Director

Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Taken from Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen aka Reptile Youth&rsquo;s latest EP Away, Arab Spring Break Part 1 &amp; 2 is an extended track which has&nbsp;lended itself perfectly to what is effectively a lovely, pastel-washed&nbsp;short film&nbsp;by&nbsp;Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen.&nbsp;Captivating and bittersweet, the sensitivity&nbsp;Kragh-Jacobsen has with his characters&nbsp;results&nbsp;in an&nbsp;inspired,&nbsp;true-to-life&nbsp;piece of work.&nbsp;&ldquo;I wanted to portray relationships,&quot; the director told Clash Music. &quot;But this story is not only about relationships between lovers, it&rsquo;s also about friendship. To me the dynamic in relationships is a very fragile thing, and it&rsquo;s so interesting that it can change from positive to negative in a split second. And it&rsquo;s fascinating that we can&rsquo;t control it. I don&rsquo;t have an answer to what is good and bad when you&rsquo;re in a relationship. I simply wanted to try and portray feelings that I have experienced, and I believe others have as well.&rdquo;

Denmark

NEW LAND

Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen

Fanny Louise Bernth

Jasper Spanning

Ves Møller Jacobsen

Martin Samsøe

Lukas Daugbjerg

Torben Meldgaard Andersen

Anders Holck

Franciska Zahle

Anders Nylander

Margrethe Yasmin Kristiansen

Thor Brammer Jacobsen

Stine-Marie M. Nielsen

Mads-August Grarup Hertz

Julius von Kauffmann

Carla Luffe

Hannibal Lang

Mathias Dehn

Emma Engberg

Cameo

Reptile Youth 'Arab Spring Break Part 1 & 2' by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Reptile Youth - Arab Spring Break I & II.

Singer-songwriter James Bay - winner of the Critic&#39;s Choice Award at this year&#39;s Brits and touted as the Next Big Thing &ndash; has prompted the welcome return to music videos of&nbsp;Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen, the Danish director who made a big impact with his sensitively&nbsp;handled mini-dramas in&nbsp;videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2011/10/19/when-saints-go-machine-parix-daniel-kragh-jacobsen" target="_blank">When Saints Go Machine</a> (which won an MVA in 2011), Rhye and others.For the most part, the video for Let It Go is more about atmosphere than narrative, as the troubadour from Hitchin&nbsp;appears lost in his thoughts while a fire spreads in the house around him. But that&nbsp;sense of drama flares&nbsp;in the final minute of the video, as James leaves the blazing house to join a girl in a car, and reveal a snapshot of their uneasy relationship.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Black Dog Films

Line Sander Egede

Katie Dolan

Ves Møller Rasmussen

Mattias Rudh

Noah Lynnerup

Nanna Rosenfeldt-olsen

Ayoe Nissen

Leila Sarraf

Trim Editing

Sofie Borup

Company 3

Dana Bloder

Philip Prahl @ Ghost Vfx

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Lars K Andersen, Carl Oscar Højmark, Mark Hedegaard, Anders Nylander

Torben  Meldgaard

Mikkel Schiller

James Bay 'Let It Go' by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen directs&nbsp;the promo to singer/songwriter Ernest Green&#39;s (aka Washed Out) soaring ambient anthem All I Know, taken from his album Paracosm.Produced in conjunction with Urban Outfitters, the rolling narrative to the 7 minute visual feast&nbsp;documents (via a small handy cam)&nbsp;two young men - played by actors &nbsp;Ridge Canipe and Masam Holden - taking a fun-filled road trip &nbsp;after one of them suffers a devastating break-up.Read a Urban Outfitters-exclusive interview with the director <a href="http://bit.ly/1fXzX66" target="_blank">here</a>

United States

Tricycle Logic

Courtney Davies

Oualid Mauaness

Chris Clavadetscher

Tom Banks

Dara Balyura

Ridge Canipe

Masam Holden

Brent Kiser

Ezra Riley

Blair Neighbors

Greg Cotten

Christian Snell

Sub Pop

Indie

Washed Out 'All I Know' by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Washed Out - "All I Know" (Official Music Video)

Having shown himself as a young master of the mini-drama for Rhye and When Saints Go Machine, Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen makes a diversion into pop performance for Danish duo Quadron&rsquo;s Hey Love.
Daniel documents singer Coco Maja Karshoj dancing the video away with several debonair men, each bringing their own signature dance style, while the singer undergoes no less than eight outfit changes, each looking more fabulous than the last. She even gets to bust a move with partner/producer Robin Hannibal (also one half of the duo Rhye), who shows us he knows just how to swing it.
It&rsquo;s actually Daniel&rsquo;s second promo for Quadron &ndash; he directed the video for their song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAGGw1v1kY">Pressure</a> too, back in 2009.

Oualid Mouaness

Patrick Levy

Anthony Demby

Dance

Quadron ‘Hey Love’ by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Quadron - Hey Love

A second video for Rhye by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen that shares the same precocious quality of storytelling and characterisation that marked out his first Rhye video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/11/22/rhye-the-fall-by-daniel-kragh-jacobsen/" target="_blank">The Fall</a>, and also his MVA award-winner for When Saints Go Machine's Parix. 
Daniel's video for Open is also obliquely related to The Fall. Here a young couple head for the coast and a beachside holiday getaway, with a shadow hanging over their romance: is the young man a match for the free-spiritedness of his nubile girlfriend. Then the middle-aged couple from the first video stray into their orbit... 
But the question of how this fits with the first video (is it a prequel), or plotting, feels less relevant than the important task of to bringing believable characters to the screen. It almost goes without saying that Daniel is Danish, home of the world's best TV drama... Something in the water over there Or is it what they learn in film school

Svana Gisla

Manuel A. Caro

Mikkel Damkiær

Lone Bidstrup

Carla Luffe Heintzelmann and Chris Davis

Rhye 'Open' by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

Rhye-'Open'-by-Daniel-Kragh-Jacobsen

Intense, well-performed, poetic, superbly well-shot - very much of the Danish school, in fact, and very good.

Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

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Videos featuring Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen

2015 (2)

2013 (3)

2011 (1)

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