Director Saman Kesh is no stranger to telling multilayered stories in his music videos. His ability to incorporate complex narrative elements in his work, while maintaining the organic and open structure that make music videos so unique, makes for some of the best, most compelling videos out there right now. One… Read More

The Masses describe themselves as a “collaboration of directors and artists united by a passion for music and driven by unique and diverse cinematic visions.” So, it is no surprise that director Chris Coats, who started in The Masses Lab and is now on The Masses roster, would describe his… Read More

Matt & Kim released their new music video for "Let's Go" today, but it's exclusive to Funny or Die. Currently, our standard video pages don't support Funny or Die embeds. A lot of IMVDb is a work in progress (as you know), and we aren't set up for everything yet. But, good news!… Read More

That's a little bit of a dramatic title, but I think now that we've made a decision to put ourselves out there in the world as the music video database, we need to put out a reason for our existence beyond just the fact that we like music videos. The… Read More

One thing we talk about often on this site is how advances in Internet and camera technology have opened up the world of music videos to everyone. There was once a time when being a professional music video director meant you worked with large budgets and your videos got played… Read More

We've been putting a lot of time and energy in our music video database project lately, but something was bothering us: our name. See, FilmedInsert was never supposed to be the name of a music video database. The original FilmedInsert.com was a blog where I had aspirations of writing about… Read More

For the second installment on Video Chats, I traveled to New York to hang out with director and photographer Michael Lawrence. Michael was born in Buffalo, New York and currently lives in Brooklyn, but he spent nearly 2 years living in Indonesia, which is where most of his three music videos for Emil… Read More

Early yesterday morning, Frank Ocean tweeted that music videos are not the future. This made us all cry for legitimately 45 minutes, as we collectively reacted to our beloved Frank Ocean saying such a thing. Personally, it took going through the classic 5 stages of grief for me to even… Read More