Marina Diamandis gets the stars & stripes treatment from Kinga Burza for her second single, and its potentially star-making. Kinga translates Marina’s quirky pop with a full-on, tongue-in-cheek literal reading of the lyric, and there’s an equally fun, cheeky performance from sure-to-be-huge Welsh singer-songwriter (who really does look like Catherine Zeta in this). The single [...]
It’s sexy, as you might expect with a video for Peaches – but even though the styling is very Spiders From Mars, not in an ironic way. Kinga Burza’s video for I Feel Cream is also hypnotically gorgeous, with experimental camerawork, projections, and vision-mixing – all achieved on a smidgeon, as she explains below. In [...]
A screening of some of the best work in music video by female directors and a night of fashion films is coming to the Birds Eye View Film Festival 2009, the eight-day event celebrating international women filmmakers and their work at the ICA, BFI Southbank and Picturehouse Cinema in London, beginning this Thursday, March 5th. [...]
La Roux takes her enormous ginger quiff for a drive in her very spiffy Toyota – very possibly a 1981 Celica, classic Japanese car fans – in Kinga’s speedy follow-up to Quicksand. Awe-inspiring in its Eightiesness of course – but still manages to be supremely stylish. La Roux In For The Kill (Kitsune) Prod co: [...]
A shiny glitterball for The Noisettes’ new pop direction by Kinga Burza. Noisettes’ Shingai is surrounded by dancing girls on a set that’s part-Star Trek, part-70s TV pop show, in a collection of snazzy disco outfits including a very fetching silver swimsuit. For some reason I’m thinking Boney M. And what with the indoor lightning [...]
We’ve seen any number of Eighties pastiches and Eighties-influenced videos for the new generation of highly cool ironic pop acts – but Kinga Burza’s new video for La Roux has the power to actually render a person speechless with its awesome 80s-ness. La Roux sounds like Ladyhawke, but she has Le Bon’s hair. Or quite [...]
Maybe it was his impressive appearance on Sesame Street a while ago that did the trick. Otherwise this uplifting and supremely colourful video for James Blunt by Kinga Burza really has come out of nowhere. Kinga turns an MOR pop cliché on its head – and recasts Blunt’s earnest image – by making the singers’ [...]
The shortlists for the MTV Video Music Awards 2008 have been announced, with a smattering of British interest beyond show host Russell Brand, including a Best UK Video prize. The Ting Tings’ Shut Up And Let Me Go, directed by Alex and Liane out of Factory Films, is nominated for the Video Of The Year [...]
Newbie Katy meets Kinga Burza, and together they make one big pink girlie party. But unfortunately, what with the lyrics and lingerie, and the fact that Katy’s sitting there stroking her kitty, it’s way too sexy. It’s the first US production in the irresistible rise of Kinga, and probably the first of many. Furthermore, it’s [...]
Here is the second part of a big rundown of new videos, in production or just completed. And this isn’t all of them either, oh no… Annex: Luc Janin has directed The Fratellis’ Mistress Mabel for Bob & Tamara at Universal, and Vanessa Caswell shoots the first video for Revere’s The Escape Artist. Blunt: Brendan [...]
