Marrying the powerful lyrics – a ‘metaphor of the Dresden bombing and a beautiful relationship ruined’ with strong graphic animation, Robisrob’s promo for OMD takes its lead from classic James Bond title sequences. “The rotoscoped style seemed to fit the illustrated look of OMD’s visual output and the slow-motion movements and fighting narrative were a [...]
Having made a big impression with his first ever music video for The Maccabees’ Young Lions, Peter Szewczyk has not directed one for a couple of years. But now he’s made another labour of love for the Icelandic singer ÍRiS’s Swiftly Siren, and the result is a perfectly-formed supernatural thriller. The drama is gripping from [...]
James Copeman delivers a striking video for London five-piece Vuvuvultures’ Safe Skin, centred around their photogenic singer Harmony Boucher, who delivers a strong performance – and exposes a good amount of skin herself in the process. It’s his second video for the band, following I’ll Cut You last year, and a definite step-up in the [...]
This is a stunning video for new Ministry act London Grammar’s lovely Wasting My Young Years by Bison that executes an amazing visual trick. Falling bodies are captured, and tracked by the camera in mid-fall. You might think its old school time-slice at first, but then the viewer is taken completely around a body – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Azealia Banks comes on like a screaming banshee in Jam Sutton’s video for Yung Rapunxel, which wouldn’t be half as enjoyable if Azealia didn’t look like so amazing in the video. That’s even before Jam’s FX work that turns her eyes into little mouths, transforming her less into a Daliesque portrait (like Madonna in Bedtime [...]
An unmistakeable slab of Daniels’ virtuosity graces the video for Passion Pit’s Cry Like A Ghost – about a girl who’s on an emotional rollercoaster – and physically swinging from guy to guy during the course of the video. It almost resembles a horror film at first, shot in a dark forest, but the characteristic [...]
Eighteen months after his remarkable video for The Satellite Year’s implausibly titled Jelly, Jelly, How To Survive Such A Trip?, director and VFX whizz Thorsten Hary has been at it again for the German popster’s latest single, A Campus, A Heart, A Star. He’s created another video that resembles a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, with suitably [...]
This rather lovely video by Tel Aviv-based director Liran Goldberg features Israeli indie duo The Aprons performing in a wooded glade and attracting a host of animals to hear them play – all CG, and made of glass (the visual effects work is by Shay Goldberg). Which is a problem when a group of hunters [...]
