Corin’s Prodigy video wins best video at Rushes Soho Shorts ’09 awards
Corin Hardy’s superb ‘cigarette packet men’ video for The Prodigy’s Warrior’s Dance has won best video at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts’ awards. Corin accepted the best video prize from veteran music...
View ArticleJames Frost joins Academy
James Frost has joined Academy Films for commercials and music video representation in the UK. The experienced British director – now largely based in LA – won a D&AD Yellow Pencil and nominated...
View ArticlePaolo Nutini’s Pencil Full Of Lead by Corin Hardy
A clay, stop-animated Paolo Nutini is brilliantly integrated into the real world in Corin Hardy’s hugely entertaining, beautifully-made new video for Paolo, created with the help of animators who...
View ArticleThe Noisettes’ Saturday Night by Kim Gehrig
Over one hundred Noisettes fans were invited to shoot the official music video for the single Saturday Night, using only Nokia mobile devices – all supervised by a proper director, Kim Gehrig. The fans...
View ArticleLocal Natives’ Airplanes by Mark Waring
Released to coincide with their winter UK Tour, LA five-piece Local Natives’ new single Airplanes is partnered with this imaginative Mark Waring promo. Waring depicts an empty house with a rather...
View ArticleGoldfrapp’s Rocket by Kim Gehrig
Goldfrapp are firmly back in the pop camp with the insanely catchy Rocket, and Kim Gehrig has delivered a suitably sexy, colourful promo which sees a vengeful Alison Goldfrapp enjoying her very own...
View ArticlePaolo Nutini/Big Ghana Band’s Pencil Full Of Lead for Cadbury’s Big Swap...
As part of the Fairtrade Fortnight campaign, Corin Hardy directed this special promo for Paolo Nutini’s Pencil Full Of Lead starring the singer and the Big Ghana Band. The Ghana musicians had...
View ArticleMagic Numbers’ Pulse by Ali Taylor
Ali Taylor makes a welcome return since having her baby (who makes a cameo) to direct Magic Numbers’ Pulse. Taking the melancholy and introspection from the music, Taylor turns in a beautiful, artful...
View ArticleRose Elinor Dougall’s Find Me Out by Ali Taylor
Following her sterling work with Magic Numbers, Ali Taylor’s second promo this week is a video for former Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall. The video for Find Me Out is Ali’s second for Rose Elinor –...
View ArticleBiffy Clyro’s God And Satan by Corin Hardy
Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2010 yesterday for their Only Revolutions album, Biffy Clyro team up with Corin Hardy for fifth single and towering ballad God And Satan. The adventurous promo,...
View ArticleMarcus Söderlund and Danny Sangra join Academy
Academy Films have signed two new directors: the experienced Swedish director Marcus Söderlund, and British up-and-comer Danny Sangra. Marcus is already fairly familiar to music video aficionados with...
View ArticleJames Blake’s Limit To Your Love by Martin de Thurah
Exactly a year after sweeping the MVAs 2009, Martin de Thurah is back in music videos, for James Blake’s sparse, space-dubby version of the lovely Feist song, Limit To Your Love. In typically beautiful...
View ArticleLissie’s Everywhere I Go by Marcus Söderlund
Swedish director Marcus Söderlund’s first UK commission since joining Academy Films sees Lissie wandering around the countryside… with an elephant. It was all done for real. The production went to...
View ArticleJona Lewie, Man Like Me and IKEA’s You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At...
A music video-cum-ad from Kim Gehrig that revives Jona Lewie’s new wave cult hit, and will undoubtedly sell lots of IKEA kitchens too. Like the Pro Green/Doritos tie-in, this uses technology with...
View ArticleAcademy sign Us Design and Paul Bryan
Academy Films have just made two new additions to their music video directors’ roster, signing Us Design Studio and Paul Bryan. Us are Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, who both studied graphic...
View ArticleFallulah’s Give Us A Little Love by Martin de Thurah
A different kind of video from Martin de Thurah for the Danish singer Fallulah – there’s no jawdropping imagery, no supernatural element. This is all about a very believable scenario, and the...
View ArticleNokia N8′s Poodle Loop by Kim Gehrig
With the IKEA-sponsored version of Jona Lewie’s Always In The Kitchen At Parties turning up on Best Ads of the Year lists everywhere, here’s Kim Gehrig latest crowd-pleaser, skirting the border...
View ArticleJLS’ Eyes Wide Shut feat. Tinie Tempah by Syndrome
JLS continue their bid for world domination by way of their tasty club number Eyes Wide Shut, with US direction/design team Syndrome at the helm of a visually lush promo that appears to be set in...
View ArticleMirrors’ Into The Heart by Us
There’s more than initially meets the eye in this stylish video for electronic pop outfit Mirrors’ Into The Heart. But deception is all part of the graphic armoury of the directing team known as Us –...
View ArticleJessie Ware and Sampha’s Valentine by Marcus Söderlund
It’s arriving here a bit late on the Day of Love – but then the video for Jessie Ware and Sampha’s Valentine by Marcus Söderlund was actually only completed and posted a few hours ago, on February 14th...
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