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 [...]
Human levitation is seems to be a theme at the moment, and this video for electronic-pop trio Mt. Wolf is a fine example. Very nicely shot and with some interesting graphic perspective overlays of grainy lo-fi film, Directors Jean-Philippe Blunt and Thom Humphreys have added an interestingly eerie element to the band’s fusion of minimal [...]
Aoife McArdle’s very cool video for Jon Hopkins’ Open Eye Signal is a road movie with a difference; it charts the journey of a lone skateboarder through the awesome landscapes of the American West to the soundtrack of Hopkins’s epic track. What appears to be the start of a narrative as the skateboarder, played by [...]
Taken from Ben Heyworth’s (aka This Morning Call) second album Organs Of State (June 17), Damian Cox delivers this thoughtful piece to partner Ben’s new single Silent Film. Shot at Islington Mill in Salford and influenced by shots of Eastern Bloc inhabitants in the 1980s, Damian says “The promo is based on a person’s desire [...]
Człowiek Kamera directs this rather wonderful piece for melodic-house producer Andrew Bayer using the ever strange and wonderful concept of human levitation to wonderful effect. Whilst very different from Fleur and Manu’s levitating ‘Faking Jazz Together’, it manages to capture the same eerie sense of surrealism. Though rather than a specialist group in the woods, [...]
A relationship falling apart is at the core of Young Replicant’s video for Bonobo’s First Fires, featuring Grey Reverend on vocals. At least that’s how it seems at first, in YR’s first video since their Chained video for The XX. Although appearances may be deceiving in this quietly gripping video that features some memorably contrasting [...]
Plastic Horse are a very talented pair indeed. Based in Haggerston, they specialise in hand-drawn animation with a lovely textured feel. They seem to have a penchant for progressive beatmakers and have made promos for the likes of Crookers, Nochexxx, Débruit and Lukid. And this is their second video for arguably the UK’s most unique [...]
Warren Fu delivers a richly photographed voyeuristic-type monochrome promo for Depeche Mode’s Soothe My Soul, with an aspect ratio that feels like you’re viewing the action through a peep-hole. The band play in shadows intercut with fleeting glimpses of nudity, wet skin, snakes and close-ups all adding to a tense, intimate atmosphere. Depeche Mode Soothe [...]
Nabil Elderkin has created a majestic and mysterious music video for James Blake’s Overgrown – the second single from the acclaimed second album with the same name – which really captures the nature of Blake’s music. At first, sitting in a bedroom with a view on a natural scene in fast forward, Blake leaves what [...]
Directing duo JonJai deliver their fourth promo for London electronic band BOXES and once again, think outside of the erm, box. Entirely animated and built from scratch over a couple of months on a tiny budget, the video follows the loose narrative of an abstract journey of a used, empty, discarded cardboard box – on [...]
