BUILDINGS. TY SEGALL
Music Videos
Director and documentarian MATT YOKA has been hailed by No Film School as the creator of “some of the weirdest and most exciting pieces of music video since Spike Jonze and the Beastie Boys.” His on-going collaboration with Drag City recording artist Ty Segall includes “Break A Guitar,” featuring Fred Armisen and Jack Black; the Webby Award-winning interactive collage-art project “Manipulator;” and “Emotional Mugger,” a long-form player that shatters the conventions of what a music video can be, taking viewers on a gonzo-odyssey through contemporary Los Angeles that positions Matt as “heir to the throne of David Cronenberg.” Here is "Buildings" from Ty's new album Possession, a lush, pop vision quest into the American Dream that Matt also co-wrote the lyrics for. In a way, the music video is also kind of a documentary about what it feels like to live in L.A.
Credits:
Matt Yoka
|Director, Producer, Editor
Matt Yoka is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. His debut feature, Whirlybird, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is the winner of the International Documentary Association's ABC News Video Source Award. His music videos for artists Ty Segall and The Oh Sees have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Indiewire. He began his career as a producer on the skateboarding-classic, Epicly Later'd and often directs commercial content for clients including Google, Spotify and Verizon. Matt also moonlights as a lyricist, co-writing Ty Segall's latest album, Possession.