LA duo Deap Vally – aka aka Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards – team up with Jess Holzworth for the promo to new single Baby I Call Her. Allegedly meeting up at ‘needlework class’, the girls’ particular brand of lo-fi rock n roll benefits from Jess’ ‘colourful phantasmagoria of images’. Deap Vally I Call Her [...]
HSI London have signed acclaimed director Rob Chiu to their directing roster. Well known for his photographic and graphic work, and command of digital filmmaking and animation skills, Rob has created a series of highly original short films and commercials. Early in his career Rob directed the shorts Things Fall Apart, the handdrawn Black Day [...]
With a respectful nod to Mean Streets, Douglas Hart’s promo for Palma Violets’ We Found Love prompts a hazy re-call of many a lost weekend. Shot in the confines of West London’s Globe, Doug’s video, using a body rig to weave Harry Violent’s path through partying friends and enthusiastic young ladies, perfectly evokes a classic [...]
Doug Hart hooks up with his old band Primal Scream, and teams up with Ben Crook to make the video for It’s Alright. It’s a performance integrated with footage from Carl Fick’s classic short film A Day In The Death of Donny B, about one man’s daily struggle with his drug addiction on the tough [...]
Matthew Walker charts the rise of the underground music scene (with an ever-expanding set) via his promo for Benga and Kano’s Forefather, atmospherically shot by Aaron Reid. Starting in a pirate radio studio in 2003, Benga breaks out into an underground rave as the audience starts to grow. Then in 2013 it’s the Main Stage… [...]
Four band members, four ways to get to a gig. Jim Canty has Mumfords fans seeing quadruple in his video for Whispers In The Dark as he splits the screen four ways to show the journey that each band member takes to get to their gig in Camden, New Jersey. The concept was concocted by [...]
Inspired by the lyric “Baby if you could would you go back to the start…” Jim Canty’s excellent video for Biffy Clyro’s Biblical takes the classic Groundhog Day premise of repeating an event and offering up another chance (or chances) to do things differently. But this is no comedy, and no easy resolutions come out [...]
Following Iron and Run Boy Run, here’s Woodkid’s I Love You, and the third instalment of the Yoann Lemoine’s epic, visionary, utterly distinctive visualisation of his musical project. And I Love You has the same epic quality, beautiful attention to detail, and distinctive monochrome look that marks out the all Woodkid videos. Just don’t expect [...]
Bentley & Stafford’s heart wrenching and hugely watchable promo for I Am Kloot (their third for the band) has one almighty twist that will leave you reeling. Shot in Stafford on a freezing snowy day, Some Better Day features actor John Simm who carries this poignant study of love and loss pitch perfectly… I Am [...]
It’s not so unusual for Ben Reed to come up with imaginative ideas bordering on the bizarre. His last video of 2012 was for The Jelas’s You Want The Pink Moon On A Stick, in which Ben told the harrowing tale of a global vomiting epidemic by inking and scratching over 8,000 vintage 35mm slides. [...]
