» Saam Faramand and Absolute's Blind Pig, NSFW

It's been a couple of months since this video came out, I was waiting for the right moment to make this post, but after the Cédric Blaisbois post I can post almost anything.

London based Partizan director Saam Faramand and Absolute's little brother Blind Pig created this clever orgiastic siamese video for the Klaxons track “Twin Flames”. He has chosen to execute his video with the use of motion control rigs and computer blending. Using techniques of the modern combined with inspiration from the old, Saam creates a wonderful homage to Brian Yuzna’s "Society" in this NSFW video for the band. This piece also highlights the current trend in directors being able to push the  boundaries.

» Cédric Blaisbois, NSFW

Cédric Blaisbois is a director and producer based in France. He works with Partizan, an award winning production company with offices in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Shanghai and Mumbai. The amazing thing, besides the raw, gore and violent images, is that he also did the vfx. I know that the night vision effect helps to cover some stuff, but the edition and vfx are really cool and well done. This music video for Huoratron´s track "Corporate Occult", under Last gang Records tells the story of an after hours drunken one night stand that becomes a blood feast soul massacre. Maybe a great analogy.

» Butterflies feat. John Malkovich, Gentleman Scholar and Sandro Miller

Sandro Miller directed his friend John Malcovich in this kind nigthmare-ish dark piece. He is an award winning photographer that has been in the business for over 30 years and has numerous big campaigns under his arm. He collaborated with Gentleman Scholar, a collaboration between veteran Executive Producer, Rob Sanborn and Director/Designer Duo, William Campbell and Will Johnson. This is what Gentleman Scholar has to say: "I have this idea in my mind for a painting about butterflies. Blue and green and yellow butterflies, tumbling out of my brain. I think it’s going to be good. I feel like I can almost touch them... like they’re right there for me to grab as they’re flying away... out of my skull and taking all those dark thoughts and little devils with them. Just fluttering away and leaving the good stuff behind. Butterflies. I’m going to get my canvas and my paints. I think I’m all better. I think I’m ready to leave."

» Nuit Blanche

"Nuit Blanche" (January of 2010) it's an award winning short film directed by Arev Manoukian and produced by Spyfilms. The first time I watched it, a year ago, I was amazed by how they displayed the connection between two strangers, this hyper real poetic fantasy has no dialogue and the soundtrack itself is a critical and ever-present character on its own. The task of setting sound to this film was accomplished by cellist and composer Samuel Bisson. The great vfx work was done by Marc-Andre Gray, there is a making of in his website and vimeo. I just remember this great piece and decided to post it in case someone missed it.