Featuring select videos that may put a tear in your heart (or beer).
Wild Child "Pillow Talk" Directed by: Rob Wadleigh Bill Carter "Anything Made of Paper" Directed by: Pat Kondelis Eli Young "Prayer for the Young" Directed by: Jeff Ray Ume "Within My Bones" Directed by: Jeremy Ward Benji Hughes "So Much Better" (at UTOPiAfest) Directed by: Aaron Brown Ashleigh Stone "Blood" Directed by: Anio Sepulveda The Wonder Years "Cigarette" Directed by: Jeremi Mattern Wild Child "Tale of You & Me" Directed by: Rob Wadleigh Moving Panoramas "One" Directed by Zachary Parks (World Premiere)
Wild Child "Pillow Talk" Directed by: Rob Wadleigh No actual pillows were harmed in the making of this video.
Bill Carter "Anything Made of Paper" Directed by: Pat Kondelis Bill Carter's "Anything Made of Paper" was written as a present for Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three when he was on death row. Bill and his wife Ruth set out to write a song about love and tragedy. The animated music video is a fictional re-telling of the story that inspired Bill to write the song in the first place, and echoes the hope we all must cling to in the face of injustice. Directed by Brandon Ray & Pat Kondelis. Animated by Brandon Ray.
Eli Young "Prayer for the Young" Directed by: Jeff Ray Starring: Johnny Walter, Natalie Wilemon & Blair Schott
Director/Editor: Jeff Ray Director of Photography: Taylor Washington Hair & Make-Up: April Downs G&E: Jackson McGovern, Alex Diamond 1st AC: Marshall Copous 2nd AC: Erynn Patrick Ume "Within My Bones" Directed by: Jeremy Ward I wanted to do a video that definitely had a story but wasn't necessarily all apparent on the first viewing. I like stories that are a little bit of work to figure out. This one has three distinct parts Childhood that is shown with water and sand. (Very malleable.) Adolescence which is shown as a forest. (Things growing and taking shape.) Adulthood is represented as an artifice of rigid metal and plastic forming a monument of our earliest desires. The mother takes her child to the beach. Something happens and the child is left alone. The child builds a shelter with things she finds on the beach, but we discover when she is older that she has never left the beach or stopped waiting for her mother to return. She has spent her life building a castle like the sand castle she once built with her mother. Ume's album is entitled Monuments and I wanted the video to be about one. The song, to me, was about loss so I wanted the monument to be about the kind of loss you never recover from. The castle is a monument to her loss but it is also meant to be about all of us building monuments to the loss of childhood.
Ashleigh Stone "Blood" Directed by: Anio Sepulveda Blood is a music video for Ashleigh Stone's "Blood" off her album "Elements".
The Wonder Years "Cigarette" Directed by: Jeremi Mattern Every year 8 millions people in the US have suicidal thoughts, 2 million people will plan out their suicide, 1 million will attempt suicide, and 35,000 will die by suicide. I wrote this video hoping that next year there will be 34,999 suicides.
