Author: Dave Cusick
Portland directors Sean Pecknold and Justin Lowe turn in unique video treatments for songs by bands from a time zone far, far away.
Some songs are their own tiny universe. The Alialujah Choir's "A House, A Home" is one of them.
Laura Gibson's video for her new album's title track is "Mary Poppins meets The Shining".
Portland artist Rachel Blumberg creates her first music video, an Eastern European-inspired piece of stop-motion animation.
Feature-length films require a time commitment to watch that you might not be able to make. But music videos, often like silent short films, can fit into even the busiest life. These were some of last year's best.
Portugal. The Man, Jared Mees, Menomena and many other Portland acts turned in some great music videos in 2011.
The New Jersey musician transforms into an existential superhero in Portland's Peninsula Park.
Sallie Ford's music exists outside of time in their new video, directed by Matthew Thomas Ross.
Portland director Matthew Thomas Ross shows us a band who have let the devil in their own home.
The new video for Menomena's "TAOS", directed by Alicia J. Rose, is one part will power, one part seduction and one part Andy Kaufman.
Stuck between Vancouver, Canada and Hollywood, California, Portland isn't known as a film capital. But we, of course overflow with musical talent, and some great video directors did really solid work in 2010, translating this to the screen.
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