Name Marc Klasfeld Role Music Video Director | ||
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Occupation Music video director, commercial director, film director, screenwriter, photographer Movies The L.A. Riot Spectacular, Get Off Me Nominations Country Music Association Award for Music Video of the Year, MuchMusic Video Award for Director of the Year Similar People Katy Perry, Joseph Kahn, Diane Martel, Director X, Sticky Fingaz | ||
Education Tisch School of the Arts | ||
Mika newton interview with director marc klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director. He has directed over two hundred music videos for artists such as Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Britney Spears, Kid Rock, Michael Bublé, Nelly, Foo Fighters, Kelly Clarkson, Charli XCX, Little Mix, Nick Jonas, Shakira, Avril Lavigne, Aerosmith and many others with multiple award wins and nominations.
His hit video for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" is currently the 2nd most viewed video on YouTube at 3 billion views, surpassing Psy's "Gangnam Style" on July 10, 2017, but later surpassed by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" on August 4, 2017. He is also the founder of Rockhard, a music video production company that has produced videos for Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, LMFAO, Britney Spears, Aerosmith, Prince, Mariah Carey, Kelly Rowland, Jessie J, Pixie Lott, Adam Lambert, and Big Time Rush among others.
He is also a director of television commercials for Target, Nike, NFL, NBA, Motorola, Reebok, Cartoon Network and Hummer. His best-known commercial work is for Justin Timberlake's Target campaign, ESPN's This is SportsCenter campaign, Hammer Pants Dance for the A&E Network's reality show Hammertime, Avril Lavigne's Canon campaigns and Smirnoff's Green Tea Partay viral video sung by Sebastian Siegel.
On March 29, 2010 Klasfeld released a comedic video of an elementary school reenactment of the Al Pacino film Scarface, entitled "Scarface School Play". It was a viral sensation that was featured on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox News.
Klasfeld made his feature film writing and directorial debut in 2005 with The L.A. Riot Spectacular. He has also directed for the HBO show Oz.
He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.