Director Hiro Murai‘s incredible video for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” is as poetic as it is violent, and sharply expresses the confusion, the anger and ultimately the fear felt by many in the country. This is a masterpiece — flawless work by everyone involved, especially Larkin Seiple (director of photography) and Brian Freesh (steadicam operator).
A nice portrait of homeless rapper, New York, by director Micah Hamilton and cinematographer Evan Schneider of Los Angeles-based ILDEFONSO. Shot in the district of Skid Row in downtown LA, “Keep Running” showcases the New York City native’s resilience as he shares his perspective on homelessness, personal hardship and music.
Directed by Micah Hamilton
Starring: New York
Production Companies: ILDEFONSO, Amber Film CO
Executive Producers: Micah Hamilton, Spencer Alfonso, Evan Schneider
Producer: Spencer Riley
Director of Photography: Evan Schneider
Editor: Evan Schneider
Original Score: The TVC
Title Song: “Keep Running” Ft. Viane, New York, Simon
Post Production by Schneider Visuals
Colorist: Evan Schneider
Thank you:
Tyler Madsen
The Warehaas
Special Thanks:
Amir Girgis
Garrett Hazen
Cameron Gardenier
Viane Escobar
Ryan Calaunan
Amy Amato
Delaney Farley
Nikola Jovanovic
This is just one of the many excellent submissions we’ve received in the past week. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Lovely video for Kelsey Lu’s track “Shades of Blue” by director Vincent Haycock (previously featured here).
Twin Shadow pays homage to iconic broadcast performances of the ’60s for this live performance of “Saturdays.” Made with love on 16mm film by New York City-based director and cinematographer Patrick Golan (previously featured here).
Made in collaboration with The FADER.
Label: Warner Bros. Records
FADER: Scott Perry & Frances Capell
Director: Patrick Golan
Producer: Jeffrey Schroeder
DP: Matt Ballard
PD: Brielle Hubert
UPM: Adam Thayer
Editor: Matt Schaff
Colorist: Josh Bohosky @ The Mill NY
Color Prod: Evan Bauer
This video was submitted by Patrick Golan and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Love the energy of this video for Keny Arkana’s track “Madame la Marquise” by director Jeremi Durand. In a statement Durand shared with us about the project, it’s about more than striking visuals: “Pretending that everything is fine, we’re ending up burning our society up with all our phones and the virtual bubbles we’ve built for ourselves.”
Another video for Florence and the Machine from director AG Rojas, this time for the track “Hunger.” Click here to check out their previous collaboration on “Sky Full of Song,” if you haven’t already!
A heartbreaking portrait of adolescence by New York City-based filmmaker Molly Fisher. Winner of the #NewView short film competition aimed at supporting female-identifying directors and helping to diversify the voices of women in the film industry.
A lone figure fights the temptation to fall asleep in this wonderfully strange video for Par’s track “Método.” As one of the creators, Flavia Quartino, writes:
“Método exists in the edge, between sleep and wakefulness, between life and death, between being alone and being among others, between day and night. It is loving the night, the state in which everyone descends into their own world, into their idiocy, their oniric dialogue with the deceased. Nameless sleepers, apolitical, illogical, sleeping we descend into Hades under the city.”
Check out the video above and see full credits below!
Him: Johonny Rodríguez
Made by:
Flavia Quartino
Florencia Lamas
Adrián Nogueira
Román Benvenuto
Johanna Silveira
Color grading: Sebastián Vázquez
Thanks to: Crazy Horse, Francesca Quartino, Manuel Rilla (and the night)
Omar Apollo and his friends gather on an East Village rooftop in this perfectly chill video for “Unbothered.” Directed by Kevin Lombardo, who helmed the short portrait of Omar we premiered earlier this year (check it out here if you haven’t already).
Director: Kevin Lombardo
Production Co.: Extended Family
Executive Producer: Dylan Shanks
Producer: William Van Zandt
Director of Photography: Patrick Golan
Editor: Luca Repola
Location Manager: Jake Nanez
1st AD: Shoichi Murphey
1st AC: Nicholas Lopez
Loader: Nicholas Lopez
Sound Design: William Van Zandt
Colorist: Samuel Gursky @ Irving Harvey
Post Production Producer: William Van Zandt
Shot on Kodak S16mm Motion Picture Film in NYC.
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!
São Paulo-based director Fernando Nogari captures the city’s violent and joyous underworld in the video for Ladytron’s track “The Animals.”
Nicely shot documentary short co-directed by Mitch Buss and Mike Bove of Chicago-based filmmaking collective JUMBO. “Mudfest” chronicles the humble origins of what has become a 20-year tradition, drawing 1500+ people to a small Wisconsin farm every June.
Director/DP – Mitch Buss
Director/DP – Mike Bove
Editor: Colin Santangelo
Additional Cinematography: Corey Powers
Drone Operator: Ross Gerbasi
Sound Design and Mix: John Wong
Music: Eric Hillman
Music Mix: Joe Visciano
Supervising Colorist: Tyler Roth
Colorist: Parker Jarvie
Title Design: Taylor Santangelo
Online Editor: Eddie Loera
This video was submitted by Mike Bove and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
An experimental mix of still photography, stop motion and rotoscope animation by director and animator Ynon Lan (previously featured here). Created as his thesis project at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, “Close the Shutters” is an exploration of the way we remember our loved ones and is based on the personal experiences of Lan and his family.
