Archive for January 14th, 2013

We Have Band ‘What’s Mine, What’s Yours’ by Kate Bones

An impressive addition to the growing genre of documentary-style videos, for We Have Band’s What’s Mine, What’s Yours by artist/filmmaker Kate Bones, making her first music video. It’s a document of We Have Band’s touring life, through various festivals and shows, last summer, and very well put together – and WHB come across as a [...]

SBTRKT ‘Trials of the Past’ by Ross Anderson

Dystopian sci-fi adventures are on the cards in this impressive Philip K Dick-inspired piece by Thirsk-based director Ross Anderson. A timid girl enters a rather dilapidated barber’s shop, but it’s more of a head-cut than a hair-cut for the girl, who isn’t entirely what she seems. It features not only some top CGI work – [...]

Bloc Party ‘Truth’ by Clemens Habicht

For his beautifully atmospheric promo to Bloc Party’s Truth and with a brief to create ‘a portrait of the band with no traditional performance involved’, director Clemens Habicht places the band in a bleak English field, enveloped in a dense multi-coloured fog. Habicht – who lives and works between Paris and London – takes his [...]

Maroon 5 ‘Daylight’ by Jonas Åkerlund

Back in September Maroon 5 asked their mammoth fan-base to contribute to the next video for single Daylight. The response was enormous with fans from all over the world emailing in their contributions. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, this beautiful and unique promo features some quite astonishing footage – some extremely confessional – including fans just [...]

Artful Dodger ‘Please Don’t Turn Me On’ by Tom Paton

“With the short time set aside to get the video into production and edited Tom wanted to do something that was simple but captured the song and the remix” explains Tom Paton on his promo for Artful Dodger’s Please Don’t Turn Me On. “He felt going with two people simply getting it on would be [...]