Sound And Vision: John Hillcoat

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the works Nick Cave and John Hillcoat made together. John Hillcoat has made a lot of music videos, for artists as stylistically diverse as Elvis Costello (for the award-winning video for Veronica), Depeche Mode, Siouxsee and the Banshees, Muse and... Maroon 5. But his most fruitful collaboration has been with Nick Cave. Nick Cave showed up in Hillcoat's debut feature, prison drama Ghosts...of the Civil Dead, which was also co-written by the singer. Cave would also later pen the great historical crimes The Proposition and Lawless for the director. Hillcoat in return directed many music videos for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Cave-side project...

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