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Iggy Azalea ‘Bounce’ by BRTHR

Precocious directing duo BRTHR takes a big leap upward with their hip-hop video with a difference for red hot Aussie hip-hop starlet Iggy Azalea’s Bounce. Super-colourful, brilliantly edited and culturally enlightening, BRTHR – aka Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman – went to Mumbai in India to add some exoticism and Bollywood glamour to Iggy sexy [...]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Jubilee Street’ by John Hillcoat

John Hillcoat gets back together with Nick Cave, and brings another old buddy into the frame to explore the darker side of the human condition in the video for Nick and the Bad Seeds’ Jubilee Street. Ray Winstone plays the regular customer of a young sex worker, torn between desire and self-loathing, while Nick Cave [...]

Grizzly Bear ‘Gun-Shy’ by Kris Moyes

Kris Moyes’ mesmerising video for Grizzly Bear’s Gun-Shy places the band in the heightened world of the animated gif and a series of images designed to disarm, and even make you squirm. In the countryside in bright sunshine, the band conduct a series of medical tests on themselves more appropriate for a lab or hospital. [...]

Clubfeet ‘Everything You Wanted’ by Josh Thomas

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 [...]

Tame Impala ‘Mind Mischief’ by David Wilson

Dreams come true in David Wilson’s video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief: a schoolboy is lost in erotic yearnings for his sexy young lady teacher in a 1970s English boys school. She’s surely unattainable. But when the school bell goes and she saunters out to her red 2CV and lights a big fat joint, our [...]

Secret Friend ‘Without My Pr0n’ by Adam Comiskey

Steven Fox aka Secret Friend found the Pew36, the South Coast-based animation studio, via Radar to make a video for his resonant tale of long-term porn addiction – with a humourously naughty end-product, thanks to Pew36 lead animator Adam Comiskey’s enthusiasm for the subject. Adam took the comic approach and kept the obscenity down – [...]

How To Destroy Angels ‘Ice Age’ by John Hillcoat

Having directed a couple of big Hollywood movies, The Road and Lawless, perhaps its no surprise that John Hillcoat’s video for How To Destroy Angels’ Ice Age, released late last year, is a peerlessly cinematic video and no less dramatic for being, for the most part, a straight performance. But the beautiful cinematography by Linus [...]