Doug Klinger and Jason Baum talk about the notable music videos from 2021.
Interviews with music video directors and industry professionals, new release highlights, and IMVDb site news.
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Phil Mucci is a filmmaker who has made a name for himself directing visual effects and animation based music videos for bands such as Disturbed, Pig Destroyer, and Torche, among other metal acts in recent years. His work is astoundingly…
Last week, director David Wilson gave us the first mind-blowing music video of 2015 with the release of Out Of The Black by Royal Blood, co-directed by Superjail! creator Christy Karacas. The half animated, half live action video is packed full…
Inspired by our Art of Music Videos social media project, Music Video Walkthrough is a blog series where directors walk us through their music videos using several images. This time, director Derek Beck walks us through the sharply edited video…
Inspired by our Art of Music Videos social media project, Music Video Walkthrough is a blog series where directors walk us through their music videos using several still images. We begin this series with director Carlos Lopez Estrada and his video for "Inside Out" by…
Yesterday, singer/songwriter Vance Joy released his awesome debut studio LP Dream Your Life Away on Atlantic Records. While Vance is set to release his fourth single from the album later this month, the lead single, Riptide, continues to generate a…
Weve been big fans of OMG! Everywhere for several years now. If you havent heard of OMG! Everywhere, its a non-profit run by music video directors that offers free summer camps to kids in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, and…
Last month while at SXSW, we caught up with Meg Myers to chat with her about her videos for Desire directed by Jordan Bahat, and Heart Heart Head directed by Elliott Sellers. Having already talked to both Jordan and Elliott…
It's not often that you come across a band such as Phantogram, who consistently put out interesting and memorable visuals to accompany their music. This trend continues with the video for "Fall In Love," directed by Timothy Saccenti, and co-directed…
If you have a passion for figure skating but no ice to try it out on, we've got good news. Artistic roller skating is a real sport that takes all of the glam and intensity of ice figure skating and…
Director Thom Glunt combines elements of noir and science fiction in the fantastic music video for The Mystery by BADBOXES. Centering around a robot with a giant helmet-like head, computerized face, and awesome motorcycle, The Mystery is a dark and…
All I Want by Kubalove, the directorial debut from production designer Susie Francis, manages to be one of the sexiest videos of the year without feeling forced or being too explicit. Despite being her first time directing a video, Susies…
The music video for Canadian folk act Timber Timbres Hot Dreams is a beautiful, honest, and mesmerising one. It takes place in a strip club and explores the more artistic side of exotic dancing. Directed by Scott Cudmore and Michael…
The video for Young Fathers by Typhoon basically shows what would happen if Calvin and Hobbes protected and cared for a cosmic cocoon until it morphed into Stelth Ulvang (of The Lumineers) covered from head to toe in red body…
Everybody loves a big, flashy, traditional hip-hop video. Literally, everybody. But when you really think about it, sometimes its more fun to watch a dark, twisted, unexpected hip-hop video, like Ashley by Big Sean. Directed by Ellis Bahl, Ashley features…
After a three year hiatus, Michel Gondry entered back into the music video world yesterday with Love Letters by Metronomy. The single-shot video features several hand-painted set pieces surrounding the band as they perform the track. As the camera moves…
Coming Of Age by Foster The People is a pretty massive video. Directed by BRTHR (Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman) and shot by Shawn Kim on 16mm, the multi-day shoot required 200 video auditions and 50 in-person auditions to assemble…
Yesterday, Capital Cities and director Carlos Lopez Estrada released Kangaroo Short, the short film version of their music video Kangaroo Court, which was one of our favorites of last year. About two times the length of the music video, Kangaroo…
Setting the world record for most world records set in a music video, Ain't It Fun by Paramore is a lighthearted and energetic video directed by Sophia Peer. The band ends up setting a total of 10 records in the…
Photo by Oresti Tsonopoulos Shooting on 16mm film is not exactly common in the world of music videos, but for Lullabye by Alexandra Stewart, shooting on film was crucial to the aesthetic that director Kristina Carucci had in mind. The simple and beautiful…
In the age of downloading iTunes singles, where albums are frequently broken up into Spotify playlists and Pandora stations, listening to music in the order the artist intended it to play on an album still has its place. This is…
To date, seven of 21 year old singer/fashion icon Sky Ferreiras music videos have been directed by Grant Singer, whose dark stylistic visuals have served exceedingly well at capturing Skys essence and the spirit of her infectious tracks. The most…
Dark and sexy, the video for "Desire" by Meg Myers is a twisted take on a romantic relationship that goes to some pretty ghostly and unexpected places while managing to avoid campiness. It's full of unnerving images, eerie effects, and…
Leading up to the release of his album Because the Internet, Childish Gambino shared three different Hiro Murai-directed video projects: a 25-minute short film called Clapping For The Wrong Reasons, an album trailer called yaphet kotto, and a music video…
Directed by Kinga Burza, Goodness Gracious by Ellie Goulding is an energetic video featuring Ellie and some friends running, dancing, and skateboarding around a neon, almost futuristic version of LA. It features some really extreme color effects from Kinga and…
So Strange by Superhumanoids (one of our favorite videos of 2013) is a beautiful, poignant, and unexpected video directed by Taylor Cohen and David Altobelli. Written over a night of beers in Silverlake, So Strange manages to introduce characters and…
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