For Pearl & The Puppets Make Me Smile, Vanessa Caswill unravels the drama of splitting up with your lover by having singer Katie Sutherland literally getting on her bike – to Holland – to get over the heartbreak. But surely no one is worth the price of an iPhone… Pearl & The Puppets Make Me [...]
Singer-songwriter Colin MacLeod – aka The Boy Who Trapped The Sun – tries a spot of busking in one of those painfully quaint and mind-numbing south coast seaside towns, breezily captured by Vanessa Caswill. Looks like they enjoyed themselves – but then they got to leave that godforsaken place afterwards. Colin comes from a very [...]
For their current Swedish chart-topper People Hurt People, Swiss outfit Lunik commissioned Luc Janin to translate their emo indie tones to the small screen. This is Janin’s first video with a female lead vocal which gave him an opportunity to explore a softer approach – even though the promo contains plastic bears, 4000 ping pong [...]
The pent-up emo fury of Enter Shikari finds superb expression through the distinctive rotoscope- plus style of Annex director Joseph Pierce. It’s Joseph’s first video, but after his short films Family Portrait and the award-winning Stand Up, in which he reveals the dark psychology lying beneath reality by meticulously illustrating over live action pictures and [...]
For Skye Edwards’ – former lead singer with Morcheeba – new single I Believe, director Fatima used a classic sepia wash to echo the intimate, earthy nature of the track. The single is taken from Edwards’ recently released second album Keeping Secrets. Skye Edwards I Believe Director: Fatima Producer: Veronica Saez Production Company: Annex Films [...]
Vanessa Caswill’s third promo for UK born Australian singer-songwriter Lisa Mitchell is a sweet home movie-style production that echo’s the sentiment of the song. It’s taken from her debut album Wonder, and Mitchell has just finished support duties on Newton Faulkner’s UK tour. Lisa Mitchell Clean White Love (Warner Australia) Director: Vanessa Caswill Producer: Veronica [...]
Lisa Mitchell is a Natalie Portman-esque Australian folk-popster, lately based in the UK, who’s just released her first album Wonder (Ed Harcourt was one of her collaborators on the record). Having already directed a video for Lisa’s Neopolitan Dreams, Vanessa Caswill now confirms Lisa’s adorableness with this very cute video for Coin Laundry. Lisa makes [...]
Vanessa Caswill created this little stop-frame film for her pal Johnny Flynn as part of a site-specific mixed-media performance he was putting on at the Shunt Vaults. The show explored the seven days of creation – Johnny asked Vanessa to handle Day 5. It took Vanessa a weekend of her own time (she’s with Annex [...]
Stereophonics have now been around so long they are now (virtually) the grizzled vets of Brit indie pop-rock. But in their many videos it’s hard to remember any genuinely feelgood ones. Their early vids, by their fondly-remembered directing commissioner Pinko, had a certain something – and I’ve always been keen on Dave Slade’s vid for [...]
The video for The Fratellis’ lead-off single for their new album features a colourful cast of characters (including a devilish guy whose face catches fire) led by the eccentric Mabel herself. And all the while the band are performing on the ceiling, hanging like a bunch of hard-rocking bats. Although I doubt that’s the proper [...]
