A superb video by Dan Sully for Miles Kane’s anthemic Don’t Forget Who You Are, sees a very sharply-dressed Miles going back to his roots, and combines performance with documentary footage to create a very atmospheric, beautifully shot celebration of Liverpool and its people. Dan and his small crew spent three days shooting around the [...]
Watching this video for A-Trak & Tommy Trash is to marvel at the amount of work and ingenuity of Ryan Staake and domino wunderkind Kinetic King – aka Tim Fort. Their dedication to kinetic contraptions and epic domino rallies is to be absolutely admired. Ryan, Tim and their team have created an incredible chasing domino [...]
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 [...]
Part performance piece, part slo-mo rugby match, Joe Connor takes the directing reins to Pat Byrne’s All Or Nothing with some beautiful photography from Dan Stafford Clark. The promo – for the winner of The Voice in Ireland – was filmed over two days at Eccles Rugby Club, in Salford. “Pat wanted the video to [...]
A young man plays the same track over and over again, as he goes through what has to be said, is a rather pleasant daily routine. And he’s not even a video director – and he’s also the latest subject of a Kristoffer Borgli piece that is both music video and short film… Kristoffer has [...]
Not content with creating intelligent yet accessible indie-rock, Jon Higgs of Everything Everything then becomes the director of the band’s distinctive videos, as ‘Jon Everything’. And the circumstance of the music has certainly inspired the extrordinary setting for his video for Duet. Here’s a performance set within a serious environmental event – a blizzard of [...]
A stupendous video for US rock outfit Anberlin’s Unstable by Jodeb – that’s Quebecois animation wizard Jonathan Desbiens – that combines breathtaking location filming and incredible FX work to tell an epic fantasy tale story of love and war… In the video a heroic ‘Adam and Eve’ couple race through a huge desert, that from [...]
Flat-e are long term Warp collaborators who specialize in designing some of the most creative projection mapping to date, and have been working with Jamie Lidell on a number of projects, including the artwork for the new album, and that has led to this video for first single You Naked. The London-based studio led by [...]
Oxford folk combo Stornoway have jumped on board the good ship of The Mitcham Submarine (aka Craig McNeil) for this nautical romp. With a song based on Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and a director with an aquatic alias, it would have been a shame to have gone any other direction… Pitching Stornoway singer [...]
A collaboration between Natasha Khan and animation/mixed media master Peter Sluszka has resulted in this diverse and absorbing visual feast for Bat For Lashes’ Lilies – the fourth single from the critically acclaimed album The Haunted Man: life-sized puppets, a flock of 2D spirits, miniature landscapes, morphing polygons, and Natasha herself were animated to create [...]
