Emily Kai Bock is a Canadian writer and film director.
In 2017, her short film A Funeral for Lightning was included in TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the top 10 Canadian short films of the year, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals. It went on to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama,"2017 Canadian Screen Awards: And The Winners Are…". ET Canada, March 12, 2017. and won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film at the LA Film Festival"L.A. Film Festival Prizes Go to ‘Becks,’ ‘Liyana,’ ‘The Night Guard’". Variety, June 22, 2017. and an honorable mention for Best U.S. Short and Best Tennessee Short at the Nashville Film Festival.url=https://nashvillefilmfestival.org/2017-award-winners/
In 2014, Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awardsurl=https://www.ukmva.com/Pages/Detail/74-2014/ for writing and directing a video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the 2014 Much Music Video Awards."Prism Prize: Arcade Fire's Afterlife Named Best Canadian Music Video". Huffington Post, March 24, 2014.
Bock has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes.
Early life Bock was born in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, before studying film production at Concordia University while a resident of the Lab Synthese loft space.
In 2012, after directing the music video for Grimes' song "Oblivion", Bock withdrew from her study.
Influences Bock was influenced by the music videos of Daft Punk, Radiohead, and the Foo Fighters—directed by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Jonathan Glazer. According to Sarah Nicole Prickett of The Globe and Mail, Bock "favours a 'run and gun' style, shooting with precision but not necessarily permission, in locations that feel plucked from memory, and with considerable speed".
Videography Music videos YearTitleArtist2012"Running Back To Everyone"Kool Music"Oblivion"Grimes"Yet Again"Grizzly Bear2013"Afterlife"Arcade Fire2014"Yellow Flicker Beat"Lorde2022"The Lightning I, II"Arcade Fire
Television advertisements YearProductCompanyCoca-ColaThe Coca-Cola CompanyFuel for Life (fragrance)Diesel
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