Music videos have long been a proving ground for some of the most innovative filmmaking ideas. Sometimes those breakthroughs come as stylistic flourishes. Other times, it means breaking down a simple story to its purest form.
If the 2000s were the decade when music videos embraced the internet, the 2010s were left to reckon with what the internet became. Over 10 years when viral moments were valuable cultural currency, some videos seemed perfectly tailor-made to create them. Whether manufactured to become a sensation or becoming so by pure chance, music videos embraced the weird spirit and sobering reality of the overall trajectory of the decade.
So, acknowledging that winnowing down all that time and creativity to 25 picks is going to inevitably leave out some worthy contributions, here’s our attempt at highlighting the best of what the art form had to offer:
25. Rob Cantor — “Shia Labeouf (Live)” (dir. Scott Uhlfelder)
The 2010s were absurd,...
If the 2000s were the decade when music videos embraced the internet, the 2010s were left to reckon with what the internet became. Over 10 years when viral moments were valuable cultural currency, some videos seemed perfectly tailor-made to create them. Whether manufactured to become a sensation or becoming so by pure chance, music videos embraced the weird spirit and sobering reality of the overall trajectory of the decade.
So, acknowledging that winnowing down all that time and creativity to 25 picks is going to inevitably leave out some worthy contributions, here’s our attempt at highlighting the best of what the art form had to offer:
25. Rob Cantor — “Shia Labeouf (Live)” (dir. Scott Uhlfelder)
The 2010s were absurd,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Leo Garcia and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Year: 2009
Director: Danny Daneau
Writer: Danny Daneau, Eric Ernst
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Opening scenes are a little like first impressions: the good and bad stand out while the mediocre blend together into the background. It's been some time since a film's opening stood out. So long in fact that I can't recall a particularly memorable one in the last few years and then I sit down with a small independent film titled The Attic Door and I see an opening which, in its opening 5 minutes, mesmerized. The combination of framing, music and the confusion of the scene, seen out of context from the rest of the film, are so outstanding that it will be a long while before it dislodges itself from my mind. The same is true for the film.
Danny Daneau's film, which he co-wrote with Eric Ernst, is...
Director: Danny Daneau
Writer: Danny Daneau, Eric Ernst
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Opening scenes are a little like first impressions: the good and bad stand out while the mediocre blend together into the background. It's been some time since a film's opening stood out. So long in fact that I can't recall a particularly memorable one in the last few years and then I sit down with a small independent film titled The Attic Door and I see an opening which, in its opening 5 minutes, mesmerized. The combination of framing, music and the confusion of the scene, seen out of context from the rest of the film, are so outstanding that it will be a long while before it dislodges itself from my mind. The same is true for the film.
Danny Daneau's film, which he co-wrote with Eric Ernst, is...
- 8/11/2011
- QuietEarth.us
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