Matt Lambert directs for Czech electronica artist Emika, bringing some sexual avant-garde ambiguity to her sharp-edged electronica. Matt flicks between a gritty real-world and a hyper-sexual fantasy that’s all smoke, coloured lights and topless ladies. This is the second part of a trilogy that Matt is making with the Ninja Tune-signed artist, following his first [...]
Take That’s Mark Owen gets set to release his first new album in eight years, The Art Of Doing Nothing, on June 10 and teams up with James Slater for the first video – Stars. Shot in Berlin, the promo finds Owen dressed as an astronaut wandering around the city, hanging out at a TV [...]
Ivy Jelisavac found JustAnyGuy’s industrial dubstep on commissioning site Radar and filmed in Berlin to create this top freerunning video. Parkour experts Jean-Tayfun Hoffmann, Tobias Degner and Max Bawey show off their skills, whilst Ivy has spun a interesting narrative and worked in some great shots. A lovely grainy finish gives the video added edge [...]
“The concept of the Mosaic is symbolic for being trapped in the repetition and later breaking out of it” explains David Aufdemdrinke about his ever-evolving kaleidoscopic promo for Three Chord Society’s On The Brink. “With long-shot performances/camera-movements set in a very dark, deserted location, this allowed me to create perfect mosaic like images to reflect [...]
Shot on location in Lisbon Portugal, a couple recount their memories in the blink of an eye in this carefree and engaging Michael Lawrence-directed clip for Glasperlenspiel’s Nie Vergessen. Glasperlenspiel Nie Vergessen (Universal Music) Director/Editor: Michael Lawrence Exec. Producer: Anna Honerlagen Production Company: Bears Calling GmbH DP: Bjoern Knechtel 1st AC/Steadicam: Max Zaher 2nd AC: [...]
Tim & Joe travelled to Berlin and the fascinating abandoned themepark Spreepark in the old Eastern sector of the city, for German indie outfit Sizarr’s Run Dry, to create this video that sets up an atmosphere and framework of a post-apocalyptic tale involving a strange community of wildly dressed youths. “Spreepark was amazing,” say Tim [...]
There’s a new Travis album coming and rather than releasing a single, Another Guy is the ‘pre-album teaser’ for which the band have got together with German movie director Wolfgang Becker (of Goodbye Lenin fame) to produce this delightful and very lo-fi video. It’s a wonderfully absurd comedy exploring a dynamic of crumbling love and [...]
Eighteen months after his remarkable video for The Satellite Year’s implausibly titled Jelly, Jelly, How To Survive Such A Trip?, director and VFX whizz Thorsten Hary has been at it again for the German popster’s latest single, A Campus, A Heart, A Star. He’s created another video that resembles a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, with suitably [...]
2010 Eurovision Song Contest winner Lena Mayer-Landrut continues to work with German promo director Bode Brodmüller (he directed Stardust for the singer late last year), on new single Neon. In an abrupt change of image since her Eurovision win (Lena’s now split from former mentor, entertainer Stefan Raab) Brodmüller shoots the singer in one of [...]
Director Mattias Erik Johansson brings German synth-pop explorer Ben Ivory alive in a blend of children’s revolution, fantastic outfits and interesting moments. The video alternatives between a wonderfully styled performance from Ben Ivory and two other instances – one is the tragic tale of persecution featuring revolution-clad children and the other a violent struggle between [...]
