Currently enjoying an exclusive on the Nowness video channel is Vincent Haycock’s monochrome beauty for London composer/producer Raffertie’s stirring Build Me Up. Shot in the South Central district of Los Angeles, Vince has documented the lives of the three Mays brothers, with their family and friends as co-stars, with outstanding cinematography by Evan Prosofsky. Vince [...]
In Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas’s video for Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah’s Drinking From The Bottle, we get a tour of LA and Hollywood from the big bad man himself. It’s the Devil, doing the dirty work down on the streets, in the guise of veteran actor Brad Dourif. This is an idea that [...]
Following her appearance in Vince Haycock’s promo for Calvin Harris’ Sweet Nothing, Florence Welch teams up with the LA-based director again for her own band’s single Lover To Lover. Shot in California and starring Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, Vince, speaking to nowness.com, had this to say about Welch’s performance in his tale of ‘American heartbreak’: [...]
Dressed in a cool black suit, Florence Welch walks out onstage in a workman’s club to perform in Vincent Haycock’s hard-hitting promo for Calvin Harris’ new single Sweet Nothing. Meanwhile outside on the mean streets of Dalston, violence erupts as Harris pays an East London gang to attack Welch’s abusive boyfriend… Calvin Harris ft Florence [...]
Chesca Miles, one of the UK’s top motorbike stunt riders, stars in Vincent Haycock’s compelling video for Spiritualized’s Little Girl – the story of a girl runaway who steals her dad’s motorbike and escapes her drab post-Soviet life, to go hang out with a biker gang. And although their bike stunts are cool, the reality [...]
Vincent Haycock takes a trip around the world – LA, Rio, Berlin, Tokyo – for this exciting and fast-moving promo, actually more of a short film, to Harris’ new single Let’s Go. The video takes the viewer on a reckless joy ride, following four couples – and four different slices of dance culture – through [...]
Vincent Haycock, the LA-based director of acclaimed music videos for Calvin Harris, Cheryl Cole, Editors and more, delivers this compelling mini-drama for Michael Kiwanuka. Following a major bust-up, a distraught girl in the depths of despair seeks help and refuge in a cafe but is systematically ignored by the diners. Haycock massively contrasts this with [...]
Vincent Haycock, the director of acclaimed music videos for Calvin Harris, MSTRCRFT, Miike Snow, Cheryl Cole, Editors, Jamie Woon and more, has signed to Somesuch & Co in the UK for music videos and commercials. Renowned for creating music videos that are both beautifully shot and dramatically involving, the LA-based director’s arrival at Somesuch follows [...]
How to get through the trauma of being dumped – and have a lot of fun along the way: Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas demonstrate how in their new video for Calvin Harris and Kelis’s Bounce. It’s a portrait of a charismatic kid living on the outskirts of Las Vegas, who in the course of [...]
Jason Botkin has closed his company Streetgang Films in order to concentrate on the post of executive producer at Furlined, the Santa Monica-based production company that represents Andreas Nilsson, Terri Timely, Yael Staav and several British directors in the US, including Dougal Wilson and Nez. Jason has closed Streetgang with a farewell message on the [...]
