A spooky boy, some tearful girls and, in outer space, a beautiful yet ominous-looking meteor…. these images resonate in Olivier Groulx’s video for Fryars’ On Your Own, beautifully photographed by DoP Ula Pontikos. The video was shot around London, with the horse footage at Bromley Common Livery. And the asteroid isn’t CGI. Oli made it [...]
So how do you go about making a music video for the hugely influential Scott Walker? Well why not try something as eccentrically preternatural as Walker’s music? Olivier Groulx has provided a fascinating array of scenes, shapes, slow-motion and looping sequences – featuring dancers, insects, flowers and shoes – to match Walker’s wonderful 10-minute irregularity. [...]
Olivier Groulx: “Al Spx (Cold Specks) and I were walking around the marshes in Clapton trying to figure out what we could shoot there and we wandered into this ice rink nearby. There was a figure skating competition happening and I was struck by the whole thing. The building, the skaters, it was all very [...]
Olivier Groulx, has directed a lovely video for Cold Specks’ haunting Holland – from the band’s upcoming album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion – created almost entirely from stock footage donated from Corbis Motion. The beautiful footage is arranged is split screens, juxtaposing related yet contrasting imagery. A fine addition to the canon of Olivier’s [...]
Taken from the outstanding album Creep On Creepin’ On, Timber Timbre’s spooky, darkly witty Bad Ritual is great – and so is this video directed by Olivier Groulx. Olivier – whose previous work includes the interactive video for Human Highway’s The Sound and co-directing Arcade Fire’s Black Mirror – conjures a series of disconnected images [...]
If you haven’t yet seen the second interactive video supporting Neon Bible then you’re missing something. And not just for the novelty of watching the video against a drums-only version of the song. The interactive part, where you can remove and reinstate different audio tracks, is not really an intrinsic part of the experience. But [...]
