Here is a collection of our favourite music videos from throughout the year. This list stands as a reminder that music videos can be more than mere promotional tools for shallow products, and that amongst a sea of twerking arses with pseudo shock value, there were some really thought provoking and genuinely moving videos in 2013. Our choices are defined by videos that push and experiment artistically & narratively with the format of music videos. It is this freedom from structure that we really enjoy and sees Red Tape predominately work within the field of music videos. These are the videos of 2013 that inspired us, blew us away and some that we wished we had made ourselves.
#10 Foals - Late night
Dir: Nabil Elderkin
Profound but incredibly pieced together with amazing cinematography.
Dir: Nabil Elderkin
Profound but incredibly pieced together with amazing cinematography.
#9 The Red Paintings - Your Not One of Them
Dir: Trash McSweeney
Ok some bias but this is actually the first TRP video that I didn’t have a whole lot to do with. Well done to Richard Bell & Trash on set and Jarryd Hall, Adele Walker, Dallas Ashton, Moogie and the team in putting it together. A great video by anyone’s standards, And you can vote for it in Rage’s Top 50 along with our clip ‘Loreli’
Dir: Trash McSweeney
Ok some bias but this is actually the first TRP video that I didn’t have a whole lot to do with. Well done to Richard Bell & Trash on set and Jarryd Hall, Adele Walker, Dallas Ashton, Moogie and the team in putting it together. A great video by anyone’s standards, And you can vote for it in Rage’s Top 50 along with our clip ‘Loreli’
#8 Queens of the Stone Age -I Appear Missing
Dir: Boneface
I just like Animation and QOTSA
Dir: Boneface
I just like Animation and QOTSA
#7 The Doppler Shift - The Man Who Was Forever Haunted by His Head
Dir: Claudio Sichel
By complete fluke we found this video. A case of great visuals complementing the music and Vice Versa.
Dir: Claudio Sichel
By complete fluke we found this video. A case of great visuals complementing the music and Vice Versa.
#6 The Vein / Magma
Dir: Dvein
Crazy, disturbing and beautiful.
Dir: Dvein
Crazy, disturbing and beautiful.
#5 Steven Wilson -The Raven that Refused to Sing
Dir: Jessica Cope & Simon Cartwright
Very cool paper cut out animation and a really sad song and video that compliment each other perfectly. The Drive Home clip is also pretty exceptional.
Dir: Jessica Cope & Simon Cartwright
Very cool paper cut out animation and a really sad song and video that compliment each other perfectly. The Drive Home clip is also pretty exceptional.
#4 BEHEMOTH - Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
Dir: Dariusz Szermanowicz
Hats off to any director that makes me feel like I just witnessed a stuff film. Nothing filmed was particularly shocking but I still feel somewhat disturbed by it all.
Dir: Dariusz Szermanowicz
Hats off to any director that makes me feel like I just witnessed a stuff film. Nothing filmed was particularly shocking but I still feel somewhat disturbed by it all.
#3 Atoms for Peace - Before Your Very Eyes
Dir: Andrew Thomas Huang
A combination of stopmotion, CGI, greenscreen and kooky eyes have been assembled into this heavily textured music video. One where the making of is just as intriguing as the video itself.
Dir: Andrew Thomas Huang
A combination of stopmotion, CGI, greenscreen and kooky eyes have been assembled into this heavily textured music video. One where the making of is just as intriguing as the video itself.
#2 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Yet another video that pushes the music video genre. Probably also the best interactive video this year too (QOTSA & Pharrell Williams also releasing interactive music videos). channel surf through a dozen TV shows singing Dylan including The Price is Right,
Yet another video that pushes the music video genre. Probably also the best interactive video this year too (QOTSA & Pharrell Williams also releasing interactive music videos). channel surf through a dozen TV shows singing Dylan including The Price is Right,
#1 WoodKid - I Love You
Dir: Yoann Lemoine
Before you tell us to hold on Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time, hear me out. For the last three years now we have had one of Yoann Lemoine's (also the musician WoodKid) videos in our top ten, and that's not about to change with a new video for 2014 being announced. Each video continues a stylistic look and a loose narrative that runs through the three videos released so far. It's the relentless beautiful work and dedication to tell an ongoing story over three or four videos that led to this being our number one for 2013.
Dir: Yoann Lemoine
Before you tell us to hold on Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time, hear me out. For the last three years now we have had one of Yoann Lemoine's (also the musician WoodKid) videos in our top ten, and that's not about to change with a new video for 2014 being announced. Each video continues a stylistic look and a loose narrative that runs through the three videos released so far. It's the relentless beautiful work and dedication to tell an ongoing story over three or four videos that led to this being our number one for 2013.
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