By Official Appointment:
videos.antville music video curators....
A short while back, Ian from 7inch Cinema got in touch about a cool festival they organise, with an interesting idea. Here's his explanation:

"hello Antville,
From the 11th to the 15th of March, Birmingham (UK) will be home to the third edition of the Flatpack Festival - an unholy mishmash of shorts, animation, music docs and live cinema in venues all over the city. We use warehouses, bars and galleries, and our main screening venue is the century-old Electric Cinema. If forced, we might come up with themes like 'imaginative use of limited resources', or 'fuzzy areas where film bumps into other artforms'.
Some of the stuff in this year's lineup which you might find of interest:
- Romain Gavras' Justice documentary 'A Cross The Universe', and a bunch of their videos
- animator David O'Reilly talking about 'Son of Rambow' and his twisted web-soap 'Please Say Something'
- an amazing documentary about Italian street artist Blu called 'Megunica'
- hotly-tipped Swedish vampire flick 'Let The Right One In'
- a night in the spirit of 1900's film-shows featuring Georges Meliรจs et al and an outfit called Paper Cinema who use cut-out characters to create live animation.
I've been finding good stuff for our shows on this site for years, so this time I thought I'd come clean and ask you lot if you would curate a programme of music videos for us... We thought it would be great to have a screening event which reflects the talent and passion which you find on Antville (although maybe with a bit less fighting). The programme will need to last about 70 minutes, and the final selection will be subject to what we can clear from labels and prod companies (so it's probably worth having a few extra as backup). We'll invite along some of the directors featured, and Antvillers who contribute to this experiment in group curation will be very welcome to a free ticket if they can make it to Birmingham on 13th March.
Um, that's it I think. I'll hand over to progosk who can give you a bit more detail on how this might work. The full programme will be up online in February, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
Ian / Flatpack Festival"
In practice, the idea goes something like this: keeping in mind Flatpack's ethos,
- propose a theme that you consider particularly relevant to current music videos and make a list of videos that exemplify that theme (min. 5, max. 10 videos)
- you can also suggest other videos for themes that have been proposed
- videos should be chosen from 2008 antville award Nominees (simpler list is here) - or strong contenders for December 08 and January 09 Faves.
Once proposals are in, consensus is reached on best themes&list (if need be, we can poll for it).
Flatpack will be donating a congruous nugget towards antville's future server-welfare (a subject of current discussion - but that's a story for another day).
Now - get curatin'!
Diane di Stasio Silent Night
Diane di Stasio combines the rock guitar style of Jimi Hendrix's "The Star Spangled Banner" with the classic Christmas carol Silent Night.
Pulled Apart By Horses - Meat Balloon - Dir: Ben Waddleton/DonutShop
Pulled Apart By Horses - Meat Balloon from Donut Shop on Vimeo.
Still reeling from the compositing and chroma key work...
Drop us a line! www.donutshop.tv
Phil and the Osophers - High Art (dir. Philip Radiotes)
Munk - The Rat Race (Dir. Modicus)

Wide Mouth Mason - Ease Your Mind (Dir: Noble Jones)
sublimely edited, gorgeously shot, and wickedly performed. reminds of romanek/fincher's work apologies for the crappy youtube...
Jonni Music, 'Preoccupied by the War', Dir: Ben Taylor
As Featured on NME.com - "Johnny Borrell spoofed on YouTube"
Black Bikini Alpha - Kicking and Screaming (dir. Ben Goodger)
Fetish some makeup?

Pendulum, Showdown, Nick Bartleet

made me remember the a2a sequence in requiem for a dream
My life with the thrill kill kult - And This is What the Devil Does..
Vikunja "Some People" (dir. Kalle Haglund)

Sarsparilla 'The Count' - Dir. Fergal Brennan
Music video for the Sarsparilla song 'The Count' by Fergal Brennan. Stop motion animation, shot mostly in Dublin, Ireland. Thanks to Mark Wickham for the photoshop help.
Nate James - Kingdom Falls (Dir: Ethan Lader)
A beautiful video
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
The Prodigy - Omen (Dir. ?)

Curt@!n$ - The Dope Supremacy
<img src="lancedrake.com"height="210" width="404" alt="DOPE YER MOTHER!" />
Dir. Lance Drake
AMOS "Bla Bla" (Dir: Tobias Knipf)
Amos - Blabla - music video feat. Julia Dietze from Tobias Knipf on Vimeo.
Energetic black and white music video, with great light setting and camera work.
And the story is also very nice, don't miss the end! its not what you expect.
Beirut // La Llorona // Dir. Owen Cook
First single fron the EP March Of The Zapotec
NATIONAL SKYLINE "Revenge" (Dir: TAPRprojects)
website: www.myspace.com
Christina Milian "Us Against The World" : Dir.
