A music video for New Zealand band Phoenix Foundation has been met with accusations of plagiarism.
The video for "40 years" was shot by director Taika Waititi, whose short film, Two Cars One Night, was nominated for an Oscar.
Christchurch musician Thomas Coffey told the Sunday Star Times he was surprised how similar it was to a low-budget video for his song A Memory Of You, which was shot in 2005. While it did not enjoy a great deal of exposure, the clip was entered in a competition for which Waititi was a judge.
Both were filmed using a single shot, following a moustached jogger wearing a retro tracksuit and headband.
"My heart dropped when I saw it," Coffey said.
"It seems too similar to be a coincidence. I just went, `you know, this is an issue'."
Waititi said he had not seen Coffey's video and any similarities were a coincidence. "Headbands, tracksuits and moustaches? That's not original," he told the newspaper.
Waititi said the jogger's look in both his and Coffey's films was based on a character from the film The Royal Tenenbaums , released in 2001.
Phoenix Foundation frontman Luke Buda said none of the band had seen Coffey's clip and any similarities were an "unfortunate accident".
He said joggers were a recurring theme in Waititi's films.
"I think it's just one of Taika's funny things, he likes to run in adidas (style) tracksuits."
NZPA