Patrick Daughters brings the art of Marcel Dzama to the screen in a beautiful nightmare of heartbreaking warfare and death. Expressed in dance. Yes, you too may well feel a strange conflicted sense of pleasure and sadness watching this unique video for Department of Eagles – that’s Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, and Fred Nicolaus. [...]
Neil Coxhill has directed and animated a viral for Amelia magazine that’s an artful combination of live action, illustration and animation – and also definitively proves that even after Armageddon, there will still be fashion. That’s a relief. Neil’s making a habit of bringing fashion editorial spreads to life, in collaboration with photographer Julia Kennedy [...]
Onesize, a Dutch motion design/direction outfit strong on widescreen wide-open-spaces stuff, created this continuing pan-shot for the postrock outfit The American Dollar – presumably by morphing photos of different landscapes – with mesmeric results. So mesmeric in fact, we forgot to post it when it came out a few months ago…. The American Dollar Anything [...]
When Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and others made their skate film Fully Flared, they used UNKLE’s lovely song Heaven on the soundtrack. Now the extraordinary sequence from the film’s intro – which makes the antics of Spike’s buddies in Jackass look like tea-party stuff – has been re-edited to work specifically with the track. The [...]
Melina Matsoukas has directed seriously superior pop videos for the likes of Beyonce and Katy Perry and many more. Now she demonstrates she can also make delightfully witty videos for taboo-busting English pop songs. With footage from The Porter Wagoner Show establishing Lily’s C&W credentials, this really does speak for itself. The girl just ain’t [...]
Joe White, formerly one half of directing team Joe+Rollo, has joined Flynn Product- ions as a solo director. Previously at INTRO, Joe’s animation and compositing background led him to work on commercial campaigns for Coke Zero, Nike and Virgin Media and also a children’s TV adventure for BBC. Together with Rollo Wenlock, Joe helmed the [...]
Not content with writing era-defining multi-million sellers, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody came up with the idea for a 16-minute HD animation played as screen visuals as the band play the epic three-track song-cycle called The Lightning Strike on their current Take Back The Cities world stadium tour. The tour’s video director Blue Leach from [...]
It’s wacky and wonderful, and very sexy. Jack Penate gets a sea-change video to go with his musical advancement from Alma Har’el, director of the excellent Beirut video for Elephant Gun a couple of years back. And this one has a similar, slightly bygone joie de vivre. So Jack has left his skiffle roots, and [...]
Here’s a story from North America. Actually it’s a wonderful, very simply drawn animation which seems to come from a more innocent age. It’s by Garrett Davis and Kirsten Lepore – made a couple of years ago, while they were still at college in Maryland Institute of Art. On the soundtrack is Garrett’s distinctly idiosyncratic [...]
Depeche Mode’s glorious return to form yields a tremendous video by Patrick Daughters that also harks back to the glory days: a dark, gripping, thrilling sequence which could be the centrepiece of an action movie. Patrick is no stranger to making highly cinematic music videos, of course, but this is really on a new level [...]
