- Marc Klasfeld
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Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director. He has directed over two hundred music videos for artists such as Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Kid Rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nelly, Foo Fighters, Jewel, Sum 41, Avril Lavigne and many others with multiple MTV award wins and nominations. He has also written and directed commercials, independent films and documentaries.
He is also a director of television commercials for Nike, NFL, NBA, Motorola, Reebok, Cartoon Network and Hummer. His best known commercial work is for ESPN's This is Sportscenter campaign, Hammer Pants Dance for the A&E Network's reality show Hammertime, Avril Lavigne's Canon campaigns and Smirnoff's Green Tea Partay viral video sang by Sebastian Siegel.[citation needed]
His first independent feature film which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, was The L.A. Riot Spectacular, a satirical look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots. It starred Charles Dutton, Emilio Estevez, George Hamilton and Snoop Dogg. Klasfeld has also directed episodic television for the HBO series Oz
On March 29, 2010 Klasfeld released a video of an elementary school reenactment of the Al Pacino-starred film, Scarface, entitled "Scarface School Play". The video racked up more than 2 million views in 24 hours becoming one of the most instantly popular viral videos of all time while also generating attention from major television networks in the United States including FoxNews, ABC, CNN, and CBS. It was heavily debated, getting Bill O'Reilly to do a feature segment on his popular Fox News show.[citation needed] The audience in the studio consists of family and friends of the child actors.[citation needed]
He is also the founder of Rockhard, a production company that also houses directors Ray Kay, Tony Petrossian, Sarah Chatfield, Mickey Finnegan, Mark Staubach and Steve Jocz. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Videography
A partial list of Klasfeld directed videos is given below.
- 3 Doors Down- "When I'm Gone" (gravedigger version)
- 3OH!3- "Starstrukk" (featuring Katy Perry)
- Against Me!- "I Was a Teenage Anarchist"
- Against Me!- "Stop" (Rock the Vote version)
- Alien Ant Farm- "Smooth Criminal", "Movies", "These Days"
- Asher Roth- "G.R.I.N.D. (Get Ready It's a New Day)"
- Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country" (Winner 2006 MTV Best New Artist Video Award)
- Avril Lavigne- "When You're Gone"
- Backstreet Boys- "Just Want You to Know"
- Bad Ronald- "Let's Begin (Shoot the Sh**)"
- Biffy Clyro- "Bubbles"
- Bloodhound Gang- "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
- Bon Jovi- "Misunderstood", "All About Lovin' You"
- Bubba Sparxxx- "Ugly"
- Chamillionaire-"Hip-Hop Police", "Evening News"
- Coheed and Cambria- "Feathers"
- Crazy Loop (aka Dan Balan)- "Crazy Loop - Mm Ma Ma"
- Destiny's Child- "Lose My Breath"
- Enrique Iglesias- "Don't Turn Off the Lights" (Unreleased version)
- Eros Ramazzotti- "Dimelo A Mi"
- Far East Movement- "Rocketeer" (featuring Ryan Tedder)
- Flo Rida- "Club Can't Handle Me"
- Floetry- "Floetic"
- Foo Fighters- "Times like These"
- Gnarls Barkley- "Smiley Faces" (banned version)
- Greyson Chance-"Unfriend You"
- Handsome Devil-"Makin' Money"
- Insane Clown Posse- "Let's Go All The Way", "Tilt-A-Whirl"
- James Blunt- "So Far Gone"
- Jay-Z- "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- Jermaine Dupri & Ludacris- "Welcome To Atlanta"
- Jewel- "Intuition"
- Juvenile- "Ha", "Rodeo", "Follow Me Now"
- Katy Perry- "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (Nominee 2011 MTV Best Pop Video Award)
- Kelis- "Bossy", "Blindfold Me", "Lil Star"
- Kid Rock- "Born Free"
- Lostprophets- "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here"
- Low vs Diamond- "Heart Attack"
- Ludacris- "Area Codes"
- Margot & the Nuclear So and So's- "As Tall As Cliffs"
- Musiq Soulchild- "Love", "Teach Me"
- 'N Sync- "Girlfriend"
- Nelly- "Country Grammar (Hot Shit)", "Batter Up", "Gone", "Ride Wit Me" (Winner 2001 MTV Best New Artist Video Award)
- Nerina Pallot-"Everybody's Gone to War", "Real Late Starter"
- Orianthi- "According to You"
- Pia Toscano- "This Time"
- Pixie Lott- "All About Tonight"
- Rakim- "On The Mic"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers- "Monarchy of Roses"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers- "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
- Rise Against- "Make It Stop (September's Children)" (Nominee 2011 MTV Video With a Message Award)
- Scarface- "On My Block"
- Shinedown- "Save Me"
- Shop Boyz- "Party Like a Rock Star"
- Shyne-"Bad Boyz", "That's Gangsta"
- Simple Plan- "Untitled", "Crazy"
- Sky Ferreira- "Obsession"
- Slipknot- "Vermillion 2"
- Sum 41-"Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", "The Hell Song","We're All to Blame", "Still Waiting", "Underclass Hero"
- Taking Back Sunday- "MakeDamnSure"
- The Last Goodnight- "Pictures of You"
- The Script- "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"
- The Wombats- "Anti-D"
- Three Six Mafia- "Tear Da Club Up"
- Thursday- "War All The Time"
- Tom Jones- "International"
- Vanessa Carlton- "A Thousand Miles", "Ordinary Day", "Nolita Fairytale", "Hands On Me"
- Young Jeezy- "Crazy World"
External links
Categories:- American music video directors
- American film directors
- Living people
- Tisch School of the Arts alumni
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