Milk probably does the body good, but nowhere as galactically good as a passionate kiss. Otherwise, things are kept mysterious — often with a cool bodyswapping motif — in this tale about bad girl training that ends with blood, molotov cocktails and rollerskating.
Recapping a life as you take a taxi ride to heaven... The new Watsky video takes place almost entirely in a car where a camera constantly revolves to capture the driver, the passengers and the surroundings...
Got the jitters about waiting four years for another World Cup? La Blogoteque feels your pain. And they have a drone. And access to a French Football stadium. And the band ALB. And backup singers. And a marching band. And experience in capturing flawless one-take live performance.
When you drop a video for every song on your album, you have a good shot at getting recognition. And it helps if you're Beyonce.
Beyonce leads all contenders with eight nominations for the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, followed by Eminem and Iggy Azalea with seven each.
And if you're disappointed by the omission of the pelvic-smashing masterpiece "Turn Down For What" for Video Of The Year — it's my personal favorite — keep in mind that there's never been a music video to win Best Video of the Year that hasn't featured the recording artists in it. And music videos on a mass mainstream level are traditionally about imaging an artist. That said, the video gets recognition in four categories, including a Best Direction nod.
See below for the full list of general award nomination categories, and read more for a recap of our of the technical slate — which we exclusively announced earlier this morning. And, PS: Fan voting is allowed, so get clicking.
Videostatic is excited to exclusively announce the nominees for the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards Technical Categories, which directly recognize the directors, cinematographers, editors and other creatives who make the videos.
Beyonce "Pretty Hurts" and DJ Snake & Lil Jon "Turn Down For What" are the most recognized videos on this side of the award slate; Otherwise there's a broad mix of genres and creatives here, although there are quite a few videos directed by Rich Lee here, and DP Evan Prosofsky scores two nominations for Best Cinematography.
EMINEM "Rap God" Rich Lee, Louis Baker, Mammal Studios, Laundry!, and Sunset Edit, vfx
JACK WHITE "Lazaretto" Mathematic and Jonas & François, vfx
Be sure to also check out the full slate of 2014 MTV VMA nominees... And, remember: The 2014 MTV VMAs will air live, Sunday, August 24 from the Forum in Inglewood, CA.
The third installment of Weird Al's 8 Days of Music Videos — aka the Hannukah of parody music videos — is a "Royals" riff paying homage to the glory of aluminum foil. Sir Yankovic covers both ends of the spectrum: keeping food fresh, and preventing your brain waves from operating correctly.
It's the beginning of a war in some unnamed American city, and Pornographers Dan Bejar & A.C. Newman feel fine in this one-take clip where some of the band's fans appear as anarchists.
In The Pines is not a safe place to be, but there's not much safety beyond them either. In this case we have a runner on a suicide mission of sorts, unable to outrun most of the arrows hurtling his way as he makes his way to a surprising last stand.
Director Tim Nackashi says this is "It's a Kabuki-inspired tone-piece about travel, longing, seasons changing" which sounds about right for this lovely mix of projections and kaleidoscopic effects.
First off, Danny Trejo rules. And I daresay his role in this Train video is his best since Machete — in fact, I'm pretty sure he's playing Machete here. Second off, there's no way Trejo would let Train singer Pat Monahan out alive — in real life, or in a music video. Otherwise: Trejo, and Train, for the win.
Sixteen filmmakers are in the running for the first D&AD Next Director Award, created in partnership with Youtube and supported by MOFILM.
Selected by a panel of industry leaders including Dougal Wilson, David Bruno, Ringan Ledwidge and Juliette Larthe, the following films — including a few music videos — comprise the first shortlist:
The Next Director Award is separate to the D&AD Professional Awards, and will be judged three times per year, producing three separate shortlists. The next entry period is now open, with a deadline on 15 October 15.
An erotic and strange (and fantastic) homage to exercise tapes that's almost as erotic and strange as Richard Simmons. That said, Mr. Simmons never had moves as awesome as The Salty Bassoon or Two Twerks One Jerk...
