Philip Harder (born 1965) is an American music video director and commercial director represented by Bob Industries in Santa Monica, California. 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 The Jayhawks – "King of Kings" 1986 Rifle Sport – "Burn 'Em Up" Sonic Youth – "Stereo Sanctity" 1987 Agitpop – "Girl But Not a Friend" Big Black – "Dead Billy" Big Black – "Pigeon Kill" Big Black – "Cables" Big Black – "Big Money" Black Spot – "Bad Ass Hammer" The Didjits – "Max Wedge" The Didjits – "Axehandle" Naked Raygun – "Vanilla Blue" 1988 Agitpop – "Stop Drop and Roll" Big Trouble House – "Afghanistan" Breaking Circus – "Shockhammer 13" Breaking Circus – "Evil Last Night" Breaking Circus – "Three Cool Cats" The Magnolias – "Pardon Me" Rapeman – "Hated Chinee" Rapeman – "Budd" Shane – "Ride, Ride, Ride" Soul Asylum – "P-9" 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 The Afghan Whigs – "Turn on the Water" The Afghan Whigs – "Conjure Me" The Afghan Whigs – "Miles Iz Ded" Another Carnival – "Still" Bone Club – "Apple" Drophammer – "Mind and Body" Firehose – "Walking the Cow" Brenda Kahn – "Eggs on Drugs" The Magnolias – "When I'm Not" The Magnolias – "Hello or Goodbye" Overwhelming Colorfast – "It's Tomorrow" 1992 The Afghan Whigs – "Come See About Me" Steven "Jesse" Bernstein – "More Noise Please" Bone Club – "It's Not Alright" Chainsaw Kittens – "Connie I've Found The Door" Billy Childish and The Blackhands – "Crying Blud" Fat Tuesday – "High and Low" Joe Henry – "King's Highway" Kise – "Slop My Donkey" Seaweed – "Squint" Sick of It All – "Just Look Around" The Wedding Present – "No Christmas" The Wedding Present – "Boing" The Wedding Present – "Blue Eyes" The Wedding Present – "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" 1993 The Afghan Whigs – "Debonair" The Afghan Whigs – "Gentlemen" Babes in Toyland – "He's My Thing" Bailter Space – "X" Chainsaw Kittens – "Angel on the Range" Firehose – "Witness" Firehose – "Formal Introduction" Stigmata A-Go-Go – "Like Bone" Velocity Girl – "Audrey's Eyes" 1994 The Afghan Whigs – "My Curse" Low – "Words" Mercy Rule -"Tell Tomorrow" Nova Mob – "Old Empire" Stigmata A-Go-Go – "Riot Keeper"
1995 Ash – "Jack Names the Planets" Babes in Toyland – "Sweet 69" Compulsion – "Question Time for the Proles" Low – "Shame" Son Volt – "Drown" Venison – "Cooking Dirt" 1996 Compulsion – "Juvenile Scene Detective" The Connells – "Fifth Fret" Failure – "Stuck on You" (co-directed with Ken Andrews) The Goops – "Vulgar Appetite" Low – "Over the Ocean" Red House Painters – "All Mixed Up" Versus – "Yeah You" 1997 Bettie Serveert – "Rudder" Cornershop – "Brimful of Asha" Tanya Donelly – "The Bright Light" Hum – "Comin' Home" Local H – "Eddie Vedder" Local H – "Fritz's Corner" Lisa Loeb – "I Do" Bobby McFerrin – "Circle Song 6" Shudder to Think – "Red House" Souls – "Cello" 1998 Cornershop – "Sleep on the Left Side" Esthero – "Heaven Sent" Everclear – "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Gap Ad) Goodie Mob featuring Esthero - "The World I Know" Local H – "All the Kids Are Right" Mary Lou Lord – "Lights Are Changing" Johnny Mathis – "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Gap Ad) Mocrac – "In My Pocket" Scrawl – "Charles Rufus Wainwright – "What Are You Doing New Years' Eve?" (Gap Ad)
1999 Barenaked Ladies – "Get in Line" The Cranberries – "Just My Imagination" Dovetail Joint – "Level on the Inside" Ben Lee – "Cigarettes Will Kill You" Moist – "Breathe"
2000 Barenaked Ladies – "Pinch Me" Foo Fighters – "Next Year" Macy Gray – "Why Didn't You Call Me" (Target Ad) Incubus – "Stellar" Chantal Kreviazuk – "Faraway"
2001 Barenaked Ladies – "Too Little Too Late" The Honeydogs – "Sour Grapes" Incubus – "Drive" Incubus – "Wish You Were Here" Mansun – "Fool" Matchbox Twenty – "Mad Season" Pulp – "The Trees" Remy Zero – "Save Me"
2002 Local H – "Half Life" Mad at Gravity – "Walk Away" Chitlin' Fooks featuring Carol Van Dyk – "The Battle" The Dollyrots – "Tease Me, Pet Me" (Hewlett-Packard Ad) Low – "Canada" Matchbox Twenty – "Disease"
2003 Barenaked Ladies – "Another Postcard" Liz Phair – "Why Can't I?" Shane – "End of the Line"
2004 Barenaked Ladies – "Testing 1,2,3" The Music – "Breakin'" Liz Phair – "Extraordinary" Prince – "Cinnamon Girl" Skye Sweetnam – "Tangled Up in Me" Yellowcard – "Only One"
2005 Aslyn – "Be the Girl" Hilary Duff – "Beat of My Heart" Low – "Monkey" Liz Phair – "Everything to Me" Stan Ridgway – "Beloved Movie Star" Rob Thomas – "Lonely No More" (Target Ad) 2006 The Fratellis – "Flathead" (iPod Animated Commercial) The Fratellis – "Flathead" (iPod "Party" Commercial) Rob Thomas – "Ever the Same"
2007 Cary Brothers – "Who You Are" Billy Talent – "Surrender"
2008 Low – "Everybody's Song" The Owls – "Channel" The Afghan Whigs – "Algiers"
2009 The Twilight Hours – "Alone" Zak Sally – "Why We Hide" Low – "Breaker"
2010 Barenaked Ladies – "You Run Away" Bettie Serveert – "Pharmacy of Love" Low – "Cue The Strings" Low – "Death of a Salesman - Acoustic"
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 The Script – "Six Degrees of Separation" Low – "Murderer" Typsy Panthre – "Hitch-Hiker"
2013 Billy Talent – "Stand Up and Run" Low – "Just Make It Stop" The Starfolk – "Into The Clouds"
2014 The Afghan Whigs – "Algiers" Trampled by Turtles – "Are You Behind the Shining Star" Trampled by Turtles – "Wild Animals" The Afghan Whigs – "Matamoros" The Afghan Whigs – "Lost in the Woods" Kevin Hearn – "Gallerina"
2015 Matt Ellis – "Thank You Los Angeles" Rob Thomas – "Trust You" Billy Talent – "Chasing the Sun"
2016 On An On – "Icon Love"
2017 The Afghan Whigs – "Demon In Profile"
2020 Greg Dulli – "Pantomima"
2023 Barenaked Ladies – "One Night"
Films Year Film Awards and nominations Ref. 2008 Flying Lesson (collaboration with chameckilerner) Won – Brooklyn Film Festival – Best Experimental Film Won - Dance On Camera Festival - Jury AwardWinner Best Experimental Film Brooklyn Film Festival (2008) "Festival Lesson" [film short], Phil harder [director]. 2010 Jackie & Judy (collaboration with chameckilerner) Won - Berlin Pool Dance-Video Film Festival - PEARL Award Jackie & Judy - Dance Short (2010) 2013 Low Movie: How to Quit Smoking 2019 Tuscaloosa 2021 The Claw
References
External links
Official Website for Phil Harder
Phil Harder at Mvdbase.com Bob Industries official site Minnesota Monthly - Phil Harder City Pages - Phil Harder USA Today - Low Movie Brooklyn Based - Low Movie Video Static - Low "Just Make It Stop Indie-Eye - Afghan Whigs "Matamoros" Star Tribune - Trampled By Turtles "Wild Animals" Brooklyn Film Festival - Short "Flying Lesson" New York Live Arts - Short "Flying Lesson" Billboard - Prince "Cinnamon Girl" People - Prince "Cinnamon Girl" MTV - Incubus "Drive" The Guardian - Cornershop "Brimful of Asha" Star Tribune - Documentary "The Claw"