After his excellent Landshapes video documenting the wrestling community of La Paz, Ian Pons Jewell has definitely taken to Bolivia. He has now shot the video for Naughty Boy’s La La La there – and has caused something of a political furore in the process. Featuring a delightful young lad with a Chow Chow puppy, [...]
In his superb documentary-style video for Landshapes’ In Limbo, Ian Pons Jewell follows the fortunes of a girl in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, who turns out to be part of the city’s wrestling community. It’s a fascinating snapshot of a city and its people, and an intriguing world, where women in traditional national [...]
Helioscope is a unique interactive artwork bringing together the music of Vessels and the creative talents of Studio Murmur – in particular, Tim Harrison and Ian Pons Jewell, who co-wrote and directed. A cinematic adventure in four parts, players move through a darkened world as a beam of light, bringing colour and motion to its [...]
For the electronic pop of Kwes’ Basful, Ian Pons Jewell serves up this curious promo full of intrigue and suspense – and has a novel way of dealing with the awkward silences when stuck in a lift with strangers… “The video is a pretty special one for us due to it being the first time [...]
Shot on a low budget, Ian Pons Jewell’s promo for Get People marries the rolling atmospherics of new single Macaw with great visuals. Focusing on three middle aged women, shackled in relationships with dull old blokes, the female actors lip-sync the lyric and start rebelling against their monotonous lives… Get People Macaw Director: Ian Pons [...]
This year’s London Short Film Festival, running from January 6 to 15, is presenting a Midnight Movie special for Friday the 13th. It includes the Jake and Dinos Chapman short The Organ Grinder’s Monkey, starring Rhys Ifans – and two shorts by MVA-winning director Ian Pons Jewell: Dreamt In Flesh and 1/4″. Through butoh dance [...]
Ian Pons Jewell – now at Pulse Films – just completed his latest video for Chemo’s Tennis Season – the strangest, most disturbing game of table tennis ever. And the ending is the bloody bollocks. Ian joins Pulse having just won the Best Urban Video (Budget) award at the UK Music Video Awards last month [...]
Ian Pons Jewell delivers this quirky, hard-edged and tongue-in-cheek winner for DJ Shadow’s I’m Excited – from his forthcoming album The Less You Know The Better (September 26). With an enigmatic performance from Afrikan Boy, Jewell’s maverick promo certainly displays a flair for the surreal. “The visuals came about pretty directly from listening to the [...]
Under wraps for quite a while, but now this comic slice of urban life by Ian Pons Jewell for the Jargon-produced track Disappoint You is now out – timed perfectly to coincide with Ian joining the directors roster at Stamp Films. With a highly entertaining prelude, the video features the charismatic James Hyland playing a [...]
A video that wrongfooted a good many British hip-hop fans – and all because of a few seconds of shaky camcorder footage of a postman delivering the mail… This had the UK hip-hop scene abuzz with the rumour that missing-in-action rapper Jehst was now reduced to Royal Mail employee status – and what that said [...]
