Stripped down, like the track: Blue-hued high grunge imagery for Portishead’s first video Machine Gun from new album, Third. Whether web-cammed or CCD’ed, this is the antithesis of the To Kill a Dead Man promo epic. It catches the moment - we’ve moved on from 16mm noir homages to YouTube rehearsal sneak peeks.
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Portishead stripped down
Bjork’s visual lust
Björk’s Wanderlust, created by Encyclopedia Pictura (made up of Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch), has taken over nine months of heavy effort, animation and rendering. 2D and 3D versions of this hi-def epic are almost ready for presentation according to FEED.
Björk has always been a visual gadfly, but what I find most interesting about [...]
Akira goes West
More Akira news… Although I posted on the Kanye West/Spike Jonze video for Flashing Lights only recently, I haven’t really been a fan of West up to now (although Chris Milk who I interviewed for Remixing Music Video, has made some great clips for him), suffering as he does from typical rap star pomposity. However [...]
Wong Kar Wai burns up
Philips Aurea gets a dazzlingly oblique short by Wong Kar-Wai. I remember interviewing WKW behind his trademark dark glasses back in the Nineties at the ICA, London, he told me I was too young, I told him he was too stylistic (can you believe that?). Now both of us are wrong.
There’s Only One Sun is [...]
Spike Jonze boots up Kanye West
Spike Jonze co-directed video with Kanye West (who gets the music artist vanity credit), for the rap artist’s Flashing Lights video. With new album replete with Takashi Murakami cover image for Graduation, Kanye West plunders pop sensibilities both sonically and visually. You can’t go wrong drafting in Jonze to add an instant edgy tone to [...]
Little Minx an Exquisite Corpse
Little Minx Exquisite Corpse:
A distributive film narrative based on the surrealist parlour game featuring Little Minx directors: Laurent Briet, Chris Nelson, Malik Hassan Sayeed, Josh Miller, Phillip Van & Steph Green. Manifesting the collective imagination through the Exquisite Corpse game. The Little Minx Exquisite Corpse is an extraordinary meeting ground of chance. Rule of the [...]
Hyperkinetic, super-psychotic Liars
Just been made aware of Plaster Casts of Everything by Liars, and directed by Patrick Daughters, through Stashmedia Feed. Like an amphetamine-fuelled Karma Police, down a Lost Highway, the promo rejects heavy VFX for horrific Gondry-esque projections onto driver, passenger, and naked roadrunner. Part of The Directors Bureau stable, Daughters is currently working on debut [...]
Kanye West looks East
Black Rain meets Akira in Kanye West’s latest promo.
HALlo from The Strokes
You Only Live Once by The Strokes is a wonderful homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It feeds The Strokes retro image, but in an unobvious manner. Amazing production design and screen graphics on show elevates this video from the usual 2001 emulators. (Nice job, director Warren Fu!)
[link via Daring Fireball]
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Perfect fit for Cornelius
I ran out of time so didn’t manage to get Koichiro Tsujikawa into the Reinventing Music Video book. If I ever find time to do a follow-up then he’ll be at the head of the list, as the work just keeps getting better and better. Especially his collaborations with Cornelius. All good MV directors need [...]
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