Director Carlos Lopez Estrada and Executive Producer Kimberly S Stuckwisch have officially announced the launch of their new production company, Little Ugly. Based in LA and represented for music videos by Reprobates, the director roster includes:
Headlining NYC's legendary Madison Square Garden remains a goal for Run The Jewels, but it comes kinda true for them in this ode to the world's most famous arena and the oldschool ticketbuying service, Ticketron. During "Call Ticketron" we learn that the arena is entirely empty of fans, likely due to nefarious, sci-fi reasons.
Extreme turbulence and a literal crash landing in this unexpected video for Vic Mensa's unguarded new song.
Andrew Donoho, director "Rage stood out as one of the most powerful, personal, and intense songs Vic has released, and I wanted to create something equally visceral. The song stemmed from his mindset during a fight with depression and addiction, so a plane crash felt like the perfect metaphor for the loss of control and the battle for survival. Burying this metaphor into a drug/alcohol fueled death-dream allowed the raw emotion of the song to manifest on screen in a harrowing narrative that takes place between fantasy and reality."
A wild night that keeps revealing itself to not be what it seems, especially when guest star Luke Hemsworth reveals himself to resolutely break up the party.
Trainfuls of immigrants of all kinds — including one that seems to include an entire society unto itself, and then a subway where the passengers do away with their black bar blinders — crisscross the globe in this bold and elaborate video tie-in to the Hamilton mixtape featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product.
Sia continues her video streak of using dance to elucidate emotions and tell stories, this time with Julianne Moore as a narrator and Zoe Saldana portraying a pregnant woman who learns that she has AIDS and all the risks she, and her unborn child, now face.
All proceeds from the track support endhiv.com and its mission to find a cure.
What starts as a starkly beautyiful b/w video takes a turn into even bolder sci-fi territory in this latest from Pussykrew.
Pussykrew, directors: "We were trying to construct a visual experience outside of the standard music video language. We’ve created a visual piece based on the mood of the track and our imaginary virtual space. It’s a combination of live action and CGI -a sensual and intimate sci-fi story, where Oyinda is transcending into an alter reality (or expanded reality) in the post-future fluid universe."
When your DP is in the airport during a gunfire scare and you decide to make a music video out of it.
Carlos Lopez Estrada, director: "We had just filmed 2 videos for Watsky in Mexico City and our director of photography, Albert Salas, found himself back in New York, stuck in what seemed to be a terrorist attack. They later found out that the alleged gun fire had been the sound of a pistol signaling the start of an Olympic race, which was playing on multiple televisions at JFK." [via Vimeo]
Andrew Donoho, director: "Frenship manages to capture a very complex duality in "Capsize": Sonically the song has such a sense of joy and celebration, but the tone is dripping with longing and isolation. Building visuals for a contradiction like this was an exciting challenge. I attempted to embrace the song's conflicting themes by braiding together the tangible emotion of dance with the visual metaphor of a walking over an isolated body of water to tell a simple human story about rekindling a former love. We tried to keep the effect as practical as possible by building a transparent platform just an inch below the water. We didn't want wires, greenscreen or CG to hinder the connection between the dancers or create any kind of emotional barrier during the performance. The dancers spent most of the day on the platform, in the center of a lake, totally isolated from the crew and the rest of production, which ended up adding a very interesting character layer and injected that tiny bit of visceral naturalism that makes these performances so compelling. These fine details combined with our absolutely incredible team allowed us to build something genuinely special. I hope you enjoy watching as much as we did making it!"
