Ninian Doff could have been forgiven for thinking that New York rapper and poet Mykki Blanco would want a video to show off her feminine side. Mykki is, after all, the female incarnation of the multi-faceted artist Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. But instead, the video for The Initiation goes in a completely different direction, with [...]

Ninian Doff brings his signature adorable eccentricity to Darwin Deez’s new single, trapping him in a Groundhog Day-esque loop of monotony. Darwin becomes aware of his repetitious existence and attempts to escape, with chaotic consequences. Following up from his fabulously confusing JJ Doom video, the UKMVA nominated Ninian again proves that he’s capable of creating [...]

Ninian Doff’s video for JJ DOOM’s Guv’nor heralds the return of the US hiphop legend DOOM, now relocated on British soil… And the video is also, not to put too fine a point on it, a bit of a head-fuck. A shot of DOOM in his trademark facemask soon reveals itself to be a split [...]

A pile of discarded clothing comes to life on a cobbled London backstreet in Ninian Doff’s excellent, quirky and fun promo to Graham Coxon’s Ooh Yeh Yeh – his second video for Coxon in quick succession following the equally quirky What’ll It Take. “In the brief Graham Coxon talked about that weird disconnect of popping [...]

Ninian Doff has created the unusual and highly watchable video for Graham Coxon’s angular and very punchy What’ll It Take – with the crowd-sourced help of lots and lots of Coxon fans who submitted material of themselves dancing – matching the moves of the central character shot on location in London. “We created a instructional [...]

After his wonderful ‘crows with arms’ vid for Fulton Lights, Ninian Doff follows up with another utter corker, for Martin Brooks’ Golden Tree. It’s what Ninian describes as “a professional display of 50 No Handed Bike Moves” – as approved by the Official Federation of No Handed Bikes Skills ™, obviously. “I just wanted pure [...]

Ninian Doff heads off to the park to film crows going about their everyday business for the promo to Fulton Lights’ Staring Out Of The Window, with awesome results… “I had the idea of how perfect arms would look on crows for a while but couldn’t quite work out where to use it,” Ninian explains. [...]

Rich Fulcher – mad, magnificent, fish suit-wearing host of the UK Music Video Awards on Tuesday night – tickled the audience mercilessly with his hilarious film, made especially for the show with director Ninian Doff and Claw Films, where he explains in ten easy steps how to become a video director. Fairly accurately. As Rich [...]

Claw Films have announced the signing of two new directors to their music video roster – Italian director Francesco Calabrese and up-and-coming British award-winning director Ninian Doff. Francesco Calabrese’s work includes the video for The Bloody Beetroots (feat. Steve Aoki)’s Warp, which has been a huge hit on YouTube. Some of his short films have [...]

Colonel Blimp produced two New Music Shorts for the BBC to coincide with the recent Electric Proms – both produced, in fact, by Sarah Tognazzi. Here’s the one directed by editor and part-time director of videos, comedy shorts and skate vids Ninian Doff. Metronomy’s On Dancefloors is the track used for Ninian’s cute film starring [...]