BUG 5th Birthday Playlist

Battles – Atlas

Director: Timothy Saccenti

We start with the very first video from the very first BUG on 26th April 2007. Which happens to be a modern classic (and still possibly the only performance video we’ve ever shown).

Lyapis Trubetskoy – Capital

Director: Aliaksei Tserakhau

Lyapis Trubetskoy – Capital (dir: Aleksei Terakhau) Pre-downturn critique of global capitalism and amazing VFX coming out of Belarussia.

RJD2 – Work It Out

Director: Joey Garfield

The brilliant video featuring Bill Shannon’s crutch-dance that inspired the Visa ad.

Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Directors: Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings

Adam’s patented helmet-cams come in handy in this intimate, mesmerizing performance…

zZz – Grip

Director: Roel Wouters (aka Xelor)

A conceptual art event involving gymnasts and a trampoline by Dutch maestro Roel Wouters that became a brilliant music video.

El Guapo Stunt Team – Back from the Grave

Director: Toon Aerts.

Hard rocking, highly amusing zombie gore-fest after girls in a cabin in the woods play EGST backwards.

Bird and the Bee – Again and Again

Director: Dennis Liu

The ‘Apple Mac Music Video’, the fan vid that launched Dennis Liu as director – and “mac f*ckes your gradeds balls…”

Ladyscraper – Thou Art Fucking Dead

Director: LUNG

The classic ear- and eye-bleeder by Ladyscraper (aka Wayne Adams) and Lung (aka Chris Harris). “It’s breakcore, f*cknose”

Justice – Stress

Director: Romain Gavras

Nihilistic wanton violence by Parisien hoodies orchestrated by Romain Gavras – super-controversial in 2008, now it just looks like the riots spread to France last summer…

Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

Director: Tobias Stretch

Tobias’s tour de force of extraordinary self-made puppets animated in the Appalachians.