Ninian Doff is a Scottish director working across commercials, music videos, and features, known for meticulous craft, darkly comedic sensibility, and treating absurd concepts with cinematic seriousness.
Ninian Doff is a Scottish director working across commercials, music videos, and features, known for meticulous craft, darkly comedic sensibility, and treating absurd concepts with cinematic seriousness. His breakthrough Fulton Lights music video—made for £20 with motion-tracked arms glued onto crows—earned a UKMVA nomination and led to representation at Pulse Films. His 60-million-view Miike Snow "Genghis Khan" reimagined James Bond as a gay love story shot on 35mm, impacting LGBTQ+ youth worldwide. For Chemical Brothers' "We've Got to Try," he trained a rescue dog to actually drive an F1 car and spaceship. In commercials, Doff injects genre filmmaking into brand work: Veg Power's broccoli invasion shot like a thriller won Shots' Television Commercial of the Year and nine British Arrow nominations; Sainsbury's "Nicholas The Sweep" mixed Dickens with Batman Begins; Mars Temptations featured cats actually playing instruments. His Apple Watch spots turned bedtime routines into Nike-style epics using in-camera rigs and body doubles. His debut feature Get Duked! won SXSW's Audience Award and a BIFA nomination. A D&AD Pencil winner and Grammy nominee, Doff directs for RESET (US) and ROGUE Films (UK), bringing technical innovation, exhaustive detail, and sincere irreverence to every frame.
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