Stop.Watch is a special screening of rock, pop and electronic music videos by top directors for the likes of Hot Chip, Death Cab for Cutie, Tiga and Kid 606. The compilation focuses on
directors who use time itself as the creative or conceptual impetus for their videos. Limited by the length of a song, the artistic possibilities afforded to short music video directors
has always been a challenge. However, recently it appears that it is often just that temporal context that prompts directors to concentrate on the parameter of time as a
creative departure point, rather than as a restriction.
Whether they are slowing down or speeding up time, layering or
collapsing its boundaries or simply rendering time topsy turvy,
these directors create videos that not only trigger us to think
about time as an artistic device, but to physically see its
creative manipulation in motion.
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Total Running Time: 45 minutes
- Smiley Faces
- Music: Gnarles Barkley
- Director: Robert Hales
- Courtesy: HIS Productions and Downtown/Atlantic Records
- Velvet Cell
- Music: Gravenhurst
- Director: Thomas Hicks
- Courtesy: Warp Records
- You Gonna Want Me
- Music: Tiga
- Director: Olivier Gondry
- Courtesy: PIAS Recordings and Last Gang Records Inc.
- Beneath the Rose
- Music: Micah P. Hinson
- Director: Karni & Saul
- Courtesy: Flynn Productions
- Sugar Water
- Music: Cibo Matto
- Director: Michel Gondry
- Courtesy: Partizan Entertainment
- Sometimes
- Music: Kid606
- Director: Pleix
- Courtesy: Pleix Films and Mille Plateaux Records
- Motus
- Music: Seb Martel
- Director: Arno Salters
- Courtesy: Spy Entertainment, Nose PH and Seb Martel/Corida
- Summer Skin
- Music: Death Cab for Cutie
- Director: Lightborne Inc.
- Courtesy: Lightborne Inc.
- PDA
- Music: Interpol
- Director: Christopher Mills
- Courtesy: Spy Entertainment/Matador Records
- Timber
- Music: Coldcut
- Director: Hexstatic
- Courtesy: Ninja Tune
- Over and Over
- Music: Hot Chip
- Director: Nima Nourizadeh
- Courtesy: Capitol/EMI Music and Partizan Entertainment
- The Girl and the Sea
- Music: The Presets
- Director: Lee Lennox
- Courtesy: Modular Recordings and Draw Pictures
(Images courtesy Artists/Agencies. Details from Velvet Cell, Summer Skin, Over and Over, + The Girl and the Sea.)
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Admission to Stop.Watch is free and open to the public.
Download the Rensselaer campus map and make your way to the Rensselaer Playhouse.
Parking is available in the Visitors Lot @ Mueller Center with access directly across the street from the Playhouse on 15th street (see map on right).
There will be signs to direct you to the event.
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Questions? Call the EMPAC Event Hotline: 518.276.3921
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