Waley Wang is a Chinese-American filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn, NY. His directing focuses on stylized, poppy visuals with a heart, and themes and performance sets with a range of dark drama, absurd comedy, metaphysical romance, and many more. His collaborators have included South Korea-based artist The Black Skirts, LA-based artists Christian Lee Hutson &amp; Phoebe Bridgers, Radiohead Creative Director Dilly Gent, Taiwanese artist Crowd Lu, and LA-based Ark Patrol. His work in music videos have been featured on Pitchfork, Nowness, Director&#039;s Notes, and screened at the BAFTA-Qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival.He also enjoys searching for the ever-obscuring experiences and uncultivated identity of being Chinese American, as well as the uncaptured humanity of being a young millennial / old gen z-er.

Director

Waley Wang

Waley Wang directs an ambitious music film for The Black Skirts (검정치마), real name Bryan.&nbsp;Teen Troubles In Dirty Jersey is an official five-track visual album for 2022 release Teen Troubles, and sees Wang re-connect with the artist following the gripping promos for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/11/crowd-lu-x-black-skirts-dream-me-waley-wang/79897">Dream Like Me</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/05/19/black-skirts-two-days-waley-wang/70987">Two Days</a>.&nbsp;The stylised, coming-of age-narrative is based on&nbsp;Bryan’s memories of a 90's summer as a rebellious 17-year old punk, in poor suburban New Jersey, joined by&nbsp;his friends John, Lara, Bosko, and Electra.&nbsp;Shot in a cinematic fashion - with voiceovers and subtitles intermixed with the tracks - the visual is absorbing and relatable, and matches the impressive scope of the album.&nbsp;"The project aims to&nbsp;capture their disaffected angst, delinquent freedom, and dysfunctional love for each other, as well as dramatically recreating his heart getting broken by a girl he was in boyish head-over-heels love with," Wang mentions.&nbsp;"The project aims to both indulge in nostalgia while also capturing its relationship with trauma. It’s a coming-of-age exploration of the melancholy that can sometimes come with even the happiest memories."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

United States

Sharon Vion

Elle Jones Casting

Veronica Webb

Lucy Gatanis

Nina Attal

James Qiu

Yutian Feng

Greg Maziuk

Konstantin Lyubimov

Bryan Cho

Aileen Wu

Faoileán Cosgrove

Jenny He

Daniel Cho

Gianfranco Bello

Emile Domise

Nichole Hernandez

Olaf Woldan

Maria Carretero

Assembly Post

Timmy Beckmann

Lennox Hart-torres

Thomas Alexander

Brody Hafen

Thea Henry

Saki Kawamura

Daniel Oliver Lee

Alternative

Indie

The Black Skirts 검정치마 'Teen Troubles In Dirty Jersey' by Waley Wang

Teen Troubles In Dirty Jersey

Picking up where the video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/09/christian-lee-hutson-strawberry-lemonade-waley-wang/79881" target="_blank">Strawberry Lemonade</a> left off,&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson&nbsp;hitchhikes back to LA, in Waley Wang's quirky road trip performance video for State Bird.&nbsp;We see Hutson don a disguise and hop into the back of a U-Haul, sharing the ride with a couple of enamoured hitchikers, who passionately kiss as he delivers his deadpan performance without a care in the world.&nbsp;From the grey, desaturated streets of New York to the warm glow of LA, the video is anchored by a sense of transition in both location and mindset, perfectly visualised through the attentive&nbsp;colour grade and gentle cinematography.Great work again from Waley Wang and team, which when paired with the first video, encapsulates a poignant and unusual emotional journey.&nbsp;

Amanda Austin

Son & Heir

Dilly Gent

Mayur Patankar

Amaal Mustafa

Alexey Kosorukov

Sashank Sana

Zoe Donahoe

Anti- Records

Musician

Christian Lee Hutson 'State Bird' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "State Bird"

Waley Wang's tender promo for&nbsp;Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts' Dream Like Me is a split-screen&nbsp;romantic drama about two recent exes who are heartbreakingly likeminded.In the side-by-side narrative, we see the boy and girl separately wandering a supermarket at night, followed by docu-camcorder montages of them cooking for themselves. Poignantly, each time they&nbsp;are creating their own versions of the same recipe.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Blurring the lines between past and present, the video has a deeply melancholic style, which is contrasted by the textural&nbsp;Hi-8 aesthetic.&nbsp;Culminating in a dreamy resolution - where the couple&nbsp;reunite in a blend of nostalgia and fantasy - the video feels both original and timeless, and the use of clever graphics throughout -&nbsp;including&nbsp;the recipe cards for each meal -&nbsp;gives extra context to the story.&nbsp;Delicious work from the up-and-coming Waley Wang.&nbsp;

Prisca Choe

Jia-an Liu

Denisse Jimenez

Wen Gu

Zhong Jei Lau

Sam Schrag

Lindsey Mazur

Forager.tv

Quintana Hoyne

Carty Caruso

Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts 'Dream Like Me' by Waley Wang

[M/V] 'DREAM LIKE ME' - Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts (盧廣仲 X 趙休日) (루광중 X 검정치마)

Waley Wang directs a stirring promo for&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson, which sees the singer-songwriter and bandmates&nbsp;perform on a 360 degree rotating platform, in the centre of Washington Square Park in New York.&nbsp;The elevated&nbsp;live performance of Strawberry Lemonade subtly transforms into a melancholy of recalled memories and mourned connections, with the location of the rotating platform moving uptown to Central Park, and&nbsp;leading into the guitar solo section.&nbsp;Balancing a clever central concept with an unexpected flourish of abstract narrative, the video emanates a bittersweet vibe, which runs straight through the track - which was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst&nbsp;- and the visuals.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Daisy Wang

Ben Goelz

Jo Gennett

Rahul Sharma

Peter Harrison

Maria Matarrese

NiceShoes

Christian Lee Hutson 'Strawberry Lemonade' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "Strawberry Lemonade"

Waley Wang evokes carefree nostalgia in his latest promo for Cool Company.The video for Blessing explores a love triangle between two men - played by the band - and a woman, in a modern Jules et Jim-inspired ménage à trois, set at&nbsp;the turn of the 20th century.In the narrative, there is no maliciousness or toxic jealousy, only a warm portrayal of intimacy, love, and nostalgia, which blurs the lines between friendship and romance.[imgtoken data:1]The old country house location is the perfect setting for the concept, allowing the relationship the space to breathe and grow without restriction.&nbsp;The use of slow motion and ramped frame rates elicits&nbsp;dreamy, euphoric vibes, which aligns with the overall feeling of the concept.

Emily Friedman

Rollin Studios

Anthony Argento

Seth Ricart

Bria Whitney

Striking NY

Radiance Pictures

Collin Chiucchini

Nueraili Taqa

Zachary Flint

Soul

Cool Company 'Blessing' by Waley Wang

Cool Company - Blessing [Official Music Video]

Waley Wang follows up his video for&nbsp;Cool Company's Halos with another bittersweet take on romance, with nods to the oeuvre of Aki Kaurismäki and Jim Jarmusch, for The Black Skirts' Two Days.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's a coming-of-age dark comedy set in the 90’s about a dorky teenager heartbroken after a remorseless breakup. He escapes by fever dreaming about a carefree relationship with a young TV star, but despite his newfound romance as well as a dazzling makeover, things take a distressing turn.Reality and our hapless hero's&nbsp;fertile imagination blur, as Wang rounds up his 80s and 90s influences into an evocative piece with deadpan hipster appeal.&nbsp;It's good stuff. And the track is part of&nbsp;the Korean indie rock artist English language EP Good Luck To You, Girl Scout!,&nbsp;his first release in over two years.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

South Korea

Wenyu "andy" Yu

Samuel Schrag

Stefan Nachmann

Sharon Vion, Emile Domise

Alvaro Del Val

Wax Tv

Nice Shoes

Andrew Pandolfino

The Black Skirts 'Two Days' by Waley Wang

The-Black-Skirts-검정치마-'Two-Days'-by-Waley-Wang

Cool Company narrates the story of a romantic couple's wedding day being struck by an apocalypse, in&nbsp;Waley Wang's genre-bending promo for Halos.&nbsp;Told in a series of slow reveals - and shots in surreal, boldly art-directed sets - the video is inspired by French Cinèma du look, Peter Greenaway, fashion, and Seventies and Eighties horror films.Intercutting vintage, VHS-style segments with a contemporary aesthetic,&nbsp;Alexey Kosorukov's cinematography is the&nbsp;star of the show, with stunning colour palettes, polished lighting and a confident control of&nbsp;the distinct looks within the concept.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Waley Wang

Director

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