ALONG FOR THE RIDE - Nick’s first feature film, the critically acclaimed Along for the Ride—a documentary about Dennis Hopper through the eyes of his idiosyncratic right-hand man Satya de la Manitou, featuring a score by Gemma Thompson of Savages—was an Official Selection of the Venice Film Festival, and the Critics Selection of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival of the Bologna Cineteca. The film launched on Hulu in 2018 and then was selected to join The Criterion Channel in 2021.
From taking a hit off an oxygen tank in a snakeskin jacket to discovering a mysterious VHS tape, Coco Morier's official video for "Hallucination", directed by Nick Ebeling, is a Lynch-ian inspired cinematic love story that finds itself surrealistically unfolding in reverse. The song is on Coco's "Strangers May Kiss" EP and was co-written and produced by Pontus Winnberg and Christian Karlsson (Miike Snow) and Magnus Lidehäll.
The music video by Nick Ebeling for Spy Numbers’ debut single “Je M'éveille”, which also appears on the compilation album Ingrd Volym 2.1, takes the band’s mission as two escaped female androids into the static and glitchiness of the post-punk era // Filmed entirely with vintage Japanese professional broadcast video cameras.
Heath! “I’m Straight” from the Gavin Gruesome LP. Director Nick Ebeling approached Stephen Heath with an idea to make a tribute to Wim Wenders’ film Wings of Desire, with Stephen in the role of Bruno Ganz. Nods to 80’s cinema, music, art and sound are common ground for Nick and Stephen.