Nick Abrahams, who returned to music video directing last year with his video for Sigur Ros’s Ekki Mukk starring Aiden Gillen – winner of Best Short Film at the London Short Film Festival this month (right) – is screening a retrospective of his films, music videos and documentaries over four nights at the Institute of [...]

Karni and Saul return to music videos with this delightful animation for The Staves’ Winter Trees, which demonstrates how far they have come from their stop-frame animating roots. It’s a forest scene in which imaginative hybrid animals – rabbit squid and llama owls – face a deadly flood, was created in the visual style of [...]

Now signed to Sonny London, Ryan Hope delivers a brilliant, highly emotional promo for Alpines’ soaring ballad Lights. Ryan explains the process behind the production here Alpines Lights Director: Ryan Hope Producer: Laura Jones Director of Photography: Tony Miller Art director: Mark Connell Stylist: Bex Crofton-Atkins Make-up: Anna Wild Steadicam: Thomas English Editor: Ryan Boucher [...]

New Zealand singer/songwriter Luke Thompson gets an animated video for his ballad Slow Boat To China from recent illustration/animation grad Dan Jacobs, with a lovely graphic style and a simplicity which came from Dan working to a very tight deadline, once he’d been commissioned to make the video, having submitted his treatment via Radar. “The [...]

When things are not what they seem… Handheldcineclub deliver this hugely watchable drama – with a major twist – for Frightened Rabbit’s The Woodpile. It’s a one-shot video in a New York convenience store, and James Lockey from Handheldcineclub explains that the idea came after a conversation with Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison. “He was [...]