Gavin Friday ‘Able’ by Kevin Godley

A visual representation of the artist’s struggle with an inner demon, Kevin Godley’s video for his old pal Gavin Friday conjures something powerful from one minimal, intimate setup. Kevin showed this at BUG 26 earlier this month, where he was the special guest (where his videos for U2′s Numb and Godley & Creme’s Cry were [...]

U2 Numb 360° Versions 1 and 2 by Diana Lange

Diana Lange, a German graphic design student ,wanted to demonstrate some video filters she wrote with a program called Processing. She got hold of Kevin Godley’s classic 1992 clip for U2’s Numb, and came up with this whole new abstracted version. That was almost a year ago. Now she’s come up with a second, even [...]

Bipolar Empire’s Feel That You Own It by Kevin Godley

The video by the legendary Kevin Godley for Irish hopefuls Bipolar Empire’s Feel That You Own It – shot just before the recent Irish General Election – perfectly expresses the current mood of the country in the wake of its recent financial collapse. And it contains real punch-power in the form of female boxing world [...]

Charlotte Church’s Back To Scratch by Kevin Godley

It’s been five years since Charlotte Church unleashed her pop debut and for her big comeback teams up with Kevin Godley for first single Back To Scratch. For the cyclical nature of the track, Kevin sets Ms Church spinning using his cool multi-faceted ‘hall of mirrors’ thang to great effect. Charlotte Church Back To Skratch [...]

Katie Melua’s The Flood by Kevin Godley

Kevin Godley’s video for Katie Melua’s soon-to-be-massive The Flood (produced by William Orbit) is all about looking at the same thing from opposite angles – the yin and the yang, industry versus nature… Much of the action was shot simultaneously from opposing angles, and then one of the results ‘flipped’ – the resulting split has [...]