The XX band member Oliver Sim takes the lead in this second promo for the band from Young Replicant, putting in a strong and mysterious performance in this noir film, set in a spectacular West Coast property. Alex Takacs – aka Young Replicant – has previously been noted for his canny use of special effects [...]

Tom Walsh swaps the sci-fi trappings and special effects of his last video for something a little more homespun for folk-rockers We Show Up On Radar – his third for the group. The immortal and welcome influence of Jim Henson puppetry is apparent here as a group of forest dwelling oddities put in a grand [...]

A highly regarded DoP, and regular collaborator with CANADA, Marc Gomez (otherwise known as Marc Gomez del Moral) is now also directing, with his partner Camilla – they are now directing videos through Forever Pictures in London. And their first project, for Hypnolove’s Come To My Empire, takes them to a remote corner of Spain [...]

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 [...]

Directing team HARRYS channel the imagery associated with some Seventies greats for their video for Kurt Vile’s Never Run Away – the first video from new album Waking On A Pretty Daze – with possibly a hint of Otto from The Simpsons thrown in… Framed in a 4 x 3 photo format within the usual [...]

French electro-rock outfit I Am Un Chien!! gets together with producer/DJ/director and digital artist Panteros666 – aka Victor Watel – to make a video for the band’s Humanity, with a great core idea. Shot-matching has become quite a thing recently, what with Irina Werning’s ingenious Back The The Future project. As a rule, Panteros tends [...]

Charlotte Freeston and Katie Harrison bring out the dark side of teenage fumblings in the cupboard and add of bit of animalistic attitude to Adam Gnade & The Hot-Earth All Stars’ You Got Mean. SON – the duo of Charlotte and Katie – are part of an arts collective in Oxford. Katie says, “Being able [...]

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 [...]

Following their first album Stainless Style, focussed on the life of John DeLorean, Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip have revived their Neon Neon partnership with a new album, Praxis Makes Perfect, and a new subject: groundbreaking Italian publisher and left-wing activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. And the video for Hammer & Sickle directed by Rob Schroeder is [...]

Darker, heavier, more performance-orientated – and definitely yellower… Andrew Thomas Huang has followed up his astonishing video for Björk’s Mutual Core with a surprising package for the other preeminent musical artists of Iceland, Sigur Rós and their song Brennisteinn, from new album Kveikur. The surprise is to see the band actually performing in one of [...]