Archive for June 12th, 2012

Space Siren ‘Who Makes Me Try’ by Siebe de Boer

Siebe de Boer’s video for Dutch band Space Siren’s Who Makes Me Try was inspired by photos made with an electron microscope, and was animated in 3D in black and white (because an electron microscope can only make black and white pictures). “It’s a story about ‘creation and destruction’,” says Siebe, who’s based in Groningen. [...]

The Cribs ‘Glitters Like Gold’ by Andy Knowles & Stephen Agnew

Andy Knowles and Stephen Agnew capture The Cribs in cool, lo-fi boisterous performance mode in their interactive promo for new single Glitters Like Gold. As the video progresses, clickable pop-up bubbles appear on the screen taking you to other Youtube goodies of the band doing inane and pointless (but fun) stuff like bowling and eating [...]

Sigur Rós ‘Varúð’ by Inga Birgisdóttir

The second part of Sigur Rós’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment is for Varúð, by Inga Birgisdóttir, an exponent of ‘moving art’. Inga created a piece for the track Ekki Múkk a couple of months ago which took the Valtari album artwork and added the tiniest amount of motion. Here she does something similarly minimal, but [...]

Marina And The Diamonds ‘Power And Control’ by Casper Balslev

Taken from the No 1 album Electra Heart, director Casper Balslev places Marina in an empty, sumptious mansion in the video for new single Power And Control. Marina releases her inner vixen and engages in mind games with her male suitor, all gorgeously filmed by DP Will Bex. Marina and the Diamonds Power and Control [...]

Ann Sophie ‘Get Over Yourself’ by Jared Lapidus

Filmed at Cove City Sound Studios in New York and beautifully captured by DP Jon Chen, Jared Lapidus directs this stylish monochrome to colour performance piece from Ann Sophie for her idiosyncratic single Get Over Yourself. Ann Sophie Get Over Yourself Director/Producer/Editor: Jared Lapidus Producer: Kristen Wall Director of Photography: Jon Chen Assistant Camera: Tinx [...]