Archive for January, 2013
Elisha Smith Leverock steps up to the plate to work with 2 Chainz, one of the biggest names in US hip-hop right now, and makes a very different hip-hop video for I’m Different. Shot in Miami, barely a hip-hop video convention is left unscathed – particularly in this directors cut of the video that’s pulled [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: 2 Chainz, Elisha Smith-Leverock, I'm Different, Island Def Jam, Rokkit
Jon Park and Grant White – aka White Rabbit – explore the joy of youthful mischief with Chad Valley and his guest, Twin Shadow. Here, a bunch of bashful teenagers break into a bowling alley late at night to have all the fun you can have with the rules in place. This includes treading on [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Chad Valley, Grant White, I Owe This to You, Jon Park, P For Production, Twin Shadow, White Rabbit
Here’s an ingenious one-shot video for Aussie synth-pop outfit Clubfeet’s Everything You Wanted by Josh Thomas at Melbourne’s VFX hub Oh Yeah Wow, which is all the more satisfying for being able to see the trick coming a mile off… Clubfeet singer Yves performs the song while walking down a road – towards a still [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Clubfeet, Everything You Wanted, Josh Thomas, Oh Yeah Wow
Animation duo Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling – aka Becky & Joe – have signed to Blinkink for representation for commercials and music videos. Renowned for their handmade approach to animation, and absurdist sense of humour, Becky & Joe are directors of the award-winning Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and hugely popular Bad Things That [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Becky & Joe, Becky Sloan, Blink, Blinkink, Joseph Pelling
Brooklyn-based producer Chrome Canyon (aka Morgan Z) teams up with director Ace Norton for this gorgeously cinematic seven minute film to his 80s film soundtrack-inspired Generations. Beautifully shot by Jackson Hunt, the video finds dancer Amanada Wells in a state of despair following a tense, furniture-throwing argument with her lover. “My goal wasn’t to make [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Ace Norton, Chrome Canyon, Doomsday Entertainment, Generations
Shot last year in Miami, DBT take a trip to ‘Neverland’ – former home of the King Of Pop – for the promo to No More Michael Jackson by Swedish electro rockers Teddybears. At first Jacko’s home looks like ‘a deserted gilt cenotaph in remembrance of the former King of Pop’ but then we discover [...]
Thursday, 31. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Chief Productions, DBT, No More Michael Jackson, Teddybears
After her solo diversion as Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson is back with The Knife – her band with brother Olof Dreijer – and evidently making some uncompromisingly quirky electronic music. Full Of Fire, from the new album Shaking The Habitual, is accompanied by an equally intriguing/challenging film by Stockholm and Berlin-based filmmaker and visual [...]
Wednesday, 30. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Full Of Fire, Marit Östberg, Rabid Records, The Knife
Sinead O’Connor is back with a new album ready to drop next month. In the meantime, she’s released her new video for ’4th and Vine’ as a taster of what’s to come. Directed by Kathryn Ferguson, it’s an artfully done black and white promo focusing on Irish wedding customs, filmed just outside Dublin. It’s also [...]
Wednesday, 30. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: 4th and Vine, Kathryn Ferguson, One Little Indian, Sinead O'Connor, Tailored Film
UK-based production company Spaceship Media officially opened their doors for business at the start of 2013, with the launch of a brand new website – having already built a strong portfolio of work from shooting music videos over the past two years. Founded by director/producer Christopher Kiani in 2011, Spaceship Media has produced promos for [...]
Wednesday, 30. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Spaceship C, Spaceship Media
Polish animation duo Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski have a knack of manipulating everyday materials in ingenious ways – from their stop motion work with cut-up paper for Oi Va Voi, to their remarkable video for Polish jazzer Tomasz Stanko, created from 1km of yarn and a bunch of flashlights. But Kijek / Adamski’s video [...]
Wednesday, 30. January 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: Ab Film Production, Katachi, Kijek/Adamski, Shugo Tokumaru