BUG 33 & BUG 33 - The Director's Cut

Post War Years – The Bell

The latest video by BUG regular Tobias Stretch – and his third
for the English alt-rock outfit Post War Years. Tobias’ work is easily identifiable: he creates bizarre characters from existing materials, bringing them hauntingly to life in real locations via stop frame photography.

Willow – Sweater

Ingenious video for Belgian band Willow’s Sweater, by young Belgian director Filip Sterckx, sends Willow singer Pieter-Jan Van Den Troost on a fantastic journey without him leaving the confines of the studio – and it’s all done in-camera. Here projection-mapping is used to make a low-budget video, with three projections of CG-created images beamed onto the walls and ceiling of the studio, with which Van Den Troost interacts (with very entertaining results).

Bob Dylan – Duquesne Whistle

Bob Dylan promo for Duquesne Whistle (from new album Tempest) is hard to resist. That’s down to Nash Edgerton, the Australian director and occasional stuntman, injecting typical conventions of Hollywood romantic comedy with a healthy dose of cynicism.

Lorn – Weigh Me Down

Max Friedrich’s video for Lorn’s Weigh Me Down, a videogame ‘hero’ finds himself a long way from SuperMarioWorld, in a subversive, politicised twist to gaming in general and the 8-bit aesthetic in particular. Friedrich’s previous Lorn video for Diamond followed similar themes.

Joey Ramone – New York City

Joey Ramone’s homage to his hometown New York City has inspired Greg Jardin to prove once more he is a master of inventive stop-frame animation. In this video he has engaged over 100 New Yorkers, including a smattering of celebs (including Reggie Watts, Andrew WK and Anthony Bourdain) to don a Ramones-style leather jacket, and lipsync a few moments of the song as he travels all over NYC. He broke it down into 1600 images, then painstakingly shot the video over three weeks in the middle of the baking NYC summer. It’s a tremendous achievement and a wonderful video.

Jake Bugg – Two Fingers (Director’s Cut)

Jake Bugg's latest single 'Two Fingers' by director Jamie Thraves. A bright and breezy portrait of Jake and his mates is tempered by the dramatisation of a volatile, boozy homelife, featuring actors Vicky McClure and Craig Parkinson. This director’s cut shows how Thraves is a masterful director; the scene featuring McClure and Parkinson is no cliché of alcoholic horrors – it does have its lighter side...

Antonionian – The Ride

An intriguing journey around Brixton market, for Oaklandbased electronic artist Jordan Dalrimple – aka Antonionian.The Ride, directed by London-based Yu Sato is inspired by The Passenger, by Michaelangelo Antonioni – in which a man exchanges his identity with a dead man. In the video, the camera itself changes identity, the POV passing from one person to another, whenever the holder of the POV makes eye-contact with someone else. Yu Sato, formerly a member of
animation team SSSR also makes Brixton market look brilliantly stylized,
like a 1950s movie set.

Flying Lotus – Pretty Boy Strut

Directed by BUG favourite Cyriak Harris. But Cyriak eschews his usual warped cut-and-paste visuals, working once again with illustrator Sarah Brown, with whom he made a video for Adam’s own Counting Song for the TV series of BUG this summer – which has become a viral smash.

Here We Go Magic – Casual

Directed by the NYC-based directing duo known as Peking – that’s Nat Livingston Johnston and Greg Mitnick for Brooklyn band Here We Go Magic.

Justice – New Lands

Here we show special guest's CANADA's return to music videos after an absence of nearly a year, with the video for Justice’s New Lands, a brilliant reworking of the 70s sci-fi movie which invents its own hybrid..