Entries tagged with “Music Video” from COLORFUL FILMS

"Listening Man" The Bees 2007

This is not a new music video but chances are you've never seen it or heard the lovely song by the UK group. It never fails to make my heart leap because of the way the simple story is conveyed so effectively by the two actors. Pay close attention to every gesture and expression they make. The way the woman looks differently at her boyfriend at one point and cocks her head. The gradual agitation of the young man. Also notice how deftly the changes in time and space and ambience are edited to suggest the theme. How one scene rhymes visually with the next. And how this is choreographed with the swelling emotions of the song. Directed by Dominic Leung, who also did the haunting "Mysteries" video for Beth Gibbons.

I'm slowly building a mashup tool using the recently launched MTV music video api and I asked my old friend Tommy Dorsett to send me a list of music videos he liked that came out during the 1980s and '90s. He sent me a wonderful, informed list and I'm going to post them individually (with some of my own choices, too) to allow for commenting on each clip. Here's one that I am a huge fan of also.