Philip Andelman is an American
music video director
A music video director is the head of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration ...
and photographer. Andelman has directed music videos for many notable artists, see
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. He has received nominations for his works from the MVPA,
VMAs, and
CMT awards including MVPA Director of the Year.
His commercial work has won a
Bronze Clio Award.
Early life
He grew up in Kenya, Paris, and New York City.
Andelman attended
Phillips Exeter Academy
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, location = 20 Main Street
, city = Exeter, New Hampshire
, zipcode ...
.
Andelman was involved in filming since age 10.
During his junior year in high school, he started interning with photographer
Annie Leibovitz.
He received a film degree from
New York University.
His photographic works have been exhibited at Milk Gallery.
He is married and has at least one child.
Career
While at NYU, Andelman directed a 15-minute short film entitled "Looking for Actionman". The film won a grant from director
Martin Scorsese.
Interning with Annie Leibovitz lead Andelman to become the official photographer for
The Grateful Dead.
In 2011, Andelman released his first book with the
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were an American rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1978. The group was composed of Mike D, Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam Yauch, Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass), and Ad-Rock, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (voca ...
.
Andelman left New York after graduating from NYU to shop a script in Los Angeles.
He characterized it as "the worst script ever written" and said "he couldn't even get a meeting".
Andelman worked as a 2nd unit director and cinematographer under director
Joseph Kahn Joseph Kahn may refer to:
*Joseph Kahn (director) (born 1972), a film and music video director
*Joseph Kahn (journalist) (born 1964), American journalist
* Joseph Kahn (shipping executive) (1916–1979), American businessman
See also
*Joseph Hahn ...
.
Working with Kahn was a fortuitous experience, as he went from working as a production assistant to 2nd unit director in the course of a single month.
During that time as a 2nd unit director, beginning in the summer of 2000, he worked on over 20 music videos including ones for "
Elevation", "
South Side", and "
Hero"
Andelman followed
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop and folk.
Kravitz won the Grammy Award for Best Male Roc ...
during 2002, shooting a documentary/concert film with colleague
Mark Seliger. Andelman went on to direct music videos for Kravitz's album Baptism.
He also directed Kravitz's campaign for
Kohl's.
His other commercial works have included videos for
Warby Parker,
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, and
Verizon.
Music videos
References
External links
Official Web SiteTwitter Page
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American music video directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
New York University alumni