CLIPPED Music Video Festival returns

The country's sole music video festival returns with premiere screenings, conversations and awards.
A cinema with a screen showing a man, Ben Gillies, formerly of Silverchair, standing with his legs and arms apart at a CLIPPED video session.

Australia’s only dedicated music video festival, CLIPPED Music Video Festival, is back with its first full program since 2019. The sessions will take place at Ritz Cinemas, Randwick, NSW on Sunday 27 October.

The festival was created to celebrate the artistry of music videos and offers a line-up that includes an awards show, exclusive premieres, industry panels and a conversation session with internationally acclaimed director Shane Drake, who has directed over 150 music videos for artists such as Avril Lavigne, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore, Timbaland, Flo Rida and Keith Urban.

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Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025. Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy