Allen Cordell

Allen Cordell (born February 16, 1978 in Seoul, Korea) is a filmmaker and artist living in Manhattan. He attended high school in upstate New York and wanted to become a comic book illustrator before deciding to pursue film and fine art. Cordell attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York, to study cinema in the school's competitive filmmaking conservatory.

Developing a love for documentary, experimental and narrative cinema, Cordell's student films often blurred the distinctions between these genres. He won an award for best documentary his sophomore year for his portrait of John D. Phillips, an outsider artist suffering from mental illness.

Cordell directed the music video for Dan Deacon's 2006 ''"Big Big Big Big Big."

He is also the director, editor and cinematographer of Beach House's peculiar music video "Walk in the Park."