The festivals main honor went to legendary director Jonas Akerlund, who received the Camerimage Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Music Videos.
Beyonce's suprise game is mad TIGHT. "7/11" comes tumbling down like a perfect crap roll — see what I did there? — and seeming like an off-the-cuff homemovie except that it's a) really good and b) hits almost every hip bulletpoint you can think of: Twerking? Yep. Red cups? Sure, why not. Kale? Of course, it's the vegetable of the year (sorry, Cauliflower).
Director Keith Schofield doesn't see race. He only sees love. And love is possible for everyone, for the typical music video models, the muscleheads, the freaks, the ugly and even the alien with three penises.
Maybe especially for the alien with three penises...
Weekly World News may have stopped publishing their awesome/asinie paper in 2007, but the legacy of Bat Boy lives on in this video for Hot Hot Heat singer Stephen Bays' new project, Fur Trade.
Director Kheaven Lewandowski goes for a deeper character study here, focusing on our hero's quest for acceptance amongst the other neighborhood boys — which is a weird choice, since Bat Boy's true story includes capturing Saddam Hussein, flying to space and even biting Santa Claus.
Wanna go on dates with the One Direction lads? This first-person POV clip may be the closest you get, and you might walk away thinking that maybe they're not as smooth as you imagined...
Welcome to Morrocco... Home to a bareknuckle brawler with the savegery of an uncaged dog, a trigger happy girlfriend with poor aim, a relentless avenger, and a magical sect carrying what may be the modern day holy grail — aka the one-of-a-kind secret Wu-Tang album The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, which maybe you'll get to hear in Heaven.
Director Ian Pons Jewell sets you up for the kill, literally, in a video where the Absolutely Fabulous actress Joanna Lumley does what it takes to maintain her youth and the spotlight at a truly bizarre nightclub...
A tricky video boasting lots of in-camera effects that take you from a bed to outerspace and beyond... all without ever leaving the video set.
Henry Schofield, director: "we want it to feel a bit tongue in cheek, a bit unexpected"... So went the conversation at our first meeting and 10 days later I'm trying to keep a straight face as Mr. Barlow and Mr. Owen stroll onto set with ginger permed wigs, with Howard moments later looking like an uber-tanned auditionee for Towie.
Besides their every-take-perfect professionalism and their great ideas... I gotta say, the guys are super down to earth and up for not taking it too seriously. Needless to say it was a brilliant experience working with them.
In one shot we're going from studio, to bed, to cheerleaders, to bathroom to kitchen...etc. Some furrowed brows and maybe a moment to two of "will this work" self doubt, but with a dream team of Katie Dolan as EP, Alicia Farren producing, Mikey Hollywood on production design, Ashley Wallen killer-chroeographer and Ben Todd keeping an all seeing eye on aesthetic, we felt like an A-Team all ready to Macgyver like put it together.
While 2014 will go by without a YouTube Awards, the folks at YouTube have made sure that the 2013 debut was not a one-shot: The second YouTube Awards will go down in March 2015 with KIA Motors as a sponsor and Vice Media as executive producers...
Details are scant, but a YouTube statement hints at significant changes with fan involvement in both choosing and creating the videos with involvement from "top directors and creators"...
Update: Told you this probably wouldn't last long... In a way this looked like two unrelated projects put together... Perhaps someday we'll find out.
As you can imagine, the Marilyn Manson vaults likely contain some fucked up shit. That said, who knows how "real" this newly released (leaked?) clip is, as it combines Manson's 2012 video "No Reflection" with previously unseen footage that includes Lana Del Rey getting raped by horror director/actor Eli Roth — a piece of film that Roth discussed with Larry King last year:
"The footage is so sick, it's been locked in a vault for over a year. But Manson is a friend — he came to my Passover Seder."
Spoiler Alert: It's NSFW and will likely disappear from the Internet and back into the vault as mysteriously as it arrived — kind of like Elijah at your seder — this time secured under a more foolproof lock and key.
Zooey Deschanel is dancing with an invisible man. M. Ward is playing with invisible instruments. Together they make a haunting sound that's captured in a practically perfect video that deserves a place on the mantle next to "Chandelier" as one the Best of the Year.
Director Edgar Wright is fresh off his music video for Pharrell's "Gust Of Wind", so, what better time than now for him (or I) to traipse through a back catalog that was largely unseen here in the US.
The Bluetones "After Hours" is a good example of the director being ahead of his time with a one-take video that casts kids into an homage/send-up of '20s gansterland.
Working the overnight shift at the country club could be a lonely ordeal, but not if it serves as a respite from a situation far worse than loneliness.
