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Chris Cunningham shoots Gucci and more nice work
Posted by Eliza Williams, 17 April 2009, 15:24 Permalink Comments (11)
Flora by Gucci ad, agency: REM, director: Chris Cunningham, production: RSA Films Ltd/Filmmaster, Post: Golden Square
Chris Cunningham is back with a new ad for Gucci. Although the idea that the master of dark and disturbing music videos has teamed up with a fashion brand may be a surprising one, the collaboration is most successful, with Cunningham managing to make the first interesting perfume ad we've seen in some time. The spot also features a reworking of Donna Summer's I Feel Love, which was produced and arranged by the director.
Powertape ad, agency: DDB Paris, director: Double Zero. Production: Partizan Dark Room
Next up is one of a series of films for Powertape made out of Partizan Dark Room. This chimp-tastic number was directed by Double Zero. The rest of the films can be viewed here.
ITV Sunshine, agency: BBH
Rupert Sanders has directed this filmic ad campaign for ITV which aims to emphasise how the brand is "synonymous with optimism", according to David Pemsel, group marketing director at the channel. The spot, which shows sunlight bursting through a grey British beach scene, is "symbolic of ITV's offering and wish to pierce through the nation's doom and gloom in a beautiful and glorious way". Whether this is quite what the channel's programming actually achieves is of course open to debate.
Dutch Comedy Central Channel ad, agency: Modernista!, director: Nate Naylor
Sticking with ads for TV channels, Modernista! in Amsterdam has created this TV and print (below) campaign for the Dutch Comedy Central channel.

Dutch Comedy Central channel poster, agency: Modernista!, photographer: Chris McPherson
Honda Keep Doing ad, agency: Wieden + Kennedy London, directors: Coan & Zorn, production: Not To Scale
Wieden + Kennedy London emphasises Honda's environmental qualities in this animated spot by Coan & Zorn.
RAC commercial, agency: AMV BBDO, production company: HLA, director, Simon Ratigan
Simon Ratigan has directed this ad for RAC, which manages to make car breakdowns seem surprisingly beautiful.

Petit Bateau campaign, agency: BETC Euro RSCG
BETC Euro RSCG in Paris won the Grand Prix at the recent APPM awards in France for this print campaign for Petit Bateau (two of a series shown above), which aims to emphasise that the clothing brand is for adults as well as children.

Financial Times ad, agency: DDB London, creatives: Dylan Harrison, Feargal Ballance
This ad depicting Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling holding aloft a white rabbit (instead of the red leather budget briefcase) as if plucked from a magician's hat ran in today's Financial Times to promote the paper's coverage of the forthcoming UK budget.
Amstel Pulse ad, agency: 180 Amsterdam, director: Roderick Fenske, production: Hungry Man
Finally, we end on a surreal note with this viral ad for Amstel from 180 Amsterdam. The spots (one shown above) see a series of 1970s-style science experiments taking place on Amstel Pulse beer bottles.
11 Comments
The voice at the end ruins the gucci ad. Which is a shame. I love the comedy central campaign.
2009-04-18 15:29:07
Lots of little white things, with a liquid-like appearance, swimming around a very young girl. She teases them and whips them up into a frenzy and at the end we're treated to a visual that looks like a ladies thingy. Are all these creatives so terribly frustrated these days, they have to let their 'juices' out at work? Yes, the voice at the end, (money shot) ruined it for me too. Oo-er.
2009-04-19 11:39:40
Amstel Pulse feels wonderfully "look around you" inspired. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57eh-Ty65u4
2009-04-20 09:54:16
love everything about gucci ad but the girl. she was kind of..annoying. she just cant act. it was like watching a 12 year old 'be a tree waving in the wind'
2009-04-20 10:52:55
I love Cunninghams' stuff and I'm dissapointed that he's no longer doing the Neuromancer movie and now in the hands of the director of Britney Spears's Womaniser music video... so I'm a little worried.
2009-04-20 11:50:40
You can say what you want, but the Gucci advert, is brilliance.
2009-04-20 12:21:59
sorry I found the Gucci really quite dull and I also feel it's quite passé - did not do anything for me, and I wonder who they are aiming this at market wise since being 31 & female - having a bored looking teenager trying to sell me something is just not working
2009-04-21 12:44:40
ITV Sunshine - Leave our grey, dull, wet beaches alone. If you want sunshine, sod off abroad.
2009-04-22 07:26:30
i am loving the gucci ads. first the david lynch with the wibbly wobbly forearms and blondie and now some white flowers and a giant hairdryer.
bet the smell gives you a headache between the eyes though.
2009-04-23 09:39:02
gucci ad = lovely. perfume ads have, for so long, been utter utter rubbish. this is beyootiful.
itv ad = vom x 1000. yawneriffic.
2009-04-23 09:58:33
@phunk It's not a sex reference - that's all over perfume advertising already - it's drugs. It is, imho, a eulogy to 70s organic tripping, complete with period soundtrack and hallucinatory visuals - a deliberate precursor to the dark crack-fuelled urban world of his 90s videos. He is thus retaining some cred while simultaneously sucking on advertising's cash-cock. Interestingly, David Lynch adopted exactly the same strategy when advertising Gucci last year: http://tinyurl.com/d3br58 Maybe they've decided it's their house style!
2009-04-23 10:00:10
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