Alex Takács

Director @youngreplicant know’s what it’s like to face the potential ruin of a project, and how to make the right decisions to come out on top. Watch the full breakdown with the link in the bio. Music Video credits: Music Artist: @jjerome87 Director: Alex Takács @youngreplicant Original Concept: Joe Newman @jjerome87 Creative Direction and Choreography: Darcy Wallace Production Company: ProdCo @prodcofficial x @freenjoy Prodco Co-Founders / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge Prodco EP: @theohuewilliams Freenjoy Founder / Producer: Nathan Scherrer EP & Producer: @tarasheree Head Of Production: @tommy_gleason DOP: @mikaaltskan Producer: @taliiweizman PM: @natallejastrow PD: @briell_a & @laszlocorp_inc Stylist: Pierrette Abbegg HMUA: @makeupbykandirose 1st AD: siena.browntown Jjerome87 Under Exclusive Licence To Mushroom Music & Virgin Music Group MGMT Easy City Management Edit: @youngreplicant VFX: @darahamidi

We suspect most people have speculated about how they’ll meet their maker, but in this week’s Feature Video, JJerome87 (a.k.a. Alt-J frontman Joe Newman) throws us an absolute curveball. "I believe music videos should be potent and so to achieve this I set ideas for treatment within three principals; simple, striking and shocking,” says Joe. Seemingly, the video for his track ‘Brush Me Like A Horse’ does just that by depicting a morbidly bizarre scenario that starts to make way more sense with a little extra explanation. According to Joe, ‘Brush Me Like A Horse’ “is the story of a man slowly turning into a horse. This metamorphosis has the world around him forgetting who he is as people begin to care for him more and more like a horse. This song was inspired partly by something I'd seen a friend go through. They didn't turn into a horse, but their reputation went through a metamorphosis." “Joe Newman phoned me with an idea for his new track: a public execution via treadmill dangling over a cliff's edge” says the clips director Alex Takács. “It’s an absurd but super visceral image, and if you’re a treadmill hater like me, it immediately provokes a bodily sensation of being off balance. I find them unnatural and weirdly anti-human, so in other words, a perfect device to carry out a dystopian death sentence. I felt there was some good allegorical potential.” Write up continued in comments ✍️

"The shoot itself was particularly challenging due to a tight schedule, large set pieces, and high ambition. On our second, fully sun-baked day we started running into massive rattlesnakes everywhere around the mesa – it was like they were all simultaneously waking up after weeks of rain. We kept having to pivot and find new spots to shoot that lacked tall grass, but it was basically everywhere. " - Director @youngreplicant JJerome87 “Brush Me Like A Horse” Music Artist: @jjerome87 Director: Alex Takács @youngreplicant Original Concept: Joe Newman @jjerome87 Creative Direction and Choreography: Darcy Wallace Production Company: ProdCo @prodcofficial x @freenjoy Prodco Co-Founders / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge Prodco EP: @theohuewilliams Freenjoy Founder / Producer: Nathan Scherrer EP & Producer: @tarasheree Head Of Production: @tommy_gleason DOP: @mikaaltskan Producer: @taliiweizman PM: @natallejastrow PD: @briell_a & @laszlocorp_inc Stylist: Pierrette Abbegg HMUA: @makeupbykandirose 1st AD: siena.browntown Jjerome87 Under Exclusive Licence To Mushroom Music & Virgin Music Group MGMT Easy City Management Edit: @youngreplicant VFX: @darahamidi Tech specs: We shot on the Alexa Mini with Master Primes and a Canon 150-600mm zoom. A few plates and additional shots were on an Alexa 35.

DROP OF THE DAY - JJEROME87, BRUSH ME LIKE A HORSE JJerome87 “Brush Me Like A Horse” @jjerome87   dir. Alex Takács @youngreplicant prod. ProdCo @prodcofficial   & Freenjoy @freenjoy @mikaaltskan @darahamidi ProdCo’s Alex Takács directs a new music video for “Brush Me Like A Horse,” the debut solo release from alt-J’s Joe Newman under his new moniker JJerome87. A longtime collaborator of Newman’s, Takács stages the film as a sun-bleached fever dream, somewhere between a Sergio Leone western and a twisted daytime game show. What begins as a surreal western tableau slowly sharpens into something more unsettling. Watch the full video on 1.4 via the link in bio.  #musicvideo #onepointfour

W149 “Brush Me Like A Horse” music video directed by Alex Takács @youngreplicant for @jjerome87 Director: Alex Takács @youngreplicant Original Concept: Joe Newman @jjerome87 Creative Direction and Choreography: @darcyjwallace Production Company: ProdCo @prodcofficial x @freenjoy ProdCo Co-Founders / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge ProdCo EP: @theohuewilliams Freenjoy Founder / Producer: Nathan Scherrer EP & Producer: @tarasheree HOP: @tommy_gleason DOP: @mikaaltskan Producer: @taliiweizman PM: @natallejastrow Production Design: @briell_a & @laszlocorp_inc Stylist: @pierrettenoel HMUA: @makeupbykandirose 1st AD: siena.browntown Jjerome87 Under Exclusive Licence To Mushroom Music & Virgin Music Group MGMT Easy City Management Edit: @youngreplicant VFX: @darahamidi Camera 1st AC: Riley Keeton 2nd Ac Jackson Davis Grip Key Grip: Matt Planer Grip: Jake Condon Art Department Props: Paul Mccaffery Set Dressers: Moises Carranza, Frank Pfeifer Wardrobe & Make Up Stylist Assits: Carima Robinson, Noelle Duquette Stunt Coord: Mundo Armourer: Leo Kei Angelos Trainer: Becca Murray Trainer: Andie Catering: Del Mar // Armando Medic: Bradley Smith PAs: Andres Palou, Antony Trinidad, Clyde Crooks, Nariessa Weatherall Cast The Accused: Patrick Gorman The Advocate: Myles Mcintosh The Hostess: Shannon Corbett Camera Man: Boyao Huang Doctor: David Leonard Dancer: Scout Nankin, Gia Granto Guard: Oleksandr Brzhezytskyi, Mark Chinnery, Cartrell Ramont Daniels, Jasen T. Davis, Rebecca Murray Spectator: Robert Giardina, Liam Shimizu, Sally Spitz

What do you think defines a “small budget” production? DP @dustinlane talk about how he and director @youngreplicant made Sci Fi narrative magic on their recent music video for @vynehall Watch the full episode. Link in the bio.

W115 ProdCo x Spy Films ‘Destination Canada’ directed by Alex Takács @youngreplicant with Rethink Vancouver for Destination Canada Director: Alex Takács @youngreplicant Production Company: ProdCo @prodcofficial x Spy Films @spy_films ProdCo Founding Partners / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge Spy Films EPs: @mtrulli1 , @aasttha , @marchioe Line Producer: Jill Sartore Spy Films Producers: @tyklementti , @leahmunro_ PM: Spencer Foley DOP: @_jeremycox 1st AD: @brett4taylor Post Production Producer: @anya.mykhailenko Client: Destination Canada CMO: Susan Dong Sr. Manager / Global Owned Media: Adam Brownfield Agency: Rethink Vancouver ECD: Don Shelford CD / AD: Eric Seymour ACD / CW: Thom Peters GBL: Mitch McKamey GAD: Georgia Greenacre Account Director: Nicole Kerrigan Sr. Producer: Zara Thomas Dir. Integrated Production / Partner: Laura Rioux Edit: Alex Takacs Color: @royal.muster Colorist: @mikeypackage Executive Color Producer: Alexandra Lubrano Associate Color Producer: Alex Ponce Color Assists: Zack Wilpon & Patrick Badescu Music and Sound: Vapor Creative Director: Dustin Anstey Sound Designer: Kevin Chamberlain Audio Mix Engineer: Julian Rudd & Dave Worthen Producer: Matilde Mata VFX House: @studiofeather EP: Emily Goldberg Compositing Artist: @wateone.films Conform: Yevgen Yezhov Film Supply: @kodak_shootfilm Film Processing: @fotokem_la

A few excerpts and outtakes from my interview with @canal180 . Was a strange and beautiful trip to revisit shooting locations around LA and reflect on the past 15+ years of music videos. Great questions and edit from @bautigodoy and wonderful photography by @lucaslind .

In this episode of Director ID, LA based filmmaker Alex Takács @youngreplicant walks us through the ideas and instincts behind some of his most memorable music videos. His approach favors atmosphere over narrative, with a strong visual language shaped by memory, landscape, and the emotional charge of elements like water and fire. Alex tolds us about how locations often drive his concepts, returning to the same site until something clicks. Along the way, he shares esoteric references that have informed certain videos, like Butoh dance and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. He told us about his work with Sam Dew, Leon Vynehall, alt-J, Flying Lotus, and The xx, each video a response to the music, built through constraint, intuition, and a strong sense of mood. Find the full episode in the link in bio 🔗, or catch it tonight at 10:30pm #onTV

W109 ‘Dribble to Survive’ directed by Alex Takács @youngreplicant with @wk_ldn for @nike starring @kerolinnicoli Director: Alex Takács @youngreplicant Production Company: ProdCo @prodcofficial ProdCo Co-founders / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge Managing Director / Partner / EP: Jon Adams Executive Producer: @cathgreen1 Head of Production / EP: @samlevene99 Producer: @saraacummins Production Manager: @nataliejaneisaac Associate Producer: @lottie_aspinall Treatment Coordinator: Ophelia O’Sullivan Production Assistant: Ameerah Ayyad DOP: @dustinlane Production Designer: @markjonathanconnell Costume Designer: @miss.p.fashion.stylist Football Choreography: @sportsonscreen Makeup: @loumccannmakeup Hair: Sarah Wright 1st AD: @hayleylwilliams Editorial: @trimediting Editors: @thomasgcarter Trim Asst Editor: Joey Henshaw Producers: Noreen Khan, Tatyana Alexandra Music: Music Supervisor Jake Buckley at Wieden + Kennedy Music Music Supervisor Jon Rust at @halfsourmusic Mix: @jim_db Sound Design: @mark_h_sound Audio EP: @savannahrk Audio Post: @harborpictureco Color: @_baconx_ Colorist: @hanniballang_colour VFX: @_baconx_ EP/Partners: Lorene Lescanne, Lars Wagner VFX Supervisor/CD: Jonas Drehn, Jan Tvilling, Mikkel Hansen 2D Artists: Olivia O’Neil, Timo Huber, Adam Fenwick 3D Leads: Thomas Haas-Christensen, Dennis Brahnson 3D Artists: Julia Forsman, Sebastian Schafer, Mike Monster, Mats Andersson, Rickard Didriksson, Gabi Popov, Tue Toft Sørensen, Marie Alsing, Arthur Dalvig, Julián Sánchez González Lead Compositor: Thomas Banner Compositors: Oliver Buus, Mikkel Hansen, Lonni Wong, Anselm Leir, Linnea Petersson, Dan Dirckinck, Robert Rankin Conform: Søren Gorm Knudsen VFX Producer: Crystal Campbell Production Coordinator: Charly K Martensson HOP: Rikke Gjerlov Hansen Shoot Supervisor: Jonas Drehn, Mikkel Hansen Concept/Research: Teo Cardel, Ditte Marie Ludvigsen Graphics: @timebasedarts Tracking and Matchmove: QLBeans Rotoscope: VFX Pick Rigging & Modelling: StudioP

Alex Takács directs ‘Cruel Love’ for Leon Vynehall. A hallucinatory dive into identity, distortion, and strange loops of the psyche. on #DirectorsLibrary ↗ 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 “𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩” 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 💬 @youngreplicant

W102 ‘Scary Good’ directed by @ianponsjewell featuring films by Alex Takács @youngreplicant , @alice_kunisue , @leehardcastle , @leonnward , @lunacarmoon , @maumorgo , @panicstudio , @rickdarge , Thomas Ormonde @mr_woofers for @nike with @wk_ldn Directors: Ian Pons Jewell with featured films by Alex Takács, Alice Kunisue, Lee Hardcastle, Leonn Ward, Luna Carmoon, Mau Morgó, Panic Studio, Rick Darge, Thomas Ormonde Production Company: ProdCo ProdCo Co-founders / EPs: @ianponsjewell & Zico Judge Managing Director / Partner / EP: Jon Adams Executive Producer: @cathgreen1 Head of Production / EP: @samlevene99 Associate Producer: @lottie_aspinall Treatment Coordinator: Ophelia O'Sullivan Starring: @k.mbappe , @alexiaputellas , @erling , @salmaparalluelo , @vinijr , samanthakerr20, @colepalmer10 , @kerolinnicoli , @ronaldo , @ronaldinho Agency: @wk_ldn CDs: @albertpukies , @beccapottinger , Phil Rosieur Sr Creatives: @willwellsofficial , @damcrockett CCOs: @anabalarin , @hermeti Joint Heads of Production: Richard Adkins, Amy Leach AV Producer: Aurelie Livera Post Producer: Lucy Edwards Print & Animation Producer: Elin Tiberg Asst. Producer: Lwimbo Malanda Creative Operations Manager: Bex Calway Designer: Ben Arfur, Jon Barnett, Harry Wakefield Motion Designer: Jon Harris Head of Studio: David Brodie Studio Artworker: Sophia Anastasiou WracK (In-House Prod) Producer: Jade Lamb WracK (In-House Prod) Editor: Sof Vujanic Head of Music: Jake Buckley Strategy Dirs: Huw Devine, Sidney Henne Head of Comms Planning: Anjali Patel Senior Strategist: Hannah Vatandoust Chief Strategy Officer: Dan Hill Group Account Dir: Alice Shaw Account Dir: Olli Rosicourt Account Manager: Conny Yan President: Ryan Fisher Head of Business Affairs: Helena Tomas Business Affairs Manager: Alex Coomer Client: @nike Brand CD: Ben Mclaughlin Operations Dir: Miko Cowan EP: Amy Berriochoa Producer: Nick Roldan Brand Narrative: Sabrina Hunt Business Affairs: Maddy Bishop