Julien Temple’s acclaimed Dr Feelgood documentary Oil City Confidential has enjoyed a great run in cinemas, and his other new film, the superb Requiem For Detroit?, was screened on BBC2 last Saturday (and is available to download for a short while longer on iPlayer).
But while confirming his position as one of the UK’s greatest documentary-makers, [...]
Fallon creative director Sam Walker’s second excursion into music videos – after last year’s controversial clip for Ruarri Joseph’s More Than Most – is another remarkable low-budget promo, this time for Mercury Prize-nominated post-rockers The Invisible.
His video for Jacob & The Angel is full of maverick charm – and it shows what can be done [...]
Bestselling author – check; wealthy businessman – check; garlanded actor – check; Nobel prize winner – you betcha… But WhoMadeWho lead singer Tomas Höffting demonstrates that all the success in the world cannot quite fill the hollowness within.
Danish director William Stahl demonstrates how to put a performance at the hub of a great idea in [...]
After her no-budget videos for The Trouble – featured at Birds Eye View’s Music Loves Video screening – and Miserable, here is Philippa Bloomfield’s third video for Brighton-based ‘dark cabaret’ band Birdeatsbaby – in which Phillippa plays drums.
A lo-fi Hitchcockian tale with Fifties styling – including back projections – with Birdeatsbaby’s charismatic vocalist Mishkin as [...]
Ingenious, witty, life-affirming, low budget and a total joy to behold, the new four-strong directing collective known as L’Ogre have created something very special for the unsigned Paris-based indie-folk outfit Hold Your Horses!
L’Ogre – that’s David Freymond, Bruno Mendes, Olivier Tixier and Catherine Villeminot – have fashioned brilliant ‘live’ versions of some of the [...]
Superbly-shot and moody showcase for the soulful stylings the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band by Stephen Agnew – with a shocking final twist.
Shot in upstate New York, Stephen – who has just signed to RedJam Productions – and DoP Sam Goldie have recreated that late Sixties bucolic Woodstock feel, with an added sense of the [...]
Super barbershop-set live action cartoon for the Spanish band Mujeres – commissioned by Diesel:U:Music – by new director Tom Kingsley, whose only just emerging from the tearoom/webroom at Blink but already looks a very promising talent.
Cleverly made and beautifully shot, the classic British barbers has rarely looked so good, or been such a source [...]
Brits-nominated Pixie Lott gets a splendid vehicle for new single Gravity which is clean, graphic, inventive and sexy – and particularly noteworthy for her transformation into Melanie Griffiths in Something Wild. And it comes, somewhat surprisingly, from Nick Frew, demonstrating in one fell swoop that’s he’s not just a talented FX director (although there’s some [...]
The first major release by Ellie Goulding, widely touted for big things this year and already the winner of a Brit award, gets a strong launch with a performance-based video by Ross Cooper and Bugsy Riverbank Steel of OneInThree, with added Muybridge-style visual effects they customized themselves from a popular TV sports package – see [...]
Jay-Z’s fifth single from The Blueprint 3 brings Sam Brown back to promos – he’s now usually occupied making ads – to make a compelling, bold and beautiful take on the hip-hop video.
Packed with stunning imagery, and intriguing characters, it’s essentially a series of seemingly disconnected portraits and setpieces. And the video has been [...]
