John Grant, author of the wonderful and amazing Queen Of Denmark album a couple of years ago (that produced a couple of great videos by Casey and Ewan), is back with a new record for 2013. And, evidently a new bigger, cinematic sound, if lead-off single Pale Green Ghosts is anything to go by. It [...]
Alex Southam, director of the acclaimed video for Alt-J’s Tessellate (right), has joined Agile Films for music videos and commercials. A self-taught filmmaker, Alex directed low budget videos for Labyrinth Ear’s Amber and Binary’s Modern Man (both featured on Promo) and for Fanfarlo and I Break Horses. More recently he’s directed two videos for US [...]
Alex Southam re-creates a modern, hip-hop version of Raphael’s School Of Athens painting in his promo for Alt-J’s Tessellate single (which certainly isn’t hip-hop). The Tessellate video also bears a resemblance to REM’s Imitation Of Life promo by Hammer & Tongs (who have just announced their split after 17 years) – and Alex makes good [...]
Alex Southam enhances Binary’s indie-thrashing Modern Man with this psychedelic, colour-solarised performance promo with added stock footage – including some vintage Irving Klaw-style erotica – to spice things up. Binary Modern Man (Echoplex) Director: Alex Southam Production Company: Agile Films Producer: Tom Allen DP: Paul Newton Focus Puller: Emil Davidov 1st AD: Jonathan Sidwell Production [...]
Stylishly photographic entirely slo-mo no-budget video for electronic band Labyrinth Ear’s Amber, directed by Alex Southam, featuring mirror-image explosions, and nudity. “We shot the video in deepest darkest Somerset on an Olympus ispeed at 2000fps – thanks to the help of special effects company Event Horizon,” says Alex. “In order to get as much natural [...]
