Emily Kai Bock
| Emily Kai Bock | |
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| Born | 1983/1984 (age 32–33) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
Emily Kai Bock (born 1983 or 1984) is a Canadian writer and director. She has directed music videos for Arcade Fire, Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes. She won the 2014 Prism Prize for her video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the 2014 Much Music Video Awards. Her film A Funeral for Lightning was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" shorts of 2016, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF.
Bock was born in 1983 or 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. Bock graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from Emily Carr University of Art and Design then began studying film production at Concordia University while a resident of the Lab Synthese loft space. After directing the music video for Grimes' song "Oblivion", Bock withdrew from her study.
Bock appreciated 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."
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