Warp Films are pulling out of music video production following the departure of Laura Tunstall, who is leaving to join Pulse Films. Tunstall launched the Warp Films music video department in 2007, and the company produced a series of acclaimed and award-winning videos, in particular the Richard Ayoade-directed videos for Arctic Monkeys (including Crying Lightning, [...]
China Moo-Young contrasts the dreamy trip pop of Jess Mills’ Vultures with this brittle film set in an inner city concrete wasteland complete with masked ‘vulture catchers’ for added tension. Jess Mills Vultures (Island) Director: China Moo-Young Producer: Tom Knight Production Company: Warp Films DP: Steve Annis Cast: Theo Barklem Biggs, Maxi Moffat & Michael [...]
You Me At Six’s refreshing genre-mashing Rescue Me – a collaboration with Chiddy Bang – gets an equally refreshing promo courtesy of James Lees with this sporty number filmed at the All Stars Boxing Club in West London… You Me At Six feat. Chiddy Rescue Me (EMI) Director: James Lees Producer: Campbell Beaton & Tiernan [...]
With a passing nod to the classic 70’s TV drama The Six Million Dollar Man and a dash of James Bond epic, Robert Hales pulls out all the stops for Tinie Tempah and Ellie Goulding’s Wonderman with this excellent modern pop promo. Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding Wonderman (Parlophone) Director: Robert Hales Production Company: Warp [...]
Like a hot dream, or a very hip Benny Hill sketch, or a porn film set crossed with a gardening TV show…. Whatever. Here’s some serious sexual suggestiveness – including phallic flowers – in an innuendo-strewn riot of a video for exclamation mark (x3) by Saman Keshavarz. Saman’s left the crime yarns of Cinnamon Chasers [...]
How to make proper three dimensional characters pop on the screen, and then reveal the warped contents of their heads, and do it again and again… You are watching the second Hundred In the Hands video by Daniels –that’s Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan: a tour de force, and arguably even better than its predecessor. [...]
Released just ahead of their major UK tour this autumn, indie arthouse rockers Stornoway team up with Warp Films’ James Caddick for this intriguing set-up: a chess-cum-boxing match. Its thrilling and brutal – especially the chess – and features the Notorious P.H.D. Very nicely done. Stornoway Watching Birds (4AD) Director: James Caddick Production Co.: Warp [...]
Starring Anna Friel and Michael Sheen, Alex Smith’s smokey, nicely graded (by James Tillett) promo for the Manics single Just The End Of Love witnesses a frustrating chess game between the two actors with them ending up in a right ole steamy clincher. The promo was exclusively unveiled on the GMTV website this morning (Thursday), [...]
Following Daniels (that’s Daniels Kwan and Scheinert) wonderful calling card for FM Belfast’s Underwear, their follow-up and first proper commission for The Hundred In The Hands takes the theme of partying and its strange effects, then ramps it up to a whole new explosive and surreal level. It’s a bit of a stunner. Fun fact: [...]
There’s been at least one previous video for Icelandic band FM Belfast’s wonderful Underwear, which came out a couple of years ago. But then along comes this (presumably unofficial) version by a directing team known as Daniels – that’s Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan. It simply shows a few young people dancing – including the [...]
