There’s been more than a few tenpin bowling videos in the past, but none of them have managed to put quite the, er, spin on proceedings as Sam Pilling does for Two Door Cinema Club’s Handshake. Starting with a wild-eyed individual using a butcher’s chopper to ominous effect, we soon discover the purpose of his [...]
There’s a new Travis album coming and rather than releasing a single, Another Guy is the ‘pre-album teaser’ for which the band have got together with German movie director Wolfgang Becker (of Goodbye Lenin fame) to produce this delightful and very lo-fi video. It’s a wonderfully absurd comedy exploring a dynamic of crumbling love and [...]
Oliver Dressen is director Hero – a sometimes Shanghai, Brussels, Paris or Budapest-based filmmaker with a penchant for special effects. However in this video, Hero exposes an obvious love for 70′s chic, corduroy and bowling. Three guys battle for the attentions of a pretty girl who, of course, has a bit of a sweet tooth. [...]
The enormous disembodied head of Steve Black, aka Sweet Baboo stalks his ex-girlfriend in Casey Raymond’s charming lo-fi video for the instantly catchy If I Died… However, it does suffer a bit from the sort of interference and distortion that makes you want to smack your viewing device… Casey also directed the excellent video for [...]
Acts of God make a whole lot more sense in Persistent Peril’s marvellous cartoon video for The Leisure Society’s Fight For Everyone. Creating the earth and then, well, destroying it, just all looks like part of Steve Jobs’s grand plan… A hand creates life on a little bluey-greeny planet, only things don’t quite go as [...]
David and Tilda Swinton are the suburban couple enjoying a wonderful life, until they start getting bothered by the noisy neighbours in Floria Sigismondi’s fab video for David Bowie’s The Stars (Are Out Tonight) – the second single from the long-awaited Bowie album The Next Day (out in March). It’s about as different from the [...]
Watching a grown man being terrorised by kids is pretty unedifying, as Andrew Van Baal shows in his video for Eels’ New Alphabet. But revenge is sweet for the previously put-upon E, Eels’ frontman. It’s just slightly worrying how enjoyable it is seeing him beating up a minor… Says E: “Adult male abuse is a [...]
Ever wondered how fashion designers come up with their latest creations? Maybe even what the working environment is like? Director Edward Housden offers a unique insight into the world of fashion designer duo Agi & Sam who, like all successful designers, work in a elderly lady’s semi-detached watched by 80′s gangsters. Edward reveals his thoughts [...]
Dreams come true in David Wilson’s video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief: a schoolboy is lost in erotic yearnings for his sexy young lady teacher in a 1970s English boys school. She’s surely unattainable. But when the school bell goes and she saunters out to her red 2CV and lights a big fat joint, our [...]
