Currently enjoying an exclusive on the Nowness video channel is Vincent Haycock’s monochrome beauty for London composer/producer Raffertie’s stirring Build Me Up. Shot in the South Central district of Los Angeles, Vince has documented the lives of the three Mays brothers, with their family and friends as co-stars, with outstanding cinematography by Evan Prosofsky. Vince [...]
Matt Lambert directs for Czech electronica artist Emika, bringing some sexual avant-garde ambiguity to her sharp-edged electronica. Matt flicks between a gritty real-world and a hyper-sexual fantasy that’s all smoke, coloured lights and topless ladies. This is the second part of a trilogy that Matt is making with the Ninja Tune-signed artist, following his first [...]
A relationship falling apart is at the core of Young Replicant’s video for Bonobo’s First Fires, featuring Grey Reverend on vocals. At least that’s how it seems at first, in YR’s first video since their Chained video for The XX. Although appearances may be deceiving in this quietly gripping video that features some memorably contrasting [...]
Cyriak is back with another mind-bending masterpiece of animation – this time using prosaic mid-20th century stock footage as his raw material for After Effects supermanipulation – for Cirrus, the first single from Bonobo’s new album The North Borders, which comes out in April. And Ninja Tune have had to sit on this beauty for [...]
From sink shenanigans to scenic vistas, Phil Nisco portrays a sequence of surreal events for Gaslamp Killer and Dimlite. The video is like a series of little trips to insanity, all excellently delivered. Paul Preston puts a suitably deranged performance together as our mad guide in this little journey. Fascinating watching. Director/Editor: Phil Nisco Photography: [...]
Chris Ullens follows up his stop motion wonder for Slugabed’s Sex with something significantly more explosive for Amon Tobin’s new guise, Two Fingers. For Slugabed, it was simply fruit and veg getting maimed, but in Vengeance Rhythm we’re witness to a brutal killing spree of cuddly proportions that’s as horrific as it is entertaining. Our [...]
Continuing his re-imagining of the blues – and following on from his equally fab self-made video for ’8 Bit Blues’ – Kid Koala has created more top-down camera fun for ’5 Bit Blues’. This time Mr Koala picks a photocopier and a Polaroid camera as his weapons of choice, with the copier providing a visual [...]
Following promos over the summer for Gaslight Anthem, Blur and album teasers for The Killers, Giorgio Testi delivers this quality performance promo for The Heavy’s muscular tune What Makes A Man? With the engimatic frontman Swaby giving his all, the Avon 4-piece perform in a large space with art director Ruth Crawford adding some nice [...]
In Max Friedrich’s awesome video for Lorn’s Weigh Me Down, a 8 bit ‘hero’ finds himself a long way from SuperMarioWorld, in a blood-red cityscape, where he rides a train to the abattoir, and then increasingly develops beast-like qualities himself in order to survive… The Weigh Me Down video follows Max Friedrich’s previous video for [...]
Kid Koala is one of Ninja Tune’s finest – with a fine track record of videos. Now with a new album coming out, 12 bit Blues, he’s made an excellent job directing the video for 8 bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY) himself. With a map of the USA, and lots of toys, phones, [...]
