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 – [...]
Friday, 17. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Bison, London Grammar, Wasting My Young Years
Nabil Elderkin has created a majestic and mysterious music video for James Blake’s Overgrown – the second single from the acclaimed second album with the same name – which really captures the nature of Blake’s music. At first, sitting in a bedroom with a view on a natural scene in fast forward, Blake leaves what [...]
Tuesday, 16. April 2013 | No comments »
Tags: A+, Academy Films, James Blake, Nabil, Overgrown, Polydor
While Foals perform in an Eastern European hotel bar, life goes on in the rooms upstairs in Nabil Elderkin’s gripping video for Late Night. In fact, the brass tacks of human existence are played out in this intense, unflinching, highly cinematic work – a couple make love, a woman gives birth and an auto-erotic suicide [...]
Tuesday, 12. March 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Domino Pro, Foals, Late Night, Nabil, Nabil Elderkin, Warner Bros
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, [...]
Tuesday, 19. February 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Domino Pro, Nabil Elderkin, The Weeknd, The Weend XO Inc, Twenty Eight
Taking the title of Foals’ My Number as their inspiration, Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor – aka Us – have created an extraordinary dot-to-dot world entirely in post – thanks to motion capture data collected at Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium studios, and also with a huge amount of love and devotion from the guys at the [...]
Tuesday, 12. February 2013 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Foals, Jennifer Ivory, My Number, US, Warner, Warner UK
Ingenious and highly influential animator PES has signed to A+ for European representation. The director and animator of numerous short films and commercials, PES is currently in development on his first feature film, a movie based on the Garbage Pail Kids. PES’s brilliant stop-motion shorts include Western Spaghetti, The Deep, and Game Over. And his [...]
Tuesday, 11. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Fresh Guacamole, PES
It’s taken a long time for these two huge figures from the history of the British pop video to work together. It was worth the wait. An absolutely blinding collaboration between Robbie Williams and WIZ for Different. Warning: it may make you cry. Robbie Williams Different (Island Records) Director: WIZ Production Company: A+ Exec Producer: [...]
Thursday, 6. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: 3 Mills Studios, A+, Academy Films, Carrie Sutton, Different, Island Records, Robbie Williams, WIZ
Ahead of his new video for Robbie Williams, WIZ travels to Malta to investigate the fleshly pleasures to be enjoyed down the streets of Valetta, with the guidance of local performer Ira Melkonyan, and some evocative vintage footage. WIZ was there with Dark Horses, who were invited to perform in Malta, and record in a [...]
Thursday, 6. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Dark Horses, Strait Street, WIZ
They’re known for their brilliant visual concepts, but Us – that’s Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor – have now made a confident move into narrative filmmaking, with their video for Feed Me’s Love Is All I Got, featuring the Crystal Fighters on vocals. It’s a twist on the teen superhero sagas, from Amazing Spider-Man to Kiss [...]
Wednesday, 17. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Chris Barrett, Crystal Fighters, Feed Me, Love Is All I Got, Luke Taylor, US
In-demand UK producer/songwriter Shahid Khan – aka Naughty Boy – teams up with labelmate Emeli Sandé for Wonder – and is partnered by this gorgeous promo from A+/Academy Films director Nadia. Filmed just before Emeli’s much talked about performance at the Olympics, the hugely atmospheric promo was shot in an area of flooded forest in [...]
Friday, 28. September 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: A+, Academy Films, Emeli Sandé, James Hackett, Nadia, Naughty Boy, Virgin Records, Wonder