This is a brilliantly imaginative feast for the jazzy-dance music of Hugo & The Prismatics’ Le Mystère, directed by designer and director Raoul Paulet, in which a woman embarks on a journey of self-discovery through a strange world composed of shape-shifting objects and manipulative shadow people – all created in live action on a tight, [...]
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Nick Thompson has made an impressive debut promo for Belfast band Girls Names very cool Hypnotic Regression. Following the success of his fashion film My Lord for Italian Vogue (he’s also directed films for Port Magazine, Hunger, and Commes des Garçons) Nick has created a hypnotic, stylish and highly sensual piece [...]
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 [...]
Jesse Kanda, the Canadian-Japanese director and VFX whizz-kid now based in London, has directed a beautiful music video of computer art for ultra-mysterious R&B artist Twigs’ How’s That. The video dissolves from the figurative to the highly abstract in a very pleasurable way, thanks to Jesse’s special secret sauce of VFX software and processing. Now [...]
Ivy Jelisavac found JustAnyGuy’s industrial dubstep on commissioning site Radar and filmed in Berlin to create this top freerunning video. Parkour experts Jean-Tayfun Hoffmann, Tobias Degner and Max Bawey show off their skills, whilst Ivy has spun a interesting narrative and worked in some great shots. A lovely grainy finish gives the video added edge [...]
Nice & Polite have just signed Natalia Stuyk – the co-director of the new eye-boggling video for Basement Jaxx’s Back To The Wild with Mat Maitland. With an ability to combine a variety of media and lo-fi VFX to create complex and scintillating visual collages, Natalia’s work also includes the videos for Echo Lake’s Even [...]
If you thought you could not get an emotional reaction by animating triangles, Tom Jobbins’ video for Hiatus’s We Can Be Ghosts Now will make you think again. The track is based upon a story of a couple trying to find each other amid the Twin Towers disaster – and Tom has translated this into [...]
Flokim Lucas’s animated video for Bot’Ox ft. Anna Jean’s The Face of Another is a beautifully designed journey into a retro-future of sexual adventure – with a masked ‘hero’ wandering through a bazaar of bizarre sexuality before finding satisfaction of sorts in a club. Very cool, very French – and, according to the credits at [...]
New directing duo Big Naturals – that’s Stephen Agnew and Jack Wilkinson – deliver great work in this hugely watchable promo for the dirty blues of Off And On by Findlay. Powered by great performances from the Stockport singer and her band, the new Soup Factory directors intercut the action with grungey, sexy Warhol-esque imagery [...]
