Matt Lambert directs for Czech electronica artist Emika, bringing some sexual avant-garde ambiguity to her sharp-edged electronica. Matt flicks between a gritty real-world and a hyper-sexual fantasy that’s all smoke, coloured lights and topless ladies. This is the second part of a trilogy that Matt is making with the Ninja Tune-signed artist, following his first [...]
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 [...]
A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously… But for everyone else – well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce’s [...]
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 [...]
French director Cédric Blaisbois has filled the hole left in the ‘young persons murder’ market since Daniel Wolfe’s ‘Time To Dance’ (now released over a year ago). However, this is a different video altogether. Three youngsters (two girls and one boy) find they have a house to themselves and set about indulging the relatively misdemeanours [...]
Diane Martel made two versions of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. Robin and T.I. and Pharrell with some beautiful girls – one the girls are wearing tops, and one they take them off. The latter is now banned from YouTube, but viewable on Vevo and on Vimeo. Lots of press has resulted, including this one about [...]
First there was the Insane Office Escape – the video for Russian punk outfit Biting Elbows’ The Stampede, released 18 months ago, by director Ilya Naishuller – also the band’s frontman. It’s a gripping action-adventure, made in the style of a first-person video game shoot ‘em up, and a very respectable YouTube hit with two [...]
A wonderfully subversive little number from Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling – aka Becky and Joe – for New Zealand band Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s rather lovely Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark), which involving a man trying to find something more rewarding than surreptiously peeping at naked girls – told through the medium of puppetry. [...]
Following Antony & The Johnsons’ Cut The World and Frank Ocean’s Pyramids, Nabil is finding his groove for enigmatic, psychological drama and his video for The Weeknd’s Twenty Eight follows in the same vein, intercutting between the soul singer’s appearance on a serious TV chat show, a ghost of a girl watching him on TV, [...]
John Hillcoat gets back together with Nick Cave, and brings another old buddy into the frame to explore the darker side of the human condition in the video for Nick and the Bad Seeds’ Jubilee Street. Ray Winstone plays the regular customer of a young sex worker, torn between desire and self-loathing, while Nick Cave [...]
