Design & Collab — Corynne Ostermann

Natural Velvet, "It's All Mine"

Ostermann provided art direction for Natural Velvet's "It's All Mine" single off their most recent record Mirror To Make You. It premiered in May 2017 on Impose Magazine.

Drawing inspiration from Jane Russell’s classic camp performance of “Ain’t There Anyone Here For Love” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Faye Dunaway’s performance of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Mae West, Natural Velvet spins up a humorous, visually-lush music video about femme power. Replete with imagery of a variety of men exercising together by a pool, sequins and other camp diva aesthetics, a vanity, and a bathtub full of glitter, the video sparkles with camp humor, pop culture references, and cheeky sexuality.

Lyrically, the song aims to “take back” the negative associations with bad girls—and instead recognizes the dominance of this antagonistic characterization; tongue-in-cheek, the video celebrates the bad girls who wore the best outfits, and who proved to be undefeated chaotic evil in the pretty protagonists plotlines.

Credits:

Directed: David Manigault, The Manigault Film Company

Editing: Elena Debold & Jeff Rettberg

Art Direction: Corynne Ostermann

Choreography: Alex Shade

Set design: Wonderment Studios

Natural Velvet "It's All Mine"

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Natural Velvet, "Kristina"

Ostermann co-art directed "Kristina" with director Elena Debold & producer Jeffrey Rettberg, as well as fabricated and designed the set. She further provided portrait paintings of the band, as well of Kristina.

"Kristina” is a song about Ostermann's dear friend, Kristina, who lives on the west coast, and whom she loves and misses dearly. The song is lyrically a Bechtel test, because in Corynne's opinion, love songs should be written for your friends, because they stay with you the longest, overall. Visually, the imagery was created in homage to surreal & avant-garde films like The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov), Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky), among others.

Credits:

Director: Elena DeBold

Producer: Jeffrey Rettberg

Construction and Set Dec. : Kevin Holstein & Wonderment Studios

Art Direction by Elena Debold and Corynne Ostermann

Shot on location at Big Friendly Gallery

Paintings by Corynne Ostermann

Natural Velvet - Kristina

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Natural Velvet, "Gazed Upon"

Ostermann provided Co-Direction, Art Direction, Editing, and Set Design for Natural Velvet’s single, “Gazed Upon”, which premiered in March 2018 in Impose Magazine.

Directed by: Brendan Finnerty & Corynne Ostermann

Additional footage: Abby Hopper
Filmed at Wild Limb Studios, Baltimore, MD and
Ottobar, Baltimore, MD (Filmed at the Mirror To Make You record release show, June 2017 at Ottobar, Baltimore, MD.)

Lighting Design by Michael Chappell & Jack Thomas

Mylar Installation by Delaney Cate

https://delaney-cate.format.com/

3-D Animations by Ryland Bishop

https://www.rylandbishop.com/

NATURAL VELVET - Gazed Upon

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Paperhaus, "Told You What To Say"

“Told You What To Say” (TYWTS), the new single and music video from D.C. band Paperhaus, was directed by Flash Frequency, Corynne Ostermann, and Chris Prosser.

The viewer is posed the multiple lyrical questions by singer Alex Tebeleff, as Paperhaus performs the song, in a digitized non-reality. This, juxtaposed by the fleeting images of architecture, (maintained Brutalism and crumbling buildings) and nature, (gardens, the outdoors) and the struggle of two unequally matched fencers in a bout. Conceptually, the music video recalls Reggio/Phillip Glass’ Koyaanisqatsi & Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion, among other references. TYWTS utilizes video and song to speak truth to politics, history, nostalgia, digital non-reality, and power dynamics in the political realm.

Credits:

Directed by Flash Frequency, Corynne Ostermann, and Chris Prosser

Art Direction by Corynne Ostermann

Performance by Paperhaus, "Told You What To Say"

Paperhaus - Told You What To Say (Official Video)

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Micah E. Wood, "Club Song"

Ostermann provided art direction and set design for Micah E. Wood’s "Club Song" single. It premiered in April 2018 in Impose Magazine.

Director: Louis Vieira
Art Director: Corynne Ostermann
Operator: Steve Celano
1st AC: Daniel Regner
Producer: Anna Vieira
Set Design: Corynne Ostermann Studios
Production Assistant: Grady Kershaw
Typography: Ronin Iftahk Wood & Christopher James Chester
Exec. Producers: Eileen, Stephen & Ronin
Produced By Storyfarm
Special thanks to Creative Alliance UNION Craft Brewing & The Crown

Corynne Ostermann Studio:
Christopher Chester
Corynne Ostermann
Delaney Cate
Kevin Granger
Lauren Castellana
Micah E. Wood
Scott Archer
Thomas Yewell
Vin Seadler
Zachary Pohuski

Micah E. Wood - Club Song

Natural Velvet, "Crash!"

The cinematography for “Crash!” was shot by director Nick Baldwin, known for his work on Call Girl of Cthulu, as well as music videos for Night Birds and S.N.A.F.U., and edited by Chris LaMartina, known for Call Girl of Cthulu, WNUF Halloween Special, and Grave Mistakes, as well as a previous Natural Velvet music video, “Fruits”. Lyrically, “Crash!” takes inspiration from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasuredome and as such, the video imagery mimics the same—surrealism, a bizarre non-linear plot, dark, strange, and erotic, featuring cult drag performer Klitorika Browne as femme antagonist, and conceptually dealing with feelings of replacement, identity, reality, authenticity, and performance of gender.

Additional credits:

Directed by Nick Baldwin

Edited by Chris LaMartina

Art Direction by Corynne Ostermann

Featuring Klitorika Browne

Shot on location and with additional resources by Christopher Schafer Clothier, Baltimore, MD

NATURAL VELVET -- CRASH

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Natural Velvet, "Fruits"

The cinematography for “Fruits” was shot by director Chris LaMartina, known for Call Girl of Cthulhu, WNUF Halloween Special, and Grave Mistakes, among other projects, and artistic direction was provided by Kim Te and Corynne Ostermann, guitarist, bassist and vocalist for Natural Velvet, respectively. Lyrically, “Fruits” takes inspiration from Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman, and as such, the video imagery mimics the same—decadent images of fruits, cake, still-lives, hands, lips, eyes, etc., tremor in vibrant renaissance-drenched color as the objects are deconstructed and reconstructed and as the band plays.

Additional Credits:

Directed and shot by Chris LaMartina

Art Direction and set design by Corynne Ostermann

Featuring performances by Ostermann, Greg Hatem, and Nicolet Schenck

NATURAL VELVET--FRUITS

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Super City, "Sanctuary" Album

Ostermann provided art direction and consultation for Super City’s 2018 album, “Sanctuary”.

Photography by Micah E. Wood

Graphic Design & layout for vinyl by Christopher Chester

http://www.supercityband.com/

Super City

Ostermann provided art direction, set design, styled photoshoots and consultation for Super City. Some of the images shot were later used for their 2018 release, “Sanctuary”.

Photography by Micah E. Wood

http://www.supercityband.com/