Director

Saman Kesh

A thirtysomething couple find their usual bickering and backbiting interrupted by Hot Chip's Hungry Child. And they just cann ot do anthying about it, whereever they are. Until they do something drastic that is.Saman Kesh's return to music videos - co-written with Ellis Bahl - is a counter-intuitive gem.

United Kingdom

Sarah Park

London Alley

Luga Podesta

Andreas Attai

Jeff Cobb

Nicholas Wiesnet

Matthew Borek

Travis Francis

Michael Helenek

Jessica Garrison

Paola Erazun

Michelle Sfarzo

Ellis Bahl

Kristopher Smale

Gloria FX

Milana Vayntrub

Martin Starr

John Moule

Domino

Um, The Moon

Jack Winter

Hot Chip 'Hungry Child' by Saman Kesh

Hot-Chip-'Hungry-Child'-by-Saman-Kesh

Saman Kesh&#39;s latest gripping music&nbsp;video, for EDM artist DJ Carnage, is a parable on the dangers of hedonism and selfishness, with a grisly, blood-spattered&nbsp;climax that&#39;s well-timed for Halloween - and a payoff that&#39;s decidedly supernatural.&nbsp;As so often in these&nbsp;situations the advice is simple: don&#39;t lose your head...

United States

NikoFilms

Skunk Films

Federico Masini

Shelly Townsend

Matt Factor

Federico Muse

Isaac Bauman

Costanza Giordano

Viki Esquivel

Fabrizio Pioli

Michael Heldmen

Cut+Run

Brent Kiser

Jogger

Derek Hansen

Mandy Brown, Nate Tam, Ed Hobbs, Sascha Kesh, Nathan Greene, Chris Merchant, The Bauman Family, Michelle Thompson

Dance, EDM

DJ Carnage 'November Skies' by Saman Kesh

DJ CARNAGE (feat. Tomas Barfod) // November Skies

Saman Kesh&nbsp;has been relatively quiet on the music video front&nbsp;since his&nbsp;hilarious/controversial&nbsp;video for Basement Jaxx&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/07/25/basement-jaxx-never-say-never-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Never Say Never</a>,&nbsp;featuring the&nbsp;strange and delightful&nbsp;Twerkbot,&nbsp;which closely followed his brace of&nbsp;detective-style, scene-breakdown, Bret Easton Ellis-narrated&nbsp;videos&nbsp;for Placebo&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/18/placebo-loud-love-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Loud Like Love</a>, and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/08/13/placebo-too-many-friends-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Too Many Friends</a>.But now he&#39;s back with Kygo&#39;s Stole The Show - one of those videos premiered as part of the YouTube Music Awards &ndash;&nbsp;and once again it&#39;s&nbsp;Saman&#39;s command&nbsp;of the little details that makes his latest video for Kygo&#39;s Stole The Show stand out.&nbsp;The promo&nbsp;manages to be&nbsp;really charming as well as&nbsp;mightily slick-looking, as it features two&nbsp;dancing extraterrestrials in&nbsp;spacesuits, and perfectly incognito as they crash a fancy dress party.Comprises excellent dance sequences and great, Spielbergian cinematic shots, Saman has yet again proven himself to champion the art of combining great&nbsp;narrative ideas and brilliant, detailed&nbsp;execution.&nbsp;

Vision Film Co

Geoff McLean

Laura Tunstall

Guillermo Garza

Michelle Thompson

Jason Kisvarday

Fon Davis

Alterian Inc

Paul Rogers

Varnish

Nicholas Carmen

Marc Steinberg

Kygo 'Stole The Show' by Saman Kesh

Kygo - Stole The Show feat. Parson James [Official Music Video - YTMAs]

The director now known as Saman Kesh (formerly known as Keshavarz) has been making&nbsp;kick-ass music videos&nbsp;since his 2009,&nbsp;for the likes of&nbsp;Russ Chimes, !!!, dEUS, Calvin Harris, Vitalic, Placebo and most recently Basement Jaxx, plus a much-admired short film Controller. And when Saman completed the Questionnaire, we also discovered this ebullient twentysomething LA resident also turns out to be a Jedi.&nbsp;&nbsp;Education: I went to school at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, from&nbsp;2007 - 2010. Now I&#39;m in debt.Previous occupations:&nbsp;Liar, expelled student, computer misfit, Best Buy geek squadFavourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;Gessafelstein &#39;Pursuit&#39; - I lost to them last UKMVA ... Well deserved.Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;Daft Punk &#39;Da Funk&#39;&nbsp;Favourite publications/websites: Kotaku &ndash; a true Jedi&#39;s source of gaming news.Favourite food/restaurant: Dimsum &ndash; a true Jedi&#39;s source of nutrition.Favourite drink/drug: Anything with sugar that masks the taste of alcohol.&nbsp;Last movie you saw (and was it any good)? 22 Jump Street.&nbsp;I wasn&#39;t ashamed of watching it when I walked out...so not bad, right?<blockquote>&quot;My first music video job,&nbsp;I was fired as a cable wrangler because I couldn&#39;t keep the wires from knotting. #fail&quot;&nbsp;</blockquote>Favourite directors: This answer changes based on the seasons, but right now they are:&nbsp;Fellini, Kubrick, and Scorsese.&nbsp;Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Basement Jaxx in LA. Lots of sweaty humans, and got to hang out with Simon &amp; Felix. Those guys still got it!!!Favourite bands/artists: This answer also changes based on the seasons of mood, but right now they are: Blood Orange, Daft Punk, Nils Frahm, Beastie Boys and Tourist.&nbsp;Currently reading/favourite book: &quot;How to tell who you are through your Pee&quot; &ndash; a book about looking at your pee and figuring yourself out.What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job? A friends&#39; student music video.&nbsp;I was fired as a cable wrangler because I couldn&#39;t keep the wires from knotting. #failFavourite job of the past 12 months? Placebo &#39;Loud Like Love&#39;&nbsp;What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?&nbsp;Learning how to clean my apartment&#39; preparing to do a short film with a pretty &quot;Rascally&quot; UK rapper. Planning on chewing each bite of food 20 times as suggested by the Food and Drug Administration. Developing two feature length films back here in LA. Working on taming my ADDWhat would most improve your life? Calming down, not frightening my peers with too much enthusiasm.Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?&nbsp;Finishing on schedule. Only happened once.Worst moment? The video above got shelved. lolBiggest frustration? Getting a Twerking robot to properly shake it&#39;s ass. Puppeteering ftw!Person you most admire? My dad. He&#39;s the sweetest rockstar I know.Your favourite (or most overused) phrase? Depends on the season, but right now they are:&nbsp;&quot;...more Kubrickian.&quot;&quot;...make it so.&quot;&quot;...not enough Juxtaposition&quot;What advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production? &quot;Don&#39;t jump...you have too much to live for!&quot; Lol.If they choose to, then they should strive to be the toughest nice person they could possibly be. If people don&#39;t like you, you won&#39;t make anything. And if you can&#39;t loop a song a hundred times, then you shouldn&#39;t do a video for it ;)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Questionnaire: Saman Kesh

It&#39;s&nbsp;the near future, and the drop-off in proper dancing by humans&nbsp;is killing the flame of passion that keeps the human race going. So a Japanese couple decide to do something about it. Only Mr and Mrs Nakamatsu are&nbsp;having a few issues of their own...With his typically&nbsp;off-the-wall premise,&nbsp;Saman Kesh&#39;s video for Basement Jaxx&#39;s Never Say Never somewhat&nbsp;harks back to a couple of&nbsp;classic &#39;white-coat&#39;-themed vids for the Jaxx&nbsp;by Traktor. But Saman puts his own distinctively satirical (and butt-orientated)&nbsp;take on the whole lab scenario with his remarkable invention - The&nbsp;Twerkbot.Featuring sensory stimuli and JAXX-patented buttocks technology &ndash; and every couple is going to want to have one. In fact, thanks to Saman&#39;s work with Alterian Inc. (who also&nbsp;made Daft Punk&#39;s helmets, and work a lot with Spike Jonze), it almost looks like the Twerkbot is ready to go into production...

Courtney Davies

Skunk

Mandy Brown

Greg Lang

Coran Deloy Oberlin

Jesse Sternbaum

David McCabe

Jake Smith

Jonathan Dec

Jordan Gaylor

Basement Jaxx 'Never Say Never' by Saman Kesh

Basement Jaxx // Never Say Never

First there was Too Many Friends - Saman Kesh&#39;s video for Placebo last year,&nbsp;which introduced the forensic,&nbsp;multi-camera, highly cinematic, Phantom-shot and super-cool strand Unfortunate Details - narrated lugubriously by author Bret Easton Ellis.&nbsp;That was set in a party in the near-future. And now Saman has created a mirror-image video for Placebo&#39;s&nbsp;Loud Like Love. It&#39;s another party, where a sudden destructive incident requires some deep&nbsp;analysis. This time it&#39;s a sexy 1960s pool party; again, Easton Ellis narrates;&nbsp;and again Kesh&nbsp;demonstrates an awesome eye for detail and a brilliant and very stylish execution.&nbsp;

Jason Colon

Issac Bauman

890 Productions

Kelsi Ephraim

Chad Goel

John Rampey

Placebo 'Loud Like Love' by Saman Kesh

Placebo-'Loud-Like-Love'-by-Saman-Kesh

Bookended by a&nbsp;voiceover from&nbsp;novelist&nbsp;Bret Easton Ellis, Saman Kesh (the director formerly known as Keshavarz)&nbsp;delivers this beautifully-shot melodrama to partner Placebo&#39;s new single Too&nbsp;Many Friends.With scenes largely shot in slo-mo, the promo explains - via on-screen text messages - possible outcomes in this whodunit-style film&nbsp;to curious and brilliant effect...

Chad Goei

Universal

Placebo 'Too Many Friends' by Saman Kesh

Placebo-'Too-Many-Friends'-by-Saman-Kesh

Saman Kerhavarz investigates the benefits (and life-threatening dangers) of killing calories in this wonderful oddity for Vitalic. Not for the faint-hearted in the slightest, Saman (and co-writer Nate Eggert) explore a bizarre world of weight loss, where your favourite food can not only kill you, but smack you around a bit beforehand. 
Can you fight the flab and kill the calories
"Once upon a time I gained a lot of weight and was a sad little boy," Saman explains. "I would try to work out, but all that would pop into my head was my hot girlfriend and fast food. I am not chubby or sad anymore, and now i present to you our video for Vitalic...'STAMINA'. 
"The inception of the idea started from the tone of the song, which sounded like an absolutely demented workout video. I love mysteries, so I wanted to fuse a bizarre combo that wasn't funny nor serious. It's also important to mention that this was a hard video to shoot: raided by cops, prosthetic nightmares, and angry people against the cause. But one thing is for sure: you can bet your ass we had juicy hamburgers for our lunches. Special thanks to my über-dedicated crew including: Chris Black, Sarah Park and Isaac Bauman (super tr00p3rs)."

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Morgan Gillio

Megan Thompson

Kurt Nishimura

Corbett Jones

Megan Richardson

Dyron Pacheco

Aaron Smith

Evan Scott

Ted Marsden, Zach Kornfeld

Pulse Films

Vitalic 'Stamina' by Saman Keshavarz

Vitalic-'Stamina'-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Shot in the Malibu hills, Calvin Harris and Example team up for a heist in Saman Keshavarz' well-shot crime caper for Harris' new single We'll Be Coming Back - from his third album due in October. 
"Calvin and Example really wanted to drive in this one" explains Saman. "As for me I really felt a kind of western vibe from the chord progression, and especially with the 'country' elegance Example brought to the track. So, I wanted to see if I could combine the two. 
"So I thought: the elegence and composure of a Leone film mixed with the intense &amp; raw energy of classic car chases like in the film Bullit. With the specific narrative: A simple tale of two criminal friends that get in over their heads. 
"The two realize the stakes are high and end up playing each other to get the loot, but alas "the female" plays them and beats em to the buried loot. The last shot is the idea that it will never stop, we are always trying to out-do one another (even when friends)".

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=cGi4hNgyhik&amp;feature=player_embedded

Laura Francis

Jason Baum & Ross Levine

Calvin Harris ft Example 'We'll Be Coming Back' by Saman Keshavarz

Calvin-Harris-ft-Example-'We'll-Be-Coming-Back'-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Jesus Christ comes back, on his crucifix skateboard, and hangs out with the dudes in Saman Keshavarz's extraordinary and rather controversial video for dEUS's Ghost. 
Because this Jesus is not only a skateboarder, he's a decidedly unsaintly badass mother, who takes a decidedly Old Testament view when rubbed up the wrong way...

Justin Gurnari

Sloane Hayes

Joceline Gabriel

dEUS 'Ghost' by Saman Keshavarz

dEUS-'Ghost'-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Actually from a few months back, here's Saman Keshavarz's brilliantly executed live action paintball video game, for Porter Robinson's Spitfire.
It's done in one take with the Phantom Flex at 1,000 fps (the camera only shoots for eight 'real' seconds). The behind the scenes video is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=bPY0b0mVZ5o" target="_blank">here</a>. And don't forget to check out the chat box...

Ross Levine, Francis Pollara

Paydirt Pictures

Lanette Phillips

Porter Robinson 'Spitfire (Capture The Can)' by Saman Keshavarz

Porter-Robinson-'Spitfire-(Capture-The-Can)'-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Saman Keshavarz's talent for weaving complex and gripping storylines is demonstrated once again in his video for Apparat's Song Of Los - the story of a girl robot's lifecycle, told via her memory circuits. 
The humans don't come out of this well...

Francis Pollara

Tyler Jensen

Ladeson &amp; Paydirt Pictures

Apparat 'Song Of Los' by Saman Keshavarz

Apparat-'Song-Of-Los'-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Saman Keshavarz's enigmatic viral ad for Coca-Cola's Burn energy drink exploits his (and his co-writer Nate Eggert's) considerable storytelling skills. It was set-up through The IdeaLists.

Ross Levine

Alessandro Schiassi

ED Hobbs

Cameron Ward, Ben Barrett, Steve Wojtas (voice), Jon Mohr (voice)

Danielle Hinde

subject.0017 by Saman Keshavarz

subject.0017-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Like a hot dream, or a very hip Benny Hill sketch, or a porn film set crossed with a gardening TV show.... Whatever. Here's some serious sexual suggestiveness - including phallic flowers - in an innuendo-strewn riot of a video for exclamation mark (x3) by Saman Keshavarz.
Saman's left the crime yarns of Cinnamon Chasers and Russ Chimes behind, but the rocket-paced imaginative flair is still all there. Great stuff.

Mighty 8

Francis Pollara, Tom Lee

!!!’s Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass by Saman Keshavarz

!!!’s-Jamie,-My-Intentions-Are-Bass-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Saman Keshavarz's epic crime story - told over three individual videos for tracks from dance producer extraordinaire Russ Chimes's debut EP - reaches its climax, with the hero on the trail of the gang who kidnapped his girlfriend. 
Saman's ambitious noir tale - spanning fifteen minutes over the whole trilogy - was shot almost entirely on the 5D Mark II and 7D, with some segments on the RED MX. 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=oFLCa2IPyVs

Mighty8

Francis Pollara, Saman Keshavarz, Romson Niega

Russ Chimes’ Midnight Club EP Pt 3: Targa by Saman Keshavarz – the finale

Russ-Chimes’-Midnight-Club-EP-Pt-3:-Targa-by-Saman-Keshavarz-–-the-finale

The second chapter of Russ Chimes's Midnight Club video trilogy picks up where the first part left off - in the wake of the brutal kidnapping of his girlfriend, the hero unpicks the clues, and unravels his own memory, to try to figure out who perpetrated the crime (and why). 
Relentlessly-paced, with the narrative propelled forward through a sophisticated structure of flashbacks, its more virtuoso filmmaking from the precociously talented Saman Keshavarz. And the final chapter is still to come. That will be revealed next week.

Russ Chimes’ Midnight Club EP Pt 2: Tertre Rouge by Saman Keshavarz

Russ-Chimes’-Midnight-Club-EP-Pt-2:-Tertre-Rouge-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Part one of Saman Keshavarz's thriller for Russ Chimes follows the breathless modus operandi of his award-winning debut for Cinnamon Chasers last year: a passionate relationship is overshadowed by crime and brutal violence, told in an imaginative story structure. 
In this case there are two time sequences rapidly collapsing into each other - and a cliffhanger ending. Every inch a modern noir - and Part II - Tetre Rouge - is about to land.

Russ Chimes’ Midnight Club EP 1: Never Look Back by Saman Keshavarz

Russ-Chimes’-Midnight-Club-EP-1:-Never-Look-Back-by-Saman-Keshavarz

Having made a very big impression with his only video so far - the award-winning Cinnamon Chasers' <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/11/23/bug-16-cinnamon-chasers%E2%80%99-luv-deluxe-by-saman-keshavarz/" target="_blank">Luv Deluxe</a> - Saman Keshavarz is about to deliver his very ambitious follow-up.
It's a trilogy of videos to accompany the three songs from Russ Chimes' Midnight Club EP, and on the basis of this stunning trailer, we can expect another gripping modern film noir - but with Saman (who recently signed to Warp Films in the UK) now working in a different league of thrills and spills. 
Each video, for the songs Never Look Back, Tertre Rouge and Targa, will be released one after another during August.

Russ Chimes’ Midnight Club EP trilogy by Saman Keshavarz – the trailer

Russ-Chimes’-Midnight-Club-EP-trilogy-by-Saman-Keshavarz-–-the-trailer

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