May 2013

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2013 MVPA Award Nominees

Winners are announced! See here.

Nominees have been announced for the 2013 MVPA Awards, the annual celebration of the best music video work as decided by a collection of production companies and directors, plus freelance workers and other music video related companies production community.

Director Floria Sigismond pops up the most here, with nominated videos in 12 categories. Directing duo DANIELS scores eight, while Anthony Mandler, Benny Boom and Colin Tilley each have seven nominations.

Highlighted directors for Director of the year honors are as follows directly below, with other categories under the jump.

The MVPA Awards will be held May 30 in Los Angeles. Ticket information to be announced soon.. Congrats to all the nominees!

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

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Kill The Noise "BLVCK MVGIC (Kill The Noise Pt. 2)" (Lee Hardcastle, dir.) - NSFW?

Kill The Noise - BLVCK MVGIC (Kill the Noise Pt. 2)

Sooner or later, claymation had to collide with dubstep. And so it does here with this clip from animator Lee Hardcastle, where the visuals match the demonic tone of the track pretty darn well.

warning: Mass amount of gory violence. But in clay. [SG]

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Benjamin Biolay f/ Vanessa Paradis "Profite" (The Lover (Martin Jalfen & Nico Kasakoff), dir.)

Benjamin Biolay ft. Vanessa Paradis - "Profite" (Official Video)

Buenos Aires/Los Angeles-based Nunchaku’s directing collective The Lover (Martin Jalfen & Nico Kasakoff) chronicles tender hearts and large plastic heads in the affecting and stylish 3:30 music video, “Profite,” for French singer/songwriter Benjamin Biolay featuring singer and iconic Chanel beauty Vanessa Paradis. The video features the wax and subsequent wane of a spontaneous relationship between a striking woman a curious motel innkeeper.

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Vanilla Ice "Cool As Ice" recut as John Maus "Bennington"

John Maus - Bennington

Someone was joking about remaking music videos much like musicians sometimes remake their own songs and then, coincidentally (not), someone showd me this perfectly pitched John Maus video which recuts the 1991 Vanilla Ice movie into something that's better than most of the hipster narrative vids you see so often these days.

Armond White would totally approve of this video and this post.

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