A seasonal sci-fi animation by London-based director Daniel Prince. Reminiscent of 80’s classics like Batteries Not Included, “Invaders” follows a small UFO as he struggles to impress and befriend two other, seemingly more advanced UFOs.
Tons of great shots in this video for Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Lula Miranda’s track “Cherry Kiss” by directors Paco Gorriz and Juan Manuel Pinzón of Buenos Aires-based Mamá Húngara.
Starring
Lula Miranda, Josefina Enrico
Katiana Pestana Alfonsina Blanco, Meela
Catalina Jure, Kanako Hongo, Nico Gabriel Chavez
Delfi Valente, Julieta Brito, Gala Nesci
Mara Sapir, Felix Santa María
Tomas Pei, Lina Lasso, Gonzalo Laprida
Written & Directed by Juan Manuel Pinzón & Paco Gorriz
A Mamá Húngara production
Executive Producer: Lisandro Ramos
DOP: Daniel Carrizo
DOP second unit 2: César Guardia Alemañi
Choreographer: Josefina Enrico
Gaffer: Juan Scaiola
Camera: Sebastian Ferrari
Movi operator: Juani García Sánchez
Focus: Vera Fernandez
Grips: Cami Scarzello – Pedro Adamovsky
Production designer: Magdalena Peralta Antivero
1er asist. PD: Carmen Rivoira – Claudio Jede
Utilery: Achu Foster
Costume designer: Johy Turek @Belen Stratta (de Weekend Estudio)
Costume designer for LM: Anita Noseda
Make up: Inés Pizarro / Milagros García
Make up LM: Nati Blatt
Editing: Tomas Maumus Matias Maumus
Color grading: Alejandra Lescano
1st assistant director: Mariana Sanguinetti
Production manager: Martin Busel – Tomás Medero
This video was submitted by Juan Manuel Pinzón and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A wonderful documentary short about Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. Born in Stockholm in 1862, af Klint strove to express concepts beyond what the eye can see, creating radically abstract paintings years before her better-known contemporaries Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. Choosing to keep much of her groundbreaking work private during her lifetime, directors Ted Gerike and Felipe Lima explore the hidden legacy of the mysterious artist in honour of the “Hima af Klint: Paintings for the Future” exhibition currently on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Featuring
Tracey Bashkoff
Christine Burgin
Susan Cianciolo
Josiah McElheny
Produced by Ways & Means
Directed by Ted Gerike & Felipe Lima
Executive Producers: Lana Kim, Jett Steiger
Producer: Steph Max
Guggenheim Producers: Stephan Knuesel, Naomi Leibowitz
Voiceover/Narrator: Hayley Magnus
Editor: Sean Leonard
Music: Andrew Miller
Sound Mixer: Colin Alexander
Motion Graphics: Matthew Miller
Post Sound: Unbridled Sound
Sound Supervisor: Brent Kiser
Sound Editor: Ian Chase
Color: Bossi Baker
This is just one of the many lovely submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A young artist rediscovers her confidence in this video for Unbloom’s track “Lost Myself.” Created by Mason Barnes-Crouse, findersfinders, Shady Hanna, Genevieve Latour, Unbloom and Forest Van Winkle, the team aimed to “capture the song’s balance between digital-psychedelic aesthetics and emotionally grounded lyrics.”
Created by
Mason Barnes-Crouse
findersfinders
Shady Hanna
Genevieve Latour
Unbloom
Forest Van Winkle
Artist: Unbloom
Director of Photography: Shady Hanna
Editor: Genevieve Latour
Colourist: James Graham
This is just one of the many fun submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out.
Another creative short from writer-director Christian Cerezo (previously featured here). “A Bride & A Groom” tells the story of a woman literally born wearing a wedding dress and a man who suffers from a related condition. According to Cerezo:
“I didn’t know how to write until I started writing about things that have personally happened to me, and about feelings that I have personally felt. That’s just to say – no matter how ridiculous the premise of the film may seem… it all basically actually happened.”
This video was submitted by Christian Cerezo and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Swedish director Robin Günther offers a unique visualization of a timely topic. Opening with a wide shot of a large, unknown shape — something between a planet and a womb — a silhouetted figure moves to the resounding truths we can no longer afford to ignore. As Günther states:
“Even if there is lots of news with pictures of dead sea life, beaches filled with single-use plastic items, documentaries of plastic islands bigger than countries that are floating around in the oceans; it is hard to grasp the width. This film is an emotional journal based on those facts. I would like to tell the story in a new way. Pushing the way of traditional storytelling. Invite you to get involved with something that is visually both beautiful and frightening, alien-like and human, synthetic and natural. And hopefully, offer a new perspective.”
Watch “Planet of plastic” above and see full credits below!
Directed by Robin Günther
Choreographer & Dancer: Jonathan Morell
DOP: Marcus Möller
Styling: Ingrid Hägglund
B-photo: Jonathan Bjerke
Light design: Anton Andersson
Music: Jimmy Svensson & They dream by day
A beautiful-yet-unsettling exploration of the artistic process of six actors by writer-director Marc Ortiz. Featuring music from Barcelona-based musicians NUU, “Ophelia” revolves around the myth of Shakespeare’s fateful character and is described as neither a music video nor a short film but, simply, “the suicide of a song.” Warning: this video contains depictions of suicide.
Written & Directed by Marc Ortiz
Music by NUU
Head of production: Marc Muñoz
Cinematographer: Alberto Bañares
Steadycam/Focus Puller: Ivan Buñuel
Gaffer: Ferran Grau
Best Boy: Antonio Ortiz
Color: Jaume Ponsa
Editor: Gal·la De Yzaguirre
VFX Artists: Héctor Cornelles i Nacho Naya
Sound Designer: Laura Díez
Stylist: Monica Araujo
Graphic Designer: Miquel Serratosa
Subtitles: Maria Kerr
This is just one of the many creative submission we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Really enjoy the styling of this video for Australian artist Max Byrne, aka Golden Vessel. Collaborating once again with London/Melbourne-based director Harry Deadman, “Moonstone” offers a charming re-enactment of a fake moon landing. The song is inspired by real-world events, specifically the 1998 US federal investigation into missing moon rocks from the Apollo 11 mission. Initially distributed around the world as part of the Goodwill Moon Rocks initiative, 30 years later the specimens had largely vanished and become untraceable. While in studio with his friends Byrne’s recalls:
“I started telling them about the stolen moonstones and then morphed it into a metaphor for a conversation we were having earlier about missed opportunities and when we or friends miss out on something that should’ve been in reach (and the frustration around that). The stolen moonstones became the missed opportunities and we all started writing. We tried to sneak a few references from the different stories around stolen moon rocks into the song such as mentioning Joseph Gutheinz who was a NASA special agent tasked with recovering the missing rocks.”
Watch “Moonstone” above. You can also click here to check out Byrne and Deadman’s previous video for “BIGBRIGHT,” if you haven’t already!
Love the energy and editing of this experimental piece from Vancouver-based collective Scrap Creative. Merging film, design, strategy and photography, Scrap is the brainchild of director Leigh Powis and DOP Brandon Kelly. After collaborating for over 10 years, Powis and Kelly have now joined forces with producer Kevin Landry, creative strategist Ed Foster, designer/art director Jesse Clemiss and composer Jeremy Wallace-Maclean.
Utilizing a lean production model to deliver exceptional results, Scrap operates under the mantra of innovation — always pushing further into the unknown. As seen in “JBYJ,” a stylish short exploring one man’s fight against contemporary thought in an attempt to elevate the individual from the battlefield of his own mind. Check it out above and see full credits below!
Director: Leigh Powis
DP: Brandon Kelly
Producer: Kevin Landry
1 AC: Eddie Foster
Art Direction & Design: Jesse Clemiss
Talent & Original Music: Jeremy Wallace-Maclean
Thanks to:
Craig Anthony Bullen
Alex Nelles
Willem Healy
Charlie Powis
Emma Baker
A haunting video for Desto by Helsinki-based director Kristian Lindén. Complementing the metallic and machine-like track, “Exoskeleton” tells the story of a young woman who finds it increasingly difficult to determine what is real as she dabbles in VR and meets the avatar of her dreams.
Starring Marika Peura & Sofia Etholén
Directed by Kristian Lindén
DP: Kim Koponen
Edit, VFX & Color: Kristian Lindén
Gaffer: Werneri Tienari
Grip: Rasmus Purola
Locations: Aarno Rankka/Galleria Rankka, Joel Hypén/Siro Creative
Catering: Eveliina Lindén
Thanks to: Joel Hypén, Janic Leino, Eveliina Lindén,
Jussi Manni, Matti Pentikäinen, Anton Tammi
This video was submitted by Kristian Lindén and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A beautiful exploration of the rhythms of love by Amsterdam-based director Danny Griffioen for Sofie Winterson’s track “Time.” Featuring great work by cinematographer Douwe Hennink (previously featured here), Griffioen describes the project as a portrait of the different phases of an unhealthy relationship:
“In the beginning, it feels like the love is infinite: lovers have no awareness of the concept of time. Which doesn’t last forever. The love and trust that was built are withered by two estranged strangers. The urge to destroy is present and hope is lost. Time feels lost again.”
Watch above. Full credits below.
Starring
Eeva de Frel & Jasmine Karimova
Eva Van der Panne & Sofie Winterson
Directed by Danny Griffioen
Cinematography: Douwe Hennink
Producer: Danny Griffioen
Styling: Isabelle Griffioen
Edit: Daan Adèr
16mm Telecine by DeJonghe
Grading: Erik van den Heuvel @ De Grot
Thanks to De Grot & De Pastorie
This is just one of the many lovely submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Great styling and lovely little details in this video for Apre by London-based director Amitay Leopold (previously featured here). Untrammelled by convention, “Backstreet” follows a group of friends as they explore abstract approaches to love, relationships and gender roles.
Starring
Lewis Baldie
Hattie Erawan
Reiss Bendall
Joseph Vessey
Daisy Henshall
Directed by Leopold
Prod. Company: OB Production services
Executive Producer: Sam Holmes
Producer: Andrew Rawson
Director’s Rep – Sam Davey @ OB Management
Director Of Photography: Paul O’Callaghan
1st Assistant Camera: Harry Purser
Gaffer: Julius Beltrame
Production Designer: Luke Moran-Morris
Set Decorator: Emily Durtnall
Props: Daniel Mccarthy
Commissioner: Andrew Law
Artist Management: Underplay
1st Assistant Director: Janine Frank
Costume Designer: Taff Williamson
Hair And Makeup Artist: Lulu Plews
Runner: Samuel Fullerton
Editor: Reuben Fagan
Colourist: Alex Gregory @ The Mill
Band HMU: Sara Bowden
Graphic design and compositing: Leopold
This is just one of the many wonderful submissions we’ve received in the past week. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
