Music Video
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Alma Har’El on her Shia LaBeouf-Starring Sigur Ros Video
Containing the same truthful fusion of fantasy and reality as found in her documentary Bombay Beach, filmmaker Alma Har’el’s latest work is a provocative and dramatically compelling short film for the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, made as part of the group’s Mystery Film Eeperiment. For the Project, the band invited a dozen filmmakers to select a track from their new album, Valtari, gave them the same modest budget, and told them to do what they saw in their heads. “The idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom,” they wrote on their site. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 26, 2012 -
FILMAID MUSIC VIDEO: “A HEAVY ABACUS,” DIRECTED BY PAOLA MENDOZA AND TOPAZ ADIZES
Filmmaker Paola Mendoza (Entre Nos, and one of our 25 New Faces) just forwarded this video she directed with filmmaker Topaz Adizes for FilmAid. It’s the organization’s first video, in support of World Refugee Day on June 20, and the music is The Joy Formidable’s “A Heavy Abacus.” While volunteering as Visiting Teaching Artists for FilmAid, Mendoza and Adizes shot this piece featuring Sudanese refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya. It was shot with a Canon 7D using two bounce boards and an iPhone as a monitor for the kids to lip sync to. For more information […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 6, 2012 -
MUSIC VIDEO: “MAN ON FIRE,” DIRECTED BY BRADY CORBET
Actor/director Brady Corbet directed this great video for “Man on Fire,” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. It was shot by Jody Lee Lipes, d.p. of Tiny Furniture and whose own dance film is N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. Check it out below.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 5, 2012 -
HARMONY KORINE’S BLACK KEYS VIDEO
Harmony Korine takes the Black Keys to his Trash Humpers universe with the music video for the band’s new “Gold on the Ceiling.” Here it is — glitches, drop-outs and all.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 1, 2012 -
Animator Nick Criscuolo and Laika
The story of Laika, the Soviet dog sent to space with the knowledge that she would not return alive, is one of adventure and sorrow. She was simultaneously the first animal to orbit the earth and the first to die in orbit. One can’t help but anthropomorphize her and everything she must have experienced. Animator Nick Criscuolo has illustrated Laika’s journey in the music video he made for the song “I Can’t Breathe,” by Sharon Van Etten. He explains his own attraction to the Laika tale: “It’s a story that’s close to my heart because I love science; it […]
by Alix Lambert on Apr 21, 2012 -
MUSIC VIDEO: “HEART OF GLASS,” ELISE
Blondie meets Jeanne Dielman in this cover by Elise. Don’t know who the director is.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 15, 2012 -
MUSIC VIDEO: OFF!’S “WIPED OUT” BY RICHARD KERN
Here’s a new video from Richard Kern, a celebration of West Coast punk/skate culture by OFF!, which features ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2012 -
DAVID LYNCH’S “CRAZY CLOWN TIME” VIDEO
We’re on deadline here at the magazine, but there’s always time for a David Lynch video, in this case a promo for the title track from his 2011 album, Crazy Clown Time. And be warned, although it adheres to YouTube’s family-friendly guidelines, it probably stills qualifies as NSFW…
by Nick Dawson on Apr 2, 2012 -
An Interview with D.P. Martina Radwan
I started working with DP Martina Radwan about a year ago on the feature documentary, Mentor (addressing bullying and teen suicide in Mentor, Ohio) I further had the pleasure of working with her on a recent music video for the band Shearwater. It is a gift, as a director, to find a DP who you can quickly fall into a shorthand with, creating your own visual language, and trusting in the collaborative process. Radwan and I found this with each other. Her narrative work includes Flannel Pajamas, by Jeff Lipsky; Singapore Dreaming, one of the first Singaporean feature productions and […]
by Alix Lambert on Feb 6, 2012 -
MUSIC VIDEO: “THE VIEW, LOU REED/METALLICA DIR. BY DARREN ARONOFSKY
Because we are Darren Aronofsky completists here at Filmmaker, I present to you “The View,” the video he’s done for a track off of the Loutallica collab. Aronofsky is quoted in the press release as saying of the album, “”I had never heard anything like it. I couldn’t stop listening to it. Lou’s crushing lyrics, and the band’s incredible licks. It’s so original and that’s why I wanted to work on it.”
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 3, 2011
