If what’s gone before was very good, this puts Florence in a whole new league. This is an absolutely stunning, simply beautiful video by New York-based directing team LEGS.
Brilliant. The performance video is back.
Florence And The Machine
Dog Days Are Over (Island)
Director: LEGS
Producer: Malachy Mcanenny
Prod co: Rokkit
Representation: OBmanagement
Editor: Paul Snyder At Lost Planet
Ad: Sam [...]
Ben Dickinson is back, collaborating with his old Waverley Films buddy Duncan Skiles, on Chiddy Bang’s take on that famous MGMT tune.
Ben and Duncan (or Dunkin) – now a team called Dinosaurus – have popped the Philly hip-hop duo’s heads on young kids bodies. It’s an enjoyable variation on a classic theme. A bit like [...]
Corinne Bance and Axel D’Harcourt of Chic & Artistic’s beautifully executed video for Dan Black’s Symphonies – featuring Dan in numerous famous title sequences – first surfaced last summer.
Now the song has been reworked with the additional contribution by Kid Cudi – and so has the video. Here’s the new version, with the Kid smoothly [...]
Their video for You Came Out by David Wilson was a wonder to behold – now We Have Band make graphics out of themselves once again, this time collaborating with French team Jul & Mat.
The three members of WHB create letters with their bodies to spell out words, that make up a key lyric [...]
An exceptionally psychedelic freakout for the Archie Bronson Outfit by Ferry Gouw, channelling the rich imaginative vein of previous work for Major Lazer, Lightspeed Champion, etc., then ramping it up a couple of notches. His adventure of destructive Space Mongol cowboys is by different turns comical and unnerving, consistently eye-boggling – and ideally suited to [...]
After the eye-boggling combination of war and sex that was Hard, Melina fetishises Rihanna’s Elvis-sneer in a myriad of roots-reggae-rock influences for a relentless bit of bump-and-grind twaddle. Consummately done.
Rihanna
Rude Boy (Def Jam)
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Prod co: Black Dog Films
Producer: Jil Hardin
DoP: Max Malkin
Offline Editor: Clark Eddy
Online: Click 3X / Mark Szumski
Watch: Quicktime movie
The Fitzcarraldo Sessions are a French musical collective featuring, among others, Phoebe Kildeer of Nouvelle Vague and Craig Walker of Archive. The video for their track Alice & Lewis from the new album We Hear Voices is by Kate and Jey of Duckeye for Rokkit in Paris, and it’s an hypnotic exercise in abstract imagery, [...]
Ben Steiger Levine has a way with creating thigns with that ‘how did they do that?’ quality. First there was Socalled’s You Are Never Alone, where the artist dismantles his own face. Then there was the amazing bee-man of the Grammy-nominated video for Beast’s Mr Hurricane.
Now he has created a surreal room where empty [...]
A new user-created music video for Lily Allen’s hit The Fear directed by Caswell Coggins has been launched to promote new XBOX 360 videogame Lips Number One Hits, following the teaser TV ad that played during the X Factor Live Final in December. It’s a crowd-sourcing vid – but with something extra special going on. [...]
The first major release by Ellie Goulding, widely touted for big things this year and already the winner of a Brit award, gets a strong launch with a performance-based video by Ross Cooper and Bugsy Riverbank Steel of OneInThree, with added Muybridge-style visual effects they customized themselves from a popular TV sports package – see [...]
