The dudes from the internet program "Extreme Metal Television" stopped by the set of the Orphan Hammer video shoot and created a little spot for me on their program. I really appercaite the time they spent with us and showing an interest in our project. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/nzrylHxJSos
Doug Cook The cat is out of the bag! I'm directing a music video for the band "Death" and for the kick ass single "Pull The Plug" I'm stoked about this film! going to be killer!
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Doug Cook Singer/Songwriter Laura "L'Rock" from Toronto will be traveling to Cowtown to shoot her first music video "Light My Fuse". "Light my Fuse" is one of many steller songs on L'Rock's upcoming album "Laws of Attraction". Calgary's Kesar Lacroix, Stylist extraordinaire has joined the crew and ideas are flowing! Production is set to take place end of October 2011 - Halloween!
Doug Cook Looks as though I'll be directing a music video for Calgary's experimental, power, progressive metalband "Orphan Hammer" for their single "Pyrrhic Victory Part One". This will be a performance video highlighting each of the six band members in a very cool and unique location (it's a secret for now). We are scheduled to shoot end of this month (Sept) Stay tuned.
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Doug Cook Today I finished my little short film "Open Door". The Bee going into the flower was very symbolic to me. I saw it as a sign to call this film “Open Door”. I believe God stands at a door waiting for us to come knocking. When you do knock, he is most welcoming.
My approach to making this little video was to capture the “nooks and crannies” of St. James Church, angles that you would either take for granted or spaces that you may never actually see. I wanted to showcase the Character of the church. To my delight this task was made easy thanks to mother nature! As the light changed and moved outside it was guiding me through every shot. The sunshine would reveal something that would catch my eye and then a shadow somewhere else would appear, so then I would move my focus to that area and so-on-and-so-fourth. It was awesome!
Special Thanks to the members of St. James Church for allowing to make this little film. I hope it helps grow the community in Priddis.
Doug Cook Today I started filming a short film that I'm calling "St James". It's a up close look at the little church that was built in 1904 by local ranchers in a picturesque rural setting located in the Hamlet of Priddis, southwest of Calgary, Alberta. The church has some very cute attributes that I hoping I captured on film. Thinking of having some type of hymn playing the background, not sure yet.
Doug Cook Spent the entire day today at Elbow Falls in Kananaskiss Country filming my short film "Falls". This experimental short film is two seperate scenes. I'm capturing as much imagery as possible that highlights water moving or hitting rock formations. I'm using this as symbolizm of "creative walls" that seem to be everywhere when attempting to be creative. The other scene I will be filming a actual artist painting sometype of abstract image and between the two scenes tell a short story of the Creative Process. Should be interesting and it's a fun experiment and film to do. stay tuned.
Doug Cook I've signed up to direct a very abstract music video for the band "atomis" and the single "Maelström". The song is over 9minutes long with a theme of drowning. We have got some great ideas and plan on being in production early August and releasing the video late September. I'm excited to work with these dudes!
http://atomis.bandcamp.com/
Doug Cook A video for MORTA SKULD’s “Prolong The Agony” track has been posted online now at the Decibel Magazine. The “Prolong The Agony” video was directed by Doug Cook and produced by Eric Greif. “Prolong The Agony” is available now via the new MORTA SKULD collection Through The Eyes of Death that sees its North American release today, July 5th.
Through The Eyes of Death combines the band’s two 1990 recordings Gory Departure and Prolong The Agony on one disc along with previously-unreleased material. The two sessions were produced by DEATH manager Eric Greif. MORTA SKULD is the first band other than DEATH and CONTROL DENIED to be published by Chuck Schuldiner’s Mutilation Music.
MORTA SKULD formed in 1990, releasing their first demo tape Gory Departure shortly thereafter, and features principal songwriter / guitarist / singer Dave Gregor. The band’s second 3-song demo Prolong The Agony came soon after and featured Viogression drummer Jef Jaeger. Both recordings have been remastered for the Through The Eyes Of Death collection by Chris Wisco at Belle City Sound.
Doug Cook GuitarWorld.com is proud to present the world premiere of "Breaking the Broken," a new video for the Control Denied song that originally appeared on the band's 1999 album, The Fragile Art of Existence. The lineup for Control Denied at the time was Chuck Schuldiner (guitars), Shannon Hamm (guitars), Tim Aymar (vocals), Steve DiGiorgio (bass) and Richard Christy (drums).
This new video was directed by Doug Cook and produced by Death manager Eric Greif for Perseverance Holdings Ltd., the company that oversees the works of Chuck Schuldiner.
The Fragile Art of Existence was recently re-released in a limited edition deluxe three-disc set that includes two discs of previously unreleased material.
Today, June 21, also marks the re-release of 1991's Human, the fourth album from Death, which also featured Chuck Schuldiner, and was recently remixed by Jim Morris, producer of Control Denied and the final two Death albums.
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Doug Cook In these interviews Doug Cook talks about the production of Control Denied's conceptual music video for the track "Breaking the Broken" taken from their debut album "The Fragile Art of Existence" We also delve into Dougs past, his passions and how he came to be where he is today.
The goal of this channel is to keep the love for the band "Death" alive. Second to that is to provide Death content in as high a quality as possible with both sound & video as good as can be achieved with the source material preserving the best possible experience. This is to be enjoyed for years to come, for current fans and for those who haven't discovered Death yet.
Interview Part 1 14 minutes 10 seconds
Interview Part 2 13 minutes 56 seconds
Interview Part 3 15 minutes 49 seconds
Interview Part 4 12 minutes 08 seconds
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Doug Cook I directed a music video for metal band "Morta Skuld". The release of their album 'Through The Eyes of Death' coming July 5th via Relapse Records. We filmed the video in two locations. Band performance was filmed in Milwaukee and a dramatic sequence (06.04.11) filmed in Calgary, Canada. I very special thanks to Kesar and Nick for their amazing talents! you guys really made this video very special. I'm looking forward to it's premiere July 5th! - D
Doug Cook Over the past Saturday and Sunday we filmed the music video for Calgary band "Truck!" The entire video was shot within a very dark warehouse in South East Calgary (seems like I always find myself in a warehouse these days?). We had Bryan (drummer) in full costume looking very insane (thanks to Kesar Designs) , a very harry large tarantella named "Leggs", and four beautiful young Calgarian women ... a recipe for disaster! ... perfect I say! The shoot went very, very well and the footage is stellar! We plan to have the video premiere sometime in late May 2011. - Stay Tuned.
Doug Cook When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." This sums up our weekend music video shoot in -30. A huge thanks to a crew with big Hearts and frozen appendages. Micheal Matthews, Lindsay Vallance, James Duncan and Sean Jenkins. You guys undeniably rock!
Doug Cook Met with the dudes from “Truck” today. Looks like I’ll be directing a music video for their song “The Prey” featuring Jerrod Maxwell-Lyster, whom was in Divinity’s 2008 “Plasma” video, funny how it’s such a small world. I highly recommend downloading their album titled “Passengers” from their website and give it a listen. We are scheduling production to take place in April 2011.
Doug Cook I wanted to say "Thank You" to Eric Greif for including my name within the booklet of the highly anticipated reissue of Death's “The Sound ofPerseverance” album. My name is amongst a list of very talented and passionate individuals and I feel fortunate to be considered part of the team.
Thank you.
Doug Cook Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 2:00pm by Satan Rosenbloom One of my favorite parts about the advent of the internet and the cheapening of digital technology is that everyone has the chance to make a bold statement and get it heard. Ten years ago, a DIY band like Calgary, Canada’s The Unravelling wouldn’t have registered a blip on the collective consciousness. Now they’ve got a confident album in 13 Arcane Hymns (reviewed here), currently making the rounds for free, and a sweet video for the album’s most visceral track “Move Forward Until You Are Dead,” debuting exclusively at the tastemaking politics ‘n LOLcats site MetalSucks. All hail Lord Interwebz, may his reign be long and benevolent!
Says vocalist Steve Moore, who gets plenty of blood-soaked screen time in the video: “The song is about revival and perseverance. Like the album, it’s thematically about being buried alive, reclaiming your own existence and finding authenticity on your path.”
The video was directed by Calgarian filmmaker Doug Cook, who has also directed a couple clips for Canadian death metallers Divinity. Moore explains, “We chose Doug Cook to direct the video because of his passion and enthusiasm for the music and message. We completely trusted him to bring this to life visually.”
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Doug Cook "Beautiful Day" dedicated to my wife, whom is not feeling so well today. I shot this back in June 2010 at "Butchart Gardens" on Vancouver Island. Hope it makes you smile - enjoy
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