Summer's over...Or is it? We're still in the Dog Days here at TikiKiti HQ, sorting out the latest crop of UMVs (Unofficial Music Videos) that we've been carefully drying in the sun until we can harvest a full spectrum of delicious, nutritious ART.Behold, our Top Five for August.
1. Director: Eva Berbel
Artist: Cardi B + Bad Bunny + J Balvin
Song: "I Like It"
Category: Performance
Supertight choreography, a healthy wardrobe budget, and spot-on direction from Eva Berbel, who serves up a densely layered hip-hop Busby-Berkeley swimming pool fantasy.
2. Producer: Johnny Copter
Artist: Morgan Page
Song: "Running Wild"
Category: Verite
Johnny Copter's vibrant photography makes "Running Wild" a soaring visual odyssey that plays like Wes Anderson's audition reel for Nike. Moving pictures, indeed!
3. Producer: Yardley Estiverne
Artist: Amy Vachal
Song: "Field Sense"
Category: Performance
This black-and-white tone poem features a veiled woman with mountain goat horns meandering through a church, and it breathes with a confessional intimacy.
4. Producer: Marty Rait + Angelina Lobanova
Artist: 100 Monkeys
Song: "LDF"
Category: Narrative
An attractive couple moodily explore the boundaries of their relationship, again in glorious black and white.
5. Producer: Perpetual Goose
Artist: Aphex Twin
Song: "54 Cymru Beats"
Category: Abstract
This near seizure-inducing driving collage could probably reprogram an entire cult of brainwashed acolytes into functional citizens. Or send them off the deep end. You folks are killing it. Every day we see things that we've never imagined. Curious dreams, romantic vignettes, nervous puzzles, cathartic explosions... an ever-widening continuum of aspirational wonder and experience from all corners of the planet. This is our jam. Welcome.
