It’s always refreshing to see a simple concept done in a practical way using modern technology to generate an original result as is the case in the music video for BELL.
Visuals by Zach Lieberman, Francisco Zamorano, Andy Wallace, and Michelle Calabro.
(note: no post-production effects were used in this video. everything on the face is happening in real-time, via hacked Kinect, laptop and LED projector. It’s built using FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih)
This recent video for VHS or Beta was based on an original concept by Pixelfucks.
Director Graham Hill explains:
“Pixelfucks is a tumblr that was started early last year by a couple friends of mine as a diversion from their day jobs. The band saw the animated gifs and loved the aesthetic for the song. Pixelfucks then approached me and asked me to do the video.
Starting with the lyrics as a jumping off point, I knew we wanted to show the impacts and memories a relationship leaves on you—a physical representation of feelings. The question then was how to most simply visualize this and still push that odd off-kilter feeling in the imagery. Since it’s an age-old story, I decided to strip away all the context around our main characters and shoot only the essential elements on either a black or a white background.
So, after splashing blue paint all over the actors and squeezing them into a variety of skintight green and blue costumes, we took the footage and hammered out an edit. Using that edit as the foundation, we ran it through a crafty combination of keying, tracking and roto. Finally, applying a judicious mix of psychedelic patterns and color, we eventually arrived at the desired proportion of offbeat images and story.”
“Crystalline”, the new video by Bjork and directed by Michel Gondry is out. There are some cool moments in the piece but I’d have liked to see the stop motion pushed a bit further as well as see Bjork more integrated into environment.
Black Black Hills – “The Celebration” from Blac Ionica on Vimeo.
It’s a celebration bitches! Well this isn’t actually the kind of celebration you might want to be in attendance for. Here is a quote from the creative team involved with directing and producing the video, ‘The Celebration’ is a thematically and emotively dark sounding song. Because of this we wanted to tell a simple but very cinematic and gripping story focusing on the atmosphere of the track without being a literal translation of the lyrics.’ You can catch the rest of the right up here. The video was directed by Blac Ionica.
I cannot stop listening to Washed Out lately. Actually my entire studio keeps listening to Washed Out. It’s quite possibly some of the best music to create too that has been released in quite some time. I think you can catch the vibe via the video above.
“An 80′s wedding goes bad when guests from hell, hijack the proceedings to the horror of the unsuspecting wedding band.”
Credits:
Writer/Director: Sean Rodrigo
DOP: Eugene Perepletchikov
Camera: Peter Miranda and Mike Anthony Smith
Art Director: Georgie Barnett
Production Manager: Penny Vickery
Hair and Makeup: Pina Guadagnino
Production Assistant: Michael Repich
Edit: Alister Robbie
This is the oficial video for Matta’s recent single release titled ‘Release The Freq” off the forthcoming album ‘Prototype’. Direction, Design, Cinematography, Editing, 3D & Animation by Kim Holm.
Rémy Cayuela keeps it dark, creepy, sexy and cool for WAT’s single ‘Kill Kill off of their upcoming album.
Director: Rémy Cayuela
DoP: Matt Wise
Editor: Edouard Mailaender
Label: Boxon Records
Management: Etienne Perreau
Publishing: Vitch Music Group
Co-Publishing: Humaine Box
Production company: One More Prod
Executive producers: Double Entente
Why don’t we just get this short week started off correctly (short week for those of us who had Monday off for Memorial Day here in the states anyway). And what better way to do that then with a little video by Barbariön titled ‘My Rock’ that should help you “quench your soul in the river of fortitude” and “fly high above the eagle’s nest.” How can you say no to that or this video?
Credits:
Director: DAVE BUDGE
Cast: CORY DERRICK ROZ HAMMOND GEOFF PAINE
Producer: CAROLYN MASEL
Cinematographer: JOEL BETTS
1st AC: HUGH TURREL
2nd AC: LINUS KOH
3rd AC: DAVE SQUIRES
Gaffer: ANDREW LOCK
Production Design: PAUL STANLEY
Wardrobe: HOLLY PRESTON
Makeup: GEORGIA HARDY & HOLLY WEBBER
Fine Art: GRAHAM HEAD
Unit: JOE LOH
Recording Engineer: CHRIS FATOUROS
Mastering: JAMES BLACK
Sound Design: SELWYN & GIDEON COZENS
Intro Titles: MATT SLATER
Post Production: ACTIVEMOTION
Edit: MATT OSBOURNE
Online Edit & Visual FX: JAMIE SCOTT
Color: FERGUS
Special Thanks: MELANY MASEL GAVIN HERON
The song ‘My Dear Body’ is off the album “People Songs” soon to be released by Power Animal on a new charitable label called “Human Kindness Overflowing”. The label is a project developed by Paul North (Sunnybrook) and Keith Hampson of Power Animal.
Nightcrawler, a member of Medusateam lays down some beats and sets them to a throwback horror psychedelic freakout that might just get you jumping in your seat.
Creative direction: Nightcrawler
Music & video produced by: Nightcrawler
Company: Marathon beat
Thom York was filmed by Theo Jemison, Grace Oh, Arthur S. Mor and Alter laying the beat down at Theory LA on March 19th once again showcasing the outrageous talent that has kept Radiohead consistently at the top of my playlist going on well over a decade now.
Darkmatters sets out to make computer like effects without the use of a computer. Deamon is a take on analogue wireframes based on Strings and nails.
Director Kristoffer Borgli will haunt your dreams again with this video for Young Dreams.
Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
Cinematography: Håvard Byrkjeland
Editing: Mikael Svartdahl
Colourist: Julien Alary
Flame Artist: Ivar Rystad
There are some strange things happening in what could only be described as a ‘bio-psychedelic’ romp in the video for Warm Ghost’s single ‘Open the Wormhole in Your Heart’ directed by the strange minds of Brandon LaGanke & John Carlucci. The video made the official selection of the SXSW film festival with all of it’s glowing, gooey and slithery strangeness.
Directed by: Brandon LaGanke & John Carlucci
Edited by: John Carlucci
Produced by: Brandon LaGanke
Art Direction: Paul Duncan
Director of Photography: Nick Brandreth
Assistant Camera: Ben Davidson
Music by: Warm Ghost (Paul Duncan + Oliver Chapoy)
Label: Partisan Records
Post Production: The Mill New York
Production Company: The Arsenal
Colorist: Sal Malfitano
VFX: Brendan O’Neil
Actors: Paul Duncan, Steve Johnson
Actresses: Daria S, Margaret Morris, Jenna Dickerson, Candace Mills
Grips: Mitch Webb, Daniel Dibiasi, Johnny Spanish,
Makeup: Jessica Kelleher
Photographers: Greg Maka, Rob Boudon
WOODKID – IRON – Video directed by Yoann Lemoine
Featuring Agyness Deyn
Produced by Mourad Belkeddar
Styling by Ellen Af Geijerstam
Label & Video commissioner Pierre Le Ny
P & C 2011 GREEN UNITED MUSIC
CAVIAR / HSI / ONEMORE PRODUCTION
If you are at all prone to a potential acid flashback you will definitely want to avoid this video directed and produced by Phantasmic TV for Morning Teleporation. Otherwise, kick back and enjoy the mind melt.
