Music Video

MUSIC VIDEO: THE WEEKND’S “THE KNOWING”

On my list of top ten culture for 2011 would be the woozy morning-after soul of the mysterious Canadian vocalist/producer team, The Weeknd. For a song from an album, House of Balloons, in which every other track sounds like the music from the final five minutes of a Miami Vice episode, this science-fiction opus, directed by Mikael Colombu and originally posted by Drake on his site, is not what I would have expected. Dim the lights, go full screen and check it out. (Hat tip: Pitchfork.)
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2011
REBECCA BLACK IN HELL

Although there are exceptions, I try to avoid pop-culture ephemera here on the ol’ Filmmaker blog. So there’s been no Rebecca Black, although I’ve been as bemused (and annoyed) as the rest of you. But this video appropriation is pretty wack. The band is Cynical Mass.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 2, 2011
DENTATA’S “EARWIG,” BY RICHARD KERN

Back in the day, Richard Kern did many of our covers — Robert Duvall, Kim Pierce/Chloe Sevigny/Hilary Swank, and Michelle Rodriguez, for example. Recently he gave us a shot of Sasha Grey for The Girlfriend Experience that is only in our print edition. But the truly well-viewed will remember Kern’s string of New York underground and transgressive films from the 1980s, movies like The Right Side of My Brain, Submit to Me, and Goodbye 42nd St. This new Kern music video of the band Dentata is more straight-up performance, but it still boasts his great eye and specific vibe. Dentata […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2011
BJORK, NICK KNIGHT TRIBUTE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I tweeted this video earlier in the week but hadn’t realized then it was on YouTube. Here, then, is Nick Knight’s remarkable video tribute to designer Alexander McQueen, with original music by Bjork.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 12, 2010
SPIKE JONZE ARCADE FIRE VIDEO, “THE SUBURBS”

Taken from the short film “Scenes from The Suburbs,” this is shot by Greg Fraser and edited by Jeff Buchanan with additional video editing by Patrick Colman. Produced by Vince Landay and Arcade Fire. Directed by Spike Jonze. Watch until the end.
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 22, 2010
The Flaming Lips’ Christmas On Mars

How couldn’t you be existential in space? Cut off from Mother Earth, becoming a machine of sorts with only memories of holidays to pass the time? In the lovably lo-fi sci-fi Christmas On Mars, psych rock band The Flaming Lips have invented a straight-to-DVD film that could be a lost cousin to 2001, but born on the other end of the budget universe. Stuck on Mars with the gravity control device and the oxygen supply failing, a group of young colonists try to fix their space home, while battling hallucinations of babies. Part of the space colony also houses a […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Dec 1, 2008
SMALL SCREEN WOES

The Wall Street Journal has a piece up by John Jurgensen about declining budgets in the music video industry, a development that has something to do with both music business economics as well as new modes of viewing and distribution. From the article: But music executives also say the big video budgets of the 1990s are generally unnecessary, now that videos are most often watched on small screens like laptops and video iPods. Reality TV programming and the success of amateur “viral” videos that viewers watch and email to friends have changed the expectations of young viewers, says Monte Lipman, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 23, 2006

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