Co-directors NABIL and Mike Piscitelli take a torture metaphor and push it all the way to waterboarding to show how Polica singer Channy Leaneagh is way too hard on herself.
Passions burn and then get doused — or perhaps merely reborn — in this beautiful clip by Young Replicant that grabs the song's metaphor and creates a fully-realized, yet still imagistic story to represent it.
Because everyone should start their day with a reminder that you'll possibly die unhappy, alone and heartbroken: Here's a beautifully depressive video filled with infidelity, sex with old people, and heartbreak.
Director Mike Piscitelli ensures you won't hear this new J. Cole single as just another love song, delivering a dark meditative tale set back in the rapper's Fayetteville, NC hometown. The basic set-up is a love triangle of sorts, involving Miguel and a beautiful woman, but J-Cole's solution is probably closer to what you'd expect in a Sopranos episode than in a video for a critically and commercially acclaimed hip-hop star.
You likely met Mikey Ekko as Rihanna's duet partner on "Stay." His solo video has a similarly haunting vibe as director Sam Pilling shows him in danger of literally fading away in a glamorously trashed home.
Elijah Wood convalesces in bed with a bandaged stump in the place of his right arm. Maybe it's magic, or the meds, but his room slowly comes alive to first create a bionic replacement and then transport him to a fractal fantasy where his limb fully regenerates. It's a dream, of course — maybe the result of watching Akira too often — but he does wake up to a change in his condition that proves that something happened in his fugue state. --> watch "Tiny Tortures"
Time stands still for Darwin Deez at his convenience store job, stuck in a monotonous and repetitive rut. Can he break free? Of course he can, but not without literally squeezing himself out of this otherwise endless — yet very clever — video loop. --> watch "Free (The Editorial Me)"
Slow motion cinematography adds a grace and resonance to every motion and every drop of water in this new XX video. You'll need to make up your on mind of the meaning to the actions in the video and whether it's a tale of drowning or salvation. --> watch "Chained"
A round-up of recent news about directors signing with new production companies and/or reps. (File under: Probably only of interest if yr a video pro, unless you haven't seen these videos, in which case: Enjoy.)
Red Rocks is awesome. A breathtaking, one of a kind concert venue, surely the only one that has a "Geology" section on their website. It's a no-brainer location for a live video, but only if you deliver the goods. Luckily, Mumford & Sons are playing to absolutely packed house and directors Fred & Nick capture the venue with clarity and a larger than life scope.
Maybe this Kwes video has you thinking about elevators, or lifts as they say across the pond. If so, then you will love set designer Rory Buckley's blog liftsinfilms, which started as a place for him to compile reference clips for the elevator he had to design and build for this video. Now, it's about as comprehensive a site as you could hope for if you have a fetish for lifts in films. --> watch "Bashful"
There are lots of reasons to not live in a sleek, ultra-modern house: There's no place to put any magazines, you spend a fortune on wood polish and, apparently, R&B stars will stalk your home. As in Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" and his own previous "Burn," Usher is back and haunting a casa straight out of Architectural Digest.
