Music Video Archives - Directors Notes

Ben Galster’s Crafts an Immersive One-Shot Experience for Marie Bothmer in ‘Kugelsicher’

Using epic anamorphic lenses and flowing Steadicam movements, Ben Galster takes DN inside the precise planning of his thrilling one-shot music video.

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Two Chefs Prep for a Big Date in Marco Santi’s Subversive and Cathartic Music Video for Nother’s ‘Us’

Marco Santi tells DN how he smoothly juxtaposed the grimy environment of a working kitchen with the sensuality of dance in his Nother music video.

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Ian Roderick Gray Blends Body Horror, Romance and Drama in His Video for On Man’s ‘Worse Than it Seems’

Ian Roderick Gray explains how his VFX team created the naturalistic, body horror inspired look of his protagonist's unusual condition.

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VERSUS Exalt the Cacophonous Tools of Party Dozen’s Trade in the Chaotic and Gritty ‘Macca the Mutt’

VERSUS detail how they pulled together a fabulously chaotic, diesel fuelled smash fest of a music video for Party Dozen's latest track.

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Sina Dolati Plunges Us Into the Hyper Frenzied Neurodiverse Perspective of Säye Skye’s Mind in ‘ADHD’

We speak to Sina Dolati about the lengthy learn on the job edit which transformed his innovative VR/360 music video into its slick accessible 2D version.

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Iacopo Carapelli Channels a Feeling of Pure Ecstasy in His Video for Catarina Barberi’s ‘Broken Melody’

Iacopo Carapelli explains how he collaborated with his performers to create the painting-like physicality required for his tableau vivant music video.

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Raw Style & Dirty Beats Reverberate in Harmony in Wendy Morgan’s Chic Music Video ‘Kisé’

Wendy Morgan speaks about the creative joy of long term collaboration as realised in her raw sensory music video for Lous and the Yakuza.

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Rodney Chrome Splashes the Cash Around NYC in Zac Dov Wiesel’s Vivid Music Video ‘To The Money’

Zac Dov Wiesel divulges how he technically manifested the vivid and poppy feel of his vivacious NYC-based music video for Rodney Chrome.

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Damo Yang Embraces the Sound of Roy Wang & Backspace in Music Videos ‘Fabulous Nuts’ & ‘Six-Eyed Dragonfly’

Damo Yang recounts the economically contrasting yet equally intense productions of her music videos for both Roy Wang and Backspace.

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‘Square It’ by Sammy Rawal Is the Cheesy Collaboration Music Video Celebration That We All Crave

We speak to director Sammy Rawal about celebrating everyone's favourite orange cheese slice in his hyper-stylized branded Kelis music video.

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Slow Cinema Meets Rap Music in Krzysztof Skonieczny’s Brutally Compelling Tektonika Project ‘Peru48’

Krzysztof Skonieczny talks through deploying flowing Steadicam shots and black & white cinematography in a bleak evocation of a man's personal purgatory.

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Leo Gorenshtein Questions What Is Enough in Fatalistic 3h Company Music Video ‘Adequately’

Leo Gorenshtein tells DN why he strives to embed multiple layers of meaning in his films to create viewing experiences which reward deeper contemplation.

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