October 2012

WATCH IT: Titus Andronicus "In A Big City" (Isaac Ravishankara, dir.)

There's a timeless feel to Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles as he ambles through New Jersey to the banks of the Hudson. The lens distorts and pulls you a bit off-center and day turns to night turns to day. There's also a fantastic article by Amos Barshard at Grantland about the video and the 28 hour shoot that produced it.

"This being indie rock in 2012, the shoot is a stripped-down affair. There's a six-man crew and an inexpensive concept: Stickles stomping through his native Jersey, alternately backed by his band and confronted with human roadblocks, making his way toward his adopted semi-home of New York City. The theme: change.

Director Storm/Hansen on The Raveonettes "Curse The Night"

Maybe the kids in your town harbor fantasies about holding up the Ice Cream Man. This noirish video from direting team Tue Walin Storm and Michael Hansen has a far bigger plot in mind..

Storm/Hansen, directors:

"We felt from the beginning that the dreamlike sound on 'Curse The Night' screamed for a video in black & white. It was the monotone drumbeat and the beautiful, almost childlike vocal that sparked the core idea for the video. We knew we wanted two kids dressed in revolutionary uniforms playing drums walking around an empty city collecting a posse of youngsters. There’s an elegant musical transition towards the end of the track that breaks with the rest and it was obvious the story needed a twist to happen here. 

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