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Toon Aerts latest collaboration with Belgian rockers The Sore Losers sees the band turning up on a Sixties TV show to play Dont Know Nothing, and thoroughly enjoying the flirtatious&nbsp;attention of members the all-female audience.Everything is going swimmingly,&nbsp;in fact &ndash;&nbsp;until&nbsp;one very motivated guitar player starts showing off. That seriously ruins the good karma...&nbsp;What do you expect from a bunch of Losers? But as usual, they get a very polished and entertaining video from Toon. And it&#39;s also well worth checking out his short film Perfect Drug - an eclectic mix of horror, sci-fi and comedy, <a href="http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/perfect-drug" target="_blank">now on Fearnet</a>.&nbsp;

Belgium

Toon Aerts

Kim Vandercruyssen

Czar Films

Eurydice Gysel

Thomas Antoni

Brecht Goyvaerts

Pieter Geerardyn

Tim Janssens

Sarah Geirnaert

Sofie Callaerts

Nathalie De Hen

Martin Leroy

Joost Van De Kerckhove

Excelsior Recordings

The Sore Losers 'Don't Know Nothing' by Toon Aerts

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Coming shortly after his version of a performance video for Editors, Joe Vanhouttteghem&nbsp;is now spoiling us.&nbsp;Here&#39;s his new video for Belgian outfit Triggerfinger &ndash; and he&#39;s treading new ground here too.The video for Perfect Match sees Joe&#39;s take&nbsp;on the sex comedy. Which means a whole new&nbsp;level of slightly unsettling reality-suspension and weirdness has been added.&nbsp;What&#39;s going on? That&#39;s not so easy to explain. It&#39;s a fastmoving story of partner-swapping in the holiday homes and chalets of a coastal town&nbsp;- with a bit of noir thriller thrown in - almost entirely viewed from the interior of a car that drives itself. Ruben De Block, the singer of the band, appears in the back of the car - sometimes.&quot;If you can figure out the story of Perfect Match, do tell us,&quot; say Czar, Joe&#39;s production company. That might be asking a bit too much, but its very entertaining nonetheless.

Joe Vanhoutteghem

Lieven Van Baelen

Matthias Schellens

Kristof Van Den Bergh

Cobra

Triggerfinger 'Perfect Match' by Joe Vanhoutteghem

TRIGGERFINGER 'Perfect Match'

He&#39;s mainly occupied making ads, but&nbsp;Joe Vanhoutteghem&#39;s ventures into music video have resulted in jawdropping work for The Hickey Underworld and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/06/11/balthazar-sinking-ship-joe-vanhoutteghem" target="_blank">Balthazar</a>.&nbsp;Now for Editors&#39;&nbsp;Sugar, the Belgian director has moved into new territory. The alienated characters of his previous videos are&nbsp;replaced by&nbsp;band performance.But that&nbsp;unmistakeably unsettling&nbsp;quality of his videos &ndash;&nbsp;of reality being twisted into something else &ndash; certainly&nbsp;remains. From the moment the band start playing,&nbsp;something strange&nbsp;is going on. Their shabby&nbsp;rehearsal room keeps changing: walls collapse, slide away, then reappear, then close in. Other people, unseen by the band, fly sideways through the room, slide along floors, hang upwards...So we spoke to Joe, to ask him about the video...Your music video projects are fairly rare. How did your Editors video come about? How did you describe the idea for the video to them?It was hard to describe, it was even hard to explain to&nbsp;myself. The thing was that they wanted to have a&nbsp;performing video.&nbsp;I always refused them in the past. So it was a challenge. I had&nbsp;to&nbsp;come up with a performing idea &nbsp;but I still wanted&nbsp;some&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of storyline. I thought it was maybe best&nbsp;to do something visually&nbsp;interesting.&nbsp;So I&nbsp;proposed a&nbsp;documentary feel on the band in the&nbsp;rehearsal&nbsp;room and after the transformation we kept the sound realistic, hearing the music muffled in the&nbsp;presumed&nbsp;rooms next door to create some strange effect. Although I was aware that some of the Youtube fans weren&#39;t&nbsp;going&nbsp;to be happy.&nbsp;Is there something you&rsquo;re looking for in a track or a band that makes you want to work with them?Not really. I don&#39;t think so much in wanting to shoot for a particular band. I just like to tell stories&nbsp;apart from the music but in the spirit of that music. For me a music video is always at it&#39;s best when the music feels kind of a&nbsp;soundtrack.&nbsp;That&#39;s why performing video&#39;s are so hard. Sometimes I have ideas apart from a track. Later that track starts&nbsp;lingering&nbsp;in your head and the vibe of the band and the guys in it. Slowly&nbsp;it comes all together.&nbsp;The video is full of ingenious FX tricks and ideas - and it&rsquo;s not easy to figure out how they&rsquo;ve been achieved. Is this an existing set or location of collapsing and sliding walls, or did you create the room yourself? And how did you control the movement of the walls and ceilings?I shot a similar&nbsp;project&nbsp;before with the same art director.&nbsp;It was all shot in camera. We&nbsp;shot&nbsp;this in the art director&#39;s warehouse. There was a small&nbsp;shabby&nbsp;place not so far that we used as the&nbsp;existing&nbsp;rehearsal&nbsp;room. Then we re-build all the walls, the floor and&nbsp;ceiling in the warehouse. we had a forklift for the ceiling but the movements of the walls were all just controlled by&nbsp;manpower out of frame.&nbsp;And how did you get your cast to slide along floors, hang upwards, etc?We casted some&nbsp;young&nbsp;free runners who were up for it. We also had a professional stunt coordinator and his team. They rigged the&nbsp;runners for a couple of shots and also Justin, the&nbsp;guitar player.&nbsp;Have these tricks been stored in the Vanhoutteghem locker for a while, or did you develop them especially for the video?There&#39;s a lot of useless stuff stored in a very&nbsp;small&nbsp;locker :-) There were some basic idea&#39;s but then you start&nbsp;talking, and adding and&nbsp;skipping&nbsp;things&nbsp;together&nbsp;with everyone involved.&nbsp;Your previous videos for Hickey Underworld and Balthazar have been very uncompromising. Were you intent on adopting a lighter tone for this one?It&#39;s often lonely in a dark room. I&#39;m happy I succeeded to deliver a bit of a lighter tone for once. This was different from the others because I had the performing part to deal with. But it was equally fun.&nbsp;

Czar

Lander Engels

Geert Paredis

Hammy De Beukelaer

Marco Maas

Indra Sierra

Editors 'Sugar' by Joe Vanhoutteghem

EDITORS 'Sugar'

As aficianados of his videos for The Hickey Underworld will attest, Joe Vanhoutteghem&#39;s work is unique -&nbsp;a bleak, disturbing, violent, grubby, weirdly fathomless vision of the world. He brings the true irrationality of a nightmare to those videos to create a very striking horror &ndash; or very strange comedy. &nbsp;Now he&#39;s turned his attention to another Belgian band, Balthazar, and created a new nightmare for their song Sinking Ship - once again shot in a distinctively dingy half-light by his DoP Nicolas Karakatsanis, with the signature shabby art direction by Tanker.&nbsp;It begins with a man belting himself around the head with a hammer, and creating a permanent shadow, or stain on the wall, of which he himself his also stained. And then he goes out into the world, to be chased by people running in herds. But eventually finds a girl, who&#39;s got a few problems of her own...&nbsp;

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