For Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider who came back against all the odds to compete again after suffering a terrible injury. Using numerous cameras – some fixed on [...]
CeeLo Green follows-up his multi-platinum 2010 album The Lady Killer with Everybody’s Brother (due this Spring) and for the all-important first single and promo, joins forces with director Ethan Lader. Lader brings his distinctive visual flair to Only You placing Green and co-star Lauriana Mae in a cityscape where buildings, towers and streets warp, elevate, [...]
Following their promo for Frightened Rabbit’s The Woodpile last month, James and Justin Lockey of Handheldcineclub deliver this spirited performance video for Backyard Skulls – their fourth for the Scottish rockers. The band play at the end of a high-school prom to students who, a bit worse-for-wear, are treated to a brilliant impromptu dance by [...]
Karni and Saul return to music videos with this delightful animation for The Staves’ Winter Trees, which demonstrates how far they have come from their stop-frame animating roots. It’s a forest scene in which imaginative hybrid animals – rabbit squid and llama owls – face a deadly flood, was created in the visual style of [...]
Greg Jardin – director of superb, high concept music videos for Kina Grannis, Hollorado and Joey Ramone – has blown away the impression he just does stop-motion videos with a compelling production for Brit band The Joy Formidable’s epic This Ladder Is Ours. The band perform the song in a house in the teeth of [...]
Fierce razor-toothed albinos on futuristic jet skis bombarding robotic sharks, a cyborg lovechild, low riders, and a moshing of data combine in this awesome, utterly off-the-wall sci-fi odyssey by Radical Friend for Skrillex’s Breakin’A Sweat. In fact, exactly the sort of gripping, morally ambiguous action fest that you need for the supreme master of extreme [...]
A sumptuous, sexy, and very dark vision for Wiz Khalifa’s Remember You, featuring The Weeknd, by Ryan Hope – the British director’s first big video through DNA in the US, and shot by his regular DoP, Tony Miller. A nice girl working in a diner is drawn into a glamourous world which definitely has its [...]
The Blind Club – the music division of Leeds-based production outfit Left Eye Blind – have blazed a trail with their own brand of music video in the past couple of years. By giving live performance the cinematic resonance of a pop promo, they are pioneers of the ‘live music video’, and as such they’ve [...]
Having won an MVA for Cool Fun’s House last November – with her first music video – Prano Bailey-Bond’s follow-up finally arrives and it was well worth waiting for. One of the marionette dancers from House have also strayed into her very distinctive video for Nottingham indie outfit Dog Is Dead’s 2 Devils, and into [...]
A really quite steamy video for Delilah’s Love You So by Emil Nava, through a combination of some suggestive stock footage, and a fine performance by the dubstep/soul ingenue – in two roles. She gives a decent impression of being a star in the making. Very nice work all round – including a great edit [...]
