Why is the video director for Cheryl Cole and Klaxons filming people dancing when drunk?
If you were making a reality show called The Only Way is Shoreditch, you would want to have aimed your camera at an innocuous white booth in Hoxton Square last month. Surrounded by the standard gaggle of east London hipsters, the luminous box, an interactive art installation by Saam Farahmand, became a scenester magnet over the course of two days.
A former Goldsmiths fine art graduate, Farahmand, at 32, is considered one of the most talented music video directors of his generation. According to Creative Review, with his "experimental approach and technical brilliance, you always know you're going to get something special".
So how do his videos come about? "Normally, you pitch to a [record] label and they choose the best one. I just work directly with artists now – but don't put that! It sounds arrogant." Farahmand...
If you were making a reality show called The Only Way is Shoreditch, you would want to have aimed your camera at an innocuous white booth in Hoxton Square last month. Surrounded by the standard gaggle of east London hipsters, the luminous box, an interactive art installation by Saam Farahmand, became a scenester magnet over the course of two days.
A former Goldsmiths fine art graduate, Farahmand, at 32, is considered one of the most talented music video directors of his generation. According to Creative Review, with his "experimental approach and technical brilliance, you always know you're going to get something special".
So how do his videos come about? "Normally, you pitch to a [record] label and they choose the best one. I just work directly with artists now – but don't put that! It sounds arrogant." Farahmand...
- 11/22/2011
- by Nosheen Iqbal
- The Guardian - Film News
Edinburgh International Film Festival
It should be settling into senior citizenship, but the 65-year-old festival is reinventing itself this year. The programme has been mixed up by a host of guest curators – ranging from Gus Van Sant to Jim Jarmusch, and Mike Skinner to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And as well as the usual core of new international features and documentaries, there are envelope-pushing new strands and events. Of the conventional features, highlights include Romain Gavras's awaited feature debut Our Day Will Come, a French skinhead tale that looks as confrontational as his music video work (which plays beforehand). David Hare presents his new MI5 thriller Page Eight, led by Bill Nighy (who'll also be giving an onstage interview); Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle buddy up in Irish cop comedy The Guard; and festival regular David McKenzie returns with apocalyptic art sci-fi Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
The...
It should be settling into senior citizenship, but the 65-year-old festival is reinventing itself this year. The programme has been mixed up by a host of guest curators – ranging from Gus Van Sant to Jim Jarmusch, and Mike Skinner to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And as well as the usual core of new international features and documentaries, there are envelope-pushing new strands and events. Of the conventional features, highlights include Romain Gavras's awaited feature debut Our Day Will Come, a French skinhead tale that looks as confrontational as his music video work (which plays beforehand). David Hare presents his new MI5 thriller Page Eight, led by Bill Nighy (who'll also be giving an onstage interview); Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle buddy up in Irish cop comedy The Guard; and festival regular David McKenzie returns with apocalyptic art sci-fi Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
The...
- 6/10/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Hey guys, Davis here checking in again with your weekly music roundup. How’s everyone’s week been going?
Is everyone pumped for Halloween? I’ve been on a tour of some of Chicago’s amazing Haunted Houses. There are some wildly creative ones out in the ‘burbs.Anyone else hit any up yet?
Well, here we are again with another music round-up. Some ofthe artists we’ll be covering today are Adam Lambert’s latest tour drama, an up and coming artist that I feel everyone needs to give some major attention- Deluka,Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s music video debut, Mariah Carey’s new Christmas album, Boy George is looking like the spitting image of Demi Moore, a new gay male musician to pay attention to – Diamond Rings, Shontelle’s latest beautiful ballad, and the commercial everyone’s buzzing about by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
Is everyone pumped for Halloween? I’ve been on a tour of some of Chicago’s amazing Haunted Houses. There are some wildly creative ones out in the ‘burbs.Anyone else hit any up yet?
Well, here we are again with another music round-up. Some ofthe artists we’ll be covering today are Adam Lambert’s latest tour drama, an up and coming artist that I feel everyone needs to give some major attention- Deluka,Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s music video debut, Mariah Carey’s new Christmas album, Boy George is looking like the spitting image of Demi Moore, a new gay male musician to pay attention to – Diamond Rings, Shontelle’s latest beautiful ballad, and the commercial everyone’s buzzing about by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
- 10/25/2010
- by Davis Mallory
- The Backlot
Mark Ronson's music video in support of his track "Somebody to Love Me" has made its way out via Dazed Digital. The clip pays homage to his collaborator Boy George, featuring him with his Culture Club bandmates during their heyday.
Coincidentally, George said earlier this week that Culture Club will reunite in 2012 to mark the band's 30th anniversary. "We're definitely doing it, yeah, yeah, in 2012. Our D-Day is April 30, which is the same day as our first ever single release, 'White Boy', and yeah, we're doing it, it's going to be great fun," he said.
The music video is directed by Saam Farahmand and Ronson praised him for using Culture Club's home video shots for it. Ronson said, "Saam is a wonderful boy genius. There could be no better moving image to accompany this."
Beside having Boy George's vocal, "Somebody to Love" also features Andrew Wyatt. The...
Coincidentally, George said earlier this week that Culture Club will reunite in 2012 to mark the band's 30th anniversary. "We're definitely doing it, yeah, yeah, in 2012. Our D-Day is April 30, which is the same day as our first ever single release, 'White Boy', and yeah, we're doing it, it's going to be great fun," he said.
The music video is directed by Saam Farahmand and Ronson praised him for using Culture Club's home video shots for it. Ronson said, "Saam is a wonderful boy genius. There could be no better moving image to accompany this."
Beside having Boy George's vocal, "Somebody to Love" also features Andrew Wyatt. The...
- 10/14/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Disclaimer: please forgive my deplorable, albeit thoroughly intended, misquotation from The Royal Teens seminal 1958 release, 'Short Shorts'. A while back I promised you another special selection from the mystical and capricious world of short films. I'm quite sure you have all been logging in every evening, with twitching fingers, in the hope that I have finally provided another volume of filmic vignettes and music videos; and crashing backwards with a heavy sigh when you realise that no such post has been created. Well sigh no more my enthusiastic readers... for volume II has arrived: Music Videos: Florence + The Machine: The Ganzfeld Procedure Dir: Keith McCarthy / UK / 2009 BBC Electric Proms, in partnership with 6Music, commissioned this New Music Short. Filmmakers were asked to submit creative ideas for short films inspired by Florence + The Machine's 'Dog Days Are Over'. Selected from over 225 entries, Keith worked with producers at Colonel Blimp to create this sporadic,...
- 12/4/2009
- by Nicholas Deigman
- t5m.com
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