Jack Whiteley’s picture-perfect promo for part-Norwegian, part-Bulgarian singer-songwriter Mikhael Paskalev – shot in Ustina in Bulgaria – works excellently with Paskalev’s summer hit. Mikhael mentions that the song was inspired by Audrey Horne from David Lynch’s classic Twin Peaks and director Jack certainly doesn’t shy away from any ‘Lynchian’ sinister surrealism. Mikhael is kidnapped by [...]

Completed last month by the talented UNKNOWN for Auntie Beeb is Hoodie – a cool promo for BBC’s Radio 1XTRA that’s definitely going to appeal to the faithful – featuring DJ Sarah Jane & Twin and rapper Benny Banks. And now their second 1XTRA promo, Terrapin – featuring JME and DJs Charlie Sloth & MistaJam [...]

Following his full-on mindbender for Death Set earlier this year, French director Guillaume Panariello delivers another gem with this promo for Croydon dubstepper Benga – aka Adegbenga Adejumo. With the creative use of seemless FX, witness cast members ‘duplicate’ then smash themselves into smithereens as group of friends hang out in a local car park… [...]

Richard Hunter, working on minimal budget, has put together this atmospheric, almost Bjork-like promo for London based band Ghosts You Echo.  It’s a dark and mysterious affair and yet colourful and vivid at the same time.  Extra kudos must surely go to costume designer David Curtis-Ring for lead singer Vicky’s excellent tribal trappings and shaman [...]

Herfordshire quartet Lower Than Atlantis star in a Hollywood comedy set in an American diner, in Luke Bellis’ promo for Love Someone Else. As they tuck into their burgers and fries, the band witness a competition between a college jock and a geeky waiter vying for the attention of three fit cheerleaders. What could possibly [...]

New Treatment, the production company behind forthcoming movie The Knot and groundbreaking web series Sofia’s Diary UK, and with a wealth of experience in all areas of film production, are now breaking into music videos. Led by executive producer Junior Quartey, and with a directing roster featuring Gil Green, Rock Jacobs and Sheridan De Myers, [...]

Xavier Fauthoux’s animated film for It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World has won the Saatchi & Saatchi James Brown Music Video Challenge 2012 – organised in association with Universal Music Enterprises, the James Brown Estate, Genero.tv and BUG. The French director has been chosen as the Grand Prize winner for the James Brown Music Video [...]