Having launched his video directing career in early 2012 with a painstaking cut-out animation video for Double Vision Love, Joe Connor reunites with The Moons, to direct the promo for Something Soon – featuring Paul Weller. And Joe was able to engage the services of the Modfather himself for this one. It’s a classic black [...]
To accompany Paul Weller’s experimental album track Sleep Of The Serene – in which Weller and fellow guitarist Aziz Ibrahim exchange disjointed passages in this abstract instrumental soundscape, tempered by melodic strings arranged by Sean O’Hagan of The High Llamas – director Ralph Fuller documents a Nitin Lachhini installation, created under his alias of ‘Bradford [...]
Surprising, superb, eyeball-pounding animation for Paul Weller’s Green – from the new album Sonik Kicks – by Russ Murphy aka RUFFMERCY. Its the latest offering from a refreshingly different visual campaign, with Weller and Universal commissioning Soup Factory to make several videos to reflect the psychedelia-tinged wall of sound that Weller has created for this [...]
Ahead of the release of his new album Sonik Kicks (March 19th), Paul Weller enlists director Franck Trebellic to shoot this ‘teaser promo’ to album track Dragonfly. With all the animation and content produced by Trebillac, the footage is projected onto the body of Katie Derry to great effect. “This video is a whimsical representation [...]
Shot in one day entirely with stills by photographer Lawrence Watson, this video for Weller’s new single was photographed at the rehearsals for his upcoming five night-residency at the Royal Albert Hall in May. A total of over 18,000 images were used and after an arduous five-day stint in post, remarkable results were achieved. Paul [...]
Here is the second part of a big rundown of new videos, in production or just completed. And this isn’t all of them either, oh no… Annex: Luc Janin has directed The Fratellis’ Mistress Mabel for Bob & Tamara at Universal, and Vanessa Caswell shoots the first video for Revere’s The Escape Artist. Blunt: Brendan [...]
