Hiro Murai is arguably Donald Glover’s most important artistic collaborator. The director has been behind the camera for numerous Childish Gambino music videos and multiple episodes of Glover’s FX series “Atlanta,” but Murai’s crowning achievement thus far might just be “This Is America.” The music video has earned universal acclaim and over 70 million views since its May 5 premiere. Murai’s Steadicam tracking shots are instrumental to the video’s success.
“We worked on music videos together before ‘Atlanta,’ and the way we work on ‘Atlanta’ came from how we worked on music videos, so it was sort of a fluid, intuitive process,” Murai told Variety about his process. “Donald took the creative charge on the initial conceit [of the video] because he knew what the song was going to be and I came on when he was mixing down the final pieces of the song. But the creative process for...
“We worked on music videos together before ‘Atlanta,’ and the way we work on ‘Atlanta’ came from how we worked on music videos, so it was sort of a fluid, intuitive process,” Murai told Variety about his process. “Donald took the creative charge on the initial conceit [of the video] because he knew what the song was going to be and I came on when he was mixing down the final pieces of the song. But the creative process for...
- 5/11/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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