the 'ville hath spoken - the following are the hive-selected nominees for the official antville Music Video Awards 2006. enjoy them as they stand, or else cast your own, final, vote. voting will be open for four days, til december 16th.

MOST FUN VIDEO

Deichkind "Ich Betäube Mich", Dir. Alex & Liane .mov Hot Chip "Over & Over", Dir. Nima Nourizadeh .mp4 The Rapture "Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh-huh", Dir. Ben Dickinson .mov CSS "Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above", Dir. Cat Solen .mov Justice vs. Simian “We Are Your Friends”, Dir. Rozan&Schmelz .mov

BEST ANIMATED VIDEO

Wolf Parade "Modern World", Dir. Adam Bizanski .mov The SoftLightes "Heart Made Of Sound", Dir. Kris Moyes .mov Spinto Band "Oh Mandy", Dir./Anim. Jon Watts & Sean Donnelly .mov I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness "The Owl", Dir. Emmanuel Ho .mov Zion I "Soo Tall", Dir. Encyclopedia Pictura .mov Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”, Dir. Robert Hales .mov

special mention (by acclaim) Dirty Projectors “The Getty Address (An Opera About Don Henley)”, Dir. James Sumner

BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion", Dir. Patrick Daughters .mov Goose "British Mode", Dir. Keith Schofield .mov The Secret Machines "Lightning Blue Eyes", Dir. Patrick Daughters qt stream Rammstein "Mann Gegen Mann", Dir. Jonas Åkerlund .wmv OK Go "Here It Goes Again", Dir. OK Go @google The Horrors "Sheena Is A Parasite", Dir. Chris Cunningham .mov

BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO

Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Cursed Sleep", Dir. Andy Bruntel .mov Emily Haines "Doctor Blind", Dir. Jaron Albertin .mov Johan "Oceans", Dir. Johan Kramer .mov Arctic Monkeys "Leave Before the Lights Come On", Dir. John Hardwick .mov Muse “Knights of Cydonia”, Dir. Joseph Kahn .mov

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

OK Go "Here It Goes Again", Chor. Trish Sie google The Zutons “Why Won't You Give Me Your Love”, Dir. Scott Lyon .mov Jamie Lidell "New Me", Dir. Aleksandra Domanovic .mov Rinôçérôse "Cubicle", Dir. Alex & Liane .mov Beautiful South "Manchester", Dir. Sara Dunlop .mp4

BEST ART DIRECTION

Mogwai "Friend Of The Night", Dir. Woof Wan-Bau .divx Hot Chip “Boy From School”, Dir. Garth Jennings .mov Gnarls Barkley "Who Cares?", Dir. Barney Clay .mov Seb Martel “Motus”, Art Dir. Mahi Grand .mov Muse “Knights Of Cydonia”, Dir. Joseph Kahn .mov

BEST EDITING

The Album Leaf "Always For You", Ed. Rob Ryang .mov Boards of Canada "Dayvan Cowboy", Ed. Melissa Olson .mp4 Switchfoot “We Are One Tonight”, Dir. Jon Watts .mov The Maccabees “First Love”, Dir. Terry Hall .mov

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arctic Monkeys "The View From The Afternoon", Dir. W.I.Z. .mov The Futureheads "Skip to the End", Dir. Martin De Thurah .mov Vitalic “Poney Pt.1 (Birds)”, Dir. Pleix .mov Muse "Knights Of Cydonia", Dir. Joseph Kahn .mov Emily Haines "Doctor Blind", Dir. Jaron Albertin .mov Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion", Dir. Patrick Daughters .mov

BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR

Kris Moyes Encyclopedia Pictura (Isaiah Saxon & Sean Hellfritsch) Aleksandra Domanovic Aleix Pitarch Andreas Nilsson

BEST NEW DIRECTOR

Arno Salters Ben Rollason Encyclopedia Pictura (Isaiah Saxon & Sean Hellfritsch) Kris Moyes Andy Bruntel Ramon Bloomberg

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Patrick Daughters Alex & Liane W.I.Z. Nima Nourizadeh Jaron Albertin

BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Muse "Knights Of Cydonia", Dir. Joseph Kahn .mov Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Cursed Sleep", Dir. Andy Bruntel .mov Arctic Monkeys "The View From The Afternoon", Dir. W.I.Z. .mov Deichkind "Ich Betäube Mich", Dir. Alex & Liane .mov Emily Haines "Doctor Blind", Dir. Jaron Albertin .mov Hot Chip "Over & Over", Dir. Nima Nourizadeh .mov

(a shout to all those involved in churning this out - you know who you are...)

My entry for the MTVu Re-Animate the Decemberists music video contest. Unfortunately, my webhost chose a poor moment to go down, so the crap youtube quality version will have to suffice.

Also mirrored here.

<A HREF="www.slashart.net>Director's site.

"Sputnik In Love" was released in www.wmrecordings.com, Netherlands, and had a remix album in www.ak-duck.com, Jerusalem, later. The song has two versions of videos.

more videos: www.chicky.org

Instante Desierto

direct link here.

www.mandarine24.com

Quicktime 25.6MB

Special Mention / Mention Spéciale : Buzz Clip Musique Plus.

Novembre / November 2006 3:22 mins Production: Nù Films Director / Réalisateur : Louis-Philippe Eno Post-Production: Mandarine 24 Client : Tacca

For this music video, M24 has done the animation sequences from old etchings, composited the shots of girls making letters of the alphabet in order to write lyrics from the song, and created a confettis tornade in CGI particules.

M24 also created the effect of the invisible face on which paint is dripping by doing rotoscopie and by mapping an animated texture onto a CGI face tracked on Dumas' face.

Design : Julien Demers-Arsenault

Tehcnician(s)/Animator(s) / Technicien(s)/Animateur(s) : Julien Demers-Arsenault, Olivier Laberge, Paul Laberge

Creative Director / Directeur de Création : Olivier Laberge

Post-Production Producer(s) / Producteur(s) Post-Production : Charles Massicotte

Techniques : After Effects, animation, Rotoscopie/Rotoscopy,3D tracking, 3D animation

Check out www.mandarine24.com for additional info and making of

My take on the green screen challenge. Contains cutting edge graphics made with the latest high tech.

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Macro: Format: jpg, 300×200 pixels

Quicktime: www.mythematics.com

Directed by Mistakes Aloud (Brion Paul & Nick Regalbuto)

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quicktime: sputnic.tv

a new stopMotion video we did for the german minimal band monomatik. based on the tecniques by lotte reininger :) enjoy! and happy chrismas!