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Eric Epstein

Moses Sumney gives into his darkest, most satisfying impulses in the self-directed video for Cut Me.Across a collection of surreal, otherworldly vignettes, Sumney runs riot in an abandoned hospital with two other patients- dancing on caskets, performing on stage and taking on the roles of the non-existent staff.The glossy, theatrical art direction places the concept very much in a dream world of Sumney’s creation, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The performances are top-notch, adding a lively vibrance to the derelict location, and cleverly personifying the complex themes in the track."It is, amongst many things,&nbsp;a satirization of masochism and the medical industrial complex, and a chuckle in the face of Black Death," says Moses Sumney about his directorial debut.&nbsp;"I couldn’t have predicted it’d be released in our current climate. And yet..."

United States

Moses Sumney

Whitney Jackson

Object & Animal

Justin Benoliel

Meredith Kurey

Cristina Dunlap

Gunnar Deathridge

Phil Gomez

Jacque Piotrowski

Wes Sanchez

Kaitlyn Battistelli

Ethos Studio

Malachi Middleton

Emara Neymour-Jackson

Electro

Soul

Moses Sumney 'Cut Me' by Moses Sumney

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Featuring guest vocalist Caroline Polachek from Brooklyn duo&nbsp;Chairlift, Eric Epstein&#39;s promo for Unhold by The xx collaborators Delorean, sees the singer&nbsp;negotiate her way around bluestone wall maze - shot at&nbsp;the Opus 40 sculpture park in New York State - intercut with a band performance in a minimal stark setting adorned with a Escher-like metal structure.But being the VFX whizz that he is,&nbsp;Eric has added an intriguing 3D effect,&nbsp;to bend and distort objects as they shift around a fixed axis...&nbsp;

Nice & Polite

Matthew Arrow

Jason Ano

Doug Durant

Brian Grant

Celine Comolet

Metal Dimensions

Sam Jones

Brigid Swanick

Justin Newhouse

Casey Anderson

Caroline Polachek

Desmond Williams

Chava Godinez Gaspare

Ian Drennan

Yui Ishibashi

Kevin Johnson

Delorean 'Unhold' by Eric Epstein

DELOREAN - Unhold

She’s here, and she’s gonna inflate your backside, girlfriend, whether you like it or not. Yes, it’s Buttzilla – the star of Eric Wareheim’s video for Major Lazer’s Bubble Butt. And that’s the cue for the ultimate celebration of the dance of the times. The one that’s all about the cellulite.And as it’s Eric, its beyond jawdropping. A booty-full, worthy if belated follow-up to the classic Wareheim video for the Major’s Pon De Floor, with smooth airhose visual effects by David Lewandowski.And Butzilla is played by ‘Sultry Simone’…

Eric Wareheim

Mad Decent

JASH

Daniel Kellison

Doug Deluca

Mickey Meyer

AJ Tesler

Debbie Chesebro

Craig Sherwood

Travis Gold

Sean Tippins

Tiffany Soto

Aaron Platt

Zac Adams

Toby Theirman

Josh Kurz

Eric Notarnicola

David Lewandowski

Quinn Alvarez

Jamie Vance

Chris Schoenman

Rich Seemueller

William Mendoza

Alexander Lehnert

Josh Johnson

Randy Newman

Stu Brumbaugh

Jay Guffey

Robert Toombs

Caroline Bader

John Day

Mindy Le Brock

Diana Contreras

Kendel Shannon

Tina Cohen

Melanie Mandl

Georgia Walker

Michael Reynaud

Kelly Jo Tinny

Roberto Ramirez

Charles Sowles

Tim Palmer

Kat Castillo

Richie Cabral

Gabe Zepeda

Eric leja

Hannah Getz

Natalie Darrah

Nina McNeely

Electronic

Dance

Major Lazer ‘Bubble Butt’ ft Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Tyga, Mystic by Eric Wareheim

Major Lazer - Bubble Butt (feat. Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Tyga & Mystic) - Directed by Eric Wareheim

Eric Epstein's brilliant video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/07/04/memory-tapes-%E2%80%98yes-i-know%E2%80%99-by-eric-epstein/" target="_blank">Memory Tapes' Yes I Know</a> became one of the most unlikely (yet utterly worthy) Grammy nominees for Best Video last year. His new visualisation of a Memory Tapes song, for Let Me Be from new album Grace/Confusion, is a simpler affair. 
Firstly, it's an excerpt rather than a full video. But it's still beautiful, spotlighting Asclepias Physocarpa, a strain of milkweed that looks eerily extraterrestrial.Eric's FX work in this is in lighting the plantlife, and orchestrating the lightshow of pods bursting into different colours as the track springs to life. It adds up to a tantalising teaser...

Memory Tapes 'Let Me Be' by Eric Epstein

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Eric Epstein, winner of the MVA for Best Visual Effects at the UKMVAs last year for his acclaimed Memory Tapes video, and nominated for this year's awards for Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, now brings his distinctively spectral way with VFX for rock vets Placebo's B3.
Eric creates separate nightmare scenarios for two people - a young man confined in a room, who struggles to keep his physical identity as a result of mirror effects; at the same time a young woman in a park is chased by clone versions of herself. It's absorbing and spooky rather than scary - and works well with Placebo's trademark anguished emo on B3.
"For me the song describes battling with the negative emotions that hold us back," says Eric tells Promo News. "So it made sense to depict people in some struggle with themselves, being their own demon. The mirror effects made use of a custom-built dual-camera rig, which was fun to see realised."

Gail Mosley

Joe Desalvo

John Resner @ PeepShow New York

Eric Epstein, Nic Seresin

John Moule

Placebo 'B3' by Eric Epstein

Placebo-'B3'-by-Eric-Epstein

In the video a woman researcher produces an unassuming wooden box, which turns out to be an intriguingly arcane recording device that produces a physical manifestation of a waveform, hovering just above the machine. It may not be as spectacular as the 'disappearing man' effects of Memory Tapes, but the excellence and impact of the effect is in its subtlety, and it forms part of the narative which explores a process of experimentation. 
"The video shows a researcher working on a machine to record sensory experience," Eric Epstein explains of the Hilary Hahn and Hauschka video. "She's figuring out how to process the signal by recording herself and trying to tune patterns out of the chaos. Later on, recording multiple test subjects in one location with different senses isolated, is a bit like recording a band playing with multiple microphones. But music sort of is a wavey thing that connects to other senses in mysterious ways, so I suppose it's about synesthesia."

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Eric Epstein &amp; Robert Lopusk

Jordan Bruner, Nadia Husain, Kevin Lawler, Edward Tasick, Ayli Velorok, Desmond Williams, Nancy Diana Wong

Hilary Hahn and Hauschka 'Draw A Map' by Eric Epstein

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