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Justin Dial

AG Rojas&#39;s ambitious and arguably controversial video for Run The Jewels&#39; Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck), featuring Zack de la Rocha from Rage Against The Machine, addresses the controversy over American police brutality towards the African American community by imagining it as a one-on-one conflict&nbsp;between two individuals - the white cop and the black citizen.It&#39;s beautifully crafted, with amazing cinematography by&nbsp;Michael Ragen.&nbsp;It&#39;s also a surprisingly&nbsp;ambiguous exercise, in which the personalities of the actors (Shea Whigham&nbsp;and&nbsp;Keith Stanfield)&nbsp;and the extreme&nbsp;physical demands of their roles - has an inevitable impact on what we&#39;re seeing. It&#39;s not quite a case of mutual hatred, and in fact, there is no &#39;bad guy&#39; here. It may seem to run&nbsp;counter to the fierce polemic for which RTJ&#39;s Killer Mike and El-P (to say nothing of De la Rocha) have become renowned.&nbsp;But they say it gels with their views that&nbsp;it&#39;s the whole system, rather than rogue individuals, that is the problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;This video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system,&quot; says Killer Mike&nbsp;&quot;There is no neat solution at the end because there is no neat solution in the real world. &nbsp;However, there is an opportunity for dialogue and to change the way communities are policed in this country. &nbsp;Salutes to AG Rojas for his unique take on the subject matter and to Shea and Keith for giving us their all and bringing it to life.&quot;[imgtoken data:1]

United States

AG Rojas

Park Pictures

Peter Vitale

Mary Ann Marino

Jackie Kelman Bisbee

Michael Ragen

Chris Jones

Natasha Newman-Thomas

Gregory Reese

Laurie Devine

Jamie Kohn Rabineau

Michael Dignum

Ari Robbins

Bobby Wotherspoon

Ryan McGuire

Chris Gutierrez

Keith Stanfield

Shea Whigham

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Lark Creative

Alternative, Hip Hop

Run The Jewels ft Zack de la Rocha 'Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k)' by AG Rojas

Run The Jewels feat. Zack de la Rocha - "Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k)"

AG Rojas and his crew visited 15 locations in America for this mammoth and exhaustive shoot for the promo to Modern Jesus by Alaska/Oregon band Portugal. The Man.Shot over 20 days back in April, AG unveils an evolving and highly watchable promo with beautifully&nbsp;contrasting scenes from locations such as Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Michigan, Wyoming, Utah and California. Along the way AG and his crew encountered barbed-wire wrestlers in Texas, musicians in New Orleans,&nbsp;banjo players in Tennessee,&nbsp;a boxer in Detroit, Wyoming ranchers, and flew a bi-plane out of Denver. His DoP Michael Ragen captured in all (including a cow birth) on a variety of formats - everything here is original footage.It&#39;s spellbinding, and&nbsp;the whole story of the shoot (and plenty of pics) can be found at producer Anna Rau&#39;s excellent blog <a href="http://wellblessmystars.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/portugal-the-man-modern-jesus/" target="_blank">Well Bless My Stars</a>.&nbsp;

Anna Rau

Corbett Jones

Terry Huynh

Sam Grffith

Gregory Reece

The Mill

Patrick Pask

Karl Williams Jr

John Grover

Carmela Makela

Rich Hutchins

Keith Matthews

Dustin Miller

Chris Black

Caviar

Jasper Thomlinson

Atlantic Records

David Saslow

Portugal. The Man 'Modern Jesus' by AG Rojas

"MODERN JESUS" | Portugal. The Man

In their third video for US rocker Wavves, BLACK//DOCTOR deliver this weird and disturbing tale of two very obvious transvestites who, after entertaining a couple of drunken fellas, subject them to an horrific ending - with a VHS-style lo-fi grade adding to the unease...

BLACK//DOCTOR

Ewing McGregor

Evan Scott

Jennifer Glynn

Chris Scharffenberg

Sam Tiger

Wavves 'Afraid Of Heights' by BLACK//DOCTOR

Wavves-'Afraid-Of-Heights'-by-BLACK//DOCTOR

Chronicling the journey of a loner to a cat sanctuary - The Cast House On The Kings - Justin Dial's charming promo for Californian singer-songwriter Scott Ryan's Vanishing, paints a picture of lonliness and desolation to match the profound sparseness of the music.

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Scott Ryan’s Vanishing by Justin Dial

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