For Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider who came back against all the odds to compete again after suffering a terrible injury. Using numerous cameras – some fixed on [...]
The campaign for the second Hurts album Exile starts with this impressively cinematic two minute mini-promo for The Road directed by Nez – who has now joined Riff Raff Films for music videos and commercials. Conceptually, the video takes the viewer on a journey of the life of Hurts duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson [...]
You wait ages for a Nez video to come along, and then, straight after Birdy, comes this little beauty for The Dø’s Gonna Be Sick! – in which singer Olivia Merilahti sets sail on a stormy sea of silk… This visually gorgeous piece – which includes our heartbroken heroine falling foul of a silk tornado [...]
In his first video for over a year, Nez delivers his promo for Birdy’s sensitive reading of Phoenix’s 1901 – a very modern tale of love and heartbreak in East London. Shot on and around Brick Lane, this is a marvellously told romantic tale of a decidedly imperfect hipster couple that rings very true. And [...]
Lana Kim is now representing the directors at Furlined for music videos. The former directors rep at The Director’s Bureau, who recently founded her own company Hundreds + Thousands, will now be repping the likes of Andreas Nilsson, Nez, Saam Farahmand, Adam Hashemi, OneInThree, Dougal Wilson and the rest of the Furlined roster for videos [...]
Nez gets down to business for the fourth single from Bruno Mars’ hit album Doowops & Hooligans with this cute suburban vignette starring Lenoard Nimoy. Nimoy turns in a great performance as the grumpy, lazy neighbour scowling at the world – a stark contrast to his serene and sunny surroundings. There’s a nod to his [...]
LA-based production company Furlined has announced the launch of its dedicated music video division, Furlined Music Videos – or FMV – which will represent several top directors in the US and the UK. FMV is headed by Jason Botkin, who recently joined Furlined after closing Streetgang Films, the company he founded. FMV will represent US [...]
Jason Botkin has closed his company Streetgang Films in order to concentrate on the post of executive producer at Furlined, the Santa Monica-based production company that represents Andreas Nilsson, Terri Timely, Yael Staav and several British directors in the US, including Dougal Wilson and Nez. Jason has closed Streetgang with a farewell message on the [...]
For Mika’s second single from his The Boy Who Knew Too Much album, Nez gives the singer a massive stage – just about big enough to contain his personality and ambition – to live out his song and dance fantasies. A big choreographed number that fits the song with lots of clever split imagery to [...]
Ow, uh oh oh… Nez makes a video for most catchy hook ever, and it is a splendid thing. In fact, a splendid horizontal split-screen thing. Nez shot Kid Cudi and Common in New York and Kanye in LA, but the feel is clean, cool, and international – and the split-screen is a simple masterstroke. [...]
