Vitalic ‘Fade Away’ by Romain Chassaing

Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic’s Fade Away – a blackly comic procession of hit-man killings in order to take hold of a briefcase and its mysterious contents, and a true cycle of violence… Romain’s choice of locations is [...]

Yuksek ‘Off The Wall’ by Romain Segaud

It’s all hands on deck (literally) for Romain Seqaud’s fun and inventive promo to Yuksek’s Off The Wall. An excellent study in symmetry, Segaud was helped out by six pairs of hands – playing instruments, hoola-hooping, making faces… keeping the momentum going right to the end. Well worth a look. Yuksek Off the Wall (Savoir [...]

Jul & Mat join Colonel Blimp for UK music videos

Having recently directed the remarkable video for Metronomy’s She Wants (above), Paris-based duo Julien Lassort and Mattieu Burlot – better known as Jul & Mat – have joined Colonel Blimp for music video representation in London. Over the last two and a half years, Jul & Mat have directed videos for Ratatat, We Have Band, [...]

Wax Tailor feat. Charlie Winston’s I Own You directed by Romain Chassaing

From the prolific Romain Chassaing and the SoLab studio – whose videos for We have Band and Pony Pony Run Run have both featured here recently – comes another wonderfully inventive, beautifully made work. And this one for Wax Tailor and Charlie Winston involved an epic studio build clearly requiring mind-shredding dedication – as chronicled [...]

We Have Band’s Divisive by Jul & Mat

Their video for You Came Out by David Wilson was a wonder to behold – now We Have Band make graphics out of themselves once again, this time collaborating with French team Jul & Mat. The three members of WHB create letters with their bodies to spell out words, that make up a key lyric [...]