De La Muerte has directed a trio of thematically similar videos for the songs on new Sony artist Chlöe Howl’s EP Rumour. With a smart use of colour-coded art direction by Jon Hollinsworth, Burning Reel’s new signing De La Muerte draws the viewer into Chlöe’s engagingly feisty studio-set performances of Rumour, No Strings and I [...]
deadmau5 and Imogen Heap have set up a global competition for animators to produce a segment of the official video to ‘Telemiscommunications’. You have until next Monday – December 10th, 2012 – to submit your entry with a single frame treatment of your chosen section of the video. There are twenty segments of the video up [...]
The latest addition to the Valtari Mystery Film Project – Sigur Rós’s open brief to several filmmakers to make a video for a song of their choice from their current album – is a beautiful piece by Christian Larson which combines no less than four songs from the album. It’s also very much a contemporary [...]
It started memorably with the Johnny Cash Project, and then progressed with The Wilderness Downtown for Arcade Fire and 3 Dreams of Black for the Danger Mouse project Rome. Now Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin’s quest to reach new frontiers in interactive, crowd-sourced creativity has taken them outside the realm of the music promo, and [...]
There’s something else going on in Weymouth in Dorset right now, apart from (but very much linked to) the Olympic sailing. Here’s the first of two 360° music films that are being premiered at the ICCI360 Arena on Weymouth Beach during the Olympic and Paralympic games as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Its now being [...]
This is Ramin Bahrani’s film for Sigur Rós’s Ég anda – the latest offering from the ‘Valtari Mystery Film Experiment’, where various directors were given free rein to make the films they wanted for tracks from the new Sigur Rós album Valtari. (this is, in fact, the second film for Ég anda, following the first [...]
The latest Creators Project puts together British electronic champs Hot Chip with Danny Perez, best known for his collaborations with Animal Collective, particularly the visual album ODDSAC – and the results are an odd and opaque take on the Frankenstein myth. In the first part the scientist/master dismantles his beautiful creation, filling the luminous, gooey [...]
The latest video by Krisoffer Borgli, for Oslo’s disco master Todd Terje’s track Inspector Norse features Marius Solem Johansen as the eponymous Inspector, happily grooving in Norwegian suburbia – apart from when he’s consumed his home-cooked drugs… Kristoffer has delighted previously with his videos for Casiokids, Young Dreams, The Golden Filter and more, and this video [...]
The fourth video in Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment – the project where various filmmakers were given an open brief to make a video for a song from the new album – is by the band’s longtime collaborators and fellow countrymen Arni and Kinski. Arni and Kinski have directed some of Sigur Rós’s [...]
Sigur Rós gave twelve of their favourite filmmakers $10,000 and an open brief to make a video for one of the songs from their new album. Its the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, and Alma Har’el’s contribution to the project – the third film to be released – is the mesmeric, emotional and erotic dance piece [...]
