Director of Photography

Yon Thomas

Marc Klasfeld heads to the Wild West with this big-budget&nbsp;fun caper for the new David Guetta single Lovers On The Sun - starring movie actor&nbsp;Ray Liotta.As is so often, Ray plays the villian, who gets to torture our&nbsp;hero - who escapes thanks to a poncho-wearing dame with magical powers...

United States

Marc Klasfeld

Rockhard

Nicole Acacio

Chris Zapara

Lark Creative

OB Management

Phil Botti

Dance

David Guetta 'Lovers On The Sun' by Marc Klasfeld

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The ultra-photogenic Louisa Rose Allen - aka Southampton singer Foxes - gives a stirling performance in the promo to&nbsp;Lets Go For Tonight, directed by Marc Klasfeld - now represented in the UK by OBmanagement.Sitting down to tea with her friends on an all-white set, things soon get out of hand with some casual food-throwing and paint-bombing as the track escalates. What a glorious mess...

United Kingdom

Nina Dhuly Miller

Richard Alarcon

Sony Music

Foxes 'Let's Go For Tonight' by Marc Klasfeld

Foxes - Let Go for Tonight

Marc Klasfeld&#39;s stylish, monochrome promo for Icona Pop&#39;s Just Another Night follows&nbsp;Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo through the streets of Paris as the Swedish duo move between fashion shoots, cool parties and romantic flings...

Atlantic Records

David Saslow

Luti Media

Neigeme Glasgow-Maeda

Luti Fagbenle

Icona Pop 'Just Another Night' by Marc Klasfeld

Icona Pop - Just Another Night [Official Video]

Not to be outdone by his old mucker Gary Barlow,&nbsp;Robbie Williams also has a new video out. And the concept is weirdly similar &ndash;&nbsp;up to a point.Like <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/10/18/gary-barlow-let-me-go-ben-winston" target="_blank">Gary&#39;s Let Me Go</a>, Robbie also heads for America&#39;s&nbsp;city streets in Marc Klasfeld&#39;s video for Go Gentle. He&#39;s just a little bit more ambitious: no mere upright joannas for him, plonked in the street for a good old singalong in NYC. Robbie&#39;s come to LA, and&nbsp;brought his own ship...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Bill Yukich

Carrie Sutton

Michael Estrella

Robbie Williams 'Go Gentle' by Marc Klasfeld

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Shot in the contrasting and stunning locations of Iceland and Guatemala, Jonathan Desbiens (aka JoDeb) delivers this spectacular&nbsp;fantasy adventure for Sebastian Ingrosso&rsquo;s Reload &ndash; featuring Tommy Trash and John Martin.Working as both an action feature and a promo, we follow the progress of two lovers (played by Jean-Pierre Vertus and Latoya Shaw) as they are &lsquo;transported&rsquo; (by way of some cool FX and animated sequences) from the jaws of a dragon in freezing Iceland to the warmer climes of Guatemala&hellip;&nbsp;

Iceland

Jodeb

Vision Film Co

Geoff McLean

Courtney Davies

Mic Waugh

Jean-Pierre Vertus

Latoya Shaw

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash & John Martin ‘Reload’ by JoDeb

Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash, John Martin - Reload

In the pantheon of OK Go videos (and its now a quite large pantheon) this rates as the arguably the most outlandish, least feasible and certainly the biggest budgeted one so far: a kind of automotive musical Rube Goldberg machine. The kind only made possible by a partnership with a car company.One thousand instruments, placed over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles, are &#39;played&#39; by a Chevy Sonic, outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms, while the band record this version of Needing/Getting while sitting in the speeding car, driven by lead singer Damian Kulash.You can well believe, as it says on the YouTube page, that the video took four months of preparation and four days of shooting and recording; and Damian drove it all himself, having taken stunt driving lessons.Does the car actually &#39;play&#39; the song Well, apparently each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note, so that played the right note no matter where they were struck... And that really is a lot of Gretsch guitars.So it&#39;s a bit Clarkson (and a bit like a commercial) for some people&#39;s tastes, but another jawdropper nonetheless.http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_detailpage&amp;v=MejbOFk7H6c#t=0s

Doug Walker

Luke Ricci

Brian L. Perkins

Damian Kulash, Jr.

OK Go 'Needing/Getting' by Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr.

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http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&amp;v=qOgFHMEJMeY Inspired by the artist Raymond Pettibon - whose artwork can be seen adorning the sleeves of Sonic Youth and Black Flag records - Marc Klasfeld delivers this animated performance beauty for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Devin Sarno

Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Monarchy Of Roses' by Marc Klasfeld

Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-'Monarchy-Of-Roses'-by-Marc-Klasfeld

http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=iv&amp;annotation_id=annotation_679807&amp;v=RtBbinpK5XI Shot in the pretty oceanside location of Venice California, Marc Klasfeld delivers a rooftop performance promo for hot new Chili Peppers single The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie, in the spirit of classic U2 and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=nT6325bmcsQ" target="_blank">Beatles</a> promos...

Dean Gonzalez

Beau Lyon

Red Hot Chili Peppers 'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie' by Marc Klasfeld

Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-'The-Adventures-Of-Rain-Dance-Maggie'-by-Marc-Klasfeld

Featuring a brilliant performance from Jaleel White as Cee Lo Green, Mickey Finnegan's fun promo for Green's Cry Baby is a great big retro, cheesy production with an excellent cast and choreography...

Mickey Finnegan

Pepper Carlson

Hank Friedman

Jason Young

Nick Savales

Cee Lo Green 'Cry Baby' by Mickey Finnegan

Cee-Lo-Green-'Cry-Baby'-by-Mickey-Finnegan

After the dance, the treadmills, the marching band, the Rube Goldberg Machine, the goose, and the dogs... OK Go just take things a step further with All Is Not Lost. 
Back with choreographer Trish Sie, they also collaborate with heavy-hitting modern dance company Pilobulous - and also, taking a leaf out of Chris Milk's book with The Wilderness Downtown and 3 Dreams Of Black, this is also a Google Chrome Experiment.
With customary ingenious choreography, ingeniously shot - through a clear floor - the four members of OK Go and members of Pilobulous make shapes and eventually, spell out words. But that's clever HTML5 code in the full interactive version turns it into a multi-window experience and means the viewer can manipulate what the dancers 'write'. 
Even if it never reach the popularity of dogs or treadmills (and who knows, it might) it's another landmark.

OK Go, Pilobulous, Trish Sie

Shirley Moyers

Paula Salhany

OK Go 'All Is Not Lost' by OK Go, Pilobulous, Trish Sie

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Syndrome deliver a super-glam and super-clean photographed promo for The Saturdays' Notorious - filming them at work and then at play. It's such a hard life...

Syndrome

Kleiner Inc/Hello!

Brian Welsh

Benji Bamps

Ross Anderson

The Saturdays' Notorious by Syndrome

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Now signed to OBmanagement for representation, Mickey Finnegan delivers this wild and wacky promo for Party Rock Anthem by the equally wacky electro duo LMFAO - son and grandnephew of the legendary Berry Gordy.

Joyce Washington &amp; Fuliane Petikyan

Bob Curreri

Nicole Ehrlich

LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem by Mickey Finnegan

Hot on the heels of his promo for Nelly, Marc Klasfeld teamed up with electronic rap outfit Far East Movement for their Rocketeer single. Featuring a performance from One Republic singer and 'hit songwriter to the stars' Ryan Tedder, the video was shot on the outskirts of downtown LA...


Far East Movement: <a href="http://www.fareastmovement.com/" target="_blank">website</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fareastmovement" target="_blank">myspace</a>

Billy Parks

Steve Escobar

Alexa Dedow/K

Far East Movement’s Rocketeer feat. Ryan Tedder by Marc Klasfeld

Far-East-Movement’s-Rocketeer-feat.-Ryan-Tedder-by-Marc-Klasfeld

For minimalist throbber Move That Body and bringing in hip hop heavyweights Akon and T-Pain to bolster proceedings, Nelly acts out his of 'Fight Club for girls' fantasies with Marc Klasfeld directing the underground dance-off...

Bentlight

Gina Harrell

Nelly’s Move That Body feat. T-Pain & Akon by Marc Klasfeld

Nelly’s-Move-That-Body-feat.-T-Pain-&-Akon-by-Marc-Klasfeld

Co-directed with Brian L. Perkins, their new one-shot vid for new single This Too Shall Pass features the Notre Dame marching band and, of course, was shot for real. It also promises to be the first of a series of videos for songs from the new album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky - possibly one for every track.

Bonfire Films

OK Go

OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass by Brian L. Perkins & OK Go

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Alex and the boys are back, and they're in a bad way. In the video for the new album's first single directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern - aka thirtytwo - you've rarely seen a pop group so inelegantly wasted as Franz Ferdinand. They're like a bunch of broken men who've been hitting the Tennants Super ever since they stopped touring the last album. Excellent concept.
Shot all over unsalubrious parts of LA, this tragi-comic essay of a bad trip works as an anti-intoxicants film almost as entertaining as the Egg PSA ("this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs..."). And of course it's a nostalgic journey down memory lane for some of us too. Including the lying in the tumble dryer bit.
They also went to the Mojave Desert and found the link between Franz Ferdinand and The Doors. Most perceptive.

Dylan and Will of thirtytwo on making the video for Franz Ferdinand's Ulysses
"The shoot was one of our most enjoyable promo experiences to date. We pitched an idea based around the type of filmmaking we love - proper run-and-gun with a minimal crew - and we were really excited when it got commissioned.
"It was a pretty fast and furious shoot, but it meant we had a lot more freedom than we have been used to. We took full advantage of that. We were able to improvise scenes and grab locations as we went along. A lot of our references were from the American new wave - we wanted the video to have that kind of looseness and spirit, but without becoming a pastiche. Hopefully we achieved that.
"The band were great to work with. We'd got to know them during a documentary we shot with them, so there was a truly collaborative spirit involved. The amount we got done wouldn't have been possible if there hadn't been. Yon Thomas, the DoP was amazing as well - we really hope to have the chance to work with him again.
"Highlights included securing our motel location for the fee of $38 complete with cockroaches; Will acting as a decoy for the launderette owner while we got our last few shots; and casting one of our dancers as she walked her dog past the location, just minutes before we did the shot. Only in LA."

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