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OMG Everywhere’s free film workshop for kids coming to London and NYC in summer 2013

OMG Everywhere, the project that gives kids the chance to develop their filmmaking skills by making their own music videos in a collaborative environment overseen by established music video directors, is coming to both London and New York for the first time this summer, as part of OMG Everywhere’s just-announced summer sessions. The nonprofit organisation [...]

Spectacle: The Music Video opens in New York City

Spectacle, the exhibition celebrating the art of the music video has now opened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Spectacle, curated by Flux directors Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells, is a comprehensive history of the music video, featuring some of the foremost examples of the medium with artefacts from [...]

‘The Art of Pop Video’ exhibition now on at FACT in Liverpool

The Art of Pop Video, an exhibition that celebrates the music video as an artistic medium from its earliest origins to its current manifestations, is now showing at FACT, the gallery and arts centre in Liverpool. Billed as the first exhibition of its kind in the UK, The Art of Pop Video opened on March [...]

SPECTACLE: THE MUSIC VIDEO exhibition comes to New York

Spectacle: The Music Video, a groundbreaking exhibition exploring music video as an important and influential art form in contemporary culture – and the most comprehensive museum exhibition on music videos presented to date – opens at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City on April 3rd. Spectacle highlights the form’s place at [...]

BUG returns to ODEON Leicester Square on March 19th with ‘Best Of BUG’ special

Tickets are now on sale for a special BUG show at the ODEON Leicester Square in London – the UK’s largest and arguably most iconic cinema – on Tuesday March 19th. Adam Buxton is bringing his popular ‘Best Of BUG’ show to the ODEON Leicester Square – including outstanding music video creativity, hilarious online nuggets, [...]

Nick Abrahams retrospective at the ICA this week

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 [...]

20th PLUS CAMERIMAGE – Deadline for entries: Monday September 3

There’s only a few days left to enter music videos to 20th PLUS CAMERIMAGE, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography. The deadline is Monday, 3rd September. The submitted music videos will be watched by a panel of judges who will vote to nominate the videos to be screened during the Festival (24 [...]

‘Spectacle: The Music Video’ exhibition opens in Cincinnati

Spectacle: The Music Video – the first ever museum retrospective of the artform of music video has just opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Spectacle explores the music video format as an important and influential art form in contemporary culture, employing immersive environments, photography, video screenings, objects and interactive installations. The history of [...]

UK Music Video Awards 2011: less than one week to go until entry deadline!

There’s less than one week left to enter your work in the majority of the categories in this year’s UK Music Video Awards. The newly expanded genre categories – Best Pop, Dance, Indie/Rock, Alternative and Urban – which now encompass sub-categories for UK, international and budget videos, have seen entries pouring in from home and [...]

BUG 25: tickets on sale today – including extra show!

Tickets for BUG 25 at the BFI Southbank go on sale to the general public today – and for the first time, tickets should be available for THREE shows. Adam Buxton celebrates BUG’s landmark quarter century show – and fourth anniversary – with a new helping of music video creativity, and welcomes a special guest [...]