Paul Frankl brings out the sophistication in Mt Wolf’s ‘dreamfolk’ with a classy, high-contrast performance promo. The atmosphere is further enriched with some interesting particle effects, giving the video a fashion film feel in the more ambient electronic sections. Paul is also one of the five winners for Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Series competition, and his [...]
Director Matthew Barton matches the emotional intensity of singer Nadine Shah with this interesting relationship piece, featuring a sterling performances from both male lead Gareth Murphy and Nadine Shah. The promo follows the couple, caught in a difficult romance, and subtly highlights the increasingly irrational behaviour of Gareth’s character. Matthew explains that a close connection [...]
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 [...]
There’s a wonderful soft touch to this video for Erevan Tusk by director Raphaëlle Tinland aka Parallel. In it an elderly lady journeys to reconnect with her younger self, ending up meeting her memories in a rather amazing botanical greenhouse. The delicate surreality is bolstered by some great costume work by Line-Laure Godefroid and some [...]
Oliver Murray brings a little of the UK’s colder months to the visuals of singer-songwriter Lewis Watson in an atmospheric performance promo. Beginning in an autumnal room flourishing with ambient lighting effects it transitions into the winter wilds, with Oliver obviously taking advantage of the snowfall in Britain this year. Lewis Watson Into The Wild [...]
Gareth Phillips’ latest work is a surreal, gluttonous and stomach churning promo for Marika, featuring some chaps getting their chops around a awful lot of food, whilst Marika watches. The greedy diners don’t have the most delicate table manners and Gareth makes sure to include plenty of close ups that, depending on your personality, will [...]
Sinead O’Connor is back with a new album ready to drop next month. In the meantime, she’s released her new video for ’4th and Vine’ as a taster of what’s to come. Directed by Kathryn Ferguson, it’s an artfully done black and white promo focusing on Irish wedding customs, filmed just outside Dublin. It’s also [...]
Karni and Saul return to music videos with this delightful animation for The Staves’ Winter Trees, which demonstrates how far they have come from their stop-frame animating roots. It’s a forest scene in which imaginative hybrid animals – rabbit squid and llama owls – face a deadly flood, was created in the visual style of [...]
New Zealand singer/songwriter Luke Thompson gets an animated video for his ballad Slow Boat To China from recent illustration/animation grad Dan Jacobs, with a lovely graphic style and a simplicity which came from Dan working to a very tight deadline, once he’d been commissioned to make the video, having submitted his treatment via Radar. “The [...]
