For their no-budget music video for Kid Champion, production company Fenixx – that’s Matthew Connell and Matthew Hoare – decided to spruce up their one-take performance promo with a few alternating speed-changes to give the video a more filmic quality when played back. Actually, they decided ‘a few’ wasn’t enough – so they went with [...]

Watching a grown man being terrorised by kids is pretty unedifying, as Andrew Van Baal shows in his video for Eels’ New Alphabet. But revenge is sweet for the previously put-upon E, Eels’ frontman. It’s just slightly worrying how enjoyable it is seeing him beating up a minor… Says E: “Adult male abuse is a [...]

John Hillcoat gets back together with Nick Cave, and brings another old buddy into the frame to explore the darker side of the human condition in the video for Nick and the Bad Seeds’ Jubilee Street. Ray Winstone plays the regular customer of a young sex worker, torn between desire and self-loathing, while Nick Cave [...]

JT, Jay-Z and Dave Fincher put on the style for Justin Timberlake’s Suit & Tie, channelling the endlessly appealing Rat Pack vibe, with a fair amount of signature Fincher-in-music video mode set-ups. Now he’s one of Hollywood’s biggest hitters, he’s not going to worry about revisiting the sort of thing he used to do so [...]

Hitting half a million Youtube views in a week, Ramy Dance’s fun and breezy promo for Stay Out documents UK singer Nina Nesbitt and her friends enjoying a night out in Glasgow. Ramy explains: “We wanted to keep it natural and decided to quite simply let the girls loose around the city centre, causing quite [...]

Taking his cue from the aftermath of the riots of 2011, Drew Cox takes the viewer on an exhilarating and dark ride through London in his powerful promo for Engine Earz Experiment’s Shadow People/Rogue Status. The fast-moving video, shot in black and white, never lets up for a second with some eye-popping imagery including brilliant [...]