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Shynola

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Shynola are a London-based directing team who have worked across live-action and animation for over twenty years.[1] Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy, Jason Groves and the late Gideon Baws formed Shynola while they were at art college in the late 1990s, and immediately earned recognition for their inventive work.

Their music video work includes all artists like Junior Senior, Radiohead, Beck, Blur, Coldplay, ABBA and Queens of the Stone Age, along advertisements for brands like Nike, Audi, PlayStation and Maserati. They also created notable title sequences for series and films: The IT Crowd, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Mandy, and Netflix’s GLOW.

They have received scores of awards including a British Independent Film Award and three times Emmy nominations, with multiple wins at Edinburgh International Film Festival, D&AD awards and UK Music Video Awards.

In 2008, founding member Gideon Baws, died at age 33.[2]

Notable works

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Music videos

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Year Artist Song Title
1999 Unkle "Guns Blazing (Drums of Death, Pt. 1)"
Quannum featuring Lyrics Born and The Poets of Rhythm "I Changed My Mind" (Stereo MCs Rattlesnake Mix)
2000 Radiohead Kid A blips: 'Basement Bear', 'Bear Witch', 'Dead Air', 'Drown', 'Eyes', 'Geese', 'Giant', 'Planes', 'Scarecrows', 'Six Million Thom', 'Stars', 'Thom Over Planes', 'Valley', 'Wake Up', 'White Mountains', 'Yeti'[3]
2001 "Pyramid Song"
Stephen Malkmus "Jo Jo's Jacket"
Unkle "Eye for an Eye"[4]
2002 Lambchop "Is a Woman"
Junior Senior "Move Your Feet"
The Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers"
2003 Queens of the Stone Age "Go with the Flow"[5]
Blur "Crazy Beat"
"Good Song"
2005 Beck "E-Pro"
2009 Coldplay "Strawberry Swing"[6]
2011 "Paradise"
2013 Black Sabbath "God Is Dead"
"End of the Beginning"
Nine Inch Nails "Everything"
2015 Hot Chip "Need You Now"
2016 Tiësto and Oliver Heldens featuring Natalie La Rose "The Right Song"
2021 ABBA "I Still Have Faith in You"
2022 "Eagle" as part of ABBA Voyage
2022 "Voulez-Vous" as part of ABBA Voyage

Short films

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Film

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TV

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Miscellaneous

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Commercials

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Awards and nominations

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References

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  1. ^ "Shining a spotlight on Shynola's 20-year legacy". 29 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Remembering and running for Gideon Baws". 22 September 2009.
  3. ^ Zoo. Purple House Limited. 2001. ISBN 9781841180298.
  4. ^ Jayne Pilling (29 May 2012). Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Columbia University Press. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-231-85014-8.
  5. ^ "Lens Recap: The Story Behind Queens Of The Stone Age's 'Go With The Flow'". MTV. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Shynola Imagines Coldplay in 2-D – Interview Magazine". 20 July 2009.
  7. ^ "Untaggable: How does #music move us? A film for Audi (Music by Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke)". YouTube.
  8. ^ "David O'Reilly: The 'Wrist' Behind 'Son of Rambow'".
  9. ^ "Instagram".
  10. ^ a b c "Strawberry Swing video scoops three awards – Coldplay".
  11. ^ "BBC – Films – Festivals and Seasons – Edinburgh – Award Winners". BBC.
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