Agile Films latest signing Pip delivers this organic and natural promo to Amy Macdonald’s new single Slow It Down, shot in Spain with the dusty hills and scorched terrain acting as a suitable backdrop… Amy Macdonald Slow It Down (Mercury Records) Director: Pip Production Company: Agile Films Director of Photography: Dan Stafford-Clark Producer: Joe Myers [...]
A girl relives the night before as she makes her way through North London at dawn in the video for Mademoiselle Mademoiselle’s Moonraker, directed by Nikolaj Hans Belzer out of new company Everything is Okay. “The aim was to capture the dream-like atmosphere in the aftermath of a fun-fuelled house party,” explains Nikolaj of the [...]
Sesame Street, Bill & Ben, other people living in dustbins… whatever the inspiration, the Magnetic Fields’ video for Quick! directed by James Spinney – the story of Ada and Blom – is a little delight. Love that mouldy makeup… The Magnetic Fields Quick! (Merge) Director: James Spinney Prod co: Fee Fie Foe Films Producers: Peter [...]
Fasten your seat belts…Dutch dance outfit Noisia’s Could This Be is subject to this exciting and hypnotic promo from German director/animator Alexander Lehmann – following the path of an aircraft, and then a missile – with a very cool unfinished CGI look. Perfectly translating the pounding beats, it’s more or less an expert sketch compared [...]
Austrian director Luzi Katamay delivers this gorgeous cinematic treat for A.G. Trio & M. Zahradnicek for the electro pop of Countably Infinite. Featuring performances by Julia Weinknecht and Christian Korherr, a dramatic car crash by a deserted forest is filmed largely in reverse slow-motion to excellent effect. A.G.Trio feat. M. Zahradnicek Countably Infinite Director: Luzi [...]
Neneh Cherry’s collaboration with The Thing on the cover of MF Doom’s Accordion – from forthcoming album It’s A Cherry Thing – the video by Ted Beagles (in his alternate guise as Ted Says) was shot in complete darkness using night vision and infrared lights rigged in bushes and trees with near-subliminal appearances from MF [...]
The video for Lowlands, second single from the debut album of Belgian band Roscoe, is the disturbing story of a boy embroiled in a brutal world of streetfighting for money at the behest of his father. It’s powerfully told by Norman Bates – that’s a new team comprised of Inti Calfat and Dirk Verheye, two [...]
Shot on the Canon 7D and 5D, Ryan O’Hara Theisen’s promo for Brooklyn-based Alan Wilkis is a trip back to 1979. As seen through the eyes of an introverted photo assistant, ‘Daniel’ becomes obsessed with a nude model when she arrives on set. Which leads him into all sorts of trouble… Alan Wilkis ft Lyrics [...]
The video for Hadouken’s Parasite focusses on a man gripped by something – or things – that are driving him to distraction. It features a riveting performance by Lee Oakes, but this is also notable as the directing debut of someone who’s a familiar name in another field: Aubrey Woodiwiss, top colourist at The Mill. [...]
Brilliantly imaginative/deranged clip for Flaming Lips’ super-rockin’ workout The Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee – from their Record Store Day release Flaming Lips & Fwends – by Okay Video, a video & animation directing team composed of Sterling Allen, Peat Duggins & Ryan Hennessee (who are also part of the collective Okay Mountain). Urban [...]
Nadia Marquard Otzen has joined A+, the music video and special projects division of Academy Films, and announced her arrival with the video for Niki & The Dove’s Tomorrow. The Danish born director, was accepted at Central St. Martins in London at the age of 19, then studied at Parson’s School of Art and Design [...]
A tale of two cross-dressing men – one leading a secret double-life – for Joakim’s Nothing Gold, expertly told by Victor Lech partly through an effective split-screen technique that leads to a bravura climax. “The point was to tell the love story between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle, but with two [...]
