“Human Projects”—the video single from van Bosch's forthcoming debut LP Speed of Wood (2021)—is archetypical, numinous, Grimm-like. Evoking the still lifes and winter scenes of the Dutch Masters of her home as much as the smooth rawness of Jeff Buckley or the synthesized afterlife of Linda Perhacs, it prods the tortured relationship between the feral and the domestic—and it asks: “Can we still call it caregiving if the healer, over and over, becomes wounded in the process?”

Compass recently launched their new mission statement so they asked us to make a video that embraced the meaning of 'place' in the modern world. Directed by Ben Louis Nicholas. Photography by Dan Kennedy. Additional photography by Jeff Clanet. Produced by Meshakai Wolf. 

Singer-songwriter Diane Birch returns to her late father’s homeland of South Africa to spread his ashes atop Cape Town’s Table Mountain. Featuring an original song written and performed by Birch.

"The Dictionary is directed by New York filmmaker Meshakai Wolf and features the Macedonian Romani poet and songwriter Muzafer Bislim’s 35-year quest to create a hand written dictionary of the Gypsy language. “Without much in the way of standardized texts or written records, Romani faces an unsure future,” says Oliver Hartman (Jungles in Paris) of today’s film’s protagonist, also the subject of "Flames of God" a feature length documentary by Wolf. “There’s a term that gets used called salvage ethnography showing the way people lived, or the way something was as it’s on the cusp of disappearing. Some of what we’re doing is that.”

- courtesy of Nowness

“For the latest release from her third album, Nous, American chanteuse Diane Birch teamed up with long-time collaborator Meshakai Wolf of film collective Band of Light for a musical pilgrimage between Berlin and southern Switzerland, captured in monochrome Super 8.” - Nowness

A meditation on the unknowable, a tone poem to vastness, a song of self and becoming drawn from the chrysalis of dreams.

Meshakai Wolf directed and shot the latest music video for singer-songwriter Diane Birch's new album, Nous. Wolf says of the short film: "I wanted the visuals to stay in line with the track’s minimalist approach while maintaining a continuous motion, just as the world spins and gravity pulls everything to the center. The song, to me, is about unrequited devotion, a causal relationship between hope and memory. The video shows the King and the Queen as overlapping sensibilities of sternness and sensuality and means to conjure the ultimate singularity of being."

Meshakai Wolf created the visuals for the track 'Sad Nile' from Max Weissenfeldt's (Poets of Rhythm, The Whitefield Brothers) new Berlin-based band The Polyversal Souls. 

"The Kurdish people have a word—dengbêj—for a singer of epic tales of love and war, resistance and suffering. These bards belt out their songs at high volume. But for much of recent history, they have done so behind closed doors." Courtesy of Jungles in Paris

Directed, filmed and edited by Meshakai Wolf
Produced by Meshakai Wolf and Gregory Scarborough

This film is as much about the story of communities coping with their future as it is about designers learning to engage with complex urban issues in their own backyards.

“The story of a place is best defined by its inhabitants and throughout the documentation of Design/Relief we witnessed the project designers, community strategists and storytellers skillfully foster and instigate the communities’ design-focused responses to Hurricane Sandy. As filmmakers, we were drawn to this type of action-oriented, innovation project and appreciated the opportunity to capture the process as it unfolded,” says Meshakai Wolf.

Featuring Hannah Cohen and the remix of her track 'Sunrise' by Man Without Country.

Tribeca commissioned Band of Light to make a series of behind-the-scenes documentaries about filmmakers who were premiering their films at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. This film introduces the viewer to the director behind the film on world famous artist JR and his Inside Out public art project.

"Alastair Siddons artfully curates each geographic vignette with a combination of breathtaking urban landscapes and introspective explorations of individuality. Perfectly capturing both the hope and heartbreak within each story, Inside Out is a call to action for anyone who believes in the role that art can play in transforming lives."

"For Spring, Assembly designer Greg Armas evolved his soft-suited look in a few interesting ways: There was a new trimness to the silhouette of a double-breasted khaki suit, and this season's high-waist pleated trousers looked fit for a downtown Fred Astaire."

- courtesy of Style.com

"Watch this intimate behind-the-scenes look at the TFF 2013 world premiere of ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ with filmmaker Tom Berninger and his brother, Matt Berninger of The National.

An honest account of brotherly love, competition and rock-n-roll glory, Mistaken for Strangers is a hilarious yet sentimental combination of family and music. Before the documentary’s world premiere at TFF 2013, we followed Tom, along with his big brother Matt, in the hours leading up to the event for a candid look at the first time filmmaker’s big city debut."

- courtesy of Tribeca Film

Filmed in Kyoto during Diane Birch's 2014 Asia tour and scored by Birch with a collection of improv piano pieces recorded live in Osaka. This is the first released track from Diane's side project, Fine Dining.

We partnered with Reservoir Films to produce a short film that captures the camaraderie and resilience on Hurricane Sandy-ravaged Staten Island in the early aftermath of the storm. Many of the marathoners who planned to run the New York City race that Sunday instead volunteered in the hardest hit areas of the island.

"The poolside antics of straw-hat sporting New York musician Sean Bones distil a hazy suburban safari feel in Meshakai Wolf and John Fitzgerald's video for his new track “Hit Me Up.” Showing a late summer’s tomfoolery through the glaze of afternoon drinks, jokes and conversations, the watery video revels in the sunshine soaked 60s sounds and languid tunes that permeate Bones’ second album, Buzzards Boy, released in May. “It’s more of my nighttime dream,” says Bones of the video. “It’s what happens if you phone me after 2pm, it gets a little bit… foggy.” 

- courtesy of Nowness

"In this video for the Brooklyn-based label ace & jig, chanteuse Sharon Van Etten is front and center. The singer stands stock-still, her 2010 track "One Day" playing in the background, as Ace & Jig designers Cary Vaughan and Jenna Wilson race back and forth in a blur, dressing Van Etten in clothes from their Fall 2013 collection."

- Style.com

Featuring Mirabelle Marden and music by Chairlift.

Meshakai Wolf created the visuals to the ambient track 'Borneo' by Fine Dining.