Cortney Tidwell – Watusii (Dir. Daniel Franke & Martin W. Maier) 05-04-2009 / Motion Music Video Work

What you see is a dizzying rotation to the exhausted climax. The audience might doubt their sense of balance while parking lots, roofs, galleries and other locations are mingled and mangled. But its not just about the motion; its these little lovely details and props. The song is visualized by light-paintings moving in staccato to [...]

Marteria – Zum Koenig geboren 16-01-2009 / Motion Music Video Work

Born to be king, but making a muck of life. In a dark studio Daniel Franke and Martin W. Maier filmed the way of life of a self-appointed king. Palms turn into clocks, a gun smoothing the way to the cut, not enough for a suicide. The word \”Njet\” combines to a busdoor, closing. Paper-mache [...]

Tolose – Designing Chimneys 01-01-2009 / Motion Music Video Work

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The basic idea for the Designing Chimneys video we owe to a Ramadan-ridden Syrian cab-driver who let us buy the exquisite oriental beats mix-tape he played for us during our ride through Damascus; it was decorated with the great 80ies hot-air-balloon prints we let the band ride in through the multitude of comicy, [...]

Marteria “Verstrahlt” 27-08-2008 / Music Video Work

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Babooshka 2009 06-01-2007 / Music Video Work

Dir. Daniel Franke & Martin W. Maier
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