https://bentonafricano.com Benton Africano Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:59:09 +0000 https://bentonafricano.com en https://bentonafricano.com/Index Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:30:18 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Index https://bentonafricano.com/Away-From-It-All Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:59:09 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Away-From-It-All Away From It AllShort Film  Director - Mason ThorneCinematographor - Brian HendersonEditor - Benton AfricanoColorist - Bree BrackettCreative - AnyhowProduction Company - American Black Market Finishing House - Carbon VFX Synopsis Held hostage by her insurance company’s automated call tree, Shannon heads to the beach in a futile attempt to get away from it all. ︎ More Information https://bentonafricano.com/Stephen-Delilah Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:47:02 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Stephen-Delilah Stephen - Delilah Music Video Director - Mason Thorne Production Company - Anyhow Label - Monstercat MGMT - Heroic Music Group Synopsis Stephen’s body is broken apart, abstracted, divided from itself, beaten and made beautiful. It stares into the mirror and studies each feature. It is both feminine and masculine. It is both captive and totally free. He is as increasingly unsure as he is driven, traveling deeper into the darkness. There is anger and violence, but also moments of gentle, nurturing curiosity. ︎ Press https://bentonafricano.com/San-Holo-Honest-ft-Broods Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:17:48 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/San-Holo-Honest-ft-Broods San Holo - Honest ft. Broods Music Video Director - Mason Thorne Label - Bit Bird MGMT - Heroic Music GroupProduction Company - American Black Market Synopsis An exploration of honesty via the parallels of on and off set as it follows San and Georgia through the intimate in between moments of a music video shoot. ︎ Press https://bentonafricano.com/Rings Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:29:01 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Rings Rings Commercial Director - Brian Henderson Production Company - American Black Market Synopsis An exploration of honesty via the parallels of on and off set as it follows San and Georgia through the intimate in between moments of a music video shoot. https://bentonafricano.com/The-Quiet-Life-Anthem Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:48:32 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/The-Quiet-Life-Anthem The Quiet Life - AnthemBrand - The Quiet LifeDirector - Mason ThorneEditor - Benton AfricanoProduction Company - Anyhow Synopsis The Quiet Life cronicles the dynamics of a faded relationship through the experience of a t-shirt. https://bentonafricano.com/Ian-Wellman-Nitrogen Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:06:41 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Ian-Wellman-Nitrogen Ian Wellman - Nitrogen Music Video Label - Room40Director - Mason ThorneEditor - Benton AfricanoProduction Company - Anyhow Synopsis “Los Angeles based field recordist and composer Ian Wellman creates an evocative assembly of ambient sound fields on Bioaccumulation. Drawn from his experiences on location in the Sierra Nevadas, Wellman’s works exists at the very nexus of tape based music and field recordings. Merging the experienced and the imagined worlds, he realises dense folding sonic textures that evolve to create an otherworldly but utterly consuming acoustic portrait.“ - Fluid Radio︎ Press https://bentonafricano.com/Bloody-Beetroots-Nothing-But-Love-ft-Jay-Buchanan Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:31:14 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Bloody-Beetroots-Nothing-But-Love-ft-Jay-Buchanan Bloody Beetroots - Nothing But Love ft. Jay Buchanan Music Video Label - Last Gang RecordsDirector - Mason ThorneEditor - Benton AfricanoProduction Company -  Stories We Can Tell Synopsis “Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo, better known as The Bloody Beetroots, last week dropped a visual for “Nothing but Love.” Like the raucous track itself, the clip appears to be a loving tribute to the anguished punk and grunge videos of the ’80s and ’90s.” - Lab.fm︎ Press https://bentonafricano.com/Koda-White-Dove Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:23:58 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Koda-White-Dove Koda - White Dove Music Video Label - Halfway HouseMGMT - One of One Director - Mason ThorneEditor - Benton AfricanoProduction Company - Anyhow Synopsis “'White Dove' was my first song that flowed directly from anger. It was this confluence of my angst toward the recent election - the bitter spitefulness from the bully right who I had so much experience with growing up in South Carolina - and this restrictive regime I was trapped under in my personal life...” - Koda︎ Press https://bentonafricano.com/Resonance-CIFF-Bumper Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:21:15 +0000 Benton Africano https://bentonafricano.com/Resonance-CIFF-Bumper Resonance Short Film Client - The Chicago International Film FestivalDirector - Mason ThorneEditor - Benton AfricanoProduction Company - Anyhow Synopsis The 51st Chicago International Film Festival reached out to Anyhow to produce a 60-second short film for their program. Built as a promo for the festival’s theme, the short screened before each block of programming as an ode to the transformative power of cinema.︎ Press