Phil Harder

{{Short description|American music video director}}

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Philip Harder (born 1965) is an American music video director and commercial director represented by Bob Industries in Santa Monica, California.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bobcentral.com/phil-harder|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414000329/http://www.bobcentral.com/phil-harder|url-status=dead|title=Bobcentral.com|archive-date=April 14, 2015|access-date=October 13, 2024}} Phil was also a director at Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Commercials and Music Videos where he directed award-winning commercials for clients including The Gap. He also had a music video company Harder/Fuller Films, from 1985 to 2005. In the 1980s, Harder was in the band Breaking Circus, as well as a founding member of Big Trouble House, a rock trio active throughout the 1990s.

Harder was the cinematographer on the Japanese feature film Yoko, The Cherry Blossom shot in Tokyo.

Filmography

=Music videos=

;1985

;1986

;1987

;1988

;1989

  • The Afghan Whigs – "Sister, Brother" (1989)
  • Agitpop – "Forget Me Not" – (1989)
  • Chicken Scratch – "Undertoe"
  • Poopshovel – "One Pass Away" (1989)
  • Soul Asylum – "Artificial Heart"

;1990

  • Another Carnival – "Rain on Me"
  • Arson Garden – "Two Sisters"
  • Babes in Toyland – "He's My Thing"
  • Big Chief – "Drive It Off"
  • Big Trouble House – "Black River"
  • Big Trouble House – "Union Feed Grain Mill"
  • Chicken Scratch – "Tom Takes Toilets To Tinseltown"
  • Joe Henry (with Don Cherry) – "John Hanging"
  • Brenda Kahn – "The Ballad of Ridge Street"
  • Brenda Kahn – "If Red Were Blue"
  • Libido Boyz – "Godzilla"

;1991

;1992

;1993

;1994

  • The Afghan Whigs – "My Curse"
  • Low – "Words"
  • Mercy Rule -"Tell Tomorrow"
  • Nova Mob – "Old Empire"
  • Stigmata A-Go-Go – "Riot Keeper"

;1995

;1996

;1997

;1998

;1999

;2000

;2001

;2002

;2003

;2004

;2005

;2006

;2007

;2008

;2009

;2010

;2011

  • CSS featuring Ssion – "City Grrrl"
  • Robert Plant – "Silver Rider"
  • Nada Surf – "When I Was Young"
  • Low – "Especially Me"
  • Typsy Panthre – "All Fall Down"

;2012

;2013

;2014

;2015

;2017

;2020

;2023

=Films=

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2008

| Flying Lesson (collaboration with chameckilerner)

Won – Brooklyn Film Festival – Best Experimental Film
Won - Dance On Camera Festival - Jury Award
Winner Best Experimental Film Brooklyn Film Festival (2008) "[http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=846 Festival Lesson]" [film short], Phil harder [director].{{Cite web|url=https://newyorklivearts.org/artists/chameckilerner-in-collaboration-with-phil-harder/|title=chameckilerner in collaboration with Phil Harder - New York Live Arts|website=Newyorklivearts.org|access-date=October 13, 2024}}
2010

| Jackie & Judy (collaboration with chameckilerner)

Won - Berlin Pool Dance-Video Film Festival - PEARL Award[http://www.newyorklivearts.org/artist/chameckilerner Jackie & Judy - Dance Short] (2010)
2013

| Low Movie: How to Quit Smoking

{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675174/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2|title=Low: Movie - How to Quit Smoking|date=April 12, 2013|access-date=October 13, 2024|website=IMDb.com}}
2019

| Tuscaloosa

2021

| The Claw

References

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