Earlier this month i posted the amazing new Grizzly Bear video for 'Two Weeks', directed by Patrick Daughters. So impressed was i, that ive made this post of some of his previous work and a bio from the always reliable wikipedia*. God i'd love this guys job!
*this sentence may not be true
Wikipedia Bio:
Patrick Daughters (born 1976 in Berkeley, California) is a music video and commercial director currently signed to The Directors Bureau, after departing Black Dog Films in late 2006.
Daughters is a graduate of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. While still in college, he gained attention with three award-winning short films: "In Life We Soar" , "Any Creature" about a young girl who witnesses a mysterious car accident, and "Unloved". "Unloved" earned Daughters the $20,000 Grand Prize Award at Nintendo's Eternal Darkness film contest in 2002. He started directing music videos in 2003.
In December 2003 he directed a concert film for The Rapture titled The Rapture is Live, and Well, in New York City, filmed over a 3 day residency at New York's Bowery Ballroom, released on June 28, 2004.
His video for "1234" by Feist, consists of one single continuous tracking shot, and was nominated for a Grammy and won the award for Best International Video at the British CADs. The video was featured in "Stacks", a late 2007 commercial spot for the release of the third generation iPod nano directed by Mark Coppos and Virginia Lee.
He has also directed commercials for the ONDCP, PeTA, Microsoft Zune, Clarks, Motorola ROKR E8 and Wrigley's. He frequently collaborates with cinematographer Shawn Kim and editor Anthony Cerniello.
Please ignore the Mika Video.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Feist - Mushaboom
Blood Brothers - Laser Life
Liars - Plaster Casts Of Everything
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
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