David Wilson is a music video director and artist based in London, UK.

Riff Raff Films

Director

David Wilson

David Wilson directs another entry into Tove Lo &amp; SG Lewis' HEAT EP.&nbsp;The video for Busy Girl highlights queer cabaret, featuring performer Finnbar Love with choreography by Wet Mess.Capturing the same electric energy of the 'hero' promo of the project, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/06/18/tove-lo-sg-lewis-heat-david-wilson/86914">Heat,&nbsp;</a>this visual puts viewers on-stage for a fiesty lip-sync&nbsp;performance, allowing us to experience the magic right up-close.Another stunning visual from Wilson.&nbsp;

Hands 

Avenues

Tove Lo ft SG Lewis 'Busy Girl' by David Wilson

Tove Lo & SG Lewis - Busy Girl (Official Music Video)

David Wilson directs an ode to queer dance floors around the world, in this dazzling promo for Tove Lo &amp; SG Lewis.&nbsp;Exuding a sense of uninhibited passion and dreamlike escapism, the video for Heat features a cast of dozens, a mix of nightlife staples and new faces intermingled in the crowd, as Tove dominates the catwalk.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Larger than life in every way, the video boasts slick cinematography, with gold-hued strobes and high contrast lighting creating an enigmatic, feverish atmosphere. Even more significantly, the&nbsp;video encapsulates a community, a moment in time and a sense of freedom that permeates every boundary imaginable.&nbsp;Truly unparalleled work from Wilson and team, and a really fun complement to the pulsating track - and perhaps the most noteworthy cameo from double-ended sex toys since&nbsp;that&nbsp;scene in Requiem For A Dream.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Tove Lo & SG Lewis 'Heat' by David Wilson

Tove Lo & SG Lewis - HEAT (Official Music Video)

David Wilson is back, taking Mabel to places she has never gone before, in the&nbsp;unapologetic and hugely inventive promo for Look At My Body Pt II.Accompanied by the sultry Shygirl, Wilson presents Mabel in a succession of witty scenes which challenge the male gaze. He directs the singers through takedowns of the established historical context in art and religion, and shows that it's the female who is the superpower of the human race. It's a visual counterpoint to Mabel's quip throughout the song:&nbsp;sorry, not sorry.And for fans of David Wilson's work it provides a number of treats - not least when the live action vignettes are interrupted by a bravura animation section,&nbsp;where Mabel transforms into a giant Earth mother and merges into the Earth itself. It's very much&nbsp;in the&nbsp;style of Wilson's classic videos&nbsp;for Tame Impala and Royal Blood.&nbsp;This maximalist vision takes&nbsp;Mabel's longstanding inclination to playfulness to the next level. It has something to say, anchored by confident performances by the artists - and Wilson's top-notch direction.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Paul O'Reilly

Mabel ft Shygirl 'Look At My Body Pt. II' by David Wilson

Mabel, Shygirl - Look at My Body (Pt. II) | Official Video

David Wilson directs a stunning 'monster film' for MASSTOR's&nbsp;Self Control, a cover&nbsp;of&nbsp;Raf’s 1984 hit.&nbsp;After spending his free time experimenting with Midjourney&nbsp;in September of 2022 - and creating @RetroFuturistDaddies, a gorgeously curated feed of AI-generated moustachioed men as a result of it - David Wilson caught the eye of LA-based artist MASSTOR, who enlisted his help in creating this&nbsp;tour de force amalgam&nbsp;of performance, character design and queer muscle aesthetic.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Blending high-fashion nostalgia, retrofuturistic imagery and moments of pure fantasy, we see the artist hanging out in a bar, surrounded by muscle men and fellow plush creatures, having a whale of a time.It's camp, eclectic and completely engrossing, and explores areas of queer iconography that spoke directly to Wilson’s passions, having carved his name as an ever-growing presence in the&nbsp;queer filmmaking community.&nbsp;From costume design through to art direction and cinematography, it's a polished visual that retains a certain dancefloor grit and sex appeal,&nbsp;and there's one thing that can be almost guaranteed - you won't see another music video like it today![imgtoken data:2]

MASSTOR 'Self Control' by David Wilson

MASSTOR - Self Control (Official Video)

A tube train carriage&nbsp;transforms into a coruscating disco wonderland in David Wilson's flamboyant promo for Zach Witness.&nbsp;The intimate video&nbsp;pays homage to two queer icons - Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan - and transports viewers back&nbsp;to 70’s New York, to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ roots of dance music.Exuding a hyper-confident, sexy aura, Zach Witness&nbsp;moves and shakes his way through the glorious track, creating countless iconic moments in just under three minutes.&nbsp;An intense&nbsp;visual feast from David Wilson - directing&nbsp;his first music video since pre-pandemic times -&nbsp;that deserves a tonne of attention.&nbsp;

The Quarry

Cinelab Film and Digital

Dance

Zach Witness 'Frankie And Levan' by David Wilson

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David Wilson explores the breakdown of a nuclear family in his oddball promo for Glass Animals' Tangerine.&nbsp;Taking place on a surreal car journey - with vocalist Dave Bayley playing a Mother, Father and child at various ages - the story follows a typical modern day life-cycle... Boy meets girl, they have a&nbsp;kid, get annoyed with each other and end up splitting, just for the process to repeat when the kid reaches adolescence.The poignant message is wrapped in a layer of quirky imagery, with subtle visual effects allowing the three characters in tandem.The execution is top-notch, and a clever way to get around social distancing and the various challenges that have carried over from the year so far.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Final Cut

art pop

Indie pop

Glass Animals 'Tangerine' by David Wilson

Glass Animals - Tangerine (Official Video)

If you need something uplifting right now,&nbsp;look no further. Paloma Faith and director David Wilson lament the gentrification of London in brilliantly feisty fashion,&nbsp;in the wonderful&nbsp;promo for Gold.&nbsp;Decked out in a trademark whimsical dress and radiating heaps of&nbsp;energy, Paloma skips and dances down an East London market and into a building site, dangling from an excavator, kicking down doors, and just having a riotous time with some of her fellow, equally colourful&nbsp;residents.&nbsp;Paloma is magnetic as always, the supporting cast - all dancers in the Theo Adams Company - are great too, and DoP&nbsp;David Foulkes matches her energy in sweeping crane shots and fluid camera movement. It all adds up to sheer entertainment. Absolutely marvellously fabulous.[imgtoken data:1]

Natalie Steiner

Paloma Faith 'Gold' by David Wilson

Paloma Faith - Gold (Official Video)

Ever since his marvellous video for Metronomy's The Bay, David Wilson has been able to make magic happen by the pool. And that's what happens in his video for Glass Animals' It's All So Incredibly Loud.GA's frontman Dave Bayley emerges through wisps of smoke to&nbsp;negotiate&nbsp;the diving board of a&nbsp;swimming pool in a suburban home at night. Yes, once again Wilson is making an English summer appear impossibly glamourous. He also&nbsp;brings us a heightened reality which&nbsp;almost seems nostalgic in its visual crispness.The intention&nbsp;is to capture a moment, and explore it's metaphorical meaning. Shot on both a Phantom and an Alexa, the time when Bayley inevitably enters the pool's water is stretched out to last as long as possible. Time is slowed, just as seems to happen&nbsp;when you dive into cold water - and also when you are faced with the emotional issues discussed in the song.Suitably Bayley also delivers a heartfelt performance to camera in this video that marks a triumphant return by David Wilson to the music video mainstream. A nod too to marvellous camerawork, supervised by DoP&nbsp;David Foulkes.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Trim Editing

Indie

Glass Animals 'It's All So Incredibly Loud' by David Wilson

Glass Animals | It's All So Incredibly Loud

David Wilson returns to music videos with this delightful work for Christine and the Queens: a Hamlet-inspired homage to the scorned Ophelia, for Comme si.&nbsp;Shot in the flower-strewn streams of Thailand, the artist picks up where Ophelia’s tragic tale ends, reinterpreting the play’s pivotal moment with solo interpretive dance and krumping.

France

La Pac

Christine And The Queens 'Comme Si' by David Wilson

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Dita Von Teese, Sébastien Tellier and David Wilson looks like a threesome made in heaven - and so it proves.The leading lady of Burlesque has got together with the most amorous man in French alt-pop to create the eponymously-titled LP Dita Von Teese. Wilson&#39;s &#39;Musical Film&#39; - which includes two full tracks&nbsp;from the album and clips from a couple of others - makes the most of the surprising chemistry between them, and the sheer visual contrast between her beautifully crafted artifice and his rough hewed hairiness.A delightful soufflé of romance, glamour, fantasy and sauciness -&nbsp;with it&#39;s tongue firmly in its cheek.&nbsp;Eight minutes just flies by...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Dita Von Teese ft Sébastien Tellier 'A Musical Film' by David Wilson

Dita Von Teese: A Musical Film featuring Sebastien Tellier (Official Video)

David Wilson&#39;s long-awaited mega-video for Arcade Fire is a double-sided beauty as contrasting as it&#39;s title, Money + Love.First comes the Black Mirror-esque satire for Put Your Money On Me, where the band are sold ino recod company slavery, with Toni Collette as the ice-hearted label exec, who makes them play a&nbsp;product-endorsing show at a casino.But following the band&#39;s break for freedom, the storyline dissolves into a pure, mesmerising performance of We Don&#39;t Deserve Love, captured in brilliant sustained&nbsp;takes. That in itself makes this a fantastic piece of work.&nbsp;And David Wilson has celebrated it&#39;s release this week by <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/music/arcade-fire-played-surprise-show-last-night-gramercy-theatre-spotify-spike-jonze-2264736" target="_blank">taking the stage at an Arcade Fire show in New York, with none other than Spike Jonze</a>...

Vid Price

Arcade Fire 'Money+Love' by David Wilson

David Wilson returns to music vids with the new Chromeo video, and heading for the orange groves of verdant California, in the process makes probably&nbsp;the&nbsp;best ad in the world ever&nbsp;for freshly squeezed OJ.And, along the way, keying into the &#39;leg&#39; iconography that&#39;s distinguished several of their&nbsp;album covers (and keyboard stands), Wilson reveals that Dave-1 and P-Thugg&nbsp;have by far the shapeliest, and best-waxed-and-heeled legs of all the male electro-pop duos.Yes, those incredible pins are their real legs...

United States

Chromeo 'Juice' by David Wilson

Chromeo - Juice (Official Video)

David Wilson&#39;s gripping and thought-provoking video for Tame Impala&#39;s melancholic Let It Happen follows a businessman who,&nbsp;while dashing to catch a&nbsp;flight,&nbsp;collapses on the ground while&nbsp;clutching his chest. Never a good sign.This catastrophic event sets&nbsp;off a disorientating sequence of&nbsp;lapses in time and place, which take the businessman (and us) on&nbsp;a startling rollercoaster involving a plane&nbsp;crash and the man free-falling towards Earth.&nbsp;And although we lose&nbsp;our sense of&nbsp;reality,&nbsp;his palpable sense of&nbsp;dread is made&nbsp;all&nbsp;the more real for it.It&#39;s a&nbsp;perfectly&nbsp;dismal situation - and there is no conventional happy ending. But it&nbsp;plays out in a captivating and even beautiful way -&nbsp;a finale that unabashedly&nbsp;suggests a journey after Death.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Australia

Indie, Rock, Psychedelic, Alternative Rock

Tame Impala 'Let It Happen' by David Wilson

David Wilson&nbsp;has been&nbsp;directing of some highly&nbsp;diverse,&nbsp;eye-catching videos as of late, including&nbsp;ultra-gorey&nbsp;animated video featuring evil aliens in bunny costumes&nbsp;for Royal Blood&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/06/royal-blood-out-black-david-wilson-christy-karacas" target="_blank">Out Of The Black</a> as well as&nbsp;Arcade Fire&#39;s epic&nbsp;queer statement video&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/19/arcade-fire-we-exist-david-wilson" target="_blank">We Exist</a> featuring Andrew Garfield as a gender questioning transwoman.&nbsp;And now his latest&nbsp;is a wildly entertaining short&nbsp;featuring Metronomy track Boy Racers &ndash; and starring Daniel Schienert of directing duo DANIELS. Just like his partner Dan Kwan&#39;s inability to resist the beat&nbsp;in DJ Snake &amp; Lil Jon&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/14/dj-snake-lil-jon-turn-down-what-daniels" target="_blank">Turn Down For What</a>, Daniel S cannot stop vibing off the beat and bassline of Metronomy&#39;s mini-instrumental. He just happens to be driving at the time. We&#39;ve all been there, driving along and loving a song.&nbsp;But not quite like this...&nbsp;

Metronomy 'Boy Racers' by David Wilson

Boy Racers

He&#39;s done animation and he&#39;s done live action. He&#39;s even combined the two. But now David Wilson joins up with animator Christy Karacas (of Superjail! fame) to mix-and-mash the two media in an outstandingly effective and upfront way for Royal Blood&#39;s Out Of The Black.It&#39;s simply the best way to tell this full-throttle super-violent comedy&nbsp;action-horror - involving a gas station heist by psychotic alien inside a giant Easter bunny suit - and his buddies:&nbsp;a snowman, pumpkin, ice cream cone and walking heart. After the animated TV titles intro, the live action centring around a Doofus-like clerk sets the scene, before Karacas&#39;s extravagantly gory alien-revealing animation takes over...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;I became a fan of Christy&rsquo;s show&nbsp;Superjail! a few years ago,&quot; says David. &quot;It was Christy&rsquo;s incredibly inventive fight sequences and love of hand drawn animation that made me obsess over his work. I love hand drawn animation. It&rsquo;s where my&nbsp;directing career began, and I still fill my free time over a light box, drawing away.&ldquo;I wanted to give Christy as much creative freedom as possible whilst making sure&nbsp;the animation and the live action would still sync together. I would give Christy the starting point of which characters were fighting, where their geographical placing was on the set, and which characters&nbsp;would die. It was then up to Christy to create fight sequence, knowing the in-and-out points.&rdquo;Post-production was carried out at Finish, who provided the colour grade and extensive visual effects work to knit the promo together. &quot;&ldquo;One of our key jobs was to create several big matte paintings, the main one being the backdrop for a scene where the service station employee confronts the aliens in costumes,&quot; explains Flame artist Judy Roberts.&nbsp;&quot;A smashed up helicopter, cars and a dead body, were all added to the clean plate using hand textured CGI renders, and various supplied photographic elements.Colourist Julien Biard adds: &ldquo;David is based in LA and he couldn&rsquo;t be in the grading suite with me so we used a remote grading system, where I&rsquo;m grading in London and David is at another facility in LA. It&rsquo;s great because both suites are linked up by an almost instantaneous feed so he could see every adjustment of the grade in real time.&quot;&ldquo;They worked tirelessly to elevate the piece,&quot; says David of FInish&#39;s input.&nbsp;&quot;Like with the majority of Post Production this is done in ways that are often very difficult to spot, but that&rsquo;s only because they did an incredible job. The result lived up to my dreams. I dreamed BIG on this one!&rdquo;&nbsp;

Christy Karacas

Stitch Editing

Rock

Royal Blood 'Out Of The Black' by David Wilson & Christy Karacas

Royal Blood - Out Of The Black (Official Video)

David Wilson delivers a righteous, ultimately joyous accompaniment to a classic Arcade Fire cri de ceour We Exist, thanks to a gripping performance by&nbsp;Andrew Garfield, showing that he is a more courageous actor than the&nbsp;Amazing Spider-Man allows.&nbsp;In fact, this also involves a change of garb, but a more profound transformation. The Garfield character&#39;s need to express himself as a woman&nbsp;leads him to a bar where he puts himself at the mercy of the local rednecks. But the predictable outcome of victimisation and violence - with echoes of Boys Don&#39;t Cry, the film about the murder of transgender teenager&nbsp;Brandon Teena &ndash;&nbsp;gets turned on its head.Drama becomes fantasy, as Garfield&#39;s aggressors become dancers - this is the second collaboration&nbsp;in quick succession, between David Wilson and&nbsp;choreographer Ryan Heffington who (as well as working on the Sia Chandelier video) choreographed David&#39;s superb video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/06/hercules-love-affair-ft-john-grant-i-try-talk-you-david-wilson" target="_blank">Hercules &amp; Love Affair&#39;s I Try To Talk To You</a>.And then comes the brilliant payoff. Garfield is led by his dancer guardian angels through a portal into the real world: Coachella 2014, and Arcade Fire are playing We Exist. A moved (or quite possibly terrified) Garfield joins the band on stage. What a moment.&nbsp;

Indie Rock

Arcade Fire 'We Exist' by David Wilson

Arcade Fire - We Exist

In&nbsp;the second release in a music video series commissioned for international online retailer SSENSE by&nbsp;System Magazine, David Wilson delivers this fluid monochrome piece for Hercules &amp; Love Affair&#39;s I Try To Talk To You, featuring John Grant on vocals.Powered by some wonderful choreography by Ryan Heffington&nbsp;and brilliantly fluid&nbsp;camerawork, David&nbsp;Wilson&#39;s very sensual promo&nbsp;centres on two men finding intimacy through interpretive dance...

Hercules & Love Affair ft John Grant 'I Try To Talk To You' by David Wilson

David Wilson&#39;s video for Do I Wanna Know,&nbsp;the lead-off song from the eagerly anticipated new Arctic Monkeys album is quite a departure for a band&nbsp;with a track record of being viscerally present in their own vids.Firstly it&#39;s animation, and secondly&nbsp;for a while its very minimal indeed. But then things liven up big time, as the sexy comic book style animation takes over.&nbsp;The sound wave animation&nbsp;focusses attention on&nbsp;Alex Turner&#39;s lyric-writing virtuosity, before developing into the&nbsp;flowing, stream-of-consciousness style that David has brought to lots of his animation - from the looped visuals of his VJ sets, to the animation sequence in his last video for Tame Impala...

Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know' by David Wilson

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (Official Video)

David Wilson has created a new video for Cancer Research in which he's interpreted the charity's feisty and upbeat campaign into a Grease-inspired musical number, with an added touch of Breaking Bad and a typographical nod to Drive. All to the still-fresh sound of Elastica's Britpop classic Connection.
Here come the girls - all bubblegum pink satin jackets, pristine pop socks and girly hair bows. But don't be misled. They are going to take cancer down. Cancer being represented, in this case, by a big American car...

Cancer Research 'Cancer Slam' by David Wilson

Dreams come true in David Wilson&rsquo;s video for Tame Impala&rsquo;s Mind Mischief: a schoolboy is lost in erotic yearnings for his sexy young lady teacher in a 1970s English boys school. She&rsquo;s surely unattainable. But when the school bell goes and she saunters out to her red 2CV and lights a big fat joint, our schoolboy then gets in next to her&hellip;What follows is an erotic fantasy that spills from steamy live action into mind-melting animation. It is effectively two videos in one, a brilliant fantasy ride through Tame Impala&rsquo;s dreamy psychedelia &ndash; and a brilliant demonstration of David Wilson&rsquo;s command of his art. It also features Bill Milner as the schoolboy, who eagle-eyed viewers will recognise as the young star of Garth Jennings&rsquo; cult movie Son of Rambo, now nearly grown-up.Is it all a dream? It&rsquo;s certainly a wonderful dream of a video&hellip;

Natalia Maus

Tame Impala 'Mind Mischief' by David Wilson

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Supported by The Creators Project, the video employs the capabilities of extremely precise helicam technology developed by SnapRoll Media. "The bounce is something that really differentiates this from any helicam video I've seen before," explains David. "Making that a reality was a challenge; there's a reason a camera hasn't been bounced via mini helicopter before." A Creators Project behind the scenes film demonstrating exactly how they achieved the spectacular shots over Philadelphia is coming soon. 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=dZX6Q-Bj_xg

Passion Pit 'Take A Walk' by David Wilson

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David Wilson's remarkable development in the past year from his animation roots continues with a full-on action adventure for David Guetta's emotional Titanium, sung by Sia. It's a blockbuster narrative of an apparently ordinary boy (played by Super 8's Ryan Lee) who goes on the run after accidentally exposing his destructive supernatural powers while at school. 
David W says that when given an open brief - Guetta wanted a narrative, and didn't want to be in it - he originally took a humourous approach to the script, but then changed it completely to have a superhero boy in a real world. Shot in cold, small town Canada, its less about superhero derring-do than teen alienation - with nods to movies like Let The Right One In and Elephant.

David Guetta 'Titanium' (feat. Sia) by David Wilson

David Wilson's dazzling video for The Maccabees' Pelican - from the band's new album Given To The Wild - is a journey through the middle of everything, from globes and little boys, to bowls of cornflakes and breasts. In fact one of the few things its lacking is a pelican... 
In the ballpark of things David's done before in drawn animation, but here beautifully achieved in live action. Clearly he's been busy with more than just his <a href="http://altadvent.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Alternative Advent</a> calendar...
And David also explains all in another of his impeccable making ofs <a href="" target="_blank">here</a>.

The Maccabees 'Pelican' by David Wilson

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David Wilson's Advent 7: Bo Ningen

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Sam Potter

David Wilson's Advent 4: Keaton Henson

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Second of a unique series of 25 video clips, released daily over advent 2011. Each clip is an exclusive collaboration between David Wilson and a different musical artist who have provided exclusive new and rare tracks for the project.

David Wilson's Alternative Advent: Day 2 (We Have Band)

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It's the 1st of December - the traditional moment to dust down the old Advent calendar, and start counting down the days to Christmas. But this year there's an Alternative...

"I started to create content for the live arena as a way of giving life to graphical ideas that may never have otherwise seen the light of day," David explains. 
"This project's musical participants have treated their submissions in a similar way, making the calendar an opportunity to air musical phrases and experiments that never made it into fully-formed songs; an outlet for unrealised ideas. Hope you enjoy this alternative countdown to Christmas."
The first clip is David's collaboration with Oscar Cash, and you can follow the Alternative Advent every day <a href="http://altadvent.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

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David Wilson's Alternative Advent – Day 1

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After collaborating on Charon, David Wilson reunites with Keaton Henson for You Don&#39;t Know How Lucky You Are.A period piece shot on Dartmoor, it&#39;s an intense study in misery, and graced with with a quietly gripping performance by Sophie Thompson.Keaton Henson You Don&#39;t Know How Lucky You Are Produced and Directed by David Wilson Written by Keaton Henson and David Wilson Starring Sophie Thompson Executive Producer: Tamsin Glasson DoP: Richard Stewart 1st AD: William Williamson Styling: Laura Clayton Edit: James Rose at Cut&amp;Run Focus Puller: Murren Tullet ?Camera Assistant: Andy Lawrence Grip: Daniel Levaida Clapper Loader: Jack Johns Colourist: Luke Morrison at The Mill Catering and Wardrobe Assistant: Jane Wilson Driver and Runner: Nick Wilson

Keaton Henson 'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are' by David Wilson

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Metronomy&#39;s tribute to the English Riviera becomes a video by David Wilson that&#39;s almost as sexy as this picture.

Metronomy 'The Bay' by David Wilson

Metronomy - The Bay (Music Video)

In the video for illustrator and musician Keaton Henson&#39;s fragile lament Charon, a puppet character slides towards a final release by his own hand - not the happiest of subjects, in all honesty, but invested with wonder and no little creativity - as you&#39;d expect from David Wilson, working here with John Malcolm Moore and Keaton Henson himself.
Having worked with Keaton on the promo for the Japanese Popstars&#39; Let Go, David was invited to join Keaton and John to help to develop a concept the pair had conceived for Charon. Keaton&#39;s work as a designer and illustrator was the jumping-off point for the film, the style and tone evolving from his dual creative impulses in music and art. &quot;We wanted to reflect the darkness of the album and give the songs a face without a video of me feeling sorry for myself, so it felt right to have a puppet as representation of me instead.&quot;
So the brilliant puppetmaster Jonny Sabbagh created the heartbroken character who ends up ending it all in a variety of ways, the filming taking place over two days, with a very cold Richmond Park providing the exterior woodland shots and interiors captured in a rather colourful hotel in central London.
&quot;Jonny did a fantastic job,&quot; says David. &quot;I spent an intensive afternoon working on the performance with John, who assumed puppetry duties on the shoot. We managed to construct a journey that the puppet would go through in his mind over the course of the track, so that every expression was the result of his internal thought process rather than a response to the lyrics - just like how actors work.&quot;

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Keaton Henson

Keaton Henson’s Charon by David Wilson, John Malcolm Moore and Keaton Henson

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David is renowned for his live action animation, but here he concentrates on free-flowing stream-of-consciousness illustrations to create a psychedelic mindwarp - with the help of an animation legend.Created over an intensive 20 days by an animation wonder-team including illustrator Keaton Henson and a ten-strong crew of animators, Wilson also managed to track down animation legend Malcolm Draper - a key animator on iconic films such as Yellow Submarine, Pink Floyd&#39;s The Wall, Where the Wind Blows, and The Smurfs. David lured Malcolm out of retirement to create the lusciously animated lipsync.The result is mesmeric - so just click play, tune in and trip out.

Japanese Popstars’ Let Go by David Wilson

The Japanese Popstars - Let Go

David Wilson takes on one of the biggest stories of them all, and reworks it in remarkable fashion for dubstep pioneer Skream.
The remarkable claymation effects were created using a rarely-seen technique called strata-cut, in collaboration with illustrator/animator Joseph Mann - a technique that is fully revealed in David&#39;s engaging and informative &#39;making of the video&#39; film (if you&#39;ve seen David&#39;s previous making ofs you&#39;ll know what to expect).

Skream’s Listenin’ To The Records On My Wall by David Wilson

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David's second video for Little Boots, following the hugely successful <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/07/31/little-boots%e2%80%99-remedy-by-david-wilson/">Remedy</a>, centres around Boots communing with the cosmos, and features Hubble-quality scenes of awesome galactic activity created by Flame artist Judy Roberts and After Effects whizz Christopher Bristow at Munky. 
And it also features another ingenious Wilson-developed technique that creates the impression that water droplets are levitating and hovering in mid-air. It was achieved by synchronizing the framerate of the camera to that of dripping stream of water. Each droplet is unique, but has been captured with such precision that it gives the impression of a single droplets being held mid-flight. 
As with his MVA-winning promo for Moray McLaren's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/04/28/moray-mclaren%e2%80%99s-we-got-time-by-david-wilson/">We Got Time</a>, the effect wasn't created through stop-motion animation techniques, or through computer trickery, but was matched live on set with a camera turning over at 12 frames per second in order to allow the artist to lip-sync and interact with the water in real time.

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Little Boots’ Earthquake by David Wilson

After his outstanding videos for Moray McLaren and We Have Band, David Wilson continues his stunning introduction to music videos with a proper biggie for Little Boots. And David once more applies his mirror-based ingenuity, for more visual wonderment, this time on a kaleidoscopic theme.
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Little Boots’ Remedy by David Wilson

Hot on the heels of his marvellous and ingenious Praxinoscope-inspired video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/04/28/moray-mclaren%e2%80%99s-we-got-time-by-david-wilson/">Moray McLaren's We Got Time</a>, David Wilson has come up with another awe-inspiring and seriously unlikely animated video, this time for London outfit We Have Band.
You Came Out, created in collaboration with Weiden &amp; Kennedy creatives Fabian Berglund and Ida Gronblom, who conceived the original idea, is a new take on the performance video. The three members of the band are always in shot, but more or less doing nothing - it's the facepaint they're wearing that's moving, telling the story of a night of debauchery and excess.
It took three days and over 6,000 frames of footage for David to animate his beautiful facepaint designs on the band, relying on their infinite, good-natured patience - they basically had to lie still for three days. Plus he had the help of highly regarded mother-and-daughter animation team Joanna and Katie Anne Harrison. Joanna learned her trade on such classics as The Snowman and When The Wind Blows, while Katie is an up-and-coming star of the design and illustration world.
Like his Moray vid, it's dazzling, it's mesmerizing, and you've really got to wonder how the hell he does this stuff - but it definitely involves mirrors. What is he going to come up with next

We Have Band’s You Came Out by David Wilson

Stunning, ingenious video for Moray McLaren by David Wilson, an animator who appears to have a planet-sized brain.It&#39;s all based on the pre-cinematic device called the Praxinoscope, uses 14 mirrored carousels and 114 individually illustrated record labels placed on a group of ordinary record turntables. And what looks utterly impossible is actually true: it was all achieved in-camera - largely by changing the frame-rates.David, who recently signed to Blink Ink and Colonel Blimp, explains all with great clarity in his fascinating Making of (see below), revealing that an important element was to demonstrate how hypnotic this animation technique is to watch in real time, and translate that to the viewer through the video. Job brilliantly done.Making of:http://www.youtube.com/watchv=d4LSg7f4lFs&amp;fmt=18

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