This musical short film – a personal project and major labour of love from director Paris Zarcilla – is an epic fantasy, in which a neo-tribal hunter journeys to the Oracles to seek help to keep his desperately sick wife from the cold clutches of Death – before it’s too late. It’s so impressive it [...]

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 [...]

A stupendous video for US rock outfit Anberlin’s Unstable by Jodeb – that’s Quebecois animation wizard Jonathan Desbiens – that combines breathtaking location filming and incredible FX work to tell an epic fantasy tale story of love and war… In the video a heroic ‘Adam and Eve’ couple race through a huge desert, that from [...]

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 [...]

Young South African director Kyle Lewis develops a familiar kids-with-superpowers storyline, but gives it a whole new dimension in the video for Haezer’s Troublemaker, featuring Tumi. We’ve seen the penetrating stares of kids getting all telekinetic in last year’s trilogy of M83 videos by Fleur and Manu. Kyle transposes this scenario to a South African [...]

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 [...]