Two years ago Israeli husband-and-wife directing team Yuval and Merav Nathan achieved worldwide acclaim with their stop-frame promo for Oren Lavie’s Her Morning Elegance. Sixteen million YouTube views, awards and several commercials later they’ve made a follow-up, and its another stop-frame tour de force. In their video for Israeli band Eatliz’s Lose This Child, Yuval [...]

The fact that Darwin Deez’s distinctive jerricurled locks is absent from Miles Crawford’s video for DNA doesn’t diminish from its brilliance. Miles – filmmaker, dancer and sometime drummer in Darwin’s band – interpreted the song’s yearning message of a lost love through dance in this video he made halfway through last year as an unofficial [...]

Shot in a freezing cold woodland on the outskirts of London over one long day, Nabil Elderkin creates a dark, atmospheric and dramatic promo for the Essex five-piece’s sumptious A&E. Beautifully shot by August Jakobsson and involving an intense blonde woman and what appears to be a fatal car crash, it’s well worth a look… [...]

With a passing nod to the classic 70’s TV drama The Six Million Dollar Man and a dash of James Bond epic, Robert Hales pulls out all the stops for Tinie Tempah and Ellie Goulding’s Wonderman with this excellent modern pop promo. Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding Wonderman (Parlophone) Director: Robert Hales Production Company: Warp [...]

The beautiful cinematic treat that is the promo to David Lynch’s (yes, THAT one) I Know was (amazingly) made for a budget of £450 as part of the genero.tv competition. Exploring such themes as lust, desire and obsession the video was filmed on a Canon 7D over two days in London. “Shot mainly in my [...]

Hotly tipped as the breakthrough band of this year, Brother aren’t exactly shy in coming forward. The album is being produced by Stephen Street and the self-proclaimed Gritpoppers have already got the music media eating out of their hands. Adam Powell captures all of their start-up exuberance in the video for Darling Buds Of May, [...]

To match the big booming pop explosion of Patrick Wolf’s new single The City, Kinga Burza opts for the Pacific surf in Santa Monica with frolics on the beach, fairground attractions at night intercut with big city skyscrapers to keep the momentum going… Patrick Wolf The City (Mercury) Director: Kinga Burza DoP: Julian Whatley Prod [...]

It’s not exactly a music video but Lorcan Finnegan has strung together some very striking, very gritty imagery to an Irish-language rap by ‘MC Mupéad’. This is actually the Finchereseque title sequence for a new Irish language drama on TG4 beginning in mid-February called Corp+Anam. If this is anything to go by, it’s going to [...]

Shot during a break from recording their second album This Modern Glitch (out in April) Liverpool trio The Wombats team up with Marc Klasfeld in Los Angeles for this quirky performance promo to new single Jump Into The Fog. The Wombats Jump Into The Fog (Warner Brothers) Director: Marc Klasfeld Production Company: Rockhard DP: Alejandro [...]

This one is going to upset a few people, especially coming a few weeks after the Tuscon shootings. Actually it was always going to upset them, because Steve Glashier’s video by South Central’s Day I Die crashes through a moral minefield by enacting a massacre from the viewpoint of the sniper – through the weapons’ [...]