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 below. 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

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. Andelman was involved in filming since age 10. During his junior year in high school, he started interning with photographer

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. He received a film degree from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. 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

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. Interning with Annie Leibovitz lead Andelman to become the official photographer for

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. 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

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. 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 "

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", " South Side", and "

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" 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

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. Andelman went on to direct music videos for Kravitz's album Baptism. He also directed Kravitz's campaign for

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. His other commercial works have included videos for

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, and

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Music videos

References

External links

Official Web Site

Twitter Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andelman, Philip American music video directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Phillips Exeter Academy alumni New York University alumni