Michael Jackson’s Behind The Mask by Dennis Liu

Exclusively released on Michael Jackson’s Facebook page earlier this week, this brilliant Dennis Liu-directed video montage supplied by his army of fans (and a Russian flash mob) forms the promo to new single Behind The Mask. Jacko fans were asked to upload their own dance moves and crowd reaction to the video via a website [...]

Adam Buxton reads out the YouTube comments for the ‘Apple Mac Music Video’

Filmed at a recent BUG at the BFI Southbank, Adam Buxton reads out the YouTube comments for the ‘Apple Mac Music Video’ – that’s Dennis Liu’s ingenious unofficial video for the Bird & The Bee’s Again & Again from 2008 celebrating the glories of Apple Mac OSX. ‘Apple Mac Music Video’ was one of the [...]

Diane Birch’s Valentino by Dennis Liu

Dennis Liu, signed to Radical Media in the US, shot this rather excellent, skillful promo through Factory Films (the American company of that name) for the idiosyncratic Valentino by Diane Birch. The production took a week and a half of non-stop rehearsals then 62 takes on the day of the shoot. Take 57 ended up [...]

Sia’s You’ve Changed by Dennis Liu

Dennis Liu created the viral sensation fan video/Mac advert for Bird and the Bee’s Again and Again, then the interactive video for Kyle Andrews’ Sushi composed of innumerable tiles of clickable YouTube screens. But his latest flies in the face of the advance of tech. It’s a videogame recreated in ‘real life’ – a bit [...]

Shown at BUG 07: The Bird And The Bee’s Again and Again by Dennis Liu

A fan video, a sort of homemade commercial, and of course, a YouTube smash – this is the one that really fulfills BUG’s tagline: the evolution of music video. It was made by Dennis Liu, a recent graduate of NYU film school, and now a TV producer at New York ad agency BBDO. Not sure [...]