Anonymous Content has added director Karim Huu Do to its roster for commercial and music video representation in North America. His spot credits span such brands as Converse, H&M, Gillette and Adidas. For the latter, he helmed the lauded, reality-bending “Superstar” campaign featuring Pharrell, Rita Dra, David Beckham and Damian Lillard.
Huu Do’s music-related video exploits include a short film for the music collective Last Night In Paris, a short for the release of Drake’s Album “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” and a music video for The Shoes.
Raised in Switzerland by a Moroccan mother and a Vietnamese father, Huu Do benefited from a mix of backgrounds and cultures that helped shape his mindset and inspired his boundary-pushing approach to directing. While he studied science because his father, a chemist, wanted him to be a doctor, his childhood passion for cinema won out. After two years at college in visual communication, Huu Do co-founded the art collective “Fortune,” where he collaborated on fashion, photography, music video and magazine projects.
Huu Do had previously been handled in the U.S.. by production house Caviar. His work has been honored with awards from the Clios, D&AD, EDI, Epica, and UKMVA competitions.
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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