Directed by Bright Black
DP: Matthew Chavez
Agency: INDUSTRY
CD: Adam Long
PRODUCTION
Directed by Bright Black (Ivan Landau x Austin Rhodes)
Cinematography: Austin Rhodes
Still Photography: Kanya Iwana
Agency: Industry
POST-PRODUCTION
Bright Back Studio
Editor: Mandy Brown
Bright Black directed this artist profile / brand film for Microsoft with the ever-inspiring Cache Bunny and desert drifting wizard, Collete Davis.
Creative Agency: CMD
ECD: John OโConnell
Grab a cozy blanket from your subconscious and drift off into dreamland with THE SPACES INSIDE SLEEP; a short bio-cosmic surrealist sleep poem directed by Bright Black, in collaboration with the eye-massaging sorcerers at BEMO and wrapped in the sonic mindscaping of SUPERPOSITION.
๐ : @brightblack.studio
๐ฌ: @ivanlandau + @austincaryrhodes
๐ฅ: @bemo_studio
๐ฎ: @bemoflow
๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ: @b_parvini
๐: @superposition.world
๐: @sleepyvolcano
๐: Robert Desnos
๐: caro.caro_lina
Directed by Bright Black
Photography + Cinematography: Austin Rhodes
Agency: RG/A
Agency: CMD
Bright Black conceived, created and delivered campaigns for lululemonโs tennis and golf collections with superstar athletic phenoms Leylah Fernandez and JR Smith. From creative development to going live with it, Bright Black delivered all assets for lululemonโs ecomm, email and social channels to celebrate their new ambassadorships.
Travel Portland: This is Portland
Directed by Bright Black
Agency: Industry
CD: Adam Long
DP: Austin Rhodes
Editor: Ivan Landau
Directed by Bright Black
KONICA MINOLTA PLANETARIUM
Live Installation TOKYO, JAPAN
๐ : @brightblack.studio
๐ฌ: @ivanlandau + @austincaryrhodes
๐ฅ: @bemo_studio
๐ฎ: @bemoflow
๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ: @b_parvini
๐จ๐ผโ๐จ: @twistedpoly
๐ซ: @teunvanderzalm
๐จ๐ผโ๐ง: @ian.ross.fx
๐: @sleepyvolcano
๐ธ: @hajimepictures
๐ฆ: @anng_music
Sometimes you just get the most beautiful opportunities. We're happy to share this piece we were commissioned to create to "Open Space" by the Planetarium division of Konica Minolta in Japan. They wanted us to find a way to enhance the opening sequence for the Planetariums' featured presentations in all 4 of their cutting edge facilities in and around Tokyo. Working with our friends BEMO to bring this world to life, we set out to visually explore the micro and macro parallels we as humans share with nature and the cosmic plane. The piece was designed to fill the spherical space of the dome for a full on immersive experience and the sound design was mixed in 3D across 44 different channels. Heaps of incredible 3D art, mind altering style frames, screen tests and hours and hours of work back and forth between Bemo and Bright Black and the client in Japan are bundled up in this visual poem dedicated to the cosmos and our joint human effort to understand and celebrate it. Hopefully we can all get back over to Japan soon and take in one of the most psychedelic :60 planetarium experiences currently available on planet earth.
Production: Bright Black
Director: Ivan Landau x Austin Rhodes
Post-Production: Bright Black
Editor: Ivan Landau (and one by Austin Rhodes)
DECIDE THE FUTURE OF AIR
6 cities. 18 finalists. 1 finalist to rep each home town. You decide which designs become a reality.
Bright Black directed 18 films around the world to bring the selected ON AIR designers stories to life. Visit onair.nike.com to see all the films and cast your vote.
Bright Black scaled bridges with Trashhand, jumped off rooftops with Jaws, bombed larger than life canvases with Madsteez and vibed out in hyper-colored multi-dimensions with Kevin Durant for his collaboration with Neffwear.
For the first time ever, Nike invited some leading artists from the Air Max community to co-create with their designers and bring to life their visions for the future of air. Like the original Air Max, these designs challenge the status quo and embrace the spirit of creative revolution. Bright Black captured this spirit within 12 unique designers from 12 cities in 9 countires.
For these collectors, Air Max is a way of life, an obsession, a form of self expression. Some have amassed thousands of Air Max, while others possess some of the rarest collaborations ever released. No matter what their collections look like, they all have one thing in common: a deep passion for Visible Air.
Bright Black traveled to 9 countries to see what makes these collectors tick.
Scored with music from Baauerโs latest album, โAa.โ
"We always view technology as a function of quality,โ Errolson Hugh of Acronym Studios, explains. "So high tech for its own sake is basically decoration. It only makes sense to use the technology if youโre creating a tangible benefit.โ
In collaboration with NIKELAB for their "Innovation x Innovators" series, we explore the intersection of form (fashion) and function (technology) with some of Nikeโs lead designers, Errolson Hugh of Acronym Studios and Kim Jones of Dior Homme.