Category Archives: Music Video

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: Better Days

If that Daft Punk "Get Lucky" mash-up was a little square for your tastes, try on this video montage bringing together footage from breakdance classics Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo, Rappin', and Beat Street, New York drag ball documentary Paris Is Burning, and … more »

Dan Black feat. Kelis: Hearts

Here's a "human time-lapse" music video shot mostly in a single 24-hour session beginning at 11 a.m. on a Paris rooftop. Parisian creative studio Chic & Artistic directed; the DPs on the time-lapse shoot were Bruno Pellarin and Gwen Le … more »

Joel Compass: Back to Me

Here's another music video influenced by cinemagraphs. Directors Ian & Cooper shot the enigmatic mini-movie first, then learned After Effects in a hurry to matte out most of the motion in any given shot. (And then they won an MVPA Award … more »

Daft Punk: Get Lucky (Dance Supercut)

In the age of the Internet, if you have a hit record and you don't make a music video for it, odds are someone else will. That's what happened when Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories, debuted at #1 … more »

Kelsi Luck “That’s What I Like”

Director Chris Grieder modeled this music video on "cinemagraphs" — animated GIFs that resemble still photographs in which only a small portion of the image is in motion. (The best-known archive is on Tumblr at If We Don't, Remember Me.) … more »

She & Him: I Could’ve Been Your Girl

Musician-actress Zooey Deschanel turns director with this music video for the new single from her She & Him duo for production company Doomsday Entertainment. The DP was Matthew J. Lloyd, CSC, it was edited by Luke Lynch, and the dance … more »

Iron and Wine: Joy

Director Hayley Morris says her music video for "Joy" is about how love for another person can change the way you perceive the world. She told NPR she projected hand-painted watercolor animations into a stop-motion set to get lush colors … more »