Archive for September 11th, 2012
Recent Partizan signings Mary Clerté and Edouard Bertrand have directed a quirky and sexy video for French indie pop outfit BB Brunes, featuring beautiful, formidable girls expressing varying degrees of aggression and violence, and some arch, 80s music video style overacting. It follows Mary and Edouard’s equally quirky and cool vids for Pony Pony Run [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: BB Brunes, Coups & Blessures, Edouard Bertrand, Mary Clerte, Partizan
Alden Volney, director of two cool videos for PLUGS, applies an extreme version of his retro-lofi animation style for Villagers’ The Waves – with a video based around the image of an oscilloscope, followed by so much solarisation, flashing and jarringly vibrant colours it could well have set some kind of Harding Test fail rate [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Alden Volney, Domino Records, John Moule, Villagers, Waves
Following huge success Stateside, Ellie Goulding teams up with Floria Sigismondi for the promo to Anything Can Happen – the all-important first single from her forthcoming second album Halcyon. Shot in California, Floria delivers a surreal set-up on Malibu Beach with Ellie singing amongst huge crashing waves, strange metal orbs, a swing suspended from a [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Anything Can Happen, Black Dog Films, Ellie Goulding, Floria Sigismondi, Polydor, Semera Khan
The BBC Music Video Festival 2012 has begun. Showcasing the best music videos of the year alongside some of the greatest new music and filmmaking talent. You can check out videos on BBC Big Screens over the UK and also all day on Fusion, at The Forum in Norwich. You can find out playlists, info [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: BBC, BBC 6Music, BBC Music Video Festival 2012, Drowned in Sound, Lauren Laverne, Radar Music Videos, The 405
Jury Members of the UK Music Video Awards 2012 must complete their voting in the first round of judging by tonight (Tuesday, September 11th), when the online judging platform will close. Invited MVA Jury Members who have yet to vote in the one or two categories they have been allocated to judge, need to log [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: MVAs, MVAs 2012, UK Music Video Awards, UK Music Video Awards 2012, UKMVAs, UKMVAs 2012
Andreas Nilsson invites you to a birthday party like no other – in the form of his promo for 2 Chainz and Kanye West. Filmed in Yonkers New York with long tracking shots instead of the usual stereotypical fast-edited blockbuster promos, Nilsson’s weird, macabre party experience includes deadpan quadruplets, human ‘birthday cakes’ and voluptuous ladies… [...]
Tuesday, 11. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: 2 Chainz ft Kanye West, Andreas Nilsson, Birthday Song, Colonel Blimp, Good Company