MTV might have stopped showing them a long time ago, but music videos were saved by the dawn of YouTube, which allowed the best, or the most-featuring-Justin-Bieber-ish, to go viral. And they continue to attract big name directors — only yesterday, we saw Paul Thomas Anderson helming the first track from the new album by Haim.
And today brings another treat, and likely your first chance to see something directed by Kristen Stewart — her first short film has played Sundance and is headed to Cannes, but likely won’t be visible for the general public for a while, whereas this clip for a new version of great Scottish electro-pop band CHVRCHES’ “Down Side Of Me” is available right now.
Part of a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, as valuable a cause as you could ask for right now (the song will be available in a boxset with other tracks from people including Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Foo Fighters and Bon Iver), it’s an impressively done performance video shot almost exclusively in intimate close-up, and bodes well for Stewart’s future work as director. Take a look below, and pre-order the boxset, or just donate to Planned Parenthood, here.
Excellent work.