Archive for June 14th, 2012
The story of a young man obsessively holding on to his childhood dreams of being an astronaut is the basis of this charming video for Yellow Son’s The King Or The Bird directed by Jonathan Cohen. Full of both artfully homemade gear – like the centrifuge made from a desk chair – and authentic stuff, [...]
Thursday, 14. June 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Chez Eddy, Jonathan Cohen, The King or the Bird, Yellow Son
Giorgio Testi captures indie darlings The Gaslight Anthem in full flight in their native New Jersey for the promo to new single 45. Fans of the band were invited down to the legendary Stone Pony club to help create the atmosphere, with the ‘Anthem delivering a blistering performance… The Gaslight Anthem 45 (Island) Director/Editor: Giorgio [...]
Thursday, 14. June 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: 45, Giorgio Testi, Island, Pulse Films, The Gaslight Anthem
Ian Perlman’s video for the band Body Language’s You Can comes with an intriguing backstory of an extremely wealthy family called the Flynns. But its far from a straight narrative, rather an enjoyably impressionistic psychodrama. “The original core of the video was about this extremely wealthy family, The Flynns,” Ian explains about the video, that [...]
Thursday, 14. June 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Body Language, Ian Perlman, Lavish Habits, Om Records, You Can
Soul legend Bobby Womack, now signed to XL Recordings, teams up with directors Jamie-James Medina and Yusef Pirhasan for this spellbinding promo from his Daman Albarn-produced Bravest Man In The Universe album. Medina and Pirhasan mix footage of Womack as the interstellar traveller with original NASA images (and graphics by Alden Volney) that beautifully compliment [...]
Thursday, 14. June 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Bobby Womack, Forever Pictures, Jamie-James Medina, Whatever Happened To The Times, XL Recordings, Yusuf Pirhasan
Filmed over two days, Luis Germanó’s video for Dover’s What Goes Around Comes Around unveils the real lives of 8 urban sports men and women – depicting their daily struggles in their real environment. The promo tries to move away from the acrobatic side of the sports to favour a look midway between the motion [...]
Thursday, 14. June 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Boogaloo Films, Dover, Guillermo Enguita, Luis Germanó, Sony Music Spain, What Goes Around Comes Around