Part one of Saman Keshavarz’s thriller for Russ Chimes follows the breathless modus operandi of his award-winning debut for Cinnamon Chasers last year: a passionate relationship is overshadowed by crime and brutal violence, told in an imaginative story structure. In this case there are two time sequences rapidly collapsing into each other – and a [...]

Having made a very big impression with his only video so far – the award-winning Cinnamon Chasers’ Luv Deluxe – Saman Keshavarz is about to deliver his very ambitious follow-up. It’s a trilogy of videos to accompany the three songs from Russ Chimes’ Midnight Club EP, and on the basis of this stunning trailer, we [...]

Saman Keshavarz, director of the award-winning video for Cinnamon Chaser’s Luv Deluxe, has joined the roster at Warp Films. Luv Deluxe, a modern noir road movie told from the perspective of a young man as he hooks up with a girl and embarks on a crime spree, won the best video award at this year’s [...]

The video for Cinnamon Chasers’ Luv Deluxe directed by Saman Keshavarz won best video at the South by Southwest Film Festival last night (March 16th). A multi-layered noir road movie, Luv Deluxe is told from the perspective of a young man as he hooks up with a girl and embarks on a crime spree, but [...]

The video for British electro/’indietronica’ act Cinnamon Chasers’ Luv Deluxe, directed by Iranian-born, Californian-raised 23 year old Saman Keshavarz, is a great modern variation on one of the classic film noir/road movie storylines, one of the best POV videos in a long time, and more besides. A boy leaves home, hits the road and hooks [...]