Ron Winter, director of videos for the likes of The Rapture, Devendra Banhart, TV on the Radio, MGMT, Priestbird and Babyshambles, has joined New York-based director Ghost Robot. Ron’s eclectic graphic approach combines live action, special effects and animation to create entertaining videos like his stoner-Greek myth epic for Priestbird’s Diamond and his edited-stills video [...]
Watch out DANIELS, there’s another like-minded, same name directing duo in town – HARRYS – who’ve delivered a sleek promo for the slick Toro Y Moi. Their experience with fashion videos is used here to excellent effect, shooting Chazwick Bundick’s (aka Toro Y Moi) sultry tale of seduction with subtle surrealism and stylistic flourishes. Excellent [...]
Joey Garfield directed this cool video for Cool Kids’ Rush Hour Traffic in collaboration with designer/animator Elliot Lim, where the live action footage of Cool Kids Chuck and Mikey – cruising through Chicago, visiting some of their favorite hot-spots before performing at an exclusive Mountain Dew Code Red live event – is transformed into a [...]
A tale of teenage high jinx for Cymbals’ Eat Guitars’ Keep Me Waiting – first video from their latest album Lenses Alien – by young director Adam Kurland that gets increasingly dark and nasty, in a Michael Haneke kind of way. And then it just gets weird. Very good stuff. Cymbals Eat Guitars Keep Me Waiting [...]
Here’s the ‘short’ version of Kris Moyes’ video for The Rapture’s Sail Away with frontman Luke Jenner lassooing a shiny silver bag and riding it around sunny New York City, while bandmates Vito Roccoforte and Gabe Andruzzi blow into a ram’s horn and conch shell while dressed as rabbis. As you do. Apparently there’s an [...]
Enjoyably bonkers stuff from Brooklyn art collective NewVillager by Ben Dickinson involving some amazing costumes made out of household items – crowns of twigs, tote bag skirts, broom-head shoulder pads… that sort of thing. And lots and lots of tape. Ben has just started shooting his first feature, First Winter, in a decidedly wintry upstate [...]
Directors rep Jen Herrera has opened her own independent repping company Las Bandas Be Brave, representing the directors of a number of production companies on both sides of the Atlantic – including Ghost Robot, ASD Lionheart, Collision Films and Curious Pictures – plus other directors unattached to production companies, for music videos in the UK [...]
For Kaskade’s angular bass-heavy nu disco, Chic & Artistic decamped to New York to deliver this stark, glaringly red, stilletto-sparking almost new romantic extravaganza, capturing Dragonette singer Martina in all her glory. Kaskade feat. Martina Fire In Your Shoes (Ultra) Director: Chic & Artistic Production Company: Ghost Robot Executive Producers: Mark De Pace & Zach [...]
Ow, uh oh oh… Nez makes a video for most catchy hook ever, and it is a splendid thing. In fact, a splendid horizontal split-screen thing. Nez shot Kid Cudi and Common in New York and Kanye in LA, but the feel is clean, cool, and international – and the split-screen is a simple masterstroke. [...]
Kuroma takes a trip around a graphically-enhanced New York in Adam Neustadter’s video. The grafitti’s coming alive, dude. Kuroma In New York, Everything Is Tropical Prod Co: Ghost Robot, NY Director: Adam Neustadter Producer: Mark De Pace & Zachary Mortensen Editor: Josh Cramer at House of Trim, NY Art Director: Jonathan Cannon Stop Motion Director: [...]
