Crowd-sourcing is a phenomenon of the times, but Roel Wouters and his collaborator Jonathan Puckey have come up with a genuinely new and brilliant application. In fact, they have arguably invented an whole new branch of interactivity: the ongoing music video. Roel and Jonathan’s video for Dutch band C-Mon and Kipski’s More Is Less is [...]

Two minutes of deconstructed animation joy by the brilliant David OReilly and his Hollywood-based friend Jon Klassen – who also collaborated with David on his U2 video for I’ll Go Crazy – which works as a continuous loop. “My good friend Jon Klassen came over to Berlin in October,” explains David on his blog. “We [...]

Ben Steiger Levine has a way with creating thigns with that ‘how did they do that?’ quality. First there was Socalled’s You Are Never Alone, where the artist dismantles his own face. Then there was the amazing bee-man of the Grammy-nominated video for Beast’s Mr Hurricane. Now he has created a surreal room where empty [...]

A superb ‘animated-live action’ video for the Illinois power-rock duo Tweak Bird by the LA-based director Nick Peterson. With his figures cavorting against black, Nick reveals that he was inspired by Roman vase art – but with his bodacious devil-girl there’s also a substantial nod to retro-inspired poster art maestros like Kozik and Coop. Nick [...]

A mesmerizing exercise in Op Art for French electronica outfit Acid Washed – taken from their forthcoming debut album – by acclaimed British graphic designer and director Anthony Burrill, with the help of his regular filmmaking collaborator Paul Plowman and Zac Ella. Anthony’s bold graphic and advertising work has graced campaigns for London Underground, Wallpaper*, [...]

Fresh from a ringing endorsement in the Evening Standard last Friday, the latest instalment of outstanding new music video creativity lands tomorrow night at the BFI Southbank when Adam Buxton presents BUG 17 – the first BUG of 2010. That show, together with BUG 17 The Directors Cut next Thursday, are now fully booked (and [...]

Hot Chip bravely embrace a Roel Wouters filmed experiment. Roel supplies them with a space, a camera or two, and one of his favourite shiny round objects – and then he leaves the band to it, to basically make their own music video. It might not be that easy to get your head around it [...]

It’s not what you might expect from the first video of a new Massive Attack album. Toby Dye’s film for Paradise Circus is a short documentary, an interview with Georgina Spelvin, the eponymous star of The Devil In Miss Jones – apparently the seventh most successful film at the box office in 1973, and certainly [...]

A completely fresh selection of the most innovative, exciting and extraordinary examples of new music video creativity – illuminated, as always, by the uniquely insightful and comedic observations of Adam Buxton – is coming to BUG 17 on Thursday, January 21st, and Thursday, January 28th, at the BFI Southbank in London. Tickets are now on [...]