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 [...]
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 [...]
Having directed a couple of big Hollywood movies, The Road and Lawless, perhaps its no surprise that John Hillcoat’s video for How To Destroy Angels’ Ice Age, released late last year, is a peerlessly cinematic video and no less dramatic for being, for the most part, a straight performance. But the beautiful cinematography by Linus [...]
Odd Future associate Earl Sweatshirt is in reflective mood in Hiro Murai’s low-key, atmospheric, trippy and beautifully shot video for Chum. Excellent work by DoP Larkin Seiple – and another fine addition to this year’s gallery of utterly mashed hip-hop stars in music vids. Earl Sweatshirt Chum (Columbia) Director: Hiro Murai Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment [...]
Ellis Bahl’s much celebrated, UK MVA winning, backwards murder video for Alt-J’s ‘Breezeblocks’ was a bit of a brain twister, but with this promo for Walk of the Earth he’s artfully constructed a backwards, forwards, slow-motion, single-take wonderful nightmare of a performance video. The band perform the song, in the wrong order (sometimes the wrong [...]
Aerosmith star in their own mini-drama courtesy of Marc Klasfeld’s cinematic promo to their big arms-aloft power ballad What Could Have Been. With an added road-movie narrative, the video has all the Aerosmith trademarks – boozy antics, smoking, tattooed pool players, pretty girls and an enigmatic performance from frontman Steven Tyler… Aerosmith What Could Have [...]
Today’s Tenacious D video is… The Roadie. Plot: The long search by Tenacious D – aka Jack Black and Kyle Gass – for a new roadie ends when they find the most amazing roadie that’s ever toured the roads – who happens to be Danny McBride. He’s worked with Van Halen, Metallica, AC/DC… As you [...]
Following the (very real) box office bombing of their movie The Pick Of Destiny, Tenacious D, living up to their name, are back… But if the story of Jack and Kyle reuniting the band was told in the video for To Be The Best, catastrophe remains close – thanks to the young masters of chaos [...]
Jeremy Konner delivers this quite epic and hilarious six minute promo for the return of Tenacious D (aka movie star Jack Black and Kyle Gass). With brilliant cameos from Val Kilmer, Dave Grohl, Tim Robbins, Jimmy Kimmel and Josh Grobin, the video, set up as a type of reunion, is part of the campaign to [...]
For Gossip’s 80’s-style synth-rocking new single Pop Goes The World, Philip Andelman delivers a neon-bathed technicolour scenario, helped along by an enthusiastic performance from singer Beth Ditto. Gossip Pop Goes The World (Columbia) Director: Philip Andelman Production Company: Partizan Producer: Billy Parks DoP: Jonathan Sela Editor: Ken Mowe VFX/Online: Partizan Lab Representation: FreeAgent UK Commissioner: [...]
