James Copeman delivers a striking video for London five-piece Vuvuvultures’ Safe Skin, centred around their photogenic singer Harmony Boucher, who delivers a strong performance – and exposes a good amount of skin herself in the process. It’s his second video for the band, following I’ll Cut You last year, and a definite step-up in the [...]
As he’s spent 2013 being praised to the heavens for his godlike genius, and most people think he can probably walk on water (and maybe even rose from the dead…) David Bowie actually plays Christ in Floria Sigismondi’s video for The Next Day. Also starring Bowie’s pal Gary Oldman, as a bad guy priest who [...]
Having shown himself as a young master of the mini-drama for Rhye and When Saints Go Machine, Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen makes a diversion into pop performance for Danish duo Quadron’s Hey Love. Daniel documents singer Coco Maja Karshoj dancing the video away with several debonair men, each bringing their own signature dance style, while the singer [...]
Powered by some beautiful FX, Tim Nackashi takes the viewer on a whimsical, kaleidoscopic trip in his promo for Norwegian singer Mr Little Jeans – aka Monica Birkens. Tim marries the hazy, softly sung dream-pop of Oh Sailor with colourful lighting, green-screen desert landscapes and shining stars to great effect. Mr Little Jeans Oh Sailor [...]
Diane Martel made two versions of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. Robin and T.I. and Pharrell with some beautiful girls – one the girls are wearing tops, and one they take them off. The latter is now banned from YouTube, but viewable on Vevo and on Vimeo. Lots of press has resulted, including this one about [...]
Hot on the heels of her promo for Bowie’s The Stars (Are Out Tonight), Floria Sigismondi serves up another visual treat in her video for Justin Timberlake’s No 1 single Mirrors. Clocking in at over 8 minutes, an old couple look back over their life together remembering the good times in Floria’s poignant narrative. Mr [...]
New star-in-the-making Tom Odell goes into drunken battle with his old Joanna in Sophie Muller’s video for Hold Me. It’s a slightly unhinged performance video to go with a rousing song – shot by Robbie Ryan. And there’s a stylistic nod to Sophie’s great Blur vids for Song 2 and Beetlebum… Tom Odell Hold Me [...]
A second video for Rhye by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen that shares the same precocious quality of storytelling and characterisation that marked out his first Rhye video for The Fall, and also his MVA award-winner for When Saints Go Machine’s Parix. Daniel’s video for Open is also obliquely related to The Fall. Here a young couple head [...]
Shynola’s video for How To Destroy Angels’ How Long, sees HTDA’s Trent Reznor fulfil a longstanding ambition to work with the legendary British animators/directors/visual artists. The outcome is, perhaps not surprisingly, a searingly bleak vision of the future, with some haunting imagery – photographed by Robbie Ryan. This is a futureworld where civilisation has been [...]
Adam Powell delivers a unique and rewarding promo for UK singer/songwriter Shiv to partner new single Better Man Than He. Inspired by his research into improving the management of children born with a cleft lip and palate, Powell placed Sivu into a MRI scanner at London hospital St Barts and filmed the results. “I’ve just [...]
