Spy Entertainment has announced the signing of director Jaron Albertin to its roster. Albertin's credits include Death From Above 1979's "Sexy Results" and videos for Mew, Maximo Park and Circlesquare.
The Video Static Director Commentary Series continues with the Mates Of State cut-out clip "Fraud In The 80's." Director Arno Salters shares the tricks he used to make all the elements in this inventive video come to life.
Director Sean Michael Turrell (blonde, second from left) on location in Toronto with rock band Billy Talent for their new video. photo by Dustin Rabin; click photo to enlarge
New Spy Entertainment signing Arno Salters (left) gives direction to the lovely Imogen Heap on the set of "Goodnight And Go." More pics from the set are in the "i-candy" section of Imogen's homepage.
artist: Imogen Heapsong: "Goodnight And Go"label: RCA Victordirector(s): Arno Saltersproduction co: Spy Entertainment
artist: Mates Of Statesong: "Fraud In The 80's"label: Barsukdirector(s): Arno Saltersproduction co: Spy Entertainmentcommissioner: Jill Kaplan & Van Riker
The Open"We Can Never Say Goodbye"Loog/Polydor UKChristopher Mills, directorCraig Fleming, producerSpy Entertainment, production coDescription: Director Christopher Mills spent a week in Paris to create a video for psychedelic rock band The Open that is partly a surreal travelogue, but primarily an artistic rumination life, death, fire, ice and other dichotomies. -- Watch "We Can Never Say Goodbye"
Southern rockers I Nine catch a big break thanks to their inclusion on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's new film, Elizabethtown. The video will revolve around the movie's plot, in which Orlando Bloom undetrakes through the South after receiving a scrapbook from Kirstin Dunst.
artist: I Ninesong: "Same In Any Language"label: RCAdirector(s): Christopher Millsproduction co: Spy Entertainment
MTV will mark the United Nation's International Day of Peace on September 21 by airing the 30-minute special, Rocked: Sum-41 in Congo. Punk/metal group Sum-41 documented their trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo to draw attention to the bloody humanitarian crisis that has cost 3 million lives over the past 6 years and destroyed much of the country. The special includes the band's rescue from a particularly fraught incident by U.N. peace worker Chuck Pelletier (for whom Sum-41's latest album, Chuck, is named).
Caesars "It's Not The Fall That Hurts" AstralwerksChristopher Mills, director/DPGeof McLean, producerSpy Entertainment, production coMarc De Pape, editorDescription: Director Christopher Mills uses a collage technique to create panoramic backdrops for this Caesars video. Different footage of the same locale is layered atop one another, sometimes with band performance and sometimes with either a woman who twirls some streamers, or two young children that parade with cut-out images.
