Daniel Brereton headed down to the Elephant & Castle shopping centre in South London with Swim Deep – a young band harking back to late 80s bagginess, right down to the centre partings – together with an appealing group of extras and super-fans to make the video for The Sea – and achieving an easygoing, happy [...]

Edward Housden lands a cosmonaut on the snowy plains of Britain, where he enjoys a frolic in the winter weather, before promptly going a little mad, seeing some psychedelic visions and collapsing in the snow. Perfectly in tune with Gentlemen’s ‘Sailor (Of the Cosmic Ark). The spaceman’s role treads a nice line between endearingly quirky [...]

New director Fern Berresford’s evocative and haunting promo for Little Comets sees women stepping out of the darkness to recount their stories of violence and abuse. The video for the band’s Violence Out Tonight sees Fern employ a raw cinematic style, bolstered by superb performances from the cast – including actress Rosamund Hanson of This [...]

A second video for Rhye by Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen that shares the same precocious quality of storytelling and characterisation that marked out his first Rhye video for The Fall, and also his MVA award-winner for When Saints Go Machine’s Parix. Daniel’s video for Open is also obliquely related to The Fall. Here a young couple head [...]

Samuel J Bailey, director of acclaimed videos for Francobollo and festival favourite short film The Horsemen, has joined Riff Raff Films for music videos and commercials, entering the company’s stable of up-and-coming directors, The Nursery Of Evil. Sam first demonstrated his considerable talents for inventive, dialogue-free comedy with the short film I Can Never Find [...]

Magnus Härdner shoots singer Petra Marklund under water then grafts the slo-mo footage over the snowbound streets of Stockholm to brilliant effect in his promo for Sannigen (The Truth). “I wanted to create a more striped down naked and honest piece” says Magnus “it’s pretty far from Petra’s previous more pop oriented videos with September. [...]