Great look and uplifting feel to this portrait of 19-year-old singer Koffee for Billboard’s Honda Stage. Told in three chapters, “Gwaan Wit It” follows Koffee through Spanish Town, Jamaica as she shares her journey growing up, the hardships she’s had to overcome, and the origins of her passion for Reggae music. The film aims to bring greater visibility to an up-and-coming talent and her message of sticking to your roots, and always being thankful.
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A lovely visualization set to Sedivy’s track “Be There” by director Sam Sulam (previously featured here). Great work by Brooklyn-based cinematographer Sean Dahlberg and dancer/choreographer Kevin Middleton.
Maia (aka mxmtoon) dances with her past and her future selves in this delightful video directed and choreographed by Erin S Murray (previously featured here).
Directed & Choreographed by Erin S Murray
Producer: Victoria Fayad
Cinematographer: Sean Conaty
Steadicam: Drew Weaver
1st AC: Ben Steen
2nd AC: Kate Ruthenbeck
DIT: Anthony Mangini
Gaffer: Brice Bradley
Light Programmer: Iván Jesús Herrera
Best Boy Electric: Christopher T. Ford
Electric: Michael Misslin
Key Grip: Lee Winborn
Best Boy Grip: Leo Santos
Grip: Sage Vincent
Crane Op: Angel Pagourtzis
Production Assistants: Karlen Shahinyan,
Omar Thomas Allen, Cathy Bui
Wardrobe Stylist: Alyssa Sutter
Hair and Makeup: Kris Jung
Choreography Assistant: Genna Moroni
Edit: Chad Sarahina – Ethos Studio
Color Grade: Kaitlyn Battistelli – Ethos Studio
Special Thank You: Line 204 Studio, The Rosenthal Group,
Camera Division, Cathy Peirce, Any Point of View
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Nice look and meandering tone to this video for Scriptonite’s “YAK II” by Moscow-based director Medet Shayakhmetov of PBC (previously featured here). A monologue of an artist who fails to find happiness in money and fame, Scrip appears pouring endless cognac out of a car window as he distances himself in a mental cage and hides in the washroom of a club while others await his performance.
Directed by Medet Shayakhmetov
Director of Photography: Egor Protsko
Producer: Pavel Gretsky
Producer Assistant: Karina Morozova, Elizaveta Zhuravleva, Kirill Komrakov
Production Designer: Marta Erkenova
Production Designer Assistant: Vladimir Krutov
Set Designers: Nikita Svirs, Rodion Voskresenskiy, Anton Kantomirov
Set Decorator: Kirill Streltsov
Props: Evgenya Strugova, Valery Egorov
Movie car rental: Anton Pavlov
Style: Visible Style Service
Vasilisa Gamaleya-Gusarova
Yuliana Inusheva
Style Assistant: Bairam Abasov, Sveta Ray
MUA: Lili Estekhina
MUA Assistant: Ekaterina Lysova
1st AD: Pavel Gretsky
Focus puller: Dmitry Rebriev
2nd AC: Maxim Rebriev, Maxim Novikov
Steadycam: Sergey Avdonin
Light Masters: Viktor Ronzhin, Vage Karenivich,
Oleg Namakonov, Roman Nickovsky
Laser: Slava Zudvin
Playback: Alexey Kopashov
Production Manager: Dmitriy Zhitnushkin
Production Assistants: Arkadii Solonin, Vitalii Sugarenko, Denis Timokhin
Casting: Karina Morozova
Fans: Anastasia Kosenko
Casting Assistants on set: Anastasia Kosenko,
Denis Ryazanov, Ekaterina Nikitina
Location Manager: Denis Iordanov
Title Design: Medet Shayakhmetov
Clean Up: Dmitry Tallin
Editor: Sayat Musa
Colorist: Nikolay Vavilov
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In addition to our 2019 Booooooom TV Awards we wanted to share our picks for the 15 best music videos of 2019! We had a lot of fun going through a ton of videos to compile this list and we ended up with a bunch that were absent from the few year-end lists we saw on other sites. We’d definitely love to hear what videos made your list! Send us a tweet! Enjoy.
Sam Tudor – “Joseph in the Bathroom”
Director: Lucas Hrubizna
Images of people silently sliding face down along the floor stuck with us for months after we watched this one. A beautiful and haunting vision from director Lucas Hrubizna—someone we’ll definitely be keeping our eye on.
A stream of consciousness style journey into Solange’s mind, pieced together out of images from her film When I Get Home. Love the use of simple choreography in this strangely hypnotic self-directed video.
This one feels like it lives in the same universe as Kris Moyes’ video for The Presets’ “My People” some years ago. Love that Wouter Stoter and company went the extra mile here and used layers of many different takes rather than duplicating the same footage over itself.
Cat Solen was one of the directors behind Adult Swim’s The Shivering Truth (the pilot remains one of our fav things EVER) and this video has all the same funny/creepy/absurd vibes PLUS it has Tierra Whack. This is truly a gift from the music video gods.
James Massiah – “Natural Born Killers (Ride For Me)”
Director: Ian Pons Jewell
A sweltering surreal dystopia from the mind of visionary director Ian Pons Jewell. Can’t hear this song now without feeling like we’re sweating profusely.
Such a strange and intense energy to this one! The shot at 2:22 was definitely one of the most memorable of the year for us. Loved the art direction.
Joe Russo – “Phér•Bŏney Love Theme”
Director: Jonny Look
A brilliantly absurd sandwich ballet directed by one of our favs, Jonny Look. The humour in Erin Murray’s fantastic choreography really shines thanks to Chris Westlund’s cinematography and a masterful edit by Ting Poo. Love this so much.
FKA twigs’ pole dancing is so mesmerizing that our brains are already fried by the time Andrew Thomas Huang goes full-on Andrew Thomas Huang. An absolute eye-popper from two visionaries.
Director Saman Kesh took a huge risk with this video for Hot Chip. Imagine explaining to a band that the characters in their video would become aware of their song playing in the background and be extremely annoyed by it. What could have easily been too irritating to sit through was instead one of the most memorable videos we saw all year.
Director Nadia Lee Cohen pays homage to Dick Tracy in this spectacular video for A$AP Rocky’s “Babushka Boi”. Flawless styling and set dec—every frame of this thing could be a poster.
Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte – “Liquid Slow”
Director: Fernando Nogari
Director Fernando Nogari presents a dystopian future in which a girl competes in an underground dance marathon to save her partner. Erik Henriksson’s cinematography buzzes with an intensity that is utterly entrancing.
An absolute stunner from directors Hernán Corera, Walter Cornas and Juan Cavia. Gorgeous cinematography by Mariano Monti and exceptional work by the art department. Four minutes was not enough! This really deserved to be a lot longer.
This is what it looks like when someone has the perfect concept and resists the temptation to add too much and over-complicate it. Isaac Ravishankara’s brilliant direction here allows the song room to breathe and the result is so satisfying. A round of applause for pulling off a oner like this at sunset and having it feel effortless.
Images from this one have stayed with us since we first saw it. A visually stunning and deeply poetic work from director Meredith Hama-Brown and cinematographer Norm Li. Every frame here is pure magic. One can only hope their last moments on earth will feel like this.
You would be forgiven if you watched most of this video before you realised that none of these films actually exist and you didn’t even get to the end because your mind was completely shattered and you had to rewind and start again. This is a masterpiece. We felt like we were back in our local Happy Video with a stack of VHS tapes deciding which ones to rent based on the box art. Had we not already watched everything Laura Gorun, Cooper Roussel and Dimitri Basil have created together we’d have been more surprised by how insanely good this is. *insert gif of Ralphie’s teacher writing A+++ on the chalkboard*
Love this cut of the video for Lewis Capaldi’s track “Before You Go” by Brooklyn-based director Kyle Thrash (previously featured here). Starring Sasha Lane, the beautifully raw visuals explore the aftermath of loss and the memories and traditions you cling to.
Director: Kyle Thrash
Producer: Krista Worby
Executive Producer: Stephen Buchanan
Production: More Media
DP: Frank Mobilio
Editor: Matt Schaff
Commissioner: James Hackett
Director Rep: Claire Stubbs
Production Manager: Cat McCabe
Production Designer: Michelle Li
Wardrobe Designer: Aaron Crosby
Production Coordinator: Joey Massa
AC: Filipp Penson
Steadicam: Pete Keeling
Gaffer: David Reichman
Grip: Rome Petersson
Swing: Michael Kim
Set Dresser: Ashley Lawler
Art PA: Wyatt Machan
Art PA: Padraig O’Connor
Wardrobe Assistant: Kelsey Charter
Camera PA: Sarah Penson
Key PA: Mauricio Toscano
PA: Joel Cruz
PA: Cassidy Minaret
Color: Samuel Gursky
Color Coordinator: Kerry Mack
Color House: Irving Harvey
Really delightful colours and characters in this action-packed short from New York City-based animator Jack Maschka. Set on an alien planet far away, “Seed Supreme” follows an adventurous staff-wielding juvenile on a race for a highly coveted space seed that gives mysterious powers to the one who consumes it. Watch above and see full credits as well as some fun character sheets below!
Lots of great shots and mix of locations in this video for Glass Forest by Vancouver-based directors Amos Leblanc and Jordan Clarke. Shot on 35mm film by cinematographer Cole Graham (previously featured here), “I Remember” explores the jealousy that follows the end of a relationship.
A young man realises that his life-long issues with his body aren’t actually about his body at all in this uplifting piece by UK-based animator Dan Castro (previously featured here). As Castro states: “This short, biographical mini-documentary is a tiny story about the big problem of not opening up, the pressure we put ourselves under, and learning to be kind to ourselves.”
“What have we all become? Eugenio In Via Di Gioia tells a story about one of us, unable to think and to act, freezed, in front of a tsunami of homogenisation, alienation and exclusion. Even dancing seems to be reduced to a mere repetition of our daily routine. Have we forgotten what makes us unique and irreplaceable?”
Cast
Michele Rossetti
Laura Traina
Merel Rood
Stefano Mancinelli
Matteo Postiglione
Sarah Galfré
Veronica Pizzi
Simone Famiglietti
Eugenio In Via Di Gioia (Eugenio, Paolo, Emanuele, Lorenzo)
Written & Directed by Raoul Paulet
Production Company: Borotalco
Executive Producer: Matteo Stefani Andrea Biscaro
Commissioner: Gabriele Minelli
Record Label: UMI
DOP: Alessandro Panzeri
Line Producer & 1st AD: Giulia Pacioni
Production assistant: Siri Crespi
1st AC: Riccardo Margiotta
Camera assistant: Gabriele Segata
Gaffer: Mattia Rossetti
Grip: Edoardo Conti, Lorenzo Massa Saluzzo
Styling Band: Lucia Chiappini
Styling Clones: Michela di Viesti
Mua: Mary Parpinel
Mua assistant: Veronica Rubino
Editing, Grading & Post: Larissa Saldarini & Raoul Paulet
Service: Videodesign, Brand Gnu
Management: Agnese Incurvati Anna Maria Modica
Backstage: Filippo Testa
Special Thanks: Tehona Milano, Uniqlo, Kway,
Cibario and Ubobo The Fish
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A fun short from Los Angeles-based director Joel Jay Blacker (previously featured here) and writer Sam Roots. Who You Are is a five-part series about the rise and fall of the Mundi Corporation, the brainchild of three computer engineers in Silcon Valley. The first episode, “The Commercial,” follows two engineers as they prepare to launch their product — a sentient machine that can read a person’s soul.
Starring DeJean Brown
Skinner Myers
Clayton Farris
Directed by Joel Jay Blacker
Written by Sam Roots
Executive Producers: Joel Jay Blacker, Sam Roots
Producer: Tanner Sawitz, Leviathan Filmworks LLC
Director of Photography: Tanner Hall
Production Design: Sam Neidenbach
Editor: Joel Jay Blacker
Color: Tanner Hall
Score: Miller Wrenn
Original Artwork: Aidan Terry
First AD: Sam Shapson
Script Supervisor: Grant Harvey
Costume Design: Catalina Elgarrista
Hair & Makeup: Jessica Lewis
1st AC: Connor Lambert
Sound Mixer: Gabe Linkiewicz
Sound Design: Daniel Woo
Supervising Sound Editor: Shaun Yee
VFX: Connor Lambert
Stills Photographer: Carolina Rodriguez
Production Assistants: Chelsea Chaput, Cambria Leach, Ijaaz Noohu, Carson Rick
Made Possible by: Laurie Roots & Trevor Roots
Special Thanks: Tyler Rochleau, Chris Hunter, Matthew Blake, Row Five LLC
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Great piece on Chazwick “Chaz” Bear (aka Toro y Moi) for Vans. Director Ross Haines takes us into Chaz’s world — finding inspiration in the diverse micro-climates of the Bay Area, creating in Company Studio and exploring Oakland.
Client: Vans
Featuring: Chaz Bear
Director: Ross Haines
Sr. Producer: Nate Rogers
Producer: Vannie Ly
Art Director: Shawn Knight
Creative Director: Matt Even
Project Manager: Kylie Robertson
DP: Amado Stachenfeld
AC: Loren Hamilton
Gaffer: Dan Juenemann
Grip: Shane Louis
Sound: Max Hirtenstein
Photographer: Anthony Acosta
Editor: Bryan Avila
Color: Aresenal
Creative Colorist: Derek Hansen
Film Processing: FotoKem
Film Scans: Origins Archival
Music Credits:
Toro Y Moi “So Many Details”
Toro Y Moi “Rose Quartz”
Vans “fear vs love”
PLUM “New Globe”
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Tierra Whack – “Unemployed”
Joe Russo – “Phér•Bŏney Love Theme”
FKA twigs – “Cellophane”
Hot Chip – “Hungry Child”
A$AP Rocky – “Babushka Boi”
Joywave — “Obsession (Director’s Cut)”
