Smpl Thngs: Music vs Illustration
This is a project that I started with my dear friends: singer songwriter Graciela Maria, and illustrator / painter Maki Shimizu. The idea was to get together for a series of one take recording sessions, at which Maki would also illustrate the music on the spot. The final recordings featured cello arrangements from Simon Houghton....
Take Berlin “Motion” Music Video
What do you do when almost all parameters are preset by the artist (locations, styling, performance style, choreography etc.)? You work on the style of presenting the footage. This was the case with the video for Take Berlin’s single “Motion”. We had a couple of days to shoot this and a limited amount of Super...
Len Sander Music Video / Ungrowing
Ungrowing by Len Sander is the first music video produced via initialsLP, and also a taste of more video content to come soon. The piece was shot with a talented team; at the creative core: cinematographer Ludwig Linnekogel and editor Gregory Norton. The video features krumping dancer extraordinaire Armando Lil’ A Shala, supported by the...
Kyson ‘Shadows Cross’ Video
We shot this video for Kyson and his label FoF through our production company Polacos. Originally the piece was intended as a standard music video, but once we invited dancer-choreographer Kiani del Valle, we decided to give her full control over the on-screen action – and that’s when it became clear that this is a...
Polacos Showreel
This is our first official showreel, considering the fact that we only became a company in April of this year. The reel features some of our latest work for Robots Don’t Sleep and Maxim, as well as some older pieces for Tolcha, Azzxsss, Double Tiger etc. All videos are listed at the end of the...
Maxim ‘Meine Soldaten’ (Tua Remix) Music Video
We were asked by Warner Germany to make a music video for the Tua remix of Maxim’s hit single ‘Meine Soldaten.’ The idea was to make a piece to give another push to the single, which at the time was a few units shy of certified gold in Germany. We watched the video for the...
Robots Dont Sleep ‘Don’t Wake Me’ Video
The briefing for this video was a simple one: make it pretty, sunny, cast two beautiful women that will appeal to other ladies, play a bit with the teenage ‘friends/maybe more’ dynamic, but avoid any overtly sexual content – all in all a tough pickle. We shot the piece in the dead of the winter,...
Robot Koch x Emil Berliner Studio Cross Promo + Mood Video
I was approached by the kind people at Emil Berlin Studios to help them solve a specific communication problem. EBS is one of the oldest studios in the world – you can trace its lineage all the way back to the Emil Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone. They are also the official recording studio...
Robots Dont Sleep Trailer + Video
It all started with a pitch against Partizan. Pol Ponsarnau and I were pretty sure that we wouldn’t be able to beat their proposal which, we were told at the time, was favored by both the band and the label. I thought that our only chance of knocking them out was to go for something...
Polacos Showreel x Videos + Short Formats
Here is the first showreel of the film collective Polacos, which is Pol Ponsarnau and myself. For the last half a year we’ve been shooting all types of promo formats for different musicians and labels. The reel features music videos for the band The Gecko and AZZXSSS, a short movie for Tolcha, and short format...
Video Series For AZZXSSS x Strict-G Synergy
Hydra Records Japan approached me recently about a making a music video to promote their artists AZZXSSS and their new full length entitled Universal Century Dub. The idea was to make something that stylistically relates to the cult anime series about the giant robots know as Gundam, but without actually showing the robots. The licensing...
Double Tiger Promo Trailer
This is the first from a series of promo videos that we shot with director Pol Ponsarnau as the video collective Polacos. The video was commissioned by Hydra Records Japan for the artist Double Tiger. The piece was released on the 1 year anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown. The video was featured on a series...
