video making

When I was a young child in Russia, all I could think of for my future was to be an artist. The painting/drawing/sculpture kind of artist. I always did illustrations for different books that I read, and I loved playing with pencils (pretending they are people) than with actual toys. Fast forward to year 2005/2006 and I am in the midst of a new hobby/project that I always dreamed of doing but never knew how to go about doing it. That is, video making. My first project was actually quite successful for a newbie like me, it was called "Journal" and consisted of a series of mini videos, each reflecting a mood, an atmosphere of some kind. And a few of those were just music videos - a song in the background and some action without natural sounds. After that, I made a few music videos ("Blind" by Placebo was the first one) and another video project, this time it was more or less a "film" type of video called "Like Eating Flies". It had a plot and characters but a lot of it was just music video-esque footage of actions with a song and no natural sounds. After that I made more music videos, more video projects. I made a sort of a documentary about domestic cats (and the cats were played by humans), and another film called "GoreLilly".
Now I focus more on music videos. I've made "Courtship Dating" by Crystal Castles, "A Boy Like Me" by Patrick Wolf, "Get Smashed Gate Crash" by Hadouken!, "My Secret Friend" by IAMX, and "In Birds Telling" by Teaadora Nikolova (where for the first time I collaborated with the musician for the video and actually got to film Teaadora).
I also made a short film for James P., "Apostasy of the Vomit Gash". I mostly filmed and edited it, the rest was done by James, including the script. Again, a new thing for me as I usually work with my own scripts and ideas. It was nice to give that over to someone else and focus more on the technical aspect of filming. I think in some way I am proud of all the videos I've done, but I definitely have my favorites. Everything more recent I enjoy more of course, because with every video I make I discover something new and improve.
I am proud of myself. I taught myself everything that I know. Using different software to edit my videos, which with years has become more complex as the programs I keep getting are more professional. Learning how to deal with dialogue, natural sounds, composition, extra sounds/music. Syncronizing movement with audio, using different cameras, and finally just trying to understand this big thing called video making, which has now become my 2nd favorite media of art to use, 1st being painting of course.
That being said, video making is much more exciting and unexplored than painting. I mean, how many years of painting history we have behind us? And compare that to the history of film. It involves more people, more collaborations and right now, even though this sounds crude, but there is more jobs available than for "artists" or "painters". That is why I've decided to go into this field properly now. My internship requires editing videos every other day, and that is a pretty good start.
Here is a collection of links/pictures etc from my past projects. Enjoy! (I like comments on my videos!)

"Blind" music video - song by Placebo

"A Boy Like Me" music video - song by Patrick Wolf

"Courtship Dating" music video - song by Crystal Castles

"Get Smashed Gate Crash" music video - song by Hadouken

"My Secret Friend" music video - song by IAMX

"In Birds Telling" music video - song by Teaadora Nikolova

"Apostasy of the Vomit Gash"

Here are two photos from filming the documentary about cats:

Here is the cover for "Like Eating Flies"

Here is the cover for GoreLilly:

Pictures from behind the scenes of GoreLilly:

I hope one day I can make better things than this.