abteen Bagheri Production Company: Somesuch & Co. [...]
After the Only The Horses video, Scissor Sisters team with director Lorenzo Fonda for Baby Come Home, the catchy follow-up from the new Magic Hour album – and a quite different beast. Employing a mix of live-action and animation, the video pushes through a re-imagined beer label trompe l’oeil, complete with vaudeville pop-colored stage theatrics. [...]
Dan Peters’ promo for Dan Le Sac’s Play Along is a multi-level affair – a horror story, a cartoon, a video game and a TV ad all rolled into one. “Joe and I have been friends with Dan for a while and collaborated on projects before but we really wanted to pull out all the [...]
Having worked on a number of projects with Nicolas Jaar including ‘from scratch’, a 5-hour collaborative multimedia performance at MoMA Ps1 in February of this year, director Ryan Staake creates a beautiful video for celebrated techno artist Jaar’s side project with fellow musician Dave Harrington, Darkside. “The video began with the idea of Nico and [...]
BUG Music Videos has just released its first mobile app, available to download for free on Apple and Android handsets, in celebration of BUG reaching its fifth birthday last month. The BUG 5th Birthday app contains a playlist of 30 videos – one from every original and unique show of BUG: The Evolution Of Music [...]
Shot in Prague and featured in their recent UK show, Jay-Z and Kanye West team-up with Romain Gavras for this explosive and emotional promo for their No Church In The Wild collaboration. Its a full-scale riot, pure and simple, brilliantly orchestrated and shot, as viscerally violent as you’d expect from a Romain Gavras video – [...]
Making their move into music promos, video artists 93 Million Miles – aka directors John Bradburn and Andy Paton – deliver this 11 minutes-plus epic promo for Young And In The Way. With the expansive North Staffordshire Moorlands acting as the cinematic backdrop, this ‘master and apprentice’ bizarre ritual beautifully embraces the widescreen and equally [...]
