Nick DenBoer
Nick DenBoer | |
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| Born | Nickolaas Den Boer December 25, 1979 Clinton, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Music video director |
| Notable work | Monophobia (2018) Pomegranate (2020) |
| Website | nickdenboer |
Nick DenBoer is a Canadian film and music video director.
Early life and education
[edit]DenBoer was born in Clinton, Ontario on December 25, 1979. He moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1998 and studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design for 2 years before dropping out.[1] He then started a construction company in Toronto while working in video and animation business on the side. In 2009, production work became the focus and he started Generic Versatility Inc., a video production company.[2]
Career
[edit]DenBoer has directed and produced three music videos for Canadian electronic music artist deadmau5, including Monophobia in 2018, Drama Free feat. Lights and Pomegranate, a collaboration between deadmau5 & The Neptunes, both in 2020. Nick directed and produced the critically acclaimed short film The Chickening, a visual effects remix of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, where he and co-director Davy Force used visual effects to alter the film's characters and scenery to create a new story.[1] The Chickening was featured in many film festivals most notably the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Nick is also credited as a visual effects artist of the feature film Kuso by Flying Lotus and on the music video Fire is Coming By Flying Lotus featuring David Lynch.[3]
In 2020, DenBoer directed and executive produced an ad campaign called Virtual Influencer Colonel Sanders for Kentucky Fried Chicken through the ad agency Wieden+Kennedy, which won a Webby Award for best use of social media. The campaign featured a lifelike, computer generated incarnation of Colonel Sanders and portrayed him as a virtual influencer on social media in a series of images.[4] He has directed and produced many other advertising projects for the companies and brands such as KFC, Old Spice, DC Shoes, BBC, Adult Swim and Red Bull. among others. Prior to his advertising work and music video directing debut, Nick worked as a bit creator on Conan O'Brien, and worked for Team Coco from 2012 to 2015, producing political satire and pop culture clips for the show.[1] Nick is responsible for creating the series Alex Trebek has Gone Insane which was a recurring bit on Conan's monologue where he took clips from the show Jeopardy! and cut up Alex Trebek's words and rearranged them through editing to make Alex say absurd sentences. Nick also created the recurring Conan monologue series If they Melded where he took celebrities faces and swapped them onto other celebrities.[4]
Filmography
[edit]Films
[edit]| Yr | Title | Role |
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| 2016 | "The Chickening" | Director[5][6] |
Music videos
[edit]| Yr | Title | Album/artist | Production company | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "Monophobia" | Deadmau5 | Mau5trap | Director[7][8] |
| 2019 | "Fire Is Coming" | Flying Lotus | Warp Records | Visual effects |
| 2020 | "Drama Free" | Deadmau5 feat. Lights | Mau5trap | Director[9] |
| "Pomegranate" | Deadmau5 | Mau5trap | Director[10] |
Awards and recognition
[edit]In 2019, DenBoer was Prism Prize Audience Award nominee for his work as a director of "Monophobia" by deadmau5.[11] In 2020, he won a Webby Award for "Best Use of Social Media 2020" for his work on Virtual Influencer Colonel Sanders, where he served as director and executive producer.[12] In 2021, his 3D animated music video for Pomegranate by deadmau5 & The Neptunes was nominated for the upcoming Juno Awards of 2021 for Music Video of the Year.[13]
Private life
[edit]DenBoer currently lives in Toronto with his spouse, Leanne O'Brien.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c Alexander, Julia (February 4, 2016). "The Chickening: How the weirdest Shining remix dominated the film world". Polygon. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ "Nick DenBoer and the Art of Weird". Mograph.com. October 17, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "The Chickening : le court métrage qui parodie The Shining". rockyrama.com (in French). Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ a b "Nick DenBoer on being the Colonel Sanders of rabid VFX". Digital Arts. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ "A poultry remix of The Shining named The Chickening actually made it to Sundance". The Independent. January 27, 2016. Archived from the original on June 20, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ Plante, Chris (January 26, 2016). "The Chickening is a NSFW, poultry-covered remix of The Shining". The Verge. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ "deadmau5 & Rob Swire's 'Monophobia' Video Is Surreal, Vibrant and Full of Madness: Watch". Billboard. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "Deadmau5's 'Monophobia' music video is uncanny digital mayhem". Mixmag. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "Deadmau5 collaborates with Nick DenBoer once again, on avant-garde music video for 'Drama Free' featuring Lights". Dancing Astronaut. December 2, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ Blistein, Jon (July 2, 2020). "Deadmau5 Zips Through an Intergalactic Car Race in New 'Pomegranate' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "Audience Award 2019". Prism Prize. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "New Webby Gallery". Webby Awards. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "2021 Music Video of the Year - Nick DenBoer deadmau5". The JUNO Awards. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
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