Friends – “I’m His Girl” : New video that I directed & produced with Friends, all shot on Super 8. It premiered on October 18, 2011 and has made its way to Spin, BBC and others.
Protect-U “U-Uno”: This video was made for my friends Protect-U. It came out in 2011 with their EP, “World Music” on Future Times, and has been featured on Pitchfork, MTV, Altered Zones, and more.
Innergaze – “Shadow Disco”: Video from the new Innergaze 12″ on 100% Silk. (This band is made up of me and Jason Letkiewicz, AKA Steve Summers). This co-premiered on Altered Zones & 20 Jazz Funk Greats.
Beautiful Swimmers – “Big Coast”: Big Coast is a hard hitting, summery dub track on Beautiful Swimmers’ new LP on Future Times. The video evokes a blissed-out Ibiza-esque mirage, made by heavily mixing and key-framing footage from VHS tapes. This video was featured in an exhibition by Holy Ghost Zine in London. Some press can be found on Gorrilla Vs Bear, The Fader and HUH. Magazine.
Beautiful Swimmers – “O Yea”: O Yea was the first video I made for my friends Beautiful Swimmers (Andrew Field Pickering and Ari Goldman), and it came out 2009 with their first LP of sample-based dance music, Swimmers Groove. The video is a super sexy, 80′s workout babe fantasy with tons of layers and abstract sequences. It made its way to The Fader, Urban Outfitters, MTV, and Spike Jonze’s production blog for Where the Wild Things Are, We Love You So.
My friend Ashiq Khondker collaborated on this. For a nice experience try watching it on the mashup site yooouuutuuube.
Ital – “Only For Tonight (Dubout/Saviour’s Love Megamix)”: Collaboration with Luke Wyatt & Daniel Martin McCormick, for the new single by 100% Silk artist, Ital.
Steve Summers – “Dreaming In Color”: Jason Letkiewicz, (“Steve Summers”) & I made this video for his track ‘Dreaming In Color,’ that came out on a Clone Records 12″ last October. Together we shot and edited this piece from scratch, creating the visual effects entirely through the camera lens in unusual ways. We used sunglasses and crystals as filters, projectors as lighting effects, mirrored mylar, and video feedback.
It was featured on the Washington City Paper and Vice’s technology site Motherboard.
Arthur Russell – “Go Bang”: Go Bang is a classic early disco tune by the late Arthur Russell. Artist Rafael Sanchez has done a memorial performance piece on Arthur’s birthday for the last 5 years, and asked me to make a video to accompany his piece at Le Poisson Rouge in April of last year. This video is a summary of the ideas we had for the performance… banging on cans, fireworks, boys kissing boys, memories of the past.. the excitement of hearing a favorite song. I made it in just 2 nights, including footage from Andy Warhol’s “The Kiss,”(1963), fireworks in Taiwan, and Super8 videos from strangers’ childhoods. It was inspiring to see the video projected on loop all night while the audience danced like crazy to Arthur’s posthumously discovered (& wonderful) songs.
contact: Aurora Halal
