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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Who is Andreas Nilsson

5 Aug 2010

Photo by Jason BotkinDirector and artist Andreas Nilsson

Name: Andreas Nilsson
Created on: 1973-April-27
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Homepage: Andreas Nilsson, Furlined
Domain: Art, Filmmaking

During the Oslo opening of Andreas Nilsson’s The Church of Pancakes, unwanted guests appeared from the sky and transformed his installation into an explosion of breakfast food that would come to involve the police. This […]

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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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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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Protoclip prefers Paris

29 Nov 2009

Photos by Jonathan Wells Stéphane Berla accepts award for his Matthieu Chedid video
French actor/comedian and Protoclip Awards MC, Nicolas Ullman donned a kilt and a pair of Doc Martens in honor of this year’s festival focus on the UK. Last night’s spirited awards for the 5th Annual Protoclip music video festival took place at […]

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Protoclip Music Video Festival, Paris

31 Oct 2009

[ 25 Nov 2009 2:00 pm to 29 Nov 2009 9:00 pm. ]

PROTOCLIP, one of the world’s only festivals dedicated to independent music video, celebrates its 5th edition. PROTOCLIP has a twofold purpose: first to bring to light the artistic vision and creation of the video clip and also to discover and make public the work of emergent/rising independent directors.

Among this year’s highlights are Made in […]

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Who is Chris Cairns

15 Sep 2009

Name: Chris Cairns
Created on: 1979-March-05
Record last updated on: 2008-November-20
Homepage: Chris Cairns, Partizan
Domain: Fencing, Base jumping, Cake decoration, lying. I like cameras and computers, music and sleep.
Location: London, England

Born in Brussels, UK-raised Chris Cairns burst on the creative scene in 2005 with a dynamic video for LCD Soundsystem that paid homage […]

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Anatomy of a Music Video: Treat Me Like Your Mother

19 Aug 2009

Jonathan Glazer’s note to self on the set of his Treat Me Like Your Mother video for The Dead Weather

The Dead Weather “Treat Me Like Your Mother” (Third Man Records/Warner Bros.)
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Producer: Rachel Curl
Production Company: Academy@HELLO!, Los Angeles
DP: Max Malkin
Editor: Paul Watts
Post + Visual Effects: One Of Us […]

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