On the second floor of Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering, behind a vast array of home made speakers and Seventies-era hi-fi equipment, sits a rarely-used container-sized room called the Anechoic Chamber – a room designed to create total silence.
On visiting an Anechoic Chamber, John Cage entered expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later: [...]
The latest in the ongoing project of films inspired by tracks from Massive Attack’s new album Heligoland is this intimate portrait of a Birmingham gang member, by photographer/filmmaker Ewen Spencer.
Ewen is well known for his photography with The Streets and The White Stripes, numerous magazines and commercial clients (T-Mobile, Foot Locker, etc). And as he [...]
From the new Massive Attack album Heligoland – out today – comes the third video. And yes, it’s the same track as Baillie Walsh’s bullfighting film, which gives some indication that this isn’t exactly panning out to be a typical campaign.
The new version of Splitting The Atom is by French director Edouard Salier, known for [...]
The second video to be released for a track from Massive Attack’s forthcoming new album Heligoland sees Baillie Walsh – the director of their first four groundbreaking videos, including Unfinished Sympathy – working with the band for the time in years, and testing the boundaries yet again.
He’s chosen to document a Spanish bullfight for [...]
It’s not what you might expect from the first video of a new Massive Attack album.
Toby Dye’s film for Paradise Circus is a short documentary, an interview with Georgina Spelvin, the eponymous star of The Devil In Miss Jones – apparently the seventh most successful film at the box office in 1973, and certainly one [...]
The race to sign young director James Copeman is over.
The director of acclaimed videos for Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling and the Mystery Jets, all while still unsigned, is joining RSA/Black Dog Films.
Several London production companies have been courting James in recent weeks, keen to add him to their rosters in [...]
