Marrying the powerful lyrics – a ‘metaphor of the Dresden bombing and a beautiful relationship ruined’ with strong graphic animation, Robisrob’s promo for OMD takes its lead from classic James Bond title sequences. “The rotoscoped style seemed to fit the illustrated look of OMD’s visual output and the slow-motion movements and fighting narrative were a [...]
Having made a big impression with his first ever music video for The Maccabees’ Young Lions, Peter Szewczyk has not directed one for a couple of years. But now he’s made another labour of love for the Icelandic singer ÍRiS’s Swiftly Siren, and the result is a perfectly-formed supernatural thriller. The drama is gripping from [...]
Currently enjoying an exclusive on the Nowness video channel is Vincent Haycock’s monochrome beauty for London composer/producer Raffertie’s stirring Build Me Up. Shot in the South Central district of Los Angeles, Vince has documented the lives of the three Mays brothers, with their family and friends as co-stars, with outstanding cinematography by Evan Prosofsky. Vince [...]
Complimenting the distinctly 80s feel of Lay Her Down, Konstantin Ermakov shoots Skepta in a large graffiti-strewn warehouse-like space in this colourful promo for the new single from his Konichiwa album. “It was a pleasure working on the video,” says Konstantin, “A few months back I actually made a small web video and put together [...]
Travis singer Fran Healy turns director for this charming video heralding the return of the melancholic pop legends. Fran also stars as our patient hero, ready to put with a lot of abuse from his red-headed co-star. We had a chat to Fran to talk about his multi-tasking. PROMO: Why did you decide to go [...]
Zebra Katz puts in a stirling performance in Nathaniel Brown’s dark but stylistically and visually pleasing piece for the New York rapper’s minimal and brooding Y I Do. “I believe the idea of doing music videos that act only as a means to create a visual for the song is an old way of thinking [...]
“The narrative of the video is fairly straight forward, it’s a look at a fleeting relationship between a girl and Yannick (Petite Noir)” explain Tim & Joe on the promo to Petit Noir’s Noirse – shot at Rowan’s Bowling Alley in London. “At the start of filming I tried not to stage too much where [...]
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 [...]
When Brave Bird Saved is Fred & Nick’s 15 minute short film featuring the first four tracks from Laura Marling’s new album Once I Was An Eagle – a combination of artist and dance performance in a cinematic setting, that serves as an introduction to the album and a precursor to Fred & Nick’s video [...]
Nicos Livesey and Tom Bunker have created a marvellous animated video for London dance-rock outfit BINARY’s G.O.D. in which a rigidly ordered world – graphically and narratively – is breached by a errant worker, who rebels by infecting the geometric universe with a far wilder style of animation, and far more colour… Tom and Nicos [...]
