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 [...]
OK I’m not including the PSP, Nintendo DS or Video iPod in this category because they are essentially moving image delivery devices.
I’m also not including any of my own books, or products I might be associated with or contributed to.
Channel H DVD, Hifana
Guero DVD, Beck
Rubber Johnny DVD, Chris Cunningham
Director’s Label Series Vol. 2 [...]
Whether you call them VJs (the old-school video jockey, which mainstreamers invariably confuse with MTV presenters), or DJs (new-styled digital jockeys, illustrating the move away from simply remixing analog sources such as tape and slide projection), DJ Magazine recently released a great list of the top 20 best VJs of 2005.
I’m glad to see [...]
I love and hate the latest Madonna video, Hung Up, in more or less equal measures.
Why I hate it:
Performance clichés (couldn’t afford a good location scout?)
Hip-hop meets disco milieux (!?)
Incoherence (false narrative)
Krumping (Madonna trope: superficial use of street fad)
Been a while but Dougal Wilson’s new music video, Cash Machine for Hard-Fi continues his love of constructing quirky contemporary tales. Despite the murky colour palette, this is a lightly whimsical take on receiving those ‘No funds available’ messages in the corner ATM. In Wilson’s world a whole Lilliputian workforce is hard at it [...]
Garth Jennings of Hammer & Tongs is back in the promo saddle after his extended hitchhike into debut movie territory.
His video for Beck’s Hell Yes! [RM/WMV streaming] features a quartet of Sony QRIO ‘dream robots’ in synchronized dance. Their metallic skins offset nicely with glowing purple-blue and green features while they perform on a pristine [...]
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