Phil Harder

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

External links

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