Photos: Screenshot/ Facebook Roy Kafri (left) and Vania Heymann (right) Here are the bios for Kafri, Vania and Kutiman. Enjoy these most incredible videos they have produced.
Israeli Video Wizzards
Vania Heymann, the Israeli video wizzard who creates iconic music videos and commercials for the Internet era, has done it again with a new video that brings iconic record covers to life, entitled “Mayokero.” Together with his longtime partner, Israeli comedian and vocalist Roy Kafri, the artistic team dubs old record covers spread out on a city street with Kafri’s beatbox song, to remind us all of what may forever be music’s greatest relic. The humorous and strangely profound style Heymann and his team have adopted shot him to stardom with the interactive music video he created for Bob Dylan’s classic song “Like A Rolling Stone.”
Now a member of interactive video startup Interlude, Heymann has been experimenting with his own unique take on interactive video art since his days as a student at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Below, you can view one of his school projects entitled “Shelf Life,” in which he ingeniously envisioned quirky interactions between branded kitchen items (the video is in Hebrew).
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Ophir Kutiel aka Kutiman, has just released his new single, and it’s pretty mind-blowing. The Israeli musician, composer and animator, best known for “ThruYOU” – an online music video project, featuring a mixture of samples of YouTube videos – scours Youtube for musical treasures; kids playing piano, guitar lessons, anything he can find to create a song.
Give it Up, like his other songs, seamlessly weaves together these obscure clips, including a high school musical ensemble and a six-year-old girl playing the piano.
Of his creations, Kutiman, born in Jerusalem, said in 2009: “At first I took some drummers, before I had the idea about ThruYOU, I took some drummers from YouTube and I played on top of them, just for fun, you know. And then one day, just before I plugged my guitar to play on top of the drummer from YouTube, I thought to myself, you know, maybe I can find a bass and guitar and other players on YouTube to play with this drummer.”
Five years later and Kutiman is an internationally-renowned 21-century music-maker, with millions of fans and collaborations with big-name musicians, from Maroon 5 to Israel’s Karolina and Ester Rada. Give it Up, which already has 1.1 million views on YouTube, is the first single of Kutiman’s ThruYOU follow-up project, Thru You Too.
Watch the video below!
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Israeli Video Wizzards
