Archive for November 20th, 2012
After winning an MVA for Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse at the recent UKMVAs, director Krisoffer Borgli moves on to another absorbing character study for Young Dreams’ excellent Fog Of War. French teenagers – Simon, who has “issues”, and his girlfriend (and the story’s narrator) – are left to their own devices in comfy suburbia. They break [...]
Tuesday, 20. November 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Fog Of War, Friend, Friend London, Kristoffer Borgli, Rods, Young Dreams
Halcyon Nights – new directing duo Jack Pirie and Alex Hylands-White – translate the ultra energy of Ayah Marar’s The Raver with this very ‘up’ promo. Focusing on a group of friends getting revved-up at home before their big night out, the fast-paced and sharply edited promo progresses into a frantic rave-up at the club [...]
Tuesday, 20. November 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Ayah Marar, Duncan King, Halcyon Nights, Pilot Records, The Raver
Following her appearance in Vince Haycock’s promo for Calvin Harris’ Sweet Nothing, Florence Welch teams up with the LA-based director again for her own band’s single Lover To Lover. Shot in California and starring Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, Vince, speaking to nowness.com, had this to say about Welch’s performance in his tale of ‘American heartbreak’: [...]
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Tags: Florence & the Machine, Lover To Lover, Somesuch & Co, Vincent Haycock
Ellis Bahl’s much celebrated, UK MVA winning, backwards murder video for Alt-J’s ‘Breezeblocks’ was a bit of a brain twister, but with this promo for Walk of the Earth he’s artfully constructed a backwards, forwards, slow-motion, single-take wonderful nightmare of a performance video. The band perform the song, in the wrong order (sometimes the wrong [...]
Tuesday, 20. November 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Bryan Younce, Doomsday, Ellis Bahl, Red Hands, Sony Music, Walk of the Earth
Signed to the Noel Gallagher-affiliated Ignition imprint, the mysterious space-loving electronic combo Sun Industries hire TinyDog to take their inter-galactic obsessions to new heights via the promo to debut single Shiver. TinyDog deliver this ever-evolving, beautifully animated sci-fi romp where astronauts do battle with a strange octopus-like creature… Sun Industries Shiver (Ignition) Director: TinyDog Modelling, [...]
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Tags: Ignition, Laura Kelly, Nick Moxham, Shiver, Sun Industries, TinyDog
UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin releases her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power Of Love following its use in the John Lewis Christmas campaign and teams up with Alexander Brown for the video. Alexander matches the minimalist, effortless charm of the soundtrack placing Gabrielle in a vast rustic mansion, where seated at her piano, [...]
Tuesday, 20. November 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Alexander Brown, Gabrielle Aplin, Nice&Polite, Parlophone, Sam Seager, The Power Of Love