The Paris-based director Pierre Edouard Joubert – otherwise known as PEJ – has joined the roster at Gas&Electric in London for music videos. Arguably best known for directing the video for Professor Green’s smash-hit Remedy (above), PEJ is a Paris based motion designer/director who started his career designing motion graphics for some of the biggest [...]
Directing duo Adi Kerr and James Knott – otherwise known as PUSH – have joined the roster at Gas&Electric. Together for the past six years, PUSH’s credits include working with the burgeoning UK hiphop scene, live camera directing at top electronic festivals, producing pilot TV shows with Radio 1 DJs, and directing music videos. They [...]
Shot over 2 extremely cold days in the small village of Grebbestad on the west coast of Sweden, Magnus Härdner’s promo for Pumpin Blood by NONONO tells the tale of a man and his pet rabbit. We follow a guy who, due to domestic issues, has to get rid of his beloved rabbit, but instead [...]
Gas&Electric have just added director and special effects wizard Robisrob to their directors roster. Robisrob is Rob Chandler, who has directed or co-directed highly inventive videos combining dramatic live action with dynamic visual effects for the likes of Depeche Mode, Placebo and Pendulum. His videos include Pendulum’s The Other Side (top right), Depeche Mode’s Fragile [...]
Irish brothers Hudson Taylor join Ben Lankester in Paris for their first ever video, busking in various spots throughout the city. Lensed by DP Matt Shaw with Ben on an additional Bolex camera, Mr Lankester had this to say about the production: “The video was shot on 16mm in Paris over 24 hours. “Our poor [...]
Michael Baldwin slips over to the States to direct this fun, playful piece for Olly Murs’ single Troublemaker. Racking up almost 7 million hits on Youtube and currently sitting pretty at No. 1 in the UK chart, the promo is set in surburban Los Angeles, with a Miami shot performance from guest vocalist Flo Rida. [...]
“The inspiration for the song comes from former London stock-picker Geraint Anderson’s book Cityboy” explains Ben Lankester about his promo for The Twang’s new single Mainline. “With this in mind we wanted to create something along the lines of Falling Down, following a tortured suit’s journey across a sweltering city as his day goes from [...]
Nick Peterson’s hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners video for US rockers Five Finger Death Punch’s Coming Down tackles the disturbing modern phenomenon of cyber-bullying and ‘suicide blogs’ – and has racked up over 350,000 hits on YouTube in just five days. With strong performances from the teens who seal a suicide pact – played by Samantha Gill and [...]
Matching the sparseness and introspection of Robert Vincent’s My Pill, Ben Lankester delivers a bleak and grey (but drenched in atmosphere) promo filmed on one of the coldest days of the year. Shot mostly at Stanley Dock and various spots around Liverpool on a mixture of Sony F3 and RED, Vincent’s main performance was filmed [...]
Jak FrSH delivers this heartwarming promo for G FrSH’s Start Again, focusing on the very ordinary lives of an old couple. “The video is centred around the simplicity of a day in a life of an elderly couple that have gracefully grown old together,” explains Jak. “It demonstrates the on-going and evolution of love. I [...]
