The Paris-based director Pierre Edouard Joubert – otherwise known as PEJ – has joined the roster at Gas&Electric in London for music videos. Arguably best known for directing the video for Professor Green’s smash-hit Remedy (above), PEJ is a Paris based motion designer/director who started his career designing motion graphics for some of the biggest [...]
Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic’s Fade Away – a blackly comic procession of hit-man killings in order to take hold of a briefcase and its mysterious contents, and a true cycle of violence… Romain’s choice of locations is [...]
Phil Carron has brought out the inner ‘flasher meets teddy-boy’ in French band La Plage, as well as shrinking them down to imp-like size. Phil’s miniature, guitar-wielding terrors run amok among the home before delivering a big surprise to the song’s namesake lady, albeit by tiny people. Phil Carron: “I had the idea to put [...]
Raconteur of the surreal, Andreas Nilsson, lends his rather unique hands to the big French House music of David Guetta and from the very outset you can tell this story isn’t heading a gritty, realist direction. Queue a vast array of colourful characters and outfits all taking part in the technicolour Dance Rodeo you’ve never [...]
Following his promo for White Noise, Luke Monaghan delivers this character-led video for Disclosure’s new single You & Me. We follow a young couple on the road experiencing the highs and lows of leaving their day-to-day lives for a wild trek across Europe, culminating in a banging warehouse gig. “I wanted to make a video [...]
After their acclaimed unofficial remake of Jay Z and Kanye West’s Niggas In Paris last year, Lionel Hirlé & Grégory Ohrel – aka Greg & Lio – have followed up something even more impressive. For French rap star Booba’s Jimmy they tell the story of a young man’s journey from poverty in Africa, to drugs [...]
A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously… But for everyone else – well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce’s [...]
Flokim Lucas’s animated video for Bot’Ox ft. Anna Jean’s The Face of Another is a beautifully designed journey into a retro-future of sexual adventure – with a masked ‘hero’ wandering through a bazaar of bizarre sexuality before finding satisfaction of sorts in a club. Very cool, very French – and, according to the credits at [...]
French director Cédric Blaisbois has filled the hole left in the ‘young persons murder’ market since Daniel Wolfe’s ‘Time To Dance’ (now released over a year ago). However, this is a different video altogether. Three youngsters (two girls and one boy) find they have a house to themselves and set about indulging the relatively misdemeanours [...]
James Lees takes young French artist Elisa Jo into the depths of wintry England for her first music video, for the song Defeated, and thanks to the help of a few friends was able to achieve a true sense of gritty British cinema due to shooting on 35mm with some of the last film stock [...]
