Anton Octavian has impressively channelled his felt-tip style fury into this colourful stop-motion montage for Sirsy’s Lionheart. Put together on a digital drawing tablet, Anton has managed to animate some ‘live’ performance of the band, and also render some of the king of the jungle himself. One-man production team Anton says: “I think that was [...]
In a sparse office building, a group of unprepossessing office workers become mesmerized by the sounds of CSS playing Hangover on the TV, and erupt into an impromptu dance – a dance as it happens, choreographed by one of the great names of the golden age of music video… Matt Dilmore had been waiting for [...]
Tom Smith’s band Editors return for a fourth record following a three year hiatus and the loss of a founding member. Fortunately, where there was one there are now two, ensuring that Editors still have the performance power to blast through Mark Thomas’s high-contrast, smoke-projected and water-affected promo for A Ton Of Love – all [...]
Jeremy Rall’s promo for pop-punkers All Time Low revolves around a energetic performance from the Maryland 4-piece set in an amusement arcade. The video for Backstreet Serenade then cuts to the band in animal costumes, romping around the city (to the bemusement of the locals) and eventually become part of an arcade game… All Time [...]
As he’s spent 2013 being praised to the heavens for his godlike genius, and most people think he can probably walk on water (and maybe even rose from the dead…) David Bowie actually plays Christ in Floria Sigismondi’s video for The Next Day. Also starring Bowie’s pal Gary Oldman, as a bad guy priest who [...]
Ryan Prout combines completely contrasting types of performance in his video for Circle OF Reason’s Don’t Be Still – the band’s rocking band performance and that of Latin dancers Mario and Julia… “The band had done performance vids before and wanted the focus shifted off of the band for Don’t Be Still. When we were [...]
Director Sébastien Petretti and his regular DoP collaborator Slyvain Freyens tell the tragic tale of a rather stately wedding in this polished and wonderfully styled and dressed promo for Meridians. There’s an echo of Kubrick’s The Shining as we tail a small boy on a bike around the halls, before realising that the gun he’s [...]
Shot on location in Fort Greene and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New Yorkers Alan Wilkis and Daniel Armbruster (from Joywave) join forces with Michael Lawrence for the promo to Old Fashioned Girl. Filmed in the wake of hurricane Sandy, Lawrence assembles the cast at his own house and the legendary theme park for this love [...]
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 [...]
Gavin Randall depicts a repetitive and humdrum day at the office in his promo for The Jar Family’s Machine, contrasting the narrative with a spirited performance from the industrial folksters. Originally sourced trough Radar and following a well-received appearance on the influential Clash Magazine website (it’s become their most viewed and shared video), Gavin had [...]
