Sean Pecknold’s video for his Portland-based friends Pure Bathing Culture and their track Ivory Coast is a bucolic romance, featuring bandmembers Sarah Versprille and Dan Hindman – and Sarah’s little blue friend. So having made the delightful video for Here We Go Magic earlier this year, it’s Sean’s second drily humourous piece featuring a strange [...]

Sean Pecknold has created a wonderful video for a wonderful song – Here We Go Magic’s How Do I Know. Sean’s best known for his animations, many for brother Robin’s band Fleet Foxes, most recently the incredible epic video for The Shrine/An Argument. But here he shows a very nice touch with a live action [...]

A stunning, epic video for Fleet Foxes’ interlinked songs The Shrine/An Argument – the epic double-track from the Helplessness Blues album – by Sean Pecknold. Sean directed several excellent videos for tracks from Fleet Foxes, the previous breakthrough album of his brother Robin’s band – including Mykonos and the lovely White Winter Hymnal. But this [...]

FRIEND, a new production company for commercials, online creative and music videos, has opened its doors in London, with an eclectic roster of live action, animation and mixed media directors – including Duckeye, That Go, Focus Creeps, Olly Goodrum and Sean Pecknold. FRIEND has been launched by Luke Jacobs, former MD at Rokkit, together with [...]

Rokkit’s roster of highly imaginative directors based on either side of the Atlantic are now being represented in the UK for music videos by Otis Bell and Sam Davey at OBmanagement. The Rokkit roster includes Paris-based collective AB/CD/CD (who directed Lily Allen’s Fuck You, pictured above), American wunderkind Sean Pecknold (Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear), acclaimed [...]

Hypnotic new Grizzly Bear vid from the fertile imagination of Sean Pecknold. Sean creates a riot of stop frame object-expressionism around a chap in a fencing mask – including layering imagery in intense double exposures. Lovely. Grizzly Bear While You Wait for the Others (Warp) Director: Sean Pecknold Producer: Joy Saez DoP: Michael Ragen AD: [...]

The band is the catchily-named Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the director is Sean Pecknold, the talented filmmaker behind videos for his brother Robin’s band Fleet Foxes – including the wonderful White Winter Hymnal and He Doesn’t Know Why. Sean’s clip for Chains, Chains, Chains is mysterious and subtly beautiful, set in a cave-world apparently submerged, [...]

Fleet Foxes are marvellous. They also have a very talented filmmaker to call upon close by for their visual expression: Sean Pecknold – brother of lead vocalist Robin Pecknold. Sean (aka Grandchildren) is a designer and prolific filmmaker usually specialising in animation – and he created the lovely time-on-a-wheel claymation video for White Winter Hymnal [...]