Depeche Mode are back, with a surprise: Heaven, first single from forthcoming album Delta Machine, is a mighty pop tune, and Timothy Saccenti’s video is a straight-ahead performance video of the band, shot appropriately enough in an abandoned church in New Orleans, embellished with live projections and imagery that touch upon a voodoo theme. The [...]
Greg Jardin – director of superb, high concept music videos for Kina Grannis, Hollorado and Joey Ramone – has blown away the impression he just does stop-motion videos with a compelling production for Brit band The Joy Formidable’s epic This Ladder Is Ours. The band perform the song in a house in the teeth of [...]
Shot in and around the Pembrokeshire countryside in Wales, Golden Globe-winning actor Idris Elba marks his directorial debut with this beautiful and compelling short film to accompany Mumford & Sons’ Lover Of The Light. Powered by a narrative that merges together two separate ideas that originally came from both the band and Idris, the actor [...]
After his amazing jelly beans video for Kina Grannis’s In Your Arms, another marvellous live action/stop motion animation by Greg Jardin – this time for Joey Ramone’s New York City, featuring the city and its inhabitants, including musicians, comedians and other New York celebs – plus a few faces from the NYC punk scene. Greg [...]
Tim Saccenti’s video for Yeasayer’s Longevity is a straightforward performance video with a difference. It appears to last nearly a lifetime… Yeasayer lay down Longevity in their recording studio with Tim cameoing as their producer himself. But singer Chris Keating undergoes a remarkable transformation during the performance, thanks to a beautifully calibrated mixture of in-camera [...]
Pink gets set to release her single Blow Me (One Last Kiss) and works with long-time collaborator Dave Meyers for the fourteenth time. Meyers shoots the singer in sombre soft-focus and stylish black and white – acting out the end of a love affair with co-star Sebastian De La Forza. Pink’s new album The Truth [...]
Rihanna dials the sultryness up to 11 for Dave Meyers in this prehistoric, tribal and exotic extravaganza for new single Where Have You Been. Rihanna Where Have You Been (Universal) Director: Dave Meyers Production Company: Radical Media Producer: Gary Bryman Art Director: Bernadette Dus Editor: Chris Davis EFX: Baked EFX Colorist: Dave Hussey @ Company [...]
This very cool collaboration between Motor and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore gets a supercool low budget video by Tim Saccenti. Tim was partly responsible for Motor’s strobetastic video for Beep #1 with his friend Woody Batts a few years back and this employs a similar if rather more sophisticated use of projections to excellent effect. [...]
Greg Jardin’s quite amazing ‘jellybean animation’ promo for Kina Grannis, comes to you following ’22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, 2 ladders, 1 still camera and 280,000 jellybeans’. Gulp. Watch the Making Of here – and the inventive Mr Jardin is also nominated at the UK Music Video Awards tomorrow night (November 8th) for his [...]
Exclusively released on Michael Jackson’s Facebook page earlier this week, this brilliant Dennis Liu-directed video montage supplied by his army of fans (and a Russian flash mob) forms the promo to new single Behind The Mask. Jacko fans were asked to upload their own dance moves and crowd reaction to the video via a website [...]
