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W.I.Z. is a music video director from the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Background
W.I.Z. has directed a number of high-concept videos for major music artists from the United Kingdom and the United States, including Massive Attack, Kasabian, Oasis and Marilyn Manson. Many of these videos, in addition to featuring the song and the performers, also follow a running narratives, and may often contain a political or social message. Once belonging to a band himself, W.I.Z. has also directed concert films shot of live performances by the bands Suede, Manic Street Preachers and Primal Scream. He has directed two short films, "Weekender" and "Baby".
[edit] Career
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The 1992 short film Weekender follows the band Flowered Up and displays the hedonistic side of club and drug culture; the 13-minute film was screened on Channel 4 in Britain. W.I.Z. plans to extend the "Weekender" concept into a horror film, The Real Life, which he says will blow "all the prejudices and ignorance that surrounds drug-taking" wide open.
W.I.Z.'s second short film Baby made its European debut at the 2000 Edinburgh International film festival and its U.S. debut at the MVPA Director's Cuts 2000 film festival. In February 2003 W.I.Z.'s video for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'N Roll" was named MTV2 Best Video of The Year 2002 by the NME Carling Awards.
[edit] Selected videography
2010
- Magnetic Man ft. Katy B - "Perfect Stranger"
- Hurts - "Better Than Love"
2009
- Dizzee Rascal - "Dirtee Cash"
- Oasis - "Falling Down"
- Kasabian - "Fire"
2008
- Oasis - "I'm Outta Time"
2007
- Clinic - "Tomorrow"
- Dizzee Rascal - "Sirens"
- Kaiser Chiefs - "The Angry Mob"
2006
- All Saints - "Rock Steady (All Saints song)"
- Arctic Monkeys - "The View from the Afternoon"
- Kasabian - "Empire"
2005
2004
- 411 - "Teardrops"
- Jamelia - "See It in a Boy's Eyes"
- Kasabian - "Club Foot"
2003
- Stereophonics - "Maybe Tomorrow"
- Dirty Harry - "So Real"
- Cradle of filth - "Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)"
2002
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'N' Roll"
- Oasis - "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"
- Oasis - "The Hindu Times"
- Shakira - "Te Dejo Madrid"
2001
- Marilyn Manson - "The Fight Song"
- Zero 7 - "In the Waiting Line"
2000
1999
1998
- Massive Attack - "Inertia Creeps"
- Manic Street Preachers - "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
1997
1993
- Suede - "Love and Poison"
1992
- Flowered Up - "Weekender"
1991
1990
- Bocca Juniors - "Raise"
[edit] External links
- W.I.Z. at The Oil Factory - Features W.I.Z. bio and selected music video clips.
- Factory Films - UK production company for W.I.Z., also features bio and video clips.
- Wiz at the Internet Movie Database
