Category: Live
Paris Texas
Live Tour
Creative direction, stage design, and photography for Paris Texas’ debut live tour. The stage was transformed into a “kill room.” We worked with limited space at smaller venues, striving to create an immersive, narrative-driven experience. Semi-transparent tarp treated with a mix of mud and blood surrounded the stage on three sides, providing a means of lighting diffusion for an ethereal atmosphere. Scrap metal, chains and a variety of junk was strewn across the stage, carefully blocked out to interact with our lighting.
Creative Direction & Stage Design: Eddie Mandell
Lighting Design: TJ Hoover
Production Design/Stage Build: Eddie Mandell, Kyla Rain, Shantanu Jhaveri & Alex Carmen
Graffiti: Alex Carmen
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
UMI
Forest in the City
Creative direction, album artwork, music videos, photography, logotype, posters, merch design, packaging design, lyric visualizers and live tour direction for UMI’s debut album “Forest in the City.” From a sonic and visual standpoint, the project is a journey towards inner equilibrium in the face of the mental and physical obstacles we’ve created for ourselves, both on an individual level as well as a societal scale. Each piece of the visual repertoire explores spiritual transition, nature as a means of healing, and a search for inner peace. (Winter 2021 – Summer 2022)
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Album Artwork Photography: Julian Burgueño
Project Photography: Eddie Mandell
Photo Assistants: Christopher Burgueño & Maddie Spanier
Art Direction/Design: Eddie Mandell
Styling: Lexi Kingery, Ian Whalley & UMI
Hair/Makeup: Arielle Park, Mitchell Cantrell, Kasha Lassien, Love Taije, Sophia Erickson & Elyse Thoms
Visualizers/Lyric Videos: Nik Arthur
‘Sorry’ Music Video
Director: Eddie Mandell
Executive Producers: McCray Sutherlin & Farah Idrees
Production Company: Muddy Water
Producer: Dain August
Associate Producer: Sahnah Dhrif
Director of Photography: Andrew Truong
1st Assistant Director: Lane Stroud
Production Designer: Clayton Beisner
Editors: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Colorist: Dante Pasquinelli
‘Whatever U Like’ Music Video
Director: Will Noyce
Producer: Jeremy Ivory-Chambers
Production Company: Fengari
Director of Photography: Shane Bagwell
1st Assistant Director: Langston Siebens
Production Designer: Roxy Sorkin
Additional Cinematography/Colorist: Emerson Duggan
Editor: Will Noyce
‘Wish That I Could’ Music Video
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Producer: Jeff Kopchia
Director of Photography: Farhad Ghaderi
Editor: Alex Farah
Colorist: Sam Gilling
BTS: Elinor Kry, Jenna King & Domia Edwards
Merch Design: Eddie Mandell, Ema Gaspar, Nick D’Apolito & Leo Horton
Merch Production: Morgan Miller & Jenna Levine at The Merch Collective
Live Tour Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Stage Design: Wesley Goodrich
Lighting Design: Eddie Mandell
Manifesto Visual Narrative
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Producer: Jeff Kopchia
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
Management: Bad Habit
Marketing: Jourdan Kelli
Digital Marketing: Natalie Ho
Tate McRae
Live Performances
Creative direction for Tate McRae’s “You Broke Me First” live on the MTV VMAs, MTV EMAs, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (Summer 2020 – Winter 2021)
MTV VMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Production Company: Mad Ruk
Executive Producer: Rey Mendoza
Producer: Stephanie Hooker
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design: Dan Norman & Lewis James
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Editor: Nick Yumul
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail
MTV EMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction & Stage Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Evan Ciniello
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Programmer: Dan Norman
Choreography: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Creative Direction & Live Performance Direction: Eddie Mandell & Lewis James
Stage & Lighting Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Derek Branscombe
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Assistant Director: Darrell Faria
Gaffer: Gideon Ayesu
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Edit: Tristan CM
Colorist: Kevin Wu at Artjail
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Director: Jonah Haber
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Executive Producer: Sebastien Galina
Producer: Sahil Mirchandani
Production Company: Boldly
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design: Gideon Ayesu
Stylist: Kaitlyn Vitug
Choreography: Michelle Dawley
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail
Stills Photography: Gennelle Cruz
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
Janet Jackson
Metamorphosis Residency Visual Narratives
Visual narratives/screen visuals for Janet Jackson’s Metamorphosis Las Vegas Residency. The videos were utilized as a narrative throughline to tie together each act of Jackson’s show. (Spring 2019)
Directors: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Creative Directors: Gil Duldalao & Dean Lee
Producers: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Director of Photography: Jon Chou
Production Design: Jacob Fishman
Gaffer: Lej Talens
Kep Grip: Chris Purdy
1st Assistant Camera: Tevin Texiera
Assistant Producer: Nick Scully
Stills Photography: Eddie Mandell
BANKS
The III Experience New York
Live performance direction for BANKS “III” New York pop-up show and dance performance. The show featured in an introductory dance performance by Emma Portner and Kenichi Kasamatsu inside of a translucent flower box followed by a live performance by BANKS. Additional elements in the space included three concrete pillars embellished with flowers. (Summer 2019)
Creative Direction & Live Performance Direction: Eddie Mandell
Producer: Rawley Bornstein
Choreography/Dancers: Emma Portner & Kenichi Kasamatsu
Production Designer: Chelsea Finkel
Art Team: Pablo Tamarin, Audrey Melton & Jourdan Ferguson
