Precocious directing duo BRTHR takes a big leap upward with their hip-hop video with a difference for red hot Aussie hip-hop starlet Iggy Azalea’s Bounce. Super-colourful, brilliantly edited and culturally enlightening, BRTHR – aka Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman – went to Mumbai in India to add some exoticism and Bollywood glamour to Iggy sexy [...]
A stupendous video for US rock outfit Anberlin’s Unstable by Jodeb – that’s Quebecois animation wizard Jonathan Desbiens – that combines breathtaking location filming and incredible FX work to tell an epic fantasy tale story of love and war… In the video a heroic ‘Adam and Eve’ couple race through a huge desert, that from [...]
A great use of grungy projections, back-lit shots and shadows characterise this lo-fi-styled promo from Abel Tesfaye to partner the tripped-out soul of The Weeknd’s single The Zone. A partially obscured appearance from hip-hop superstar Drake at half-time adds to the psychedelic, gritty vibe… The Weeknd ft Drake The Zone (XO) Director: Abel Tesfaye Production [...]
Shot at the decaying Tower Theatre in downtown LA, Phil Harder shoots The Script performing their power ballad Six Degrees Of Separation backed by a sea of spotlights. Filmed in both black and white and colour, Phil re-creates their live show (he saw the band a few nights earlier at Radio City in New York) [...]
Grizzly Bear are back with a new album, Shields, and maintaining their tradition of working with the cream of young video directing talent (former collaborators include Encyclopedia Pictura, Patrick Daughters and Alison Schulnik), directing duties for the video for Yet Again have gone to Emily Kai Bock – whose last music video was a work [...]
Jodeb creates his own monster movie (think Skull Island from Peter Jackson’s King Kong) in this hugely adventurous and cinematic promo for Porter Robinson’s Language single. Jodeb had this to say about the mammoth production: “We shot this video in a wide variety of locations; California in the Malibu Canyons and in Angeles National Forest [...]
Created by OPC/FamilyStyle director Miles Jay, along with digital design and development agency Jam3 and visual effects studio 567vfx, Young Empires’ White Doves is the first music video to seamlessly integrate Facebook data into the narrative experience, making the viewer play a part in the film. The Facebook connect music video celebrates ‘relationships and memories’. [...]
Visionary epic fantasy – like Bjork meets Woodkid with a bit of Monty Python thrown in – for Icelandic band Of Monsters And Men’s Little Talks, brilliantly conceived by WeWereMonkeys – that’s Mihai Wilson and Marcella Moser. The full story of how they made this at the WWM website. Of Monsters And Men Little Talks [...]
