An engrossing experimental video for Surma by Portuguese artist and animator João Pombeiro (previously featured here). Built over the audio track, “Wanna Be Basquiat” follows an abstract narrative about industrial and suburban development, and the dream of prosperity, using hundreds of clippings from vintage images and film.
Nice collaboration between French rapper Lefa and Paris-based director Akim Laouar Aronsen for Lefa’s upcoming album, Fame. Set in a futuristic world, “Mauvais” tells the story of a cyborg in search of his humanity.
Starring
Karim Fall
Elina Lipova
Vladimir Burkovsky
Alexander Polovets
Tatiana
Written & Directed by Akim Laouar Aronsen
Production: MYND
Executive Producer: Paul Le Baron
Line Producer: Hadrien Penavaire
DOP: Joe Cook
Service Production: Toy Pictures
Executive Producer: Lena Panasyuk
Line Producer: Natalia Trofimova
Production Manager: Tanya Loboda
Production Assistants: Julia Chernikova, Zarema Umerova
1st AD: Nadia Lyudchik
Art Director: Danya Dumbrovsky
Gaffer: Yarick Brayko
Location Manager: Dmitry Shevchenko
Stylist: Galya Sokolovskaya
Make Up: Natalia Dreshpan
Casting Manager: Maryna Turmanidze
Stunt Team: Coordinated by Illian Lurchyshyn
Steadicamer: Ruslan Bogdan
Post Production: Wanda
Post Producer: Vanessa KOSCIANSKI
Editor: Mark Maborough
Color Grader: Serginho Pasqualino Jr
Color Grader Assistant: François Miens
VFX: D-SEED
VFX Producer: Romain BOURZEIX
VFX Supervisor: David RODES
Concept Artist: Alexandre FERRA
Lead CG: Pierre BERGER
CG Artist: Tom JURY
VFX Artist: Ugo NICOLAS
VFX Compositor: Edouard CAULLET
VFX Compositor: Marjorie GRINDA
VFX Compositor: Ronan BROUDIN
Son Design: BMM Network
Sound Designer : Damien Tronchot
Creative Advisor: Lefa
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!
Two friends stumble upon a device that freezes time in this lovely video by director Kate Dolan for Pillow Queens’ track “Brothers.” While initially using their newfound power for fun, they soon risk losing one another as it drives them apart:
“The lyrics in the verses show quick snapshots of the aftermath from a loss of a friend within a very tight knit group. An element of fear runs through the song as this sudden death makes you look around your group and feel terrified of the chances of another. It touches on a shared grief which drives you to hold dear the memories and moments you have with each other. While this song can be considered one about mourning, it’s ultimately about the intense love you have for your chosen family.”
Starring
Ryan Lincoln
Desmond Eastwood
Gemma Keenan
Paul Murphy
Chloe Grehane
Peter McGann
Achille Martone
Dylan Byrne
Ciara Greene
Producer: Karen Twomey
Director: Kate Dolan
1st AD: Eoin Canny
DOP: Evan Barry
Focus Puller: Luke Murphy Gilligan
1st AC: Laurent Murray
Editor/FX: John Cutler
Trainee AD/2nd AD: Roisin Little
DIT: Conor Fleming & Kate Barrett
This video was submitted by Kate Dolan and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Lots of dramatic shots in Los Angeles-based photographer and director Jora Frantzis’s video for “A Palé” by Rosalía (previously featured here).
Director: Jora Frantzis
Creative Director: Pili y Rosalía
Producer: Jay Tauzin, Saul Levitz
Exec Producer: Kareem Johnson
DP: Rob Witt
Production Designer: Brielle Hubert
Editor: Andre Jones
Post Production: Sunset Edit
Production Company: OverScene, LLC
Choreographer: Charm La Donna
Stylist: Samantha Burkhart
Makeup: Ariel Tejada
Hair: Jesus Guerrero
Nails: Britney TOKYO
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A fun video for Battles by New York City-based filmmaker Colin Read (previously featured here). “Fort Greene Park” explores the evolution of solo locomotion, featuring 20 different forms of transport from crawling on all fours to wheeled vehicles and more! The project came together on a small budget with a mix of planning and improvisation over the course of just two days. As Read shared with us:
“In the initial discussions with the band, they said that they wanted to avoid it feeling silly or too funny. But I think they started to love how ridiculous the concept was, and soon were throwing out ideas like ‘Let’s get some close-up of me blowing bubble gum!’ And once we were at the actual shoot, it was just so surreal and insane that everyone embraced the madness. But in the end, I think the video rides a nice line of being fun and bizarre while still pointing toward something more focused and meaningful.”
Check it out above as well as some behind-the-scenes images from the shoot below!
Director: Colin Read
Executive Producer: Giacomo Vigliar
Producer: Miranda Kahn
Production Company: Mirmade
Video Commissioner: Rik Green
Management: Charles Damga
Art Director/Production Designer: Jacob Ireland
DP: Andy Maso
1st AC: Connor Lawson
Editor & Gimbal Op: Colin Read
Colorist: Jenny Montgomery, Company3
Swing Grip: John Burgundy
Key PA: George Beno
Production Assistant: Rich Gold
Production Assistant: Jasmine Abbasov
Production Assistant: Tess McGuinness
Production Assistant: Erica Garbarini
Production Assistant: Gaby Leyner
Flagger: Keisha Brady
Flagger: Karen Campbell
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Director Jack Karaszewski uses medium format film stills to create a unique stop-motion video for Dijon’s track “Crybaby.”
Directed by Jack Karaszewski
Director of Photography: David Mollé
Camera Assistant: Graham Kennedy
Producer: John Cerrito
Assistant Director: Stephen Heleker
Gaffer: Jerod Nawrocki
G&E Swing: Brian Morataya
Key Grip: Adam x
Makeup: Joanie del Danto
Custom Overalls: Cleola
Associate Producer: Deker Daily
Fonts: Parker Loris Underkoffler
Frog Man: Jack Karaszewski
The Baby: Delilah Grace Ng
Hands: Lauren de Mauregne
Music by Dijon, Two Inch Punch, and Jack and Henry
This is just one of the many creative submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A heartbreaking piece for Vonavi by Los Angeles-based director Andrew Litten (previously featured here). Shot on 35mm in Bakersfield, “Regrow” offers a character study spanning two different time periods and deals with the affect traumatic events can have on a person’s life.
Starring
Dylan Cheek
Matthew Nilsen
Jennifer Nuccitelli
Sean Spencer
Georgie Oliver
Alena Henke
Director: Andrew Litten
Executive Producers: Dylan Harrington, Reza Davoudi, Andrew Litten
Producer: Dylan Harrington
Cinematography: Ben Mullen
1st AC: Josh Quiros
Gaffer: David Arteaga
Sound Mixer: Kyle Pham
Location Manager: Scott Heathcott
Editor: Andrew Litten
Film Scans: Thom Kuo @ EFilm
Color: Mike Howell @ Color Collective
Color Producer: Claudia Guevara
Sound: Sebastian Oliwa
This video was submitted by Andrew Litten and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A portrait of superhuman courage and willpower from directors Duncan Nicholls and Tobias James of London-based film collective Good Planets. Despite suffering a life-changing injury while working as an interpreter for the British Army in Afghanistan, Wali Noori finds inspiration and healing through sport.
Featuring
Wali Noori & Family
Laura Shewbridge
Gareth Gailey
Directors: Tobias James & Duncan Nicholls
DOP: Chris Dodds
1st AC & Drone: Jonni Iseli
Post Producer: Matt Supersad
Colourist: Matt Turner
Music: Dan Dunbar
Sound Design: Enos Desjardins
BTS: Ollie Jarman
This video was submitted by Tobias James and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
A poetic meditation on life and death for Alaskan Tapes by Brooklyn-based director Meredith Hama-Brown (previously featured here). Beautifully shot on 4-Perf 35mm by cinematographer Norm Li, csc, “And, We Disappear” explores a woman’s mysterious journey to her afterlife. Taking place at the very moment of her passing, the narrative follows the woman’s transition from wandering confusedly through her small town to arriving at a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. It is here that she finds a baby, lying on its own. As Hama-Brown explains further:
“Although I am not religious in any way, and this story doesn’t represent my beliefs, I was fascinated by the idea of a soul needing to complete some unknown task as it leaves the body. I was very compelled by the idea of a woman needing to take her eldest and youngest self, as a unit, into the afterlife. What I wanted to capture in this film was the feeling that she experiences during this journey; a feeling of being in a space that is both familiar yet unfamiliar, dreamlike and yet still real to her.”
Watch above and see full credits below!
Director: Meredith Hama-Brown
DP: Norm Li, csc
Starring: Kanjana Comeau
Producers: Madeleine Davis, Jill Orsten and Malaina Mah
Production Company: Boldly Creative
Casting: K & K Casting (Kris Woz & Kara Eide)
Baby: Javaughn Jessen
Production Design: Sophie Jarvis
Gaffer/Key Grip: Jordan Findlay
1st AC/Loader: Ryan Ermacora
1st AC: Jeremy Cox
Dolly Grip/Ronin Op: Jan Schuster
Grip: Matthew Koropatwa
Boat Operators: Glenn Karakochuk and Jonathan French
Owl Wrangler: Gary Worley
Sound Design: Brady Kendall
VFX: Freddy Chavez Olmos
Color: Joseph Bicknell/Company 3
Caterer: Virginia Hama
Equipment Provided by:
William F Whites, Q Films, Mile End Media, Practicals Lighting, Signal Systems and Matrix Production Services
Film Processing: MELS Studios and Niagara Custom Lab
Film Scanning: Film House
Special Thanks:
Virginia Hama, Glenn Karakochuk, Boldly Creative, Peter Hagge, Gary Worley, Margaret Sloat, Jonathan French, Phil Wilson, Joe Chan and Natasha Wehn
Meredith Hama-Brown on Instagram
A lonely old man goes looking for solutions in this perfectly simple short by Brooklyn-based director Taryn Ward. Check out more of Ward’s previously featured films here, if you haven’t already!
Directed by Taryn Ward
Written by Taryn Ward & Michael Faller
Director of Photography: Michael Faller
Sound Mix/ Design: Michael Odmark
Original Score: Daniel James
Color: Dustin Wadsworth @ Company3
With Donald Anderson
This video was submitted by Taryn Ward and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
So much creativity in this video for Izaro and Xoel López by directors Ander Merino Etxebeste and David Olariaga. Produced by Badator and Alabama, “Invierno a la Vista” offers a metaphorical representation of the arrival of winter. Shot by Madrid-based cinematographer Marino Pardo. See full credits below!
Starring Izaro & Xoel López
Directed by Ander Merino Etxebeste & David Olariaga
Produced by Badator & Alabama
DOP: Marino Pardo
Art Director: Sergio H. Morcillo
Art Assistant: Maciek Purek
Coordinator: Thomas Ibarrola Zamarreño
Camera Assistant: Jon Solana
2nd Camera Assistant & Ronin Operator: Aritza Munarriz
Gaffer: Eduardo Vaquerizo
Electrician: Juan Cánovas
Stylism: Alejandra De la Plata
Make Up: Lydia Platas
Editors: Ander Merino Etxebeste & David Olariaga
Colorist: Gradepunk
This is just one of the many wonderful submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Lovely mood to this video for Edison Moth’s track “Redwood” directed by Taipei-born, Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker Anna Kuo.
Featuring Young Park
Director: Anna Kuo
DP: Roger JC Lee
Producer: Evan Yee
Gaffer: Cassi Mulcahy
Key Grip: Sam Kim
Set Dresser: Hannah Carpenter
VFX: Cooper Vacheron
Special Thanks: Shiraz Dhume
This video was submitted by Anna Kuo and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
