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Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director who has also written and directed commercials, independent films and documentaries.

Klasfeld is best known for his signature music video style and has directed over two hundred music videos for many successful artists, with multiple MTV award wins and nominations, a partial list of which is given below.

He is also a director of television commercials for Nike, NFL, NBA, Motorola, Reebok, Cartoon Network and Hummer. His best known commercial work is for ESPN's This is Sportscenter campaign, Hammer Pants Dance for the A&E Network's reality show Hammertime, Avril Lavigne's Canon campaigns and Smirnoff's Green Tea Partay viral video sang by Sebastian Siegel.

Klasfeld has also directed episodic television for the HBO series Oz as well as his first independent feature film which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, The L.A. Riot Spectacular, a satirical look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots starring Charles Dutton, Emilio Estevez, George Hamilton and Snoop Dogg.

He is also the founder of Rockhard Films, a production company that also houses directors Ray Kay, Tony Petrossian, Sarah Chatfield and Steve Jocz. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Videography (Partial)

• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - "As Tall As Cliffs"
• Low vs Diamond - "Heart Attack"
• Coheed and Cambria - "Feathers"
• Crazy Loop (aka Dan Balan) — "Crazy Loop - Mm Ma Ma"
• Thursday - "War All The Time"
• Jay-Z — "Girls, Girls, Girls"
• Sum 41 — "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", "The Hell Song", "We're All to Blame", "Still Waiting", "Underclass Hero"
• Avenged Sevenfold — "Bat Country" *Winner 2006 MTV Best New Artist Video Award
• Enrique Iglesias — "Don't Turn Off the Lights" (Unreleased version)
• Scarface — "On My Block"
• 'N Sync — "Girlfriend"
• Bloodhound Gang — "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
• Destiny's Child — "Lose My Breath"
• Jewel — "Intuition"
• Foo Fighters — "Times like These"
• Nelly — "Country Grammar", "Batter Up", "Ride Wit Me" *Winner 2001 MTV Best New Artist Video Award
• Backstreet Boys — "Just Want You to Know"
• Bad Ronald — "Let's Begin (Shoot the Sh**)"
• Ludacris — "Area Codes"
• Kelis — "Bossy", "Blindfold Me", "Lil Star"
• Taking Back Sunday — "MakeDamnSure"
• Simple Plan — "Untitled", "Crazy"
• Bon Jovi — "Misunderstood", "All About Lovin' You"
• Vanessa Carlton — "A Thousand Miles", "Ordinary Day", "Nolita Fairytale", "Hands On Me"
• Gnarls Barkley — "Smiley Faces" (banned version)
• Nerina Pallot — "Everybody's Gone to War", "Real Late Starter"
• Juvenile — "Ha", "Rodeo" "Follow Me Now"
• Slipknot — "Vermillion 2"
• Shyne — "Bad Boyz", "That's Gangsta"
• Alien Ant Farm — "Smooth Criminal", "Movies", "These Days"
• Tom Jones — "International"
• 3 Doors Down — "When I'm Gone" (gravedigger version)
• Jermaine Dupri & Ludacris — "Welcome To Atlanta"
• Rakim — "On The Mic"
• Floetry — "Floetic"
• Musiq Soulchild — "Love", "Teach Me"
• Bubba Sparxxx — "Ugly"
• Three Six Mafia — "Tear Da Club Up"
• Avril Lavigne — "When You're Gone"
• Shop Boyz — "Party Like a Rock Star"
• Chamillionaire — "Hip-Hop Police", "Evening News"
• Insane Clown Posse — "Let's Go All The Way"
• Against Me "Stop" (Rock the Vote version)
• The Last Goodnight - "Pictures of You"
• The Script - "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"
• Young Jeezy - "Crazy World"
• Insane Clown Posse - "Tilt-A-Whirl"
• Shinedown - "Save Me"
• 3OH!3 - "Starstrukk" (featuring Katy Perry)
• Biffy Clyro - "Bubbles"

External links

• official site at Rockhard Films
• Hammer Pants Dance
• official site of The LA Riot Spectacular
• Tea Partay Campaign