Saam Farahmand ventures into short film territory with this elliptical narrative that has been “inspired by the music and magic of Daughn Gibson”. Daughn is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania (he was previously the drummer of stoner metal outfit Pearls And Brass) who released his acclaimed debut album All Hell last year. His brooding, silent A-male [...]
After their brilliant video for Passion Pit’s Carried Away, the Brewer brothers Ben and Alex’s new one for Skylar Grey’s Final Warning is a more sombre, gritty affair – and also compelling. It’s a classic narrative where a mysterious girl, having clearly escaped a terrible fate, makes an unscheduled appearance at a well-to-do family’s birthday [...]
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 [...]
Nikolai Galitzine has directed and shot this tale of a doomed London gangster taking a bad turn in the boxing game for the rampaging mod-rock of The Deets’ Charlie. “The Deets’ music video takes it’s inspiration from Jules Dassin’s classic film noir Night & The City (1950) with Richard Widmark playing a low life wrestling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A dark, dramatic video for Sub Focus ft. Alex Clare’s Endorphins by Rohan Blair-Mangat, set in a dystopian not-too-distant future where music is outlawed and people have to consume it illegally. And that’s keeping the heavily-armed anti-music squad very busy… Subfocus Endorphins (ft Alex Clare) Director: Rohan Blair-Mangat Prod co: Rokkit Producer: Tom Birmingham Production [...]
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 [...]
Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic’s Fade Away – a blackly comic procession of hit-man killings in order to take hold of a briefcase and its mysterious contents, and a true cycle of violence… Romain’s choice of locations is [...]
After his excellent Landshapes video documenting the wrestling community of La Paz, Ian Pons Jewell has definitely taken to Bolivia. He has now shot the video for Naughty Boy’s La La La there – and has caused something of a political furore in the process. Featuring a delightful young lad with a Chow Chow puppy, [...]
