Music Video Category

Animation, Art & Fashion, Documentary, Live Action, Music Video

An Interview with Vimeo’s Best Staff Pick Directors of 2018

DN talks to Vimeo's Best Staff Pick Directors of 2018 about the origins, artistic inspirations and creative approaches behind their award-winning work.

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Documentary, Music Video, Premiere

Leo Pfeifer Explores What Happens When a Career Drummer Can No Longer Keep the Beat in Doc ‘Lost Time’

Leo Pfeifer talks to DN about 'Lost Time', his intimate reflective documentary about what happens when a career drummer can no longer keep the beat.

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How Have You Been? Tom Rosenthal (Official Music Video) - Heather Colbert

Animation, Music Video

Heather Colbert Looks to “Enhance the Feeling of Magic” by Combining Animation Techniques in ‘How Have You Been?’

Rising star of stop-motion Heather Colbert returns to Directors Notes to discuss her animated music video for Tom Rosenthal track 'How Have You Been?'

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Paul Jacks: Lightning Lobotomy

Eric Power deploys his signature papercraft animation style in the story of a man trying to make his way back home to normality in 'Lightning Lobotomy'.

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Music Video

Juanjo Rueda Bids a Fond Farewell to Hazte Lapón in Nostalgic Grand Gesture Music Video ‘You Always Win’

Juanjo Rueda discusses melding reality and fiction for a nostalgic expression of grand romantic gestures in his music video swansong for Hazte Lapón.

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Documentary, Music Video

Jackson Tisi Charts the Long Road of Perseverance to ‘Championships’ in His Meek Mill Spotify Doc

Jackson Tisi reveals how he expanded the scope of his Spotify commissioned doc in order to reveal the long hard road Meek Mill traversed to Championships.

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Asides, Music Video

Tęskno: Mapa

Polish twosome Tęskno make a playful getaway to an abandoned house and the mysteries which lie within in Jarek Tokarski’s dreamy music video 'Mapa'.

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Asides, Music Video

Leningrad: GOLD

A dangerous predator with a hunger for the finer things in life recounts her violent exploits in Lado Kvataniya's flamboyant Leningrad music video 'GOLD'.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Article, Documentary, Live Action, Music Video

Directors Notes Top 20 Filmmaker Conversations of 2018

Team DN put our collective heads together to curate a list of the 20 favourite filmmaker conversations we had in 2018.

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Asides, Music Video

Elio Toffana: Genesis

Miguel Angulo continues his collaboration with Madrid hip-hop artist Elio Toffana placing him centre stage in gritty, to camera music video 'Genesis'.

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Music Video

Leopold Challenges Conventional Preconceptions of Love, Relationships & Gender in ‘Backstreet’

Leopold talks to DN about challenging the strictures of conventional gender & relationship roles in his unapologetic music video for Apre's 'Backstreet'.

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Music Video

A Man Strips Away His Personal Demons in Harvey Pearson’s Powerful One-Shot Rebirth Music Video ‘Gratitude’

DN speaks to Harvey Pearson about the powerful immediacy provided by real time narratives and why 35mm was the clear choice for his one-shot music video.

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