Director

Alex Amoling

MGMT present a bizarre and hilarious modern morality tale for the melodic Me &amp; Michael.Delivered in a crudely homemade&nbsp;aesthetic by director Joey Frank and&nbsp;Randy Lee Maitland, it&#39;s a fast-moving satire of music biz shenanigans in the internet age: MGMT happen upon the song Me &amp; Michael, by the unknown&nbsp;Filipino group True Faith, on the web.&nbsp;And they love it so much that they steal it - a decision that has far-reaching consequences.Frank and Maitland&#39;s DIY approach takes a bit of getting used to, but it is actually quite a liberating influence on the story, which is gripping and comic, but also has something important to say&nbsp;(about the not usually fascinating subject of intellectual copyright). In fact, this is so well put together, True Faith have their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zK_m6EgVSQ" target="_blank">very own Me &amp; Michael video too</a>.&nbsp;As for the truth about the provenance of Me &amp; Michael - well, this may lead to a few questions being asked. And is it just me, or does the chorus actually sound like China In Your Hands by T&#39;Pau..?&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Joey Frank

Randy Lee Maitland

RATHAUS

Alexandra Byer

Ashley Connor

Madison Solenja

Becca Morrin

Eamon Monaghan

Izzi Galindo, Emily Shubert

Colin King

Z Behl

Nat Jencks

Goldcrest

MGMT 'Me & Michael' by Joey Frank, Randy Lee Maitland 

MGMT - Me and Michael

Working together for a 3rd time Alex Amoling shows us, in his words, &#39;the final brush strokes of a tumultuous relationship&#39; for Chae Hawk&#39;s Dinner Plates. The promo illustrates beautifully the pain and ecstasy a relationship can bring. Getting stabbed in the back usually hurts but in Dinner Plates&nbsp;Chae definitely feels it.

Jeff Melanson

Eddie Pages

Mattison Stanton

Madeline Jane

Chae Hawk, Natalya Oliver

Chae Hawk 'Dinner Plates' by Alex Amoling

Chae-Hawk-'Dinner-Plates'-by-Alex-Amoling

Fashioned as the beginning of a two part series for the album Amuse Bouche, Alex Amoling&#39;s video for Mr Jackson&#39;s&nbsp;Sometimes&nbsp;delves into the nightmarish world of cause and effect in a life of crime.

David Kruta

Juan Salvo

Gourmet Records

Mr. Jackson 'Sometimes' by Alex Amoling

Mr.-Jackson-'Sometimes'-by-Alex-Amoling

Following his competition-winning video for Hammock&#39;s Mute Angels,&nbsp;Alex Amoling has now directed the video for a track from the band&#39;s new album Oblivion Hymns. And like his work for Mute Angels, Alex&#39;s video for&nbsp;I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things is a&nbsp;powerful, poignant drama to accompany an&nbsp;epic post-rock instrumental. But the setting is rather more down-to-earth.&nbsp; Shot in Staten Island, New York,&nbsp;it&#39;s the story of an American&nbsp;blue-collar family&#39;s struggle in the wake of the father&#39;s joblessness. It leads to him turning to crime&nbsp;- and the consequence&nbsp;of that decision&nbsp;is heartbreaking. Indeed, it&#39;s oblivion.&nbsp;

Sharif El Neklawy

Nick Purpura, Rory Shannon, Jennifer Shannon, Severin Shannon

Lucy Bennett

Hammock 'I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things' by Alex Amoling

Hammock-'I-Could-Hear-The-Water-At-The-Edge-Of-All-Things'-by-Alex-Amoling

This is an outstanding video by Alex Amoling, for Hammock&#39;s Mute Angels, which was the winner of the Departure Films video contest in the summer of 2013.&nbsp;The milieu will be familiar to devotees of 2001 and Alien, but with the help of Hammock&#39;s epic post-rock sound Alex Amoling conjures something very distinctive - and highly emotional -&nbsp;from&nbsp;the painful solitude of a woman travelling through time and space, and coming to terms with her fate.And this winning entry - a reworking of his thesis film at Emerson College&nbsp;&ndash; not only became the official video for the track, it has resulted in him working with Hammock again, directing the video for I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things, from their new album Oblivion Hymns.&nbsp;

Anna Mccarthy

Caroline Edwards

Charles Swazey

Evalena Marie

Eva Mrva

Stephen Chang

Hammock 'Mute Angels' by Alex Amoling

Hammock-'Mute-Angels'-by-Alex-Amoling

<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/?attachment_id=57542" rel="attachment wp-att-57542"><img src="http://www.promonews.tv/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Slam-Donahue-I-Turn-On-by-Michael-Lawrence-Alex-Amoling.jpg" alt="Slam Donahue &#039;I Turn On&#039; by Michael Lawrence &amp; Alex Amoling" width="640" class="alignright size-full wp-image-57542" /></a>
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Shot on Location in East Aurora New York, Brooklyn duo Slam Donahue join forces with Michael Lawrence and Alex Amoling for this sporty, high-jinx promo set in a school gymnasium which sees the band take part in a basketball game. The action then moves to a house party with the lads getting a bit yummy with the mummies...

"When we first spoke to the Slam Donahue guys about doing a video, they gave us some background on the over-arching themes in the album - dealing with growing up, societal expectations, and the relationship between children and adults" explains Michael. "Tom and Dave both wanted to be in the video, and to place themselves deep in this world. Will (Griggs) at Cantora came up with the idea to place this all within a kid's basketball game; the band had sent over a picture of a middle-school sports team, set amidst a shining trophy case. 

"It was a bit challenging to direct a large gymnasium of children with only a few hours to shoot, but we embraced the documentary aesthetic and quite simply let the game play out, rolling our cameras. The concept evolved to include sexy mothers at a wrap party, a whirlpool bathtub, and some pretty amazing custom jerseys created by our art director, Kelly Thomas. 

"What's seemingly an underdog sports story, becomes a character-driven absurdist journey with Dave &amp; Tom as they hang with the generations".

Slam Donahue
I Turn On (Cantora Records)
Directors: Michael Lawrence &amp; Alex Amoling
DoP: Michael Lawrence
Editor: Alex Amoling
Camera Operator: Ben Disinger
Prod. Design &amp; Costume: Kelly Thomas
Sound Design: Kyle Miller
Colorist: Juan Salvo
Concept: Will Griggs &amp; Michael Lawrence
Produced in Partnership with The Gow School
Uniforms Fabricated by Sport Prospect in Brooklyn, NY
Huge Thanks to Dylan Steinberg, Brad Rogers, Chamus Hawk, and Holly &amp; Larry Maciejewski

http://vimeo.com/53553545

Michael Lawrence & Alex Amoling

Michael Lawrence

Kyle Miller

Will Griggs & Michael Lawrence

Slam Donahue 'I Turn On' by Michael Lawrence & Alex Amoling

Cemeteries &ndash; aka one man band Kyle J. Reigle from Buffalo &ndash; teams up with Michael Lawrence for this dark film for his track The Wilderness. A young man, played by Ryan Schira, breaks into a an old dusty warehouse and curiously, is enticed to burn it down by his &lsquo;accomplice&rsquo;.&ldquo;When Kyle and I first spoke about doing a film for The Wilderness, our common bond was an upbringing in the lost, abandoned, and beautiful post-industrial landscape of Buffalo, NY,&rdquo; Michael explains.&ldquo;A palette of magenta and green with creeping moonlight came forth when listening to the track. We built a small narrative of a savant exploring a factory &ndash; symbolizing the cellular memory of generations past that once resided in the lakefront paper and grain mills of our hometown. The shafts of light and faint, distant memories are a view inside the cerebral cortex of two colliding versions of self.&rdquo;

Elie Smolkin

Doug Ansel

Tessa Wienker

Rob Pepe

Will Rhodes

Katrin Kinnare

Ryan Schira

Michael Lawrence & Joshua Banta

Holly & Larry Maciejewski, Ryan O'Hara Theisen, Ben Gabelman, David Kruta

Matt Halverson

Jim Banta

Cemeteries 'The Wilderness' by Michael Lawrence

Cemeteries-'The-Wilderness'-by-Michael-Lawrence

Shot in the Buffalo area of upstate New York, a young woman haunted by her demons forms the narrative of Michael Lawrence's highly watchable promo for Levek's Black Mold Grow. 
"David (from Levek) and I spoke for months about the meaning behind the album - and Black Mold Grow in particular," explains Michael. "Similar images kept on coming into both of our heads - a gauzy, transcendental view on a young woman's struggle with her psyche. 
"Creating the film was an organic process - everything from the original script to the end product was guided by the nature surrounding us. The locations and environments added a large scope to the film - but, more than anything, created a backdrop for a character-driven story to unfold in a spontaneous, genuine way."

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