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 [...]
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 [...]
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 their acclaimed unofficial remake of Jay Z and Kanye West’s Niggas In Paris last year, Lionel Hirlé & Grégory Ohrel – aka Greg & Lio – have followed up something even more impressive. For French rap star Booba’s Jimmy they tell the story of a young man’s journey from poverty in Africa, to drugs [...]
Austin Peters avoids the obvious Lynchian references, but certainly breaks down the fourth wall in his video for Bastille’s Laura Palmer, as the performance element of the video comes to an abrupt halt when a gang of quad bike-riding young outcasts invade the set and abduct the band’s mainman Dan Smith… While commissioner James Hackett [...]
Waking up lost and bemused in a strange place is probably not many people’s ideal situation. The man in Mike Lee Thomas’ video for Fossil Collective seems suitably confused by the ordeal – especially when he can’t quite place where he is. Beginning with some ambiguous under-sea footage, our man awakes in a forest and [...]
