Music video by Katy Perry feat. Kanye West performing E.T. Director: Floria Sigismondi Producers: Natasha Alexsa Garcia, Danny Lockwood, Kelly Norris Sarno
Katy Perry Goes Sci-Fi With 'E.T.'
Katy Perry's latest hit "E.T." – the Number One single on Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week – may be named after Steven Spielberg's adorable Eighties space alien, but its video has more to do with grim modern sci-fi. In fact, the clip looks as though it could be the trailer for either a sequel to Avatar or a Katy Perry video game. It's a bold move away from Perry's usual silliness and sexuality, but the song itself is too – it sounds more like Evanescence's hard rock balladry than her cheerful radio hits "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream."
Fleet Foxes just posted a video on their site for a song from their forthcoming LP Helplessness Blues, "Grown Ocean". The dusty-footage clip features the band as they travel, work on the album, and smile at each other a whole lot.
Music video for the song “Machine Civilization” from the Japanese group, World Order. What, you’ve never seen slow motion breakdance voguing Japanese businessmen before? Imagine how boring the world would be without Japan. We love you Japan!
The unprecedented disasters unfolding in Japan; earthquakes, tsunami, and nuclear explosions, will somehow change things to come. And to send my message about this, I have expressed it here with WORLD ORDER. These disasters can be interpreted as a turning point for civilization. I think that we have arrived at a time of revolution, shared with all the people of the world, in today's society, economy, and political systems. Incidents themselves are neutral. I believe that every single one of us, wandering through this deep darkness, can overcome anything, if only we let go of our fear, and face the it all in a positive light. The world is not going to change. Each one of us will change. And if we do, then yes, the world will be changed. It is darkest right before the dawn. Let's all rise up to welcome the morning that will be so very bright for mankind. WE ARE ALL ONE
R.E.M. commissioned videos for every track on Collapse Into Now, and so far we’ve posted “Überlin” and “Mine Smell Like Honey.” The video for “Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter” features Michael Stipe and Peaches, and some costumes. “Walk It Back,” features a long shot of a horse urinating on a street. Watch:
Here's a video that Albert Hammond Jr., put together for The Strokes song, "Call Me Back".
The Strokes released Angles almost two weeks ago. As a gift for fans who pre-ordered the album, the band sent out a link to download a video for “Call Me Back.” The clip was created by Albert Hammond Jr., and it’s an uncomplicated video: slow motion film of water dripping down, a woman walking through a sheet of falling water. Both are very pretty.
Director and photographer, Yoann Lemoine, has had a diverse and compelling career over the past few years. From his high fashion and music photography to award winning animated work for AIDES Graffiti, he’s plowing through visual genres with consistent precision in narrative, technique and finish.
His latest Tarsem-esque masterpiece for Woodkid is not only a testament to his prowess in cinematography, art direction sensibilities, nuance in effects and overall tone; but this 27 year old is also the singer and songwriter behind the haunting musical act!
First EP "IRON" available on Itunes. WOODKID - IRON - Video directed by Yoann Lemoine Featuring Agyness Deyn Produced by Mourad Belkeddar Styling by Ellen Af Geijerstam Video commissioner Pierre Le Ny P & C 2011 GREEN UNITED MUSIC CAVIAR / HSI / ONEMORE PRODUCTION
MUSIC VIDEO: John O'Regan goes out on the town, gets in a fight, and boozes the night away in this night-set clip for his latest single. Dir.: Jeff Scheven.
www.rubikband.net Edited by Pauli Ojala Produced by Niko Kangas "Laws Of Gravity" by Rubik is from album "Solar" (Fullsteam 2011) Special thanks to Riku Tanninen / Yle Export & Matti Leikoski / Finnish Ski Association
"The Sensitive Girls" is from the album Paul's Tomb: A Triumph. The video was created by Marsha Balaeva. In “Sensitive Girls” what attracted me most was the theme of urban gloom and despair where everything you look at is palpably wrong and menacing yet fascinating in some way … At the start of this collaboration Carey outlined his vision of this song and his mentioning of faux religious imagery gave me the main theme for the storyline. He also came up with the finishing sequence when the bird is flying out into the light of a crystal pyramid. The majority of the city backdrops are based on actual streets and buildings of Liverpool, Manchester and London, they are quite real. A lot of the characters and objects can be traced back to various religious cults and practices like the dog with the pins. In Kongo wooden figurines of dogs and men were used by ‘baganga’ (healers) to perform rituals and if magic was successful a nail was added to it, so the most powerful objects were studded with nails.
Our story follows a group of Cool Hunters, evolved humans who used to live among regular humans, but as time passed, they infiltrated the global wired infrastructure system and live connected within the technology.
The Cool Hunters have adapted themselves to the challenges of the future. They are faster and more accurate at retrieving and distilling exorbitant amounts of information. As they become one with the machine, they access all and extract the essence of an idea, in mere seconds.
The Cool Hunters are connected to every one of us. They have access to all digital and analog structures. We see a glimpse of this in the first scene, as we watch a Cool Hunter looking through the machine and analyzing every detail of a young couple's life - the architecture and design of their home, their clothes, their possessions, nothing is lost on the Cool Hunters as they scan for nuggets of ideas. They live to share their findings.
Directed and Animated by Tronic Studio Music and Sound Design by Q Department
Two-minute CG opening cinematic for Killzone 3 directed by Mothership’s Vernon Wilbert features an alternate world faced with a Third Reich-style dictatorship.
Intro to Killzone 3. Platforms: Playstation 3 Exclusive Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Developer: Guerrilla Games Genre: First-Person Shooter PEGI Rating: RP Release Date: US: February 22, 2010 EU: February 25, 2010
You probably noticed the sexy/romantic vibe inside “Will Do,” from TV On The Radio’s upcoming Nine Types Of Light. Now it’s got a video where band members pine for different kinds of happiness using some sort of virtual reality head gear. Some hope for romantic love, others, a chance to play guitar on a mountaintop. I’m glad that they’ve finally perfected the technology that first appeared in Aerosmith’s “Amazing” video.
I am really into this trend of creative costumes under limited budgets. There was NewVillager’s “Lighthouse,” and last week’s “Forever Dolphin Love” clip. But director Stephane Leonard includes some nice effects and cool juxtapositions around the costumes as well.
Die Antwoord in “Umshini Wam” - NSFW(Dir. Harmony Korine)
“Umshini Wam” is a short film starring Ninja and Yo Landi of Die Antwoord. Ninja and Yo Landi cruise around in wheelchairs, smoke huge joints, fire off their guns and dream of one day becoming rap stars. It feels like “The origins of Die Antwoord”, though that’s not really clarified. It’s not a music video, but it’s strange, funny and not what you expect. Directed by Harmony Korine.
“Turn Me Up Some”’s video is two weeks old, but it’s worth including. Nate appreciated the frenetic editing, I appreciated the frenetic dancing. Directing group Messrs use smart cuts to show the similarities between dancers’ very different styles, making their movements flow each other’s seamlessly.
The official video for Yellowbirds "The Rest Of My Life" from the new album The Color, out now on Royal Potato Family.
ABOUT THE VIDEO: I made this video between October and December 2010, using a digital still camera and a program for arranging stills into stop motion called istopmotion. The first two weeks were dedicated entirely to cutting out images with an x-acto knife. I filed those images in folders by category and spent the next two months shooting scenes on my desk using a homemade camera stand. The video moves at 15 fps, so it's comprised of nearly 3,000 individual frames of paper collage.
A new animated short has been released for director Zack Snyder's soon-to-be-released fantasy adventure Sucker Punch, titled The Trenches. In Sucker Punch, the girls face off against an army of mechanized WWI soldiers. Through the use of clockwork and steam technology, human soldiers who die in battle are reanimated and sent back to the front lines. Although seemingly indistinguishable and soulless, the zombie army is not just made of gears and steam, but also of human flesh, bone, and memory. In The Trenches there is a tragic tale behind each lifeless mask. You can watch this new animated short in the clip below.
Sucker Punch comes to theaters March 25th, 2011 and stars Carla Gugino, Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone, Jon Hamm, Michael Jai White, Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jamie Chung. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.
Chunkothy was directed and animated by me at Nexus for Ninja Tune with Beccy McCray providing invaluable production skills. Bali Engle helped me colour and provided the beautiful animated sequences for the insect loop and fishes. Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Manav Dhir also provided colouring skills and contributed to the animation of the insects. Steve McInerney constructed the final edit with perfect timing and imagination.
There was a noteworthy amount of discussion around “Rope,” the first single from the forthcoming Wasting Light, especially given (or maybe because of) how textbook Foo that self-doubting post-grunge radio rock hook felt. Here’s that song’s video, featuring Pat Smear because the album does as well, with the black-clad band inside a Battles “Atlas”-reminiscent cube, with opaque white illuminated slates where the transparent plates and mirrors would be. It’s a slightly refined take on a standard rock video trope, which is to say it is a very Foo Fighters production. It follows that Dave Grohl directed.
Scenes From the Suburbs, filmmaker Spike Jonze's short film companion piece to his video for Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs", is set to screen later this week as part of SXSW's film festival. The Playlist points out that a trailer for the short film has hit the Internet; you can check it out below.
This piece speaks for itself and is as worthy of a full posting as anything I’ve seen this year so far. Have a happy Friday and take one minute trip through the journey of a puberty as envisioned by Alexander Gellner.
"Sometimes the Stars" is a gorgeous new song from Adelaide band The Audreys, taken from their 2010 album of the same name. The accompanying short animated film, produced by Luke Jurevicius and directed by Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment, is about a lost girl's journey through a surreal landscape, and her yearning to make a connection in this distant yet strangely familiar world.
Produced by Luke Jurevicius Directed by Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment Production Designers: Luke Jurevicius, Shane Devries, Jason Pamment, Ari Gibson Story by Luke Jurevicius, Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment 2D Animation: Ari Gibson Background Art: Jason Pamment Compositing: Ryan Kirby & Jason Pamment Colouring: Jarrod Prince & Joshua Bowman Executive Producers: Stu McCullough, Taasha Coates, Tristan Goodall Special Thanks: Sarah Macdonald, Makoto Koji, Jeremy Hill-Brooks
A few days ago I noticed that Pitchfork was running small, not-clickable pictures of John Slattery. Then the images started including members of The National. The band’s been cryptic with their advertising before (High Violet ads appeared on websites with no link to or mention of the band), but it was clear something was coming. And here it is, a video for High Violet’s “Conversation 16” featuring Mad Men star John Slattery (as opposed to The Adjustment Bureau star John Slattery, or the Sex And The City politician who liked to urinate on women John Slattery). Weirdly, Slattery’s romantic competition here is James Urbaniak, who played Buster, the guy with a foot fetish, on Sex In The City. In the video they fight over Kristen Schaal. She wasn’t on Sex And The City to my knowledge. The video was directed by Scott Jacobson, a writer for The Daily Show.
Everything we know about this track and video by Arctic Monkeys is coming via that screengrab up there, and a tweet from Focus Creeps’ Ben Chappell of Focus Creeps, who directed the video treatment which contains a shot of a studio card bearing the following info: James Ford, Arctic Monkeys, 2/7/11. The date’s relevant because it establishes this as a distinctly new, post-Humbug track, and not one of the allegedly numerous leftovers from Humbug’s Josh Homme and James Ford helmed sessions. It also lends credence to the reports that James Ford will be producing the Monks’ forthcoming fourth LP, whenever that gets released. As for the video, it’s a fine play on the brick-by-brick motif: a record playing, and then a quick visual montage of all the steps it took to get that record on the player: California highways, bands chilling on the beach, shots of the studio, audio monitor needles hovering near the red, cigarettes, a vinyl presser, and back to the start. The sound isn’t particularly exciting, but as far as stopgap reminders that the band exists and is working on new stuff set to pretty visuals, it’ll do.
Director Jamie-James Medina makes gorgeous photographs, and he spent some time last year photographing The xx. You can see a lot of his photography in this lifestyle video following a young female boxer. I love the contrast between her ruthlessness in the ring, and her tenderness with her child.
Keaton Henson – “Charon” (Dir. David Wilson, Keaton Henson, John Malcolm Moore)
I’m not a huge fan of videos starring puppets, but this video’s lead character (modeled after singer Keaton Henson) has more emotional range in his yarn-made features than most actors. Sad and lovely.
Director Ryan McNamara is also the lead animator on this whirlwind tour of American history, from the Mayflower landing to the present day. Everything move so fast here, but besides the many references to our bloody history, I love how he mixed together objects from different eras to show new and surprising connections. Definitely one to show at your next Tea Party Rally. (via Video Static)
Music video for “The Love” by Human Size Giants, featuring a tarantula, a topless woman in a bird mask and boxing men in lingerie. On suggestion. Directed by Per von Koch
Music video for “In The End We All Die Alone”, from the Hard Ons.
The synergy between the images and music is inspired, We are committed from the opening shot where the camera pans up a massive suspended scaffolding platform to reach the band playing demonically. The pace picks up-if this is possible-with the sorcerer of day and night dispatching tortured souls to oblivion. Fractal animation of psychedelic kaleidoscopes keep up the frenzy culminating in the creative use of stereoscopic 3D graphic effects as the band descends into hell.
The diabolic imagery and lighting coupled with the frenetic pace of the track make this music video mesmerizing to watch.
Synthpop stars Ladytron are back with a video for the song “Ace of Hz”. Not as powerful as their earlier stuff, in my opinion, but still, not bad. And the video’s pretty good too.
Music video by The Strokes performing Under Cover Of Darkness. (C) 2011 RCA Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.
Earlier we heard “You’re So Right,” a new Strokes song many of you deemed … interesting. Which is better than boring. Two for two, Strokes. Now we’ve got Warren Fu’s video for that song’s more classic-sounding A-Side “UCoD.” It was shot in New Jersey so the band got all dressed up.
This music video was made by morphing between hundreds of still photographs, for a nauseating yet hypnotic effect. Directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro.
A video comprised entirely of an animated sequence of 300 of morphing photographs and completely surreal and oniric created content. Nestled in the elegant setting, cuckoo clocks, wolfs and deer heads, the ratio of love/hate relationship between two beautiful sister lifeless is told through both soft and mechanical loop movement between kisses, hair pulling, whispers and sticking in a memory suspended in time.
artist: (M+A) song: MY SUPER8 year: 2011 director: RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO director of photography&camera operator: MILO TERENZIANI assistant director: CARLOTTA BALESTRIERI art_direction&editing/postproduction: RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO stylist&makeup: CARLOTTA BALESTRIERI actresses: MARIA GIULIA ROSSI - MARIA VITTORIA ROSSI production: RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO time: 04'50"
It’s really worth watching until 2:30 (before the actual music starts). Then better switch off otherwise your ears will bleed or you might at least die of boredom!
WRITTEN BY LADY GAGA. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: VINCENT HERBERT. DIRECTED BY NICK KNIGHT. CHOREOGRAPHY BY LAURIE ANN GIBSON.