Weekly Music Video Podcast

WMVP076 - Damn That River by The Evidence

ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com (Colin G) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:13:58 PDT

Artist: The Evidence
Track: Damn That River
Director: Douglas Thomson

This weeks video is an oft-told tale of female disenfranchisement in the 50s.

Director Douglas Thomson takes this premise and makes it a darkly humorous hyper-real tale. As a 50s housewife struggles against her uncaring husband she fantasises about various ways to kill him. There is a distinct change in grading between the murder fantasies and reality, which highlights the 'golden-age' mentality of this scenario. These sections are inter-cut with The Evidence themselves playing the track dressed in a very clean cut 50s style. It's vaguely reminiscent of the video for In Bloom by Nirvana directed by Kevin Kerslake.

A beautifully shot, beautifully structured piece of film-making.

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WMVP075 - Can We Go Wrong by Hesta Prynn

ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com (Colin G) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:40:20 PDT

Artist: Hesta Prynn
Track: Can We Go Wrong
Director: Randy Scott Slavin

Another stop-motion video using humans this week.

Director Randy Scott Slavin took Hesta Prynn to a park in New York and then took over 13k still photographs to animate together. He makes her 'skate' and float around the park in a really fun way. As well these segments there are also appearances by an old Simon game and a reference to Missile Command.

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Now available is an HD feed for this podcast. 1280x720 MP4's suitable for playing on iPad's and other tablet devices. The HD feed is HERE and hopefully it will be added to the iTunes store soon.

See you next week for another great music video.

WMVP074 - The Emancipation by Tricil

ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com (Colin G) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:00:00 PDT

Artist: Tricil
Track: The Emancipation
Directors: Franck Trebillac & Marc Broussely

This weeks video has the feel of a distorted music box.

Dancer and industrial band frontwoman Miss Maleficent Martini takes the role of a ballet dancer in a bizarre old-fashioned surrounding. She is not your typical ballerina and this is not your typical ballet music. Tricil is a dubstep artist and his jagged style of music is matched by the jagged, yet still beautiful, movements of Miss Martini.

Adding to the music box feel, directors Trebillac & Broussely use kaleidoscope type effects to increase the feel of movement on a small scale. These kaleidoscope reflections are reminiscent of videos by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jet, but here they are used perfectly to fit with the style of track.

You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.

Now available is an HD feed for this podcast. 1280x720 MP4's suitable for playing on iPad's and other tablet devices. The HD feed is HERE and hopefully it will be added to the iTunes store soon.

See you next week for another great music video.

WMVP073 - The Space In Between by How To Destroy Angels