Archive for the 'Interview' Category

Bugging out with Chris Milk

Here’s the five favourite music videos (from the last five years) Chris chose while I was conducting the music video book interview:

Nine Inch Nails – Perfect Drug
Radiohead – Street spirit
Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity
Lucas – Lucas with the lid off
Bjork - All is full of love

Chris Milk has a chameleon-like nature. You can’t predict the [...]

200 Nanowebbers semi-conducted

Recently coming across Semiconductor’s video for Double Adaptor on Osaka Recordings I found a thing of rare digital beauty. It gave me cause to reevaluate their work after viewing a performance by them a number of years ago at the Brighton Dome. I found their work at that time intriguing but not stand out. The [...]

Colder and UVA dance To The Music

Colder’s To The Music video by UVA is a striking promo treatment where sound and image are totally in keeping with each other. I’ve worked with and commissioned pieces from Colder’s Marc Nguyen Tan previously (he has a background as an art director, creating impressive graphic and motion pieces as Dotmov and le cabinet), [...]

Dienstelle music video minimalism

The minimalist art/music videos by Karl Kliem under the label, Dienststelle, are some of the purist examples of the form. Clean, and fluid, they cleanse the palette after seeing too many saturated colours and choppy cuts.
I asked Karl Kliem, the director a few questions about his work.