David Wilson has created a new video for Cancer Research in which he’s interpreted the charity’s feisty and upbeat campaign into a Grease-inspired musical number, with an added touch of Breaking Bad and a typographical nod to Drive. All to the still-fresh sound of Elastica’s Britpop classic Connection. Here come the girls – all bubblegum [...]
David Wilson has taken sexual exploration into the cosmic realm with his superb video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief. David tells Promo News all about how he created the video… • Promo: How did you come up with the idea for the video? I guess the title had something to do with it…? David: The [...]
Dreams come true in David Wilson’s video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief: a schoolboy is lost in erotic yearnings for his sexy young lady teacher in a 1970s English boys school. She’s surely unattainable. But when the school bell goes and she saunters out to her red 2CV and lights a big fat joint, our [...]
David Wilson’s video for The Sushi Song was shown in episode 2 of Adam Buxton’s BUG on Sky Atlantic earlier this month – a super-sexy affair to match the R&B vibe of Adam’s Sushi Song (produced by Stuart Earl). Or at least as sexy as you can get while singing the praises of raw fish. [...]
A new music video competition has launched that invites young people to make a video for one of four of the UK’s most exciting bands, and also gives entrants the chance to understand how the professional music video industry works with a series of tutorials featuring some of the UK’s top music video professionals. The [...]
Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos wants his band’s music videos to look more like short films, while David Wilson has wanted to direct a film from a bouncing perspective ever since he saw Osamu Tezuka’s Jumping animation. Now artist and director have combined to achieve mutual satisfaction for Take A Walk from the forthcoming Passion [...]
David Wilson’s remarkable development in the past year from his animation roots continues with a full-on action adventure for David Guetta’s emotional Titanium, sung by Sia. It’s a blockbuster narrative of an apparently ordinary boy (played by Super 8‘s Ryan Lee) who goes on the run after accidentally exposing his destructive supernatural powers while at [...]
David Wilson’s dazzling video for The Maccabees’ Pelican – from the band’s new album Given To The Wild – is a journey through the middle of everything, from globes and little boys, to bowls of cornflakes and breasts. In fact one of the few things its lacking is a pelican… In the ballpark of things [...]
A little bit Satanic. Music: Bo Ningen Director: David Wilson
In the true spirit of Keaton Henson (rather than Christmas), there’s something heartbreaking about this… Alternative Advent – Day 4 Music: Keaton Henson Directors: David Wilson and Sam Potter DoP: Brian Fawcett Art Director: Arthur de Borman
