Copenhagen-based director Martin Garde delivers a beautifully shot, slow-burning promo for Marie Fisker’s alt pop ballad On The Beach, focusing around a heavily intertwined couple played by Gaia Brandt And Oliver Hoiness. Set in the lovers’ house, Martin explains: “We see a couple living their everyday life. Like Siamese twins they will move according to [...]
Having shown himself as a young master of the mini-drama for Rhye and When Saints Go Machine, Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen makes a diversion into pop performance for Danish duo Quadron’s Hey Love. Daniel documents singer Coco Maja Karshoj dancing the video away with several debonair men, each bringing their own signature dance style, while the singer [...]
For Danish singer Nabiha’s new single Sheridan De Meyers unveils an emotive, rolling narrative to accompany her big power ballad Ask Yourself. “Inspired by the instrumentation and content of the lyrics, I wanted to create a narrative showing a girl leaving her boyfriend which is pinned together by strong performances from Nabiha” says Sheridan. Nabiha [...]
Caspar Balslev’s directed his third fashion film for menswear designer Han Kjøbenhavn, with Caspar and Han coming up with this impressionistic narrative of a pigeon-fancying hard man and his run-ins with his nemesis at the illegal plushy-head boxing bouts and elsewhere… embellished with some random, eyecatching femininity… Han Kjobenhavn – SS13 Director: Casper Balslev Creative [...]
I think it’s fair to say that the young lead in this promo for Broke’s Let The Youth Go Mad isn’t too worried about the long term effects of smoking and drinking. And whilst drinking leftovers in your pants is something I’m sure we can all relate to, it turns out that he is, in [...]
Casper Balslev explores the ennui and frustrations of being a young outsider in a small port town in coastal Denmark in his video for Mø, and her stirring and rather wonderful Glass. Also featuring: a bloody great eagle… Mø Glass (Sony Denmark) Director: Casper Balslev Production co: Spoiled Productions DoP: Nadim Carlsen Exe Producer: Thor [...]
A blazing meteor crashes to earth in Martin De Thurah’s beautiful and incredibly atmospheric film for James Blake’s new single Retrograde. Taken from his forthcoming second album Overgrown, the promo sees the director and electronic maestro team up for the third time following previous pairings on Limit To Your Love and Lindisfarne. A collaboration between [...]
Danish director Laerke Herthoni’s third video for Rebecca and Fiona, after Dance and Bullets, moves Swedish DJ/pop stars’ bad girl aura into another strange and intriguing place, for Taken Over. Rebecca and Fiona pair play a couple of glamourous yet desperate ‘good time girls’, entertaining middle-aged businessmen at the behest of their mother/madam in what [...]
A second video for Rhye by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen that shares the same precocious quality of storytelling and characterisation that marked out his first Rhye video for The Fall, and also his MVA award-winner for When Saints Go Machine’s Parix. Daniel’s video for Open is also obliquely related to The Fall. Here a young couple head [...]
