antville Music Video Awards 2008
The Winners !
Heeding no obstacles, here are the true, hive-polled winners, the crème de la crème of music videos of 2008:
MOST FUN VIDEO
The BPA (feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) - Toe Jam
Keith Schofield, director
Streetgang Films, prod co
BEST ANIMATED VIDEO
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Sean Pecknold, director
Grandchildren, prod co
BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO
White Denim - Shake Shake Shake
Tom Haines, director
Factory Films, prod co
BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO
Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul?
Chris Milk, director
Radical Media, prod co
BEST URBAN* VIDEO
* includes rap, hiphop and rural.
Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Spike Jonze/Kanye, directors
G.O.O.D Pictures/Bucks Boys Productions, prod co's
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
JaQuel Knight & Frank Gatson, Jr.
for Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Jake Nava, director
Anonymous Content, prod co
awesome tho it is, Omaha Bitch's Orgasmic Troopers received a disproportionate swell of votes on day 3 of polling, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!
BEST ART DIRECTION
Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, directors
Ghost Robot, prod co
BEST EDITING
Romain Gavras for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mike Ragen for Damien Jurado - Caskets
Matt Daniels, director
Thinklab Inc., prod co
and
André Chemetoff for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co
the ex-aequo is to acknowledge a slight direct influence on voting due to thinklab's brief ingenuity - nothing a bona fide voting-irregularities-observation-committee can't handle ;-)
BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR Jesse Ewles and That Go
BEST NEW DIRECTOR Romain Gavras
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Keith Schofield
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, director
Ghost Robot, prod co
awesome tho it is, Kraak&Smaak's Squeeze Me received a disproportionate swell of votes after a Dutch call to arms, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!
Stay tuned - "Winners say hi!" posts coming up...
Dido - "Sand in My Shoes" (Director Alex DeRackoff)
AVI 45MB:
Pronti Al Peggio: Amari - Drinking In L.A. (Bran Van 3000 cover)
set in Cadorna train station in Milan. Commuters just left to come back to their houses in the outskirts and we profited to shot this sort of metropolitan blues. Prontialpeggio from Italy with hope.
Interview with Partizan
Not a video-post: SPEX has an interview with Sasha Nixon from Partizan about Internet-Music-Videos, budgets & Janet Jackson ... - found that very interesting ... (in german) www.spex.de
It's Christmas Time
Christmas movie set to 'It's Christmas Time' by Status Quo
J.Khrist - Time's Up (Dir. Brian Johnston)
J.Khrist - Time's Up from Brian Johnston on Vimeo.
shot in 8 hours, cut in one day.
directed by Brian Johnston
shot by German Valle
cut by Will Stroud
Basshunter "Angel in the Night"
Another hit single released from Basshunter. If you have liked his past videos then this one is sure to please. The love interest in the video is none other than porn star/model, Aylar Lie.
Eatliz - Hey (dir. Guy Ben Shetrit)
Balloon, Mein Herr?
The American Dollar - Anything You Synthesize (dir. Kasper Verweij)
Landscapes and parallax
(via Ventilate)
Metronomy - A Thing For Me
Blackmail - Evon (live)
You can find a live video of Blackmail's "Evon" at wenn's rockt! WebTV which was filmed in Freiburg, Germany in October 2008.
The video is a .wmv-file and can only be streamed. Watch it!
Morandi - Angels (Dir ?)
This video has a great story and idea in it.
Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again (Dir: Eric Wareheim)
Back at it again.
Eric Berman- Hagshma azmit (dir. Jonathan Vardi & Roi Werner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4uzmThWKQ&feature=channel_page
MSTRKRFT - Bounce feat N.O.R.E. and Isis (Dir: ?)
MSTRKRFT - Bounce feat. N.O.R.E & Isis
So here's the official video for Bounce (finally). Myspace link is all that's availible at the moment, unfortunately.
On another topic, can I clarify what I've always thought that this blog was about? I thought it was made so that people could see OFFICIAL videos as soon as possible, not so that you could post a Windows Movie Maker slideshow to a song that you listen to on your ipod shuffle. In summation, fuck you. Enjoy the video!
The Stills - "Don't Talk Down" - Chris Mills
New video for The Stills. Directed by Chris Mills. Featuring Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning!
God, the Devil and a Werewolf!
Pon and Zi - Everytime We Touch (Yanou's Candlelight Mix)
The emo cartoon characters Pon and Zi, to the backing of Everytime We Touch (Yanou's Candlelight Mix) by Cascada.
Lady GaGa - "Poker Face", Director: Ray Kay
Lizzy Grant – Kill Kill
Lizzy Grant – Kill Kill video.yahoo.com
Year-end lists: FUSE
FUSE viewers: Womanizer is best video of the year.
