Jack Lightfoot and Sam Nutt have directed a quietly devastating film for Lewis Capaldi.Presented as a tribute to the huge number of people who dedicate themselves to caring for incapacitated family members - and the numbers presented at the end of the film are jawdropping - Lightfoot and Nutt's video for is a story of a son looking after his father who has dementia.It's a cinematic depiction of a very realistic situation, and its strength comes from the lack of theatrics. It's through a series of mundane events, that need to be repeated every single day, that we get to appreciate the level of burden upon the young carer.The film, which features excellent performances from Paul Dewdney and Stephen McMillan, comes from a very personal place, for Jack Lightfoot."For the past 15 years, my dad has been living with dementia," he explains. "Watching someone you love go through that is incredibly difficult. And alongside that journey is another one that often goes unseen - the journey of the person who stays beside them through it all. For my family, that’s been my mum."Through the hardest years, she’s been there every day - caring, supporting, comforting, and giving more of herself than I ever thought possible. It’s a level of strength, patience and love that’s difficult to put into words."This film was inspired by witnessing that journey. It’s dedicated to my mum, and to carers everywhere - wives, husbands, daughters and, as in our film, sons. To the people who stay."

Andre Muir returns to collaborate with R&B singer-songwriter Ravyn Lenae with a restrained but emotionally-charged portrait of movement, intimacy and self-possession.Captured in cool tones, natural light and dreamlike interiors and exteriors, the video for Handle finds Ravyn in a liminal space that feels both grounded and surreal. The people who populate the area with her become her community, expressed through an explosive dance routine that takes us out of the dream-state for a while and adds to its emotional weight.The visual is also a departure from the previous collaboration between Muir and Lenae in 2024, on the UKMVA-nominated video for One Wish, which took a nostalgic trip through the artist's past to great effect. Here she is presenting a different aspect of her personality - in fact, she is more centre stage: assured and self-possessed, enigmatic and deeply human.In that respect, this video - the first from her forthcoming new album Blue Island - makes an important statement about Ravyn Lenae's evolution as an artist.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

The next meeting of MVPS is happening at The Prince Charles Cinema in London on Thursday, June 11th, where we will celebrate the art of the pop video with a master of the medium - Vaughan Arnell. And as it reaches a landmark anniversary, we are going to share the incredible story behind one of the greatest music videos of all - Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.Vaughan Arnell has been creating indelible pop video magic since the Eighties, achieving early success with Terence Trent D’Arby, before hitting his stride in the Nineties, initially as half of directing duo Vaughan & Anthea and then as a solo director, with videos for George Michael, Spice Girls, All Saints, Robbie Williams and more. Later he went on to make videos for a new generation of British pop stars - including One Direction and John Newman - with several promos scoring over a billion views on YouTube.This year marks the 30th anniversary of two videos that raised the standard of UK pop‘s visual world to new heights: George Michael’s Fastlove - the last video directed by Vaughan & Anthea - and Spice Girls’ Say You’ll Be There - the first by Vaughan as a solo director. So we will pay special attention to the period starting in 1996 when Vaughan’s work became part of the cultural landscape, reflecting the confidence and optimism of the time. And these videos remain remarkably fresh - an object lesson to music video directors today on how to make pop videos built to last.Vaughan will be talking to MVPS host David Knight about his work and influences and we will show some of his jawdropping classics on the big screen.As ever, there will be lots more besides in the fifth outing of MVPS at The Prince Charles. More videos spanning the decades - including more from the Nineties - plus some of the best videos we’ve seen in the first half of 2026. In the running is another showing of the sensational Romain Gavras-directed video for Gener8ion’s Storm - which caused a sensation when screened at the recent MVPS show at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, earlier this month.And forty years after it was released and became a sensation - launching the song to No.1 in the American charts - we tell the story of a video created in Bristol, involving the cream of British animation talent, and directed by a lost genius among video directors, Stephen R Johnson. Of course, it's Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer - still amazing after all these years, especially on the big screen.The next Music Video Preservation Society at The Prince Charles Cinema is on Thursday, June 11th at the slightly earlier start of 8.15pm. Book tickets here.

Olivia Rodrigo has brought esteemed director Cat Solen back to music videos, to work with her creative director Jaime Gerin on a beautifully handcrafted, mixed-media video for ‘the cure’.In fact, the dazzling promo featuring a cardboard hospital and stop-animated wool-yarn brings Solen full circle, to where it all started for her.The video finds Rodrigo in the starched uniform of a mid-century nurse, in the hallways of this old-fashioned hospital. She is in a cycle of unhappiness, experimenting on blackened hearts and enduring spells of unraveling, the wool that issues from her body quaintly yet disturbingly resembling spurts of blood.Blending live action with tactile art direction, stop motion and VFX, this a breathtakingly singular vision, which originated with Gerin's original idea and drawings.The recruitment of Solen, the director of hugely imaginative yet sensitive videos for the likes of Bright Eyes and CSS in the Noughties, and more recently for Tierra Whack - often incorporating animation with live action in the process - is a something of a masterstroke. As a result, the video feels like a breath of fresh air for Olivia Rodrigo.[imgtoken data:1]"When asked if I wanted to work with Olivia, I probably said 'of course!' before they finished the sentence," says Cat Solen. "What I couldn't have anticipated was how immediately I connected to Jaime's concept and boards."I'd started my career with a fully embroidered stop-motion video for Bright Eyes in 2002, and here I was, nearly 25 years later, being asked to pick up thread and yarn again for a gorgeous, heartbreaking mixed-media concept for one of the biggest pop stars in the world."One of my favorite things about directing is collaborating with a writer on a concept that sounds impossibly surreal, and Jaime's was full of that. When I met her, I immediately thought she was fantastic, funny, and sharp. The video was complicated - which made it challenging - but working with Jaime made it fun and exciting the whole way through.”A real feat of traditional handcraft meeting contemporary technology, and totally absorbing throughout.