Black Dog Films

Director

Greg Barnes

Greg Barnes directs a subtly&nbsp;otherworldly visual for French multi-instrumentalist&nbsp;Vincent Fenton, known&nbsp;as French Kiwi Juice -&nbsp;or FKJ.Starring dancer Mès Lesne, the video is an emotional journey told through choreography, intense and affecting with plenty of room for individual interpretation.&nbsp;We see Lesne&nbsp;move to different beats, reflecting the personalities of those around him, whilst FKJ appears playing different instruments from the track, at different points in the video.&nbsp;The cinematography adds a romantic yet gritty layer to the visual, which encapsulates the nighttime scenery and the surreal vibes of the idea.&nbsp;It's a great twist on the interpretive dance concept, refreshing and engaging throughout.&nbsp;

Mes Lesne

Nathalie Gabrielsson

Maya Dufeu

Jamie Hitchens

Spike Morris

Martin Roker

Ffion Kunz

Fabio Alonso

Josh Maclaren

Fabio Olgiati

Felix Wildey

Alice Howlett

FKJ 'Different Masks For Different Days' by Greg Barnes

Fkj-'Different--Masks-For-Different-Days'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes directs an ambitious one-take video for EELS, featuring&nbsp;Mad Men and Baby Driver&nbsp;star Jon Hamm.&nbsp;Playing a superfan of the group, Hamm is shown finding solace in the track&nbsp;as he relaxes on the sofa, totally oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.&nbsp;It's a great little concept, shot in Los Angeles on 35mm whilst Greg and the Black Dog team directed and produced it remotely from London.&nbsp;Hamm's understated, relaxed performance is a perfect fit for the concept, and will have viewers shouting at the screen with&nbsp;the old pantomime adage... he's behind you!!

United States

Holly Wolfers

Lauren Bates

Marz Miller

Louis G Massouras

Kymm Swank

Mike Koepke

Juliana Rowlands

Sara Horowitz

Aysha Marcantonio

Jonny Tully

Tag Collective Art

Manoela Chiabai

John Moule

Jon Hamm

Alternative Rock

Eels 'Are We Alright Again?' by Greg Barnes

Eels--'Are-We-Alright-Again?'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes and&nbsp;his girlfriend&nbsp;Frances Van Jaarsveldt (above)&nbsp;have been in lockdown at their home in Hackney Downs, East London for the past month. But that hasn't stopped Greg's urge&nbsp;to make films. The music video director is developing a sideline as a wildlife cameraman...What were you working on before the lockdown? I had just returned from Lisbon, shooting a short travel doc about their food culture. Thankfully that edit took me into the second week of lockdown. Aside from that? Pitches. Always pitches...<blockquote>I’ve found ways to film anything and everything around the flat.</blockquote>What are you working on now? Probably like a lot of filmmakers in isolation, I took the chance to right some wrongs in my edit archive. I managed to re-cut a short ad starring my father that’s been hanging over me ever since 2016.Aside from that I’ve found ways to film anything and everything around the flat. A cat is outside the window? Film it. Doing the washing up? Film it. The postman is arriv...&nbsp;film it! And pitches.[imgtoken data:1]What's the most surprising, or least predictable thing, that's happened to you during quarantine? We’ve started to foster a relationship with the foxes who live opposite our kitchen.What's the favourite part of your daily routine? Fostering relationships with the foxes opposite our kitchen. We woke up at dawn for almost a week to sit and watch them return from their nights out. I think they’re warming to us.[imgtoken data:2]Are things getting harder/better/staying the same? It’s hard to say. Some days hit different to others. We’re definitely finding a rhythm.What have you learned about yourself during quarantine? Despite being a WFH hermit for almost 10 years now, I absolutely do need society to exist outside for that to feel normal. Turns out I bloody love foxes too.Best meal you have eaten/are regularly cooking (send photo, if poss!) At the start of the year I vowed to master <a href="https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe" target="_blank">Cacio e Pepe</a>. I haven’t yet, but I’ve had a lot of practice. You’d think a three-ingredient meal is simple, but I can complicate anything.Best thing you’ve watched, or heard, while on lockdown? And the worst...? We’ve started a film club with our friends; each Sunday we pick a film we haven’t seen and chat about it after on FaceTime... Through that I finally saw Days Of Heaven, and a Colombian film called Monos, both of which I loved.[vidtoken data:0]I also saw Scanners for the first time, which was... Scanners...How's your Work/Life balance at the moment? Probably the best it's ever been. But hopefully I can forget all about that glorious zen once we get back to normal.• Greg Barnes is represented by Black Dog Films. Watch Greg's work <a href="http://www.blackdogfilms.com/uk/directors/greg-barnes/" target="_blank">here</a>

Quarantine Q&A: Greg Barnes, Black Dog

Monos [Official Trailer] – In Theaters September 13, 2019

A young cadet prepares for interstellar travel in Greg Barnes' nostalgic video for The Foundation, a new track from Nicolas Godin.&nbsp;Featuring vocals from California-based Cola Boyy, the contemplative visuals focus on a space cadet's training under a strict teacher, as she swims, runs, climbs and learns how to engineer complex machinery.&nbsp;Focused more on the emotions leading up to the flight as opposed to the travel itself, the slow-burning visuals offer a moment of pause and consideration, bolstered by great performances from lead actors Anna Sari and&nbsp;Rick Kiesewetter.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm and packed full of crash zooms and slow fades, DP David Wright pays homage to the Space Race with his meditative cinematography and earthy colour palettes.&nbsp;

France

David Wright

Jerry Pradon

Will Olds

George Oxby

Big Buoy

Rav Matharu

Rhian Emanuel

Because Music

space pop

Nicolas Godin ft Cola Boyy 'The Foundation' by Greg Barnes

Nicolas-Godin-'The-Foundation-Ft.-Cola-Boyy'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes creates a wise, world-weary character to personify the lyrics of Trim, in his video for Catching Flies.Our hero is a suitably reflective figure found in different locations around London for The Light by Catching Flies, who has been described as sitting on the &quot;smooth, mellow side of electronic music&quot; somewhere &quot;between Flying Lotus and Bonobo&quot;.

United Kingdom

Howard Mills

Frankie Markot

Jess Newby Vincent

Electronica

Alternative

Catching Flies ft Trim 'The Light' by Greg Barnes

Catching-Flies-(featuring-Trim)-'The-Light'-by-Greg-Barnes

Jazz and Chinese martial arts turn out to be natural bedfellows in this supercool video for Kamaal Williams - aka South London jazzer Henry Wu -&nbsp;by Greg Barnes.New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik), which was released on 12-inch in December, is a prime cut from the current British jazz explosion and a soundtrack to a movie that has yet to be made, where fighters fly through the air feet first, and know how to handle a pair of deadly nunchakas. So Barnes has made that film -&nbsp;shot on 35mm - and it&#39;s terrific.&ldquo;2019 is all about making movies&hellip; Bruce Lee was a huge inspiration growing up because he was the first Chinese guy on the big screen,&rdquo; states Henry Wu aka Kamaal Williams, currently on tour in the USA. &ldquo;I feel like music and martial arts have the same flow of energy and are respective art forms. So why not bring Wu Funk and Kung Fu together?&rdquo;Greg Barnes adds: &ldquo;Kamaal doesn&rsquo;t make music, he makes soundtracks, and it&rsquo;s inspiring to work with him in such a shared vision - especially if it means shooting some Kung Fu on 35mm film.&rdquo;&nbsp;

Jordan Buck

Paul Allen

Black Focus Records

Ali Barnes

Mahalia John

Tom Stansfield

Joseph Bicknell

CHEAT

Jazz

Kamaal Williams 'New Heights (Visions Of Aisha Malik)' by Greg Barnes

Kamaal-Williams-'New-Heights-(visions-Of-Aisha-Malik)'-by-Greg-Barnes

Poppy Ajudha performs in a club surrounded by her friends, and fantasises about a boy angel,&nbsp;in this video for The Man You Aim To Be by Greg Barnes - now signed to Black Dog.With the songtitle eerily similar to the taglines on the new Gillette ad, Poppy has confirmed she is addressing the same subject matter in the song, which comes from her acclaimed EP Patience, released last year.And the video features&nbsp;several well known creatives including including Fenn Omeally, Kyara Simone, Char Ellesse and Lara McGrath.

Ben Skerritt

PC Williams

Poppy Ajudha 'The Man You Aim To Be' by Greg Barnes

Poppy-Ajudha-'Then-Man-You-Aim-To-Be'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes takes us on a journey around young UK rapper Benny Mails&#39; performance and appetite for mischief.Benny is seen promoting the letter P by flyposting it around town, while also&nbsp;sporting a collection of on-point outfits, in the short sharp kinetic video for Passion, shot on 16mm and high and low digital formats.

Kiran Mandla

COMPULSORY

Transgressive

Benny Mails 'Passion' by Greg Barnes

Benny-Mails-'Passion'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes comes up with a part-teaser, part-proper music video for Henry Wu aka Kamaal Williams (of the excellent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5J6Eo_3H0" target="_blank">Yussef Kamaal Trio</a>)&nbsp;chronicling his return to action with a cooler-than-thou low-budget action movie vibe.&nbsp;Barnes leans on balancing a dry humour with some strong 16mm cinematic compositions in this fast-moving piece&nbsp;for Catch The Loop, focussing on the concept of a band reuniting for a big new jam. He and Wu/Williams&nbsp;even set up an 0800 phone number from which fans can ring up for more stuff. And Greg Barnes says it came about by &quot;trusting our guts and instincts - seizing opportunity and improvising moments.&quot;And Henry Wu adds:&nbsp;&quot;Working with Greg has been a game changer. Someone that shares my vision for this music and how it needs to be presented visually. Everything about this video was natural. We hung out and he captured the essence of what it is we do! Straight Funk!&quot;

Compulsory.

Modern Jazz

Kamaal Williams 'Catch The Loop' by Greg Barnes

Kamaal-Williams-'Catch-The-Loop'-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes&#39; &#39;live&#39; music video for Romare&#39;s Come Close To Me starts with his pitch on the phone to the artist to win the video - an enjoyable, hopefully satirical exchange that does for music video directors what Glengarry Glen Ross did for real estate salesmen.&nbsp;But it&#39;s obvious&nbsp;that after the 80s&#39;tastic performance video with hipper-than-thou VHS look, Greg really wants to shoot Romare in his gorgeous Triumph Spitfire. Or is it a Mazda?&nbsp;

Theresa Adebiyi

Ninja Tune

Romare 'Come Close To Me' by Greg Barnes

Romare-'Come-Close-To-Me'-by-Greg-Barnes

TV shows often end with cliffhangers, but this starts with one.&nbsp;Greg Barnes&#39;s video for Dan Croll&#39;s Away From Today&nbsp;begins with Croll looking at his hands - and not liking what he sees. What happened? We will find out, in a piece that may boost Dan Croll&#39;s credentials as the outdoorsy type. He runs and he runs, along tracks in seemingly endless woodland, captured beautifully on land and overhead, until he reaches the sea.Barnes&#39; widescreen approach really suits&nbsp;Croll&#39;s bombastic indie-pop, and he delivers a good punchline too.&nbsp;

Rory Shaw

Charlie Goodger

Kit Mackenzie

Harry Goodger

Alistair Holloway

Stephen Quan

Ben Platt

Julien Biard

Freefolk

Sophie Medhurst

Communion Records

Dan Croll 'Away From Today' by Greg Barnes

Dan Croll - Away From Today

Greg Barnes directs a three-track live film for artists Patten on Warp Records in part collaboration with Red Bull.The 10 minute live film is a slick and colourful affair which is constantly in motion. Seamlessly mixing digital, video-tap, and 16mm film formats, and forever encircling the duo as they perform, the videos format-hopping, glitchy edits combine beautifully with the light show to create a dramatic-looking film.Barnes&#39;s films bring in elements of Patten&#39;s live show, creating something impossible to reproduce live with the duo disappearing and reappearing to their own synthesised scratches. Blink and you&#39;ll miss some of the excellent edit work here.

Stephanie Paeplow

Chris Toumazou

Ty Hack

Nick Morris

Gary Long

Matt Farrant

Ellie Williams

Lisa Chau

Jim Bracher

The Mill

Dan Kreeger

Rik Green

Warp

Patten 'Blade, Cache, Epsilon' live film by Greg Barnes

Patten-''blade',-'cache'-'epsilon''-by-Greg-Barnes

Greg Barnes, who has now officially signed to COMPULSORY in London for music videos, travelled to Acapulco, Mexico with the artist known as The Beach, to make a documentary around the locals who famously dive from high rocks into the sea below.Along with fusing a performance from the artist, the video focuses on the process of undertaking life-threatening dives everyday by a close-knit group of highly committed young daredevils. And it&#39;s also&nbsp;a highly appropriate theme for a song called Geronimo.&nbsp;Greg Barnes, who is based in&nbsp;London,&nbsp;has worked with clients such as Wonderland, Red Bull and Vice. His first collaboration with COMPULSORY was his video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/09/07/haus-haze-greg-barnes" target="_blank">HAUS&#39;s&nbsp;Haze</a> last year.

Verity Oswin

Cathia Cuevas

Pierre Lister

Guillermo Garza

Alex Arballo

Jeffrey Perez

Evelyn Corona

Finish

Charles Gillett

Daniel Harris, Mike O'keef, Dan Millar

Sony Music

Indie, singer-songwriter

The Beach 'Geronimo' by Greg Barnes - now signed to COMPULSORY

The-Beach-'Geronimo'-by-Greg-Barnes

In the history of rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll, there are plenty of stories about musicians being such perfectionists that they&rsquo;ll keep bands in the studio for hours on end, just to perfect a song. Nathaniel Rateliff &amp; the Night Sweats play up this trope in the video for I Need Never Get Old directed by Greg Barnes.Though it took the band just two hours to actually record the song, the video imagines what it would&rsquo;ve been like if Rateliff was more like Springsteen in the studio, forcing his band to redo sections over and over again. Suffice to say, the title of the song becomes ironic by the end of the video.Looks like this one took even longer than the second Stone Roses album...

Rob Jelley

Kode

Nathan Killham

Tamara Lenz

Kerry Green

Marek Wesolowski

Alex Byng

Simon Mills

Joe Fitz-gerald

Robert Smith

Jack Singer

Cut+Run

Dan Moran

Coffee & TV

Emma Greengrass

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 'I Need Never Get Old' by Greg Barnes

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old (Music Video)

Greg Barnes brings back&nbsp;the lo-fi DIY skate video - shot on VHS, no less &ndash;&nbsp;for&nbsp;HAUS&#39;s Haze. It&#39;s a suitably energetic clip where we get a glimpse at a youthful and carefree&nbsp;group of friends that make London their playground: hanging out,&nbsp;skateboarding&nbsp;and playing music together.

Jamila Wingett

Haus 'Haze' by Greg Barnes

Haus-''haze''-by-Greg-Barnes

Jon Park and Grant White - aka White Rabbit - explore the joy of youthful mischief with Chad Valley and his guest, Twin Shadow. Here, a bunch of bashful teenagers break into a bowling alley late at night to have all the fun you can have with the rules in place. This includes treading on the aisles, not wearing the proper footwear, playing your own music and, of course, discovering your telekinetic powers...
This is something of a departure for Jon and Grant, who are best known for their post FX and CG work - their day jobs are as senior 3D and 2D artists from Glassworks and MPC respectively. The I Owe You This video was the first time they worked with actors, and it all has a lovely retro family film feel - alongside some impressive CGI towards the end.

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