Mixing live footage he’d previously directed at their gig at The Scala and some shots of streetlights in Paris, Luke Bellis delivers this monochrome beauty for Apparat’s Candil de la Calle. The footage was then edited and used his After Effects skills to degrade the digital video to create an old black and white look… [...]
Saman Keshavarz’s talent for weaving complex and gripping storylines is demonstrated once again in his video for Apparat’s Song Of Los – the story of a girl robot’s lifecycle, told via her memory circuits. The humans don’t come out of this well… Apparat Song Of Los (Mute Records) Director: Saman Keshavarz Writers: Saman Keshavarz & [...]
Céline Desrumaux, one half of animation/direction team Céline & Yann, creators of The Giants animation series and signed to Passion – has now completed this personal project, a gorgeous short film/video, pretty much explained by its title: Countdown. For all intents, it’s a NASA rocket launch, faithfully rendered in a minimal illustrative style, and it’s [...]
Ben Reed’s low budget video for Apparat’s post-rocky Black Water features three impressively imposing (and occasionally smoking) 14 foot high sculptures of vintage furniture, in the middle of nowhere. This is the directors cut: “Nothing really happens, but I think some of it looks alright,” says Ben. “The label have a different cut which opens [...]
