John Mark Lapham is an award-winning editor, animator and music producer currently based in West Texas. Focusing on live action video along with cut and paste, stop motion graphics, JM has produced a myriad of colorful, creative music videos, commercials and audio projects over the last two decades.

Born and raised in Texas, John-Mark spent some 12 formative years in the north of England studying sound production. This led to the formation of a handful of music projects since the early 2000’s, including The Earlies (679/Names/Secretly Canadian), The Late Cord (4AD), The Revival Hour (Antiphon), Old Fire (KScope, Brooklyn Bridge Records and Western Vinyl) and MIEN (Rocket Recordings).

In 2018, JM pivoted to video production with a focus on editing and animation. He directed his first live action music video in 2016 for the song, Laser Beam by Old Fire and went on to create surreal, cut and paste animated videos for Throwing Muses, Jane Weaver, Moon Duo, GNOD, Goat, Night Beats and many more.

In 2020, JM worked as Character Animation Unit Editor for Richard Linklater’s rotoscope opus, Apollo 10 1/2, A Space Age Childhood, now playing on Netflix. He also created a series of animation collages for Emmy Award-winning director, Keith Maitland, and his documentary Dear Mr. Brody, currently streaming on Max. Most recently, JM’s animation for Goat’s “Under No Nation” won the Jury Prize for Best Music Video at the esteemed Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in California.

Photograph by Nil Santana