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Ryan Mckenna

With Run The Jewels&#39; RJ2 starting to turn up on numerous Best Albums of the Year lists, Tim Saccenti&#39;s video for the dynamic duo&#39;s Oh My Darling (Don&#39;t Cry) arrives to reinforce the acclaim for the explosive partnership of Killer Mike and El-P.&nbsp;And Tim&#39;s video evolves from economic, atmospheric showcase for the&nbsp;talents of the two rappers &ndash;&nbsp;and a lady dancer wearing little, to something far more psychedelic.Proof, if any were in fact needed, that Run The Jewel&#39;s yuletide song from last year <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5rI461KNE" target="_blank">A Christmas F*cking Miracle</a>&nbsp;was no flash in the pan...&nbsp;

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Timothy Saccenti

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Hey Beautiful Jerk

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Amy Wantanabe

Jeremy Baptiste

Mass Appeal Records

Run The Jewels 'Oh My Darling (Don't Cry)' by Timothy Saccenti

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Tim Saccenti&#39;s fabulously off-the-wall video for Franz Ferdinand&#39;s&nbsp;Love Illumination taps into the band&#39;s evident fondness for surrealism, with a mash-up of scenes, visual effects and band performance, shot in a variety of formats by the masterful&nbsp;Marc Gómez del Moral.Tim drew from a variety of influences - including the pioneering music videos&nbsp;of&nbsp;Devo and The Residents, as he explains below &ndash; before shooting in London. The Love Illumination video was&nbsp;then posted (and generally roughed-up by 1980s technology)&nbsp;in New York. Absolutely splendid.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Radical Media

Park Village

Joe Walker

Jennifer Heath

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Michelle Sothern

Lotta Aspenberg

Damien Vandercruz

Russell Mack

Luc Job

The Mill

Beautiful Jerk

Corey Holms

Domino

Indie Rock

Franz Ferdinand 'Love Illumination' by Timothy Saccenti

Franz Ferdinand "Love Illumination"

Tim Saccenti's video for Yeasayer's Longevity is a straightforward performance video with a difference. It appears to last nearly a lifetime...
Yeasayer lay down Longevity in their recording studio with Tim cameoing as their producer himself. But singer Chris Keating undergoes a remarkable transformation during the performance, thanks to a beautifully calibrated mixture of in-camera and post effects work.
"It's actually a combo of makeup, prosthetics, a real skull, a 3D skull, an amazing tracking an post team and a ton of flame," Tim explains. "We were trying to keep it as practical as possible, nearly comedic in a way, which is much harder than you'd think!"

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Yeasayer 'Longevity' by Timothy Saccenti

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4AD's first hip hop signing Spaceghostpurrp's dark, uncompromising Osiris Of The East gets a woozy, graphic lo-fi video by Timothy Saccenti, following on from his cover photography for the Miami-Miami based producer and rapper's album Mysterious Phonk.
"When he asked me to create the promo for Osiris Of The East I treated it like a continuation of the album cover, creating a hazy, murky, smokey place to capture his performance," says Tim of the Spaceghostpurrp promo. "We wanted to keep it quite simple so used iconic mythological elements, lightning, fire, etc, which were projected from 16mm and video projectors to push the dirty quality of the piece. 
"We shot it quiet underexposed to help with the noisy look, shooting most of his takes in the penumbra of the shadow. To match the low-fi warped feel of the music we also shot with distorted mirrors an mylar to capture as many looks in-camera as possible."

http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&amp;v=yt81qPljutM

Spaceghostpurrp 'Osiris Of The East' by Timothy Saccenti

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Drugs, guns, sex, hip hop, more drugs, more of everything - and degenerate puppet squirrels... it's Tim Saccenti's marvellous video for El-P's The Full Retard - an utterly scurrilous mix of early Beastie Boys, Fear &amp; Loathing in Las Vegas, Scarface and The Muppets. 
We've had badly behaved puppets before, but this little squirrel punk, in league with good buddy El-P, takes some beating. Arguably the best/most outrageous bit is when he shoots the angelic kid preaching peace and love, but it's a close run thing...

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Lauren Sieczkowski

Starworks Group

Peter Mayer

Stewart Gerard

Rob Meyers

James Wojtal

El-P 'The Full Retard' by Timothy Saccenti (NSFW)

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One big song from The Big Pink gets a sumptuous treatment from Tim Saccenti, who appears to have taken the naked girls from the band's cover artwork, rebuilt them in ice - and then blown them to bits, sensibly capturing the action at 1000fps. Take that, ice maidens!
Tim has been busy, as ever. His first solo art show, <a href="http://www.partizan.com/partizan/thedarkroom/garden_of_unearthly_delights___d">The Garden of Unearthly Delights</a>, just opened at the Diesel Gallery in Tokyo. And his <a href="http://www.partizan.com/partizan/thedarkroom/ps3__the_playface">Playface</a> commercials for the pan-Asia launch of the new PS3 console have just landed - a brilliantly orchestrated fusion of gameplay faces and sound design.

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Timothy Saccenti on making the video for The Big Pink's Dominos
"The track has mountains of ambience to it, it's quite bombastic, so I felt having a considerable amount of atmosphere would be appropriate, in this case snow, ice, fog, flares and coloured gels. Oh, and slow-motion... Yes it's definitely a music video. In addition this, being a new band, was meant to introduce them as a live presence, so it needed to be a performance video in some aspect.
"Once we designed the lighting, which was quite flarey with lights pointed directly into the camera - light stands were removed in post by Mark Szumski, flame artist - Mark Holmes, the stylist, picked out some amazing outfits that worked really well, texture wise, with the side and back lighting as well as colour.
"I also had the idea that, to match the tracks bombast, we should blow something up. Not having worked with pyro before, it was an intense learning experience. The track being about relationships and their ice and fire emotions, I thought that ice sculptures of beautiful women would be a poetic take and work well visually.
"During pre-pro Caroline Celis, who art directs many of our projects, helped choose poses for the ice sculptures, and she did on-set decorating - including hand painting the drum kit - to match the feel of the piece. The sculptures melted quickly under the lighting we had but became more and beautiful as they did, looking at times like 3D renderings of Henry Moore sculptures.
"During the course of the shoot we found different ways to exploding them, placing detonators at particular places [neck, back, crotch] for different effects - my favourite being the neck-explosion-head-tumble sequence. An interesting phenomena was that, even at 1000fps, there was only one frame between when the sculpture was clear and glassy to when it turned pure white from the detonation and began shattering. It looked like a jump cut.
"Performance-wise Ivan shot with a masterzoom on the red camera which allowed for some lovely depth of field and to get much coverage without having to move the dolly very often, which saved us an enormous amount of time. It was a very challenging shoot - ice, explosions, snow, on a tight budget and tighter timeline - but our producer Brian Graf did a fantastic job pulling it all together."

Partizan Darkroom

Jeff Sheperd

Mark Holmes

Mark Szumski

Damien Van Der Cruyssen

Jason White

The Big Pink’s Dominos by Timothy Saccenti

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It's an indie type of pop vid, to be sure, for Chairlift's Bruises. But a lovely song, with a rather gorgeous singer, gets a sensual, très sexy treatment.
"It's not got any weird tricks or WTF moments, which is a first for me," says Tim. Perhaps not - but Bruises is still a big pleasure.

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Michelle Ziff

Caroline Celis

Meghan Folsom and Chelsea Gombes

Sara Greene

Chairlift’s Bruises by Timothy Saccenti

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Men in white suits are all the rage. There's the bouncing man in Dougal Wilson's Goldfrapp Happiness video, and Sebastien Tellier (and his body doubles) in Ace Norton's video for Eurovision entry Divine.
And then there's Jamie Lidell, the soul man who brings solace to girls who speak, hear and see no evil in Tim Saccenti's video for Another Day.
"Having seen Jamie perform live on numerous occasions I was surprised that in his previous videos his compelling strengths as a performer, interacting with people, projecting his energy, had never come across," says Tim. "Knowing this we designed the ideas of the video to embrace and showcase these strengths as well as tell the story the track."
After his videos for Battles and Animal Collective last year, this simply confirms that Tim, already with a huge reputation for his photography, weaves similar magic with the moving image and is destined for greatness.

Shot in absolutely freezing conditions last winter in Brooklyn, Tim says, "It was very challenging and everyone was working around the clock to make it happen, and on a modest budget. The choreographer, Vangeline, did an amazing job of working out all of the work with the dancers under a huge amount of stress, and Jeff Shepard, our production designer made the lightboxes in that time.
"The stylist Alice Bertay performed miracles by putting together outfits that should have been way out of our budget and the post effects team at Click 3X were miracle workers in post."

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