antville Music Video Awards 2007The Winners !
can you imagine if the MTV VMAs were like this? - waxy.org
Here, without further ado, are the winners:
MOST FUN VIDEO
Bumblebeez - Dr. Love
Tom Kuntz, director
MJZ, prod co
BEST ANIMATED VIDEOS
The Horrors - She is the New Thing
Corin Hardy, director
Academy, prod co
and
Cornelius - Like a Rolling Stone
Koichiro Tsujikawa, director
Spoon, prod co
BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone
Si&Ad, directors
Academy, prod co
BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
W.I.Z., director
Factory Films, prod co
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Noémie Lafrance for Feist - 1234
Patrick Daughters, director
The Directors Bureau, prod co
BEST ART DIRECTION
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Encyclopedia Pictura, directors
Ghost Robot, prod co
BEST EDITING
Nick Lear for Battles - Tonto
United Visual Artists, directors
Warp Films, prod co
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mike LeBlanc for Emily Haines - Our Hell
Jaron Albertin, director
Rokkit, prod co
BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR
Thomas Barndt
Pato Byrne & Nahuel Lerena
Matt Dilmore
Jesse Ewles
Banner Gwin
Lung/Perish Factory
Vincent Moon
Patrick O'Dell
Yannick Puig
BEST NEW DIRECTOR
undecided, so far, between Daniel Eskils and Timothy Saccenti
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Patrick Daughters
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
Dougal Wilson, director
Colonel Blimp, prod co
"All Power To Antville!"- robodrug
hamstersoldier, 12. January 2008, 16:49
booooring year... blame the music, though.otc, 12. January 2008, 17:22
Actually it wasn't until I went back to look for nominations that I realized how many great videos there were this year. I think there were fewer breakthrough directors though.Also "Sirens" was by far the best thing made this year... just saying.
captainmarc22, 12. January 2008, 21:24
it was nice to see a good spread out of clips.... 1234, Bat for Lashes, Bumbleez, Sirens & Knife are a pretty solid 5 videos.Shouldn't best new director be Scagnetti? Eskills is so 2006.
and.... does everyone now agree the awards should've come out in December? No one cares about year end lists now.
Up next: Worst video of the year!
kevathens, 13. January 2008, 03:43
Congrats to the winners, and antville isn't worthy of all power (thank God).Doesn't Metafilter understand its own ridiculousness, prog?
parmezan, 13. January 2008, 03:58
The Cornelius video clearly blitzes that terrible emo horrors schmuck-fest.I saw many better performance videos last year, Fion Regan is terrible.
Emily Haines - Awful.
Knife/Cornelius/Dr Love/Bat for Lashes/Tonto are all worthy.
Generally 2007 was a good year for music vids.
vulvamatic, 13. January 2008, 16:26
that emily haines video's win is simply based on it's use of thermal imaging technology. how bland and pedestrian, the camerawork itself is vapid like someone's old 8mm art school project. It's like giving a video accolades because it looks as if we're looking through the inside of the Predator's helmet.shatner, 14. January 2008, 02:22
thanks progosk and well done to all the winners!30f, 14. January 2008, 17:35
Really quality choices. Thanks for the work.I gotta say I like that D Rascal video now more than when it came out.
jesse.ewles, 14. January 2008, 23:28
Right on.-j
progosk, 19. November 2008, 19:39
(p.s.: small matter the ville's best new director 2007 wasn't ever actually decided 'tween saccenti and eskils - they're now both signed to partizan.)