Evan Bernard
Evan Bernard is an American director of commercials and music videos who has directed videos for artists such as Moby, the Beastie Boys, Green Day, Lit, Cibo Matto and many others.
After studying advertising design at Syracuse University and Saint Martin's School of Art and Design in London, Bernard moved to New York and found a job as a "cruise director" on the 1994 Lollapalooza music tour festival. It was there that he first met and befriended the Beastie Boys, who allowed him to direct the video for their song Root Down in 1995.[1] This proved to be a jump-off point for his career, leading immediately to his direction of music videos for other bands, including several acts on the Beastie Boys' own Grand Royal record label.[1] Since then he has continued to direct music videos, but has also branched out into commercials, directing televisions ads for companies like Toyota, Puma and Red Stripe.[2] In 1996 he acted as a cinematographer for the film "Free Tibet", a documentary about the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco, which was organized by Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch (MCA) in order to raise awareness plight of people in Tibet.
In June 2007, Bernard released "Pound", a short, two-minute viral video onto the web to rather successful results. The video depicts two friends who meet on the street and greet each other by engaging in an impressively long and complex handshake and once its completed, say goodbye by starting another minute-long handshake.
Bernard was mentioned in the Beastie Boys top 10 hit Get It Together with the lyrics "drive the lane like I was Evan Bernard."
Partial filmography
Film
- Pound (2007) - director
- Free Tibet (1998) - Cinematographer [3]
Commercials
- Red Army - Puma and Footlocker
- Last Chance Tragedy - Prudential
- Woof - Virgin Radio
- Encore - Chicago Music Exchange
- Sasquatch - Toyota
- Snog - Hula Hoops
- Red Stripe
- X-Large Action Suit [4]
Music videos
2010
2008
2006
- Moby, featuring Debbie Harry - New York, New York
2005
- Ben Lee - Catch My Disease
- Moby - Lift Me Up (version 1)
- Soulwax - E's Talking
2004
2003
- Rancid featuring Rob Aston - Red Hot Moon
- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - I Keed
- D.J. D.J. - Transplants
2002
2001
- Scapegoat Wax - Aisle 10 (Hello Allison)
- Slayer - Bloodline
2000
- Bad Religion - New America
- Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl
- Dynamite Hack - Boyz in the Hood
- Green Day - Minority
- Lit - Miserable
- Robbie Williams & Queen - We Are the Champions
- Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
- Tarsha Vega - Be Ya Self
- Titán - Corazon (version 2)
1999
- Basement Jaxx - Rendez-vu
- Ben Folds Five - Army
- Cassius - Feeling for You
- Dangerman - Let's Make a Deal
- Dixie Chicks - Ready to Run
- Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last
- Harvey Danger - Save it for Later
1998
- BTK - Peppyrock
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk about the Blues
- Josh Wink, featuring the Interpreters - Simple Man
- Les Rythmes Digitales - (Hey You) What's That Sound?
- Money Mark - Maybe I'm Dead
- Money Mark - Hand in Your Head
- New Radicals - You Get What You Give
- Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite
1997
- Bis - Tell it to the Kids
- Buffalo Daughter - Great Five Lakes
- OMC - I Love L.A.
- Rancid - The Harder They Come (live)
- The Lemonheads - The Outdoor Type
- Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
1996
- Butter 08 - Butter of '69
- Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - 2 Kinds of Love
1995
- The Beastie Boys - Root Down (version 1)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor
- Ruth Ruth - Uninvited