In Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas’s video for Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah’s Drinking From The Bottle, we get a tour of LA and Hollywood from the big bad man himself. It’s the Devil, doing the dirty work down on the streets, in the guise of veteran actor Brad Dourif. This is an idea that [...]
Fresh from winning the Best New Director award and Best Indie/Rock Video UK at the 2012 UK Music Video Awards, AG Rojas’s compelling video for Purity Ring’s Lofticries is a admirable follow up to his great vids for Jack White’ Sixteen Saltines and Spiritualized’s Hey Jane and just as memorable. It’s four seemingly disconnected yet [...]
Romain Gavras swept the major honours at the UK Music Video Awards 2012 last night in London, winning the Best Director award and the Video Of The Year for his video for M.I.A’s Bad Girls. At the fifth annual ceremony celebrating the most creative work in music video of the past year, the French director [...]
AG Rojas’ compelling promo for Jack White sees the former White Stripe’s singer hanging out with the scary kids in a Walking Dead-style drama from the end of the world as we know it – complete with dance routines… Jack White Sixteen Saltines (Columbia) Director: AG Rojas Production Company: Caviar Rep: Lark Creative Executive Producer: [...]
A remarkable video for Spiritualized’s Hey Jane by AG Rojas, about an Atlanta transvestite – a prostitute, stripclub waitress and devoted parent, who leads a very dangerous life. AG’s gripping film is entirely credible, due to the fact that he went to Atlanta and cast someone in the lead role with strong similarities to the [...]
Emeli Sandé stakes her claim as a major artist in the making with this gritty, very powerful video for Daddy by multi-MVA nominee AG Rojas. Set in the badlands of Las Vegas, hard-hitting images of drug addiction and criminal activity are the backdrop to Emeli’s relationship with a wayward lover. AG Rojas handles this fast-moving [...]
Chase and Status visit Brooklyn with Tinie Tempah and make merry with the locals. AG Rojas’s video for Hitz totally tears it up – over a million hits on YouTube in just four days. Chase and Status feat. Tinie Tempah Hitz (Mercury) Director: AG Rojas Executive producers: Tim Nash / Jasper Thomlinson Producer: Gaetan Rousseau [...]
How to get through the trauma of being dumped – and have a lot of fun along the way: Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas demonstrate how in their new video for Calvin Harris and Kelis’s Bounce. It’s a portrait of a charismatic kid living on the outskirts of Las Vegas, who in the course of [...]
AG Rojas has joined the directing roster at Somesuch & Co for representation for ads and music videos in the UK. AG’s work includes the Jeremy Enigk video for Mind Idea and the recent video for Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX’s collaboration for I’ll Take Care For You (co-directed with Jamie-James Medina), documenting the life [...]
This is from a few months back, but worth checking out, especially for skater vid lovers. AG Rojas’s video is dreamy and reflective, with a hint of narrative and superbly shot on Red by Eric Ulbrich. “We got the cops called on us, got kicked out of three locations, and had to wrangle four 15 [...]
