Jake Scott runs with the gently rolling dreamscape that is Massive Attack’s Pray For Rain with this equally dreamy soft-focused episode of a bewildered old man starting his day. Massive Attack Pray For Rain (Virgin) Director: Jake Scott Production Company: Black Dog Films Producer: David Mitchell DP: Chris Soos Commissioner: Svana Gisla Watch: Quicktime Movie [...]
Edouard Salier’s video for Massive Attack’s Splitting The Atom, from the band’s latest album Heligoland, is one of the most remarkable achievements of the past year – an almost inconceivably detailed journey through a freeze-frame of sheer urban chaos, created by a monstrous white creature. And now, for Massive Attack’s new Atlas Air EP – [...]
On the second floor of Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering, behind a vast array of home made speakers and Seventies-era hi-fi equipment, sits a rarely-used container-sized room called the Anechoic Chamber – a room designed to create total silence. On visiting an Anechoic Chamber, John Cage entered expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later: [...]
The latest in the ongoing project of films inspired by tracks from Massive Attack’s new album Heligoland is this intimate portrait of a Birmingham gang member, by photographer/filmmaker Ewen Spencer. Ewen is well known for his photography with The Streets and The White Stripes, numerous magazines and commercial clients (T-Mobile, Foot Locker, etc). And as [...]
From the new Massive Attack album Heligoland – out today – comes the third video. And yes, it’s the same track as Baillie Walsh’s bullfighting film, which gives some indication that this isn’t exactly panning out to be a typical campaign. The new version of Splitting The Atom is by French director Edouard Salier, known [...]
The second video to be released for a track from Massive Attack’s forthcoming new album Heligoland sees Baillie Walsh – the director of their first four groundbreaking videos, including Unfinished Sympathy – working with the band for the time in years, and testing the boundaries yet again. He’s chosen to document a Spanish bullfight for [...]
It’s not what you might expect from the first video of a new Massive Attack album. Toby Dye’s film for Paradise Circus is a short documentary, an interview with Georgina Spelvin, the eponymous star of The Devil In Miss Jones – apparently the seventh most successful film at the box office in 1973, and certainly [...]
After 20 years at Virgin Records, and latterly at EMI Records, Carole Burton-Fairbrother – the most experienced music video commissioner in the UK – retires from her post of Director of Video today. It’s no exaggeration to say she leaves a legacy of work including nothing less than some of the greatest videos ever made [...]
Responsible for some of the greatest British music of the past two decades, Massive Attack have also inspired stunning, groundbreaking and iconic music videos. Now to coincide with their stint as artistic directors of this year’s Meltdown Festival, the next BUG at the BFI Southbank is a special retrospective of Massive Attack’s greatest music videos [...]
