Phil Harder


Philip Harder 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"
  • Agitpop – "Forget Me Not" –
  • Chicken Scratch – "Undertoe"
  • Poopshovel – "One Pass Away"
  • 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 – "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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Mocrac – "In My Pocket"
  • Scrawl – "Charles
  • Rufus Wainwright – "What Are You Doing New Years' Eve?"
;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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
;2006
  • The Fratellis – "Flathead"
  • The Fratellis – "Flathead"
  • 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"

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