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SCREENING ROOM: Watch Blood Orange’s ‘Dinner’ Video and Read the Director’s Commentary of Alan Del Rio Ortiz

May 9th, 2011 | File Under: Screening Room | 3 comments

It all started with Dev and I talking over the phone about what the video could be, and then we sent each other some references. From there, I wrote up a proper treatment and went out to find the locations. (Dev plays basketball at those courts all the time.) We kept referencing videos like 2Pac’s “Brenda’s Got A Baby” and LL Cool J’s “I Need Love” because they are sentimental; but maybe also a little but funny, and the visual style is just incredible.

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Flying Lotus Talks About His Directorial Debut For Bilal and Erykah Badu

February 9th, 2011 | File Under: Screening Room | 3 comments

As first revealed in the uncut version of an interview from our current issue, Flying Lotus recently directed his first couple music videos, Erykah Badu’s “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long” and Bilal’s “Levels.” Now that they’ve both premiered, self-titled thought we’d share the final versions along with FlyLo’s thoughts from behind the scenes at Tim & Eric’s studio (yep, that Tim & Eric)…

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SCREENING ROOM: Watch the New Pornographers’ “Moves” Video and Read An Interview With Director Tom Scharpling

February 8th, 2011 | File Under: Screening Room | 2 comments

If you have even the slightest interest in music and were on the Web yesterday, then there’s a good chance someone told you to watch “Moves,” a New Pornographers video featuring appearances from Ted Leo, Horatio Sanz, Kevin Corrigan, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Todd Barry, John Hodgman, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, and enough underground comics to keep the Upright Citizens Brigade busy for a night. In 24 hours, it’s earned more than 90,000 views, proving yet again that we don’t want our MTV. We simply want twisted treatments like a docudrama called The Rise and Rise of the New Pornographers.

In the post below, we talk to director Tom Scharpling, a.k.a. the host of The Best Show on WFMU and one-half of Scharpling and Wurster with Superchunk drummer/A.C. Newman impersonator Jon Wurster. As it turns out, that part with the pizza and rails of pure cocaine never really happened…

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SCREENING ROOM: Behind the Scenes of Caribou’s “Sun” Video

July 27th, 2010 | File Under: Media, Screening Room | Leave A Comment

[Photo by Michael Forester]

Check out what director Simon Owens has to say about Caribou’s latest music video after the jump…

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SCREENING ROOM: Art House Porn, Death Cults and NYU’s Rare Synths Collection Are Just the Begining of Future Primitive’s Music Videos For Blank Dogs, Zola Jesus, Moon Duo and More

May 18th, 2010 | File Under: Screening Room | One comment

“If they catch you, just say you’re Americans! They won’t shoot!”

That’s what Jacqueline Castel and her Future Primitive Films crew heard as they hopped a decrepit fort fence in Queens and captured part of Gary War’s “Highspeed Drift” video—her first of many for one of self-titled’s favorite local labels, Sacred Bones Records. (Among Castel’s other activities: custom headdresses for Devendra Banhart; costumes based on Marcel Dzama’s Department of Eagles video; and movie curation through The Third Floor, a collective of ex-Kim’s Video employees.)

Taking cues from our Primer guides to artists, subgenres and scenes, the following is our first installment of Screening Room, a running commentary that revolves around music video directors that’d be all over MTV…if it was 1991 and Matt Pinfield was still around. If you or someone you know would make sense for a future profile, let us know over at our Twitter or Facebook pages.

And now, our feature presentation…

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SCREENING ROOM: The Story Behind LCD Soundsystem’s “New York I Love You” Video

December 5th, 2008 | File Under: Screening Room | Leave A Comment

While we get the appeal of skateboarding dogs and Mentos, the exploding freshmaker—if you’re easily amused, that is—self-titled thinks the following video is actually worth a million views. The product of a long-shelved idea by British director Simon Owens, LCD Soundsystem’s unofficial “New York I Love You” video fuses two of our favorite things: hand puppets and hating on New York’s glossy post-Giuliani-isms. We caught up with Owens via E-mail to talk about the making of “The Muppets Take Manhattan, Part Deux.”

One note: be sure to watch the entire clip, as it features a mind-fuck ending that’d make M. Night Shyamalan proud.

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Category: Screening Room

SCREENING ROOM: Watch Blood Orange’s ‘Dinner’ Video and Read the Director’s Commentary of Alan Del Rio Ortiz

Flying Lotus Talks About His Directorial Debut For Bilal and Erykah Badu

SCREENING ROOM: Watch the New Pornographers’ “Moves” Video and Read An Interview With Director Tom Scharpling

SCREENING ROOM: Behind the Scenes of Caribou’s “Sun” Video

SCREENING ROOM: Art House Porn, Death Cults and NYU’s Rare Synths Collection Are Just the Begining of Future Primitive’s Music Videos For Blank Dogs, Zola Jesus, Moon Duo and More

SCREENING ROOM: The Story Behind LCD Soundsystem’s “New York I Love You” Video

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