Archive for December 20th, 2012

Toro Y Moi ‘So Many Details’ by HARRYS

Watch out DANIELS, there’s another like-minded, same name directing duo in town – HARRYS – who’ve delivered a sleek promo for the slick Toro Y Moi. Their experience with fashion videos is used here to excellent effect, shooting Chazwick Bundick’s (aka Toro Y Moi) sultry tale of seduction with subtle surrealism and stylistic flourishes. Excellent [...]

The Killers ‘Here With Me’ by Tim Burton

Tim Burton has now directed his second video for The Killers (after 2006′s Ray Harryhausen-inspired Bones) and this one for Here With Me, reunites the über-director with an early muse, and connects him with a young actor who looks a readymade fixture in Burton movies for years to come. Craig Roberts – the kid from [...]

Imagine Dragons ‘Radioactive’ by Syndrome

Syndrome take a different tack with this promo, not featuring their now trademark use of epic CGI and special effects, but featuring some very interesting puppetry and the acting talents of Lou Diamond Phillips – he of La Bamba, Young Guns and Stand and Deliver fame… Lou plays a nefarious gang leader with scene-chewing relish. [...]

Nabiha ‘Mind The Gap’ by Scott Altman

Simple, stylish and striking, Scott Altman captures Danish singer Nabiha in full-flight performance mode in his monochrome promo for her Mind The Gap single. “After pitching on the video, label and management approached me with a couple of ideas” says Scott. “In the end we stripped the ideas back and decided to shoot a performance [...]

Beatie Wolfe ‘Make It Up’ by Robin Fraser Pattinson

Shot in Manhattan with the crew from the Columbia Film Institute, Robin Fraser Pattinson delivers a poignant promo for Beatie Wolfe’s fragile ballad Make It Up. “Beatie’s lyrics are already very emotive so I just wanted the video to have it’s own twist on her idea” explains Robin. “It’s basically a story about a guy [...]