Directed by Bright Black

DP: Matthew Chavez

Agency: INDUSTRY

CD: Adam Long

Directed by Bright Black [Ivan Landau x Austin Rhodes] + John O’Connell (ECD @ CMD)

Agency: CMD

Directed by Austin Rhodes and Ivan Landau

Production: BODEGA

PRODUCTION

Directed by Bright Black (Ivan Landau x Austin Rhodes)

Cinematography: Austin Rhodes

Still Photography: Kanya Iwana

Agency: Industry

POST-PRODUCTION

Bright Back Studio

Editor: Mandy Brown

Bright Black has conceived, created and delivered campaigns for lululemon’s tennis, golf, pickleball and OTM collections with superstar athletic phenoms Leylah Fernandez, JR Smith, Zecheng Dou and Min Woo Lee. From creative development through execution and post, Bright Black has delivered assets for lululemon’s ecomm, email and social channels to celebrate their new ambassadorships.

Bright Black directed this artist profile / brand film for Microsoft with the ever-inspiring Cache Bunny and desert drifting wizard, Collete Davis.

Creative Agency: CMD

ECD: John O’Connell

Grab a cozy blanket from your subconscious and drift off into dreamland with THE SPACES INSIDE SLEEP; a short bio-cosmic surrealist sleep poem directed by Bright Black, in collaboration with the eye-massaging sorcerers at BEMO and wrapped in the sonic mindscaping of SUPERPOSITION.

🏠: @brightblack.studio

🎬: @ivanlandau + @austincaryrhodes

🎥: @bemo_studio

🔮: @bemoflow

🧙🏼‍♂️: @b_parvini

🔊: @superposition.world

🎛: @sleepyvolcano

📝: Robert Desnos

👄: caro.caro_lina

Travel Portland: This is Portland

Directed by Bright Black

Agency: Industry

CD: Adam Long

DP: Austin Rhodes

Editor: Ivan Landau

Directed by Bright Black

Production: Bright Black

Director: Ivan Landau x Austin Rhodes

Post-Production: Bright Black

Editor: Ivan Landau (and one by Austin Rhodes)

>> WATCH THE COLLECTION <<

KONICA MINOLTA PLANETARIUM

Live Installation TOKYO, JAPAN

For further process and style frames click HERE

🏠: @brightblack.studio

🎬: @ivanlandau + @austincaryrhodes

🎥: @bemo_studio

🔮: @bemoflow

🧙🏼‍♂️: @b_parvini

👨🏼‍🎨: @twistedpoly

💫: @teunvanderzalm

👨🏼‍🔧: @ian.ross.fx

🔊: @sleepyvolcano

💸: @hajimepictures

🦄: @anng_music

Sometimes you just get the most beautiful opportunities.  We're happy to share this piece we were commissioned to create to "Open Space" by the Planetarium division of Konica Minolta in Japan.  They wanted us to find a way to enhance the opening sequence for the Planetariums' featured presentations in all 4 of their cutting edge facilities in and around Tokyo.  Working with our friends BEMO to bring this world to life, we set out to visually explore the micro and macro parallels we as humans share with nature and the cosmic plane.  The piece was designed to fill the spherical space of the dome for a full on immersive experience and the sound design was mixed in 3D across 44 different channels.  Heaps of incredible 3D art, mind altering style frames, screen tests and hours and hours of work back and forth between Bemo and Bright Black and the client in Japan are bundled up in this visual poem dedicated to the cosmos and our joint human effort to understand and celebrate it.  Hopefully we can all get back over to Japan soon and take in one of the most psychedelic :60 planetarium experiences currently available on planet earth.

"We always view technology as a function of quality,” Errolson Hugh of Acronym Studios, explains. "So high tech for its own sake is basically decoration. It only makes sense to use the technology if you’re creating a tangible benefit.”

In collaboration with NIKELAB for their "Innovation x Innovators" series, we explore the intersection of form (fashion) and function (technology) with some of Nike’s lead designers, Errolson Hugh of Acronym Studios and Kim Jones of Dior Homme.  

Directed by Bright Black

Photography + Cinematography: Austin Rhodes

Agency: RG/A

Production: Bright Black

Agency: INDUSTRY

Directed by Bright Black

DP: Matt Chavez

Post-Production: Bright Black

Lead Editor: Mandy Brown

To view full series, click HERE

Directed by Ivan Landau and Austin Rhodes

Production: Ramble West

Producer: Justin Benoliel

DP: Austin Rhodes and Matt Chavez

Post Production: Bright Black

Editor: Ivan Landau and Clayton Worfolk

Motion GFX: Ivan Landau

>> WATCH SERIES HERE <<

Agency: Cornerstone

Directed by Bright Black

DP: Matt Chavez

Post-Production: Bright Black

Lead Editor: John O’Hara

DECIDE THE FUTURE OF AIR

6 cities. 18 finalists. 1 finalist to rep each home town. You decide which designs become a reality.

Bright Black directed 18 films around the world to bring the selected ON AIR designers stories to life. Visit onair.nike.com to see all the films and cast your vote.

View full series HERE

Production: Bright Black

Agency: INDUSTRY

Directed: Bright Black

DP: Matt Chavez & Austin Rhodes

PostProduction: Bright Black

Lead Editor: Mandy Brown

Directed by Ivan Landau and Austin Rhodes

Production: Ramble West

Producer: Justin Benoliel

DP: Austin Rhodes

Post Production

Editor: Ivan Landau

For these collectors, Air Max is a way of life, an obsession, a form of self expression. Some have amassed thousands of Air Max, while others possess some of the rarest collaborations ever released. No matter what their collections look like, they all have one thing in common: a deep passion for Visible Air. 

Bright Black traveled to 9 countries to see what makes these collectors tick.

Scored with music from Baauer’s latest album, “Aa.”