Phil Harder

Philip Harder is a 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.

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" (1989)
 * Agitpop – "Forget Me Not" – (1989)
 * Chicken Scratch – "Undertoe"
 * Poopshovel – "One Pass Away" (1989)
 * 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 (with Don Cherry) – "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" (Gap Ad)
 * 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" (Gap Ad)
 * Mocrac – "In My Pocket"
 * Scrawl – "Charles
 * Rufus Wainwright – "What Are You Doing New Years' Eve?" (Gap Ad)


 * 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" (Target Ad)
 * 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" (Hewlett-Packard Ad)
 * 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" (Target Ad)
 * 2006
 * The Fratellis – "Flathead" (iPod Animated Commercial)
 * The Fratellis – "Flathead" (iPod "Party" Commercial)
 * 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"


 * 2017
 * The Afghan Whigs – "Demon In Profile"


 * 2020
 * Greg Dulli – "Pantomima"