BUG 24

No Age - Fever Dreaming

Top American director Patrick Daughters for LA noisecore duo No Age, which is driven by a brutally simple, brutal idea. It’s a one-shot video which captures the two band members in their warehouse space that seems to have a life of its own.

Royksopp - Senior Living

An entry in a competition organised via Australian music video competition website Genero.tv. This one, for Senior Living, was made by Irish writer/director Neil Dowling and German cinematographer and director Nils Clauss

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

The video that heralded the sudden return to action earlier this month by Radiohead. A few days after the band announced the imminent arrival of new album King of Limbs, the video by Garth Jennings (of Hammer & Tongs fame) for Lotus Flower appeared, featuring Thom Yorke performing the song while engaging enthusiastically in modern dance moves devised by top British choreographer Wayne McGregor CBE.

Orelha Negro – M.I.R.I.A.M

Remarkable film for the Portuguese hip-hop outfit Orelha Negro by Alexandre Farto – aka Vhils, renowned Portuguese street artist (and now filmmaker).

De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig – Electrotechnique

By Lennart Engelberts and Sander Plug, an artist / film making team renowned for their creative applications of everyday objects. They have excelled themselves with the video for Dutch band De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig’s Elektronique.

Living Sisters – How Are You Doing?

Michel Gondry, who makes feature films more frequently than he does music videos these days, nonetheless directed (and also DoP’d) the video for How Are You Doing? by The Living Sisters – a sort of folk-pop super-trio

Fever Ray – When I Grow Up

Special guest, Martin De Thurah, director of some of the most stirring and breathtakingly beautiful videos of the past few years including this one for Fever Ray.

Carpark North – Human

More from BUG24 guest Martin De Thurah..

Gastmans – Eyes So Dry

From our recent discoveries: Spanish director Jesus Hernandez. Last year we screened two distinctive videos by Jesus, now here’s a recent gem for the Spanish lounge-pop star Gastmans.

Tyler The Creator – Yonkers

Tyler The Creator is leading light of the Odd Future collective from Los Angeles. He is also the hip hop persona of Wolf Haley – who has directed this simple yet artful and devastating video for Yonkers.