2010 Music Videos

Autumn

Music video
Director: Shelley Farthing-Dawe
Starring: Big Scary
Baby I'm Getting Better

Music video
Director: Nick Pollack
Starring: Gyroscope
Shot over 2 days at 14 locations around Sydney using stop motion techniques, the second video from Gyroscope's album "Cohesion" is made up of around 2500 individual photos (chosen from the 16,000 or so that were shot)
Ballad of a Young Married Man

Music video
Director: Sean Genders
Starring: The Wildes
Bell

Music video
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: The Mess Hall
Bell' follows a day in the life of the eleven year-old preaching phenomenon, Minister Terry Durham, also known as 'The Little Man Of God'. Justin Kurzel, brother of The Mess Hall's singer/guitarist Jed, has directed all the band's previous videos, including the award winning 'Keep Walking' and 'Pulse'. 'Bell' has screened on the web as well as ABC's Rage and Video Hits on Channel Ten. It is due to screen at the 2010 St Kilda Film Festival.
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

Music video
Director: Nash Edgerton
Starring: Artist: Bob Dylan
Big

Music video
Director: Adam Callen
Starring: Dead Letter Circus
Bigger Than the Money

Music video
Director: Kess Broekman-Dattner
Starring: Clare Bowditch & The New Slang
Bird on a Wire

Music video
Director: Krozm
Starring: Sarah Blasko
Bullet

Music video
Director: Gemma Lee
Starring: Erika Heynatz
Burn Your Name

Music video
Director: Natasha Pinkus
Starring: Powderfinger
Filmed amongst the magic and mayhem of a Thai city in the peak of its Loy Krathong lantern festival, BURN YOUR NAME showcases the spectacular beauty of the launching of a fire-lit lantern and its growing collective participation, to visually express the song's celebratory declaration of love.
Chance to Say Goodbye

Music video
Director: Natasha Pinkus
Starring: Artist: Pete Murray
Rather than follow a traditional music video approach, the open brief was to make a short film exploring the themes of love and loss. CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE is an intimate, poignant story dramatising an idea contained in the song's lyric: I'd give it all, just to say goodbye to your face. Stars Peter Fenton.
Close My Eyes

Music video
Director: Tov Belling
Starring: Rudely Interrupted
"Close My Eyes" is Rudely Interrupted's new single taken from forthcoming debut album, "Tragedy of the Commons." One of Australia's most celebrated bands, Rudely Interrupted teamed up with innovative director Tov Belling to create a sweeping video that so slowly and cleverly reveals the characters behind this slice of pitch perfect indie pop. Making huge waves at home and overseas, Rudely Interrupted continue to wow audiences, and go from musical strength to strength.
Could Be Bad

Music video
Director: Tom Noakes
Starring: The Scare
A security guard returns home from work to discover a group of "ghostly Delinquents" vandalizing his apartment.
Dinosaur

Music video
Director: Chris Scott Baker
Starring: Kisschasy
Dream About Changing

Music video
Director: Krozm
Starring: Sally Seltmann
Falling Away

Music video
Director: Timothy Melville
Starring: Big Scary
Falling Away is the first music video for Melbourne duo Big Scary. Shot over two days the clip sees a young man (Jack Walters) travel from inner city to coastal Victoria via the Great Ocean Road.
Goodtown

Music video
Director: Lucy Dyson
Starring: Wagons
Goodtown is about moving somewhere and the grass always being greener, a psyched out treechange - like a seachange, but gone wrong. All aboard the ominous train to Goodtown.
Helping Hands

Music video
Director: Jean Camden
Starring: dirtgirlworld TV Show
A regionally based all Australian team, dirtgirlworld productions and Hackett Films from Sydney. This has been screening on ABC 1 and ABC 2 in episodes of dirtgirlworld and as a standalone clip from Dec 09.
I Don't Wanna Be a Popstar Too

Music video
Director: Frank Strangio
Starring: Ian Smith
This production was simply an execution of a quirky idea by composer Frank Strangio. It features Ian Smith (who played Harold on Neighbours) and is a sardonic commentary on the actors turn Popstars phenomenon. It was shot on Super 16mm and was self-funded.
I'll Get To You

Music video
Director: Patrick McCabe
Starring: Seja
I'm a Sister

Music video
Director: Francis Coady
Starring: The Protectors
If Your Dad Doesn't Have a Beard, You've Got Two Mums

Music video
Director: Tom Bettany
Starring: The Beards
Alex's Dad isn't like other dads. Alex sees him 'differently'. There's something missing, but what is it? This hilarious clip has achieved over 100,000 hits on YouTube, screened on Rage, and was nominated for a 2010 South Australian Screen Award.
It's All Square

Music video
Director: Oliver Georgiou
Starring: Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Oliver Georgiou is a Melbourne based Animation Director and founder of the St Kilda based production studio Georgiono. From time to time we end up back where we started, even though we set out to be somewhere else. That's because it's all square, even when it's round.
June

Music video
Director: Paige Rattray
Starring: Cameras
Killer

Music video
Director: Steve Baker
Starring: Whitley
Whitley is a young cop patrolling a hard-boiled city. A monstrous killer is on the prowl, wreaking bloody havoc. As Whitley finally catches up with the beast, there are devastating consequences for all. Directed by Steve Baker. "Killer" is taken from Whitley's album "Go Forth, Find Mammoth", out now
Lazy - Doofwars Episode 1

Music video
Director: Taz Cebula
Starring: CREECH
This video was entirely created by CREECH.’s lead singer, rhythm guitarist and founding member Taz Cebula over the course of more than 12 months, as he recovered from a life threatening cancer, with a tumour also breaking his spine. He is fully recovered now after a lengthy course of chemotherapy and the insertion of titanium rods into his back, and has commenced work on ‘Doofwars Episode II’, as well as other Science Fiction inspired music video projects.
Little Cowboys, Bad Hombres

Music video
Director: Aaron Schuppan
Starring: Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
Loserspeak in New Tongue

Music video
Director: Sam Kristofski of Pharm Productions
Starring: Parades
Lucky

Music video
Director: Darcy Prendergast
Shot over 6 months, and painstakingly animated with a long exposure glow stick technique, this stop motion clip was the RAGE indie pick of the week and won the 'Best Animated Music Video' at St Kilda Film Festival. 
Lying Around

Music video
Director: Pierre Toussaint
Starring: Cassette Kids
Practically Wasted

Music video
Director: Peter Ireland
Starring: Artist: Brendan Maclean
Music Video made for Sydney artist, Brendan Maclean, in May 2010.The video is by Brisbane based company Production Room and was directed by Peter Ireland. It was funded independently and created almost entirely through volunteer work.
Rock Bang!

Music video
Director: Jonno Katz
Starring: Die Roten Punkte
Super Group Die Roten Punkte's 2nd video introduces people to the Rock Bang! Check them out at www.dierotenpunkte.com and director Jonno Katz at www.epicworlds.com
Sea Strangers (I Don't Really Know You)

Music video
Director: Alex Barnes
Starring: Ball Park Music
Shakeytown

Music video
Director: Paul Rankin
Starring: I Heart Hiroshima
Some of the Places I Know

Music video
Director: Nick Pollack
Starring: Gyroscope
Filmed across the sprawling expanse of rural Western Australia - in temperatures that reached 47 degrees - this video is both a nostalgic nod to the Aussie rock videos of the 80's, and to the beauty of Gyroscope's home state.
Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe

Music video
Director: Steve Rogers
Starring: Artist: Ben Lee
Space Monkey Returns Home. During the 1960s, monkeys were sent into outer space as part of the US space exploration program. But they didn't all return, until now. Ben Lee's "Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe" is the soundtrack to the moving new film for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which tells the story of an original space monkey who returns to Earth after being lost in space for decades. Created by Leo Burnett Sydney, with director Steve Rogers for Revolver.
Spaceship

Music video
Director: Marcus Flack
Starring: Artist: Phrase
A classic jail break but this time from an oppressive office environment. Phrase tunnels to freedom leading his office companions with hilarious consequences.
Spin

Music video
Director: Krozm
Starring: Cassette Kids
Sticks and Stones

Music video
Director: Sam Wark
Starring: Mercury White
This is the band and director's first music clip. On a tiny budget clever ideas can still be the strongest currency in the end.
Sweet Come Down

Music video
Director: Michael Spiccia
Starring: The Black Ryder
Follow the path of destruction here...
The Good News

Music video
Director: Luke Tierney
Starring: Philadelphia Grand Jury
Find the Philadelphia Grand Jury in this "Where's Wally" style music video.
The Price

Music video
Director: Matt Kamen
Starring: Dappled Cities
1001 tiny light bulbs provide the lighting for Aussie rock/pop band Dappled Cities' first music video, "The Price".
The Soft Sell

Music video
Director: Matthias Cerwen
Starring: Disco Nap
The Way You Are

Music video
Director: Kess Broekman-Dattner
Starring: Artist: Kate Vigo
Part homage to the bluescreen effects of yesteryear, part knowing nod to concessions made in troubled relationships, when sometimes the real concern may come entirely from within.
Unbroken

Music video
Director: Matthew Chuang
Starring: Stan Walker
Vital Signs

Music video
Director: Krozm
Starring: Midnight Juggernauts
We're Mostly Made of Water

Music video
Director: Sherwin Akbarzadeh
Starring: Kid Sam
A hyper-real journey through a technicoloured Australian suburbia – where a children's birthday party, neighbourhood bogans and sad housewives, judo fighters, skateboarders and the off-duty ice cream man all have their place.
Western Front

Music video
Director: Justin Kurzel & Daniel Fletcher
Starring: Bridezilla
A suburban living room is the stage as Bridezilla perform an intricately choreographed dance for 'Western Front'. 'Western Front' premiered on Myspace and has since aired on Rage on ABC and Video Hits on Channel 10. The video is also due to screen at the 2010 St Kilda and Dungog Film Festivals.
Westward Backwards

Music video
Director: Andrew Goldsmith & Jeremy Blode
Starring: [ME]
The official music video for "Westward Backwards" by Australian theatrical rock band [ME] Created by Jeremy Blode & Andrew Goldsmith Starring Ryder Susman & Ashe Davenport The video is a combination of pixilation (with a Canon E0S 400D against a chroma screen), Photoshop and After Effects compositing and animation.
What Can I Do

Music video
Director: Josh Groom
Starring: Tokenview
Based loosely on the 1999 elevator misadventures of New Yorker, Nicholas White.
What’s the Chance of Being Wrong?

Music video
Director: Laura Dudgeon
Starring: Xanthopan