Archive for September 11th, 2012

BB Brunes ‘Coups Et Blessures’ by Mary Clerté and Edouard Bertrand

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 [...]

Villagers ‘The Waves’ by Alden Volney

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 [...]

Ellie Goulding ‘Anything Can Happen’ by Floria Sigismondi

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 [...]

BBC Music Video Festival kicks off over the UK

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 [...]

UK Music Video Awards 2012 UPDATE: first-round judging ends today!

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 [...]

2 Chainz ft Kanye West ‘Birthday Song’ by Andreas Nilsson

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… [...]