Dutch music channel TMF waved the white flag, and MTV continues their love affair with reality soaps (yawn), but we say: Long Live the Music Video! In collaboration with Kriterion Theater in Amsterdam, we’re kicking off the first edition of Submarine Channel Live with a special evening dedicated to the creative medium that just won’t … Continued
Rewind is the somewhat disturbing music video featuring Polish rising superstar Karolina Gruszka, who played “lost girl” in David Lynch‘s Inland Empire. Rewind director Florian Malak saw an amazing performance by Gruska in the theater. Instantly smitten, he decided to just pick up the phone and call the actress. “I told her that I had … Continued
Arcade on Fire this week! A Grammy, a Brit and a premiere of the aforementioned Spike Jonze-directed short movie Scenes From the Suburbs at none other than the annual apex of Euro movie hipsterism: Berlinale. Three members of the hallowed posse answered (mainly silly) questions to a madding press conference crowd, and then the movie … Continued
Canadian musical visionaries Arcade Fire have teamed up with the ubiquitous Spike Jonze for a 28-minute “science fiction B-movie”, inspired by their album The Suburbs. The first scenes of this holy alliance will be revealed at Berlinale next week – and we’ll be there to witness the magic (reporting back with an uncanny swiftness, naturally). … Continued
Kudos to “6ft 5″, bearded and single” director Price James and his team. The new music video for Hercules and Love Affair‘s “My House” is an amazingly truthful emulation of a house party in a New York underground club in, say, 1989. Styling is immaculate (remember MC Hammer pants?), choreography is spot on, and got … Continued
Woohooo! 2Pause is back in town, alive and kicking! Ready to resume sharing music video masterpieces, starting next week. In the meantime, you can test our new Playlist feature and share your personal selection with your mum and dad, love interest, collegue, etc. Say it with music videos! Need inspiration?
We couldn’t help but notice: Dutch talent is out in full force right about now! Director Henk Loorbach (of hand-drawn mustache fame) made this splendid lo-fi hand-job for Noisia, following the exploits of a solitary (but agile!) metacarpus beating Thing from The Addams Family at his own handy game… And if it’s Blade Runny, rotoscoped … Continued
Lip-syncing children – once the deeply uncool domain of music industry exploitees like lil’ Miley Cyrus, have re-incarnated as the latest music video must-have!
Oh we just love communicating through vlogs, webcams and YouTube! So it’s only natural that we’re seeing a mega influx of Extreme Film/Music Video Make Overs (a.k.a. re-edits of already used footage with the purpose of turning things around into something completely different).
Before Marky Mark’s sixpack skyrocketed the sales of white Calvins, the company produced a series of Warhol-inspired CK jeans commercials. These were shot in some small wood-paneled back office and featured male and female actors-models posing, while answering suggestive questions from the man behind the camera. Some Americans associated these tv ads with evil things … Continued
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