Emily Kai Bock

Emily Kai Bock (born 1983 or 1984) is a Canadian writer and film director.

Emily Kai Bock
Born1983/1984 (age 36–37)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater
Years active2012–present

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.[1] It went on to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama,[2] and won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film at the LA Film Festival [3] and an honorable mention for Best U.S. Short and Best Tennessee Short at the Nashville Film Festival.[4]

In 2014, Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awards [5] 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.[6]

Bock has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes.

Early life

Bock was born in 1983 or 1984 in Toronto, Ontario.[7][8] She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from Emily Carr University of Art and Design,[8] before studying film production at Concordia University while a resident of the Lab Synthese loft space.[9][7]

In 2012, after directing the music video for Grimes' song "Oblivion", Bock withdrew from her study.[9]

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—while growing up. 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".[7]

Videography

Music videos
Year Title Artist Ref.
2012 "Oblivion" Grimes [10]
"Yet Again" Grizzly Bear [9]
2013 "Afterlife" Arcade Fire [11]
2014 "Yellow Flicker Beat" Lorde [12]

Television advertisements
Year Product Company Ref.
Coca-Cola The Coca-Cola Company [7]
Fuel for Life (fragrance) Diesel

References
  1. "Canada's Top Ten Film Festival Celebrates Homegrown Talent" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. "2017 Canadian Screen Awards: And The Winners Are…". ET Canada, March 12, 2017.
  3. "L.A. Film Festival Prizes Go to ‘Becks,’ ‘Liyana,’ ‘The Night Guard’". Variety, June 22, 2017.
  4. url=https://nashvillefilmfestival.org/2017-award-winners/
  5. url=https://www.ukmva.com/Pages/Detail/74-2014/
  6. "Prism Prize: Arcade Fire's Afterlife Named Best Canadian Music Video". Huffington Post, March 24, 2014.
  7. Prickett, Sarah Nicole (March 16, 2013). "The next American auteur? She's a Toronto native living in Montreal". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015.
  8. "Emily Kai Bock". Random Acts. Channel 4. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  9. Dombal, Ryan (October 11, 2012). "Grizzly Bear: 'Yet Again'". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  10. Dombal, Ryan (March 5, 2012). "Grimes: "Oblivion"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  11. Ayers, Mike (November 21, 2013). "Arcade Fire Release Gorgeously Melancholy 'Afterlife' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  12. Beauchemin, Molly (November 6, 2014). "Lorde Shares 'Yellow Flicker Beat' Video". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 15, 2015.


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