Los Angeles Music Video Festival | Celebrating the Art of the Music Video

LBCK – Start (dir. Leah McKissock)

Winner, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A very fun student video that plays with a Warhol-esque sensibility, live action filming and a whole lot of dance. The cuts and transitions, along with the logo-play were among our favorite parts.

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The Dirty Projectors – The Bride (dir. Kerry Westcott)

Dirty Projectors – the bride (unofficial) from Kerry Westcott on Vimeo. Audience Favorite Winner, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A student video for The Dirty Projectors’ “The Green Bride.” Whimsical and fleeting, the video is a good reflection of the tone of the song, and takes place in a magical garden of Eden. Eden and bubbles.

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Eyes Lips Eyes – Pretty (dir. Colin Mapp)

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A fun stop-motion rock video that takes a weird twist a minute or two in and then just runs with the potential to interpret movement within the stop-motion format.

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Surfaholics – Pink Lady (dir. Philipp Zettl)

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A visually engrossing video, where the premise is that we’re seeing moving tattoos play out the story. Great animation and compositing work lead to a video you must watch.

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Samwell – My Knees Gettin’ Dirty (dir. Josh da Silva)

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. We’d rather you simply watch this for yourself. No words of ours can do justice to the visual feast that is this video. If you recall Samwell from his internet breakout video, “What What (In the Butt),” then you may have an inkling of what you’re in for.

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Rotimi – Lose My Mind (dir. Travis LaBella)

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A hip-hop duet that takes place within the darkest corners of the obsessive mind. The artist Rotimi takes a mental vacation while out at the club.

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Kid Sam – We’re Mostly Made of Water

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. A beautiful mirrored long-take video coming from two different ends of the same street. You never know what, or who, you could’ve missed by just a moment or two.

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Quiet Life – Jim’s Wedding Band (dir. Ben Fee)

Official Selection, Student Category, LAMVF 2011. This is just an adorable video. There’s not much more to say about it: a wedding, a band, soft-focus and friends having fun. The format lends itself to the feeling that this was cut from footage of an actual wedding, which just adds to the charm.

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Dinosaur Feathers – Teenage Whore (dir. The Moonmen)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 The Moonmen got the opportunity to create this video as the result of winning the 1st NYC Music Video Festival and Battle of the Bands, and the end product is pretty fetching. Made using After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema 4D, and Final Cut Pro, the video is an interesting combination of animation and live-action.

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Where’s Jerome – My Hiroshima (dir. Todd Cetin)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 A stop-motion video made using home appliances. Though it may seem light-hearted, it’s a reimagining of historical riots directed, choreographed shot and edited by the members of Where’s Jerome, with some help from friends, of course.

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The Feature – We Want It (dir. Matthew Pizzano)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 A hip hop video unlike any you are likely to see soon, We Want It eschews the typical tropes of girls, guns and cars and instead mixes great cinematography and the artist, the Feature, with high-concept interpretive dance and a little bit of destruction. BRRAKA!

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Gambit – This Town (dir. Randy Scott Slavin)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 A moment in the lives of small town nowhere kids, This Town subverts your idea of the destruction we all come to expect of young, bored and destructive teens. You’ll have to watch to find out how.

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Moby – Choice (dir. Anthony Honn)

Winner, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011. Originally conceived of as an entry for a Moby music video competition, Honn’s video impressed us both in concept and execution. A stop-motion photography exploration of what it means to do exactly as you think you should.

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Cooperblack – Scary On The Radio (dir. Annaliese Ciel Walker)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 One of our favorite animated submissions, this video uses a rather unorthodox animation method, that of etching individual frames of computer animation and webcam footage into a celluloid reel. The result is the visual marriage of contemporary video aesthetic with scratchy, hand-crafted animation.

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Vigri – Sleep (dir. Ragnar Snorrason)

Sleep by Vigri Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011. A gorgeous, expansive look at the spaces within our dreams, Sleep is a haunting look at what your imagination can do between the time your head hits the pillow and your eyes open to a new day.

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Pierrette & George – Kidnapping (dir. Isabelle Desmond)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 Even after having seen this video many, many times, we’re still not entirely sure how to quantify it. It begins with a kidnapping, to state the completely obvious, and escalates into…well, you just need to see it for yourself.

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WhoMadeWho – Keep Me In My Plane (dir. William Stahl)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 A wonderful video that is the visual equivalent of tongue-in-cheek wordplay. Director William Stahl has a lot of fun playing with the conceptual foundation of the songs themselves, as evidenced in his more recent video for WhoMadeWho’s “Every Minute Alone.” Stahl is part of the video collaborative, Good Boy! Creative.

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The Plastics – Caves (Dir. The Morcos Brothers)

Official Selection, Indie Category, LAMVF 2011 The first video from Cape Town, South Africa’s The Plastics, from their debut album, Shark. We chose this because of the charmingly lo-fi aesthetic and, of course, the simplicity and elegance in execution of the old one-shot, one-room music video concept.

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