Shortlist announced for music video competition at Plus Cameraimage

Ross McLennan, Will Bex, Shawn Kim, and MVA-winner Lasse Frank are among the cinematographers recognized for their work in music videos over the past year, in the shortlist of 15 music videos selected for the first official music video competition at Plus Cameraimage, the international film festival focused on the art and craft of cinematography, [...]

Peaches’ I Feel Cream by Kinga Burza

It’s sexy, as you might expect with a video for Peaches – but even though the styling is very Spiders From Mars, not in an ironic way.
Kinga Burza’s video for I Feel Cream is also hypnotically gorgeous, with experimental camerawork, projections, and vision-mixing – all achieved on a smidgeon, as she explains below.
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Just Jack’s Doctor Doctor by Nick Frew

For some reason supermarkets are a godsend for music videos – as demonstrated by Jane’s Addiction all those years ago, Travis and k-os. Nick Frew proves the point again for Just Jack, who plays a shelf-stacker with conflicted feelings for bimbo-bombshell checkout girl Trixy.
Will Bex, the hardest working man in videos, provides the ideal ambience. [...]

AlexandLiane’s Ting Tings wins at the VMAS…

The Ting Tings’ video for Shut Up And Let Me Go by directing duo AlexandLiane, won the Best UK Video prize at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
The video easily beat off competition from Coldplay, Estelle, Duffy and Leona Lewis to win the award, taking more than half the votes [...]

The Hoosiers’ Cops And Robbers by Diamond Dogs

Featuring a teeming cast of lords, ladies, soldiers, sailors, wenches, geezers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, loonies, jugglers, brazen hussies and, of course, cops and robbers.
It’s the third and most ambitious collaboration yet between The Hoosiers and Diamond Dogs’ Phil and Olly – an Oliver!–style Dickensian-epic extravaganza.
And the trumpet player is just brilliant.
The Hoosiers
Cops And Robbers [...]