Warren Fu delivers a richly photographed voyeuristic-type monochrome promo for Depeche Mode’s Soothe My Soul, with an aspect ratio that feels like you’re viewing the action through a peep-hole. The band play in shadows intercut with fleeting glimpses of nudity, wet skin, snakes and close-ups all adding to a tense, intimate atmosphere. Depeche Mode Soothe [...]
Depeche Mode are back, with a surprise: Heaven, first single from forthcoming album Delta Machine, is a mighty pop tune, and Timothy Saccenti’s video is a straight-ahead performance video of the band, shot appropriately enough in an abandoned church in New Orleans, embellished with live projections and imagery that touch upon a voodoo theme. The [...]
This very cool collaboration between Motor and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore gets a supercool low budget video by Tim Saccenti. Tim was partly responsible for Motor’s strobetastic video for Beep #1 with his friend Woody Batts a few years back and this employs a similar if rather more sophisticated use of projections to excellent effect. [...]
A stunning video for the Stargate remix of Depeche Mode’s classic Personal Jesus by Patrick Daughters. A dark night, a mob of superstitious villagers… and a girl about to be subjected to a practice reserved to those suspected of witchcraft. This is how it begins. Things don’t go to plan. Shot in the Czech Republic [...]
It’s been a memorable video campaign thus far for Depeche Mode’s current album, and there’s another mesmerizing twist with the promo for Fragile Tension, directed by Barney Steel (of the Found Collective) and Rob Chandler. Barney and Rob accessed a custom application created from the open source toolkit Open Frameworks to manipulate existing live footage [...]
The videos for The Hickey Underworld’s Blonde Fire and Depeche Mode’s Wrong have won the big honours at the first Music Video Competition held at the Plus Cameraimage Festival, the film festival focussed on the art and craft of cinematography, which has just wrapped its 17th annual edition. The astonishing Hickey Underworld video – directed [...]
If you’re wondering why Eric’s Depeche Mode video hasn’t been on Promo before now, the simple fact is we are still struggling to find the words to describe it. Completely nuts. Insane. Genius. Very slurpy and wet. Er… But what we can say is that this is the first product of the partnership between London’s [...]
Depeche Mode’s glorious return to form yields a tremendous video by Patrick Daughters that also harks back to the glory days: a dark, gripping, thrilling sequence which could be the centrepiece of an action movie. Patrick is no stranger to making highly cinematic music videos, of course, but this is really on a new level [...]
