Minimalist Music Video Posters

1 Sep 2010

Federico Mancosu’s poster for Anton Corbijn’s Depeche Mode video Enjoy the Silence
Some of the more interesting feature films are made by directors who got their start in music videos (Anton Corbijn’s new feature film The American opens today and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go follows a couple weeks later). Italian graphic designer Federico Mancosu […]

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OK Go and the power of Google AdWords

20 Aug 2010

I suspect on the internet the band OK Go is now synonymous with treadmills, cause Google is dishing out treadmill ads on their videos that don’t feature treadmills.

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Pimps and Prostitutes, the Terminal Bar revisited

21 Jun 2010

Stefan Nadelman left us hanging back in 2002. His 23 minute short film Terminal Bar (3 min excerpt) which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and picked up awards at many other international festivals ended with a “To Be Continued.”
I had the distinct pleasure of programming the world premiere of Terminal Bar at RESFEST, […]

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Sage Vaughn’s 10 Self-Help Books You Could Do Without

3 Jun 2010

Just a few of the Self Help books Sage Vaughn rescued from thrift stores.
When celebrated painter Sage Vaughn was invited to participate in the Video-themed Scion Installation tour, he came up with a concept completely different from the art he is known for.

In this exclusive video interview Vaughn discusses the inspiration for the project and […]

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Ratatat’s unintentionally brilliant video teaser

21 May 2010

When this was posted last week, people said “dumbest video of 2010“, “Not too exciting” and “a bird in front of a green screen. . . and that’s about it.”
I took a look at the strange bird and had similar thoughts.
“We couldn’t figure out the video when they band gave it to us,” Matt […]

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Making Waves - Julia Pott

18 May 2010

Video interview shot by Patrick Yonally, edited by Nina Liwag
Making Waves is series of artist interviews about Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between The Decemberists and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria — each of whom have created an animation to accompany a section […]

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Pixels Attack

9 Apr 2010

Pixels is a fun new short by Patrick Jean produced by One More Production out of Paris. Similar ideas have been done before but this still has a fresh approach.
via Ruben

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Dear God, Lauri Faggioni’s Monsters of Folk music video

31 Mar 2010

At last week’s Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum we premiered Lauri Faggioni’s beautiful new video Dear God for Monsters of Folk.
Lauri is celebrated for her work as an artist and production designer for her work with Michel Gondry and Johan Renck. As a director in her own right she has worked with Bright […]

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About Last Night… OK Go + Hammer + Flux

24 Mar 2010

Tim “the one with the glasses” Nordwind of OK Go
Featured filmmakers Saman Keshavarz (winner of Best Music Video at SXSW 2010), Andy Bruntel and Edouard Salier (in town from Paris)
OK Go’s Damian Kulash closes out the night.
Enjoy the full photo set from the evening.

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I’m Here is Here

21 Mar 2010

I had the pleasure of catching Spike Jonze’s new short film I’m Here on the big screen at last week’s SXSW Film Festival. Now finally it is online for all to see.
This beautiful story of robot love also has an amazing soundtrack, I challenge you not to fall in love with Aska’s There Are […]

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