Featured Director: Chris Cairns

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk: Directed by Chris Cairns

Today's featured director is Chris Cairns, another talent signed to Partizan. A friend of mine was showing me the LCD Soundsystem video (shown above) a while back and I remembered it being really cool. I completely forgot the name of the song and the director's name so I've been trying to youtube this video for a while, but when I was perusing through Partizan's page today I found the video!

This London based director comes from a graphic design background and has a love for photography. Cairns' style is exactly that; photography and graphic design in motion. He has the ability to turn very simple concepts into creative visuals, and his images always take a cue from the music being used. You can view more of his direction at the Partizan site, make sure you go check it out (Commercials as well as Music Videos).

Viral for Pro X Fade: Directed by Chris Cairns

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Featured Director: Laurie Thinot

Autokratz - "Stay The Same" Music Video: directed by Laurie Thinot

Directors obviously have a big role in films and movies but I think short projects like music videos and commercials are really where they get to showcase their talent. Although few minutes of footage often require a serious production, a lot of music videos like the one above is all done by the director, and in this particular case by Laurie Thinot.

I consider Thinot to be more of an artist than a director; for example if you snapshot any frame from the music video, it is great graphic design on its own. Since her art is in motion however, I guess naturally you would call her a director. All directors are artists you say? Well, yeah but what I mean is Martin Scorsese can't make a video like that on his own, while Thinot created the images, animated them, edited the video and directed it all by herself.

Unfortunately there wasn't much I could find out about this French director, but she is signed to Partizan (a record label for directors if you will) so you should be seeing a lot of her work out in the world. For now check out the videos I have posted, they're really damn cool.


+ Laurie Thinot Channel [YouTube]

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