MEET: AG ROJAS

AG Rojas is a young director on the rise. He believes that we’re at the beginning of a new time in music videos where directors will be given more control and allowed to take more risks. And he’s more than willing to be the one taking them.

Labels aren’t paying his rent so why should they have final say on the making of his videos? It’s a necessary stance to take in an industry that far too often withholds creative control from directors and turns an otherwise exciting medium into nothing more than a commercial. What people tend to forget is that it is a real ”author-director” work. When you make a music video you write, you prep, you shoot, you cut and then you post your finished work. And in the end music video directors have very few rights and don’t usually get paid.

Since there is so little money involved, and with free content hitting the web on a daily basis, labels and artists have come to realise that the best chance for their videos to be seen and appreciated is to give directors full creative control to fulfil their vision. Only then will it be something truly special and not just another easily forgotten clip that feels as if it was cooked up in a boardroom to cater to a certain demographic.

AG makes the kind of music videos that we like. He’s living proof that having a clear vision and holding your stance, with your middle finger held firmly at the man, is necessary if you’re going to make it in an industry that doesn’t really want to pay you, or let you fulfil your creative vision. We spoke to AG while he was in-between Los Angeles and a last-minute project in London.

Interview by Karl Henkell for Surface to Air.

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Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines"

Spiritualized - "Hey Jane"

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RUNNER UP: STONES THROW RECORDS VIDEO CONTEST 2011. Included as part of the Stones Throw Records Video Contest Winners List and awarded 'Runner-Up' by Stones Throw Records founder Peanut Butter Wolf.

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' Oh Donna ' from ' Stranger Calls 7" ' available in limited numbers here: www.amdiscs.com

The first of three videos/remixes, leading up to Bendik's debut album out October 5th 2012 on Riot Factory. Bendik @ Facebook: facebook.com/bendikmusikk Bendik @ Twitter: @bendikmusikk Bendik @ Home: riotfactory.no/bendik.php Follow Burning God Little on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/burninggodlittle Shot and edited by Lars Kristian Boquist (vimeo.com/larskb) vk.com

Directed by Soldout, Amandine Klee and Frederic Lefevre

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Reva DeVito - www.revadevito.com Roane Namuh - www.roanenamuh.com Directed, Shot & Chopped by Joe Aimonetti - www.503creative.com

New music video! REALLY HOT!!! ALREADY HAS 50,000 VIEWS ON WS:)

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This is the second single from New Zealand band Villainy.

Directed by Red Yeti - www.redyeti.co.nz

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The new official music video clip by Popshop!

Music and Lyrics by Martin Akeret aka Popshop / Camera and Cut by Jorge de la Fuente / Cinematography by Christian Clavadetscher / Storyboard by Martin Akeret aka Popshop. © 2012. www.popshop.cc.

New Popshop 4-Track-EP «They Talk Too Much» incl. Remix by Dan Piu out 30.05.12!

Awesome stopmotion by Ian Robertson
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Final cut of the full-length movie for the classic album. This utilizes the backdrop films the band used during their initial US, UK, and French tours for the album, with additional footage added to "Us and Them" and the entire "Any Colour You Like". The mix of the album for the video contains an extended version of "Money".

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Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon" side two from Matthew Fuggi on Vimeo.

Final cut of the full-length movie for the classic album. This utilizes the backdrop films the band used during their initial US, UK, and French tours for the album, with additional footage used for "Breathe" and live footage from 1972 added to "Time". The mix of the album for the video contains extended versions of "Speak To Me" and "On the Run".

Watch side one here: vimeo.com

Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon" side one from Matthew Fuggi on Vimeo.

Directed by Ryan Staake (Pomp&Clout)

Director of Photography: T.S. Pfeffer Co-Producers: Robert McHugh & Ryan Staake Label: Clown & Sunset Films Production Companies: Pomp&Clout LLC & Pier Pictures Costumes: Rachel Dainer-Best Timelapse: Peter Corina Pyramid: Santa Monica Plastics Production Assistants: Jamin Mandel & Ian Kaye Transportation: Rudy Schaefer Thanks to Nicolas Jaar and Noah Kraft

Shot in Arizona and California

Just in time for election 2012, Bullethead presents this hard charging music video.

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"Sometimes" by Miss Guy

Directed by Nicole Brending

Song produced and co-written with Super Buddha, Barbara Jean Morrison and Charles W. Nieland

Video Produced by Brian Kuchta

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Great crescendo!

 

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Dirty Laundry TV interviews Lee Ranaldo on Sonic Youth's hiatus, how they began & his family.

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I eke out a living in my cold room shapeless I lick my wounds I do not sleep, I do not wake vacuum until you come for my sake

I am made of clay

there's a ghost in my cold heart that even glows in the dark tried to be the hunter in disguise now I'm just the hunted I value myself through your eyes

I am made of clay

I am made of clay I crave you everyday you're my predator, I'm your prey catch me before I'm washed away

I am made of clay biting my own tail abandoned to my fate trying to hibernate

I am made of clay still crave you everyday gaining spell and sway or beginning to decay