For the returning Maribou State, Brazilian filmmaker Giordano Maestrelli tells a story of lost love by employing some of the oldest techniques in cinema within a bold new structure. The subject of the film for All I Need is the complexity of a broken relationship, told through parallel timelines. At the centre of the story is a couple - their past life unfolds through fragments and the present plays out in the background where their lost love echoes. And to allow the flashback story of the couple's love affair to coexist within the present, Maestrelli built a custom zoetrope device inspired by early motion picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge.In this meticulous undertaking the director first shot the story on 16mm film, then printed into more than 2500 still frames, and re-sequenced it through the custom circular machine in a stop-motion-like technique. Shooting over 23 hours, thousands of delicate frames were replaced one by one while a crew member manually turned the machine at a millimetric degree, and another captured the action. The zoetrope enables one narrative to take place inside a contained, looping environment, which set out to resemble the way unprocessed emotions often linger. Meanwhile, behind it, the same setting appears as a ghostly representation of what is no more. With a visual language rooted in early cinema but a vision firmly fixed on today’s music video aesthetics, All I Need is a technically-daring love letter for the song that features on Maribou State’s latest album Hallucinating Love, their first since a multiple-year long hiatus following bandmember Chris Davids’ rare and debilitating brain illness. The result is a mesmerising and haunting blend of cinematic craftsmanship, memories and emotion.

Walter Stern, director of classic music videos for The Prodigy, Massive Attack, The Verve and many more, will be the special guest at the summer edition of Music Video Preservation Society at The Mildmay Club, Newington Green, London on Friday, June 27th.Regarded as a pioneering director in music videos, by introducing cinematic storytelling techniques into the medium, Walter will be talking to Promonews editor and UKMVAs editorial director David Knight about his career, and making some of the most iconic videos ever made - including The Prodigy's Firestarter and Massive Attack's Teardrop.This will be part of another meeting of Music Video Preservation Society that explores the creativity and cultural importance of the music video from its earliest incarnations, featuring videos from the 1970s to the present day on the big screen. Tickets for the show are on sale now.It follows events at The Mildmay in the past year that have included interviews with directors Tim Pope, LOOSE, Jamie Thraves and Adam Smith, musician Mark Bedford from Madness and costume designer Michelle May. Music Video Preservation Society also recently held its first meeting at The Prince Charles Cinema in the West End, with special guest Luna Carmoon. As previously, the next Music Video Preservation Society meeting on Friday June 27th takes place in the stylish main hall of the Mildmay Club, legendary location for numerous music video and movie shoots. Details about more guests and the programme of the fourth Music Video Preservation Society coming soon.• Tickets are on sale to Mildmay Club members and non-members here. More information here

Louis Hemming-Lowe combines a striking performance with cinematic ambition in his video for R&B singer Joel Culpepper's interpretation of Look For The Silver Lining - a track from Blue Note Records' project Chet Baker Reimagined.Hemming-Lowe's film juxtaposes a powerful performance by Culpepper - whilst standing barechested, on top of a hut on the summit of a hill - with his dreamlike journey through a sprawling, untamed landscape in the backseat of a car. As the lyrics encourage the listener to 'look for the silver lining' and 'try to find the sunny side of life', the narrative captures a soulful inner pilgrimage.The singer passes through symbolic vignettes: adolescent nuns smoking under a tree evoke lost innocence and quiet rebellion; a younger version of himself dressed in school uniform beside a No Swimming' sign, touching on themes of assimilation and exclusion. A vision of his mother, sitting next to him in the car, becomes an emotional anchor - an embodiment of the 'silver lining' he’s moving toward.The film's dual structure - soaring performance and meditative odyssey - mirrors the song’s core message: that joy and sorrow, past and present, often coexist. And through it all, there's a quiet insistence on hope, beauty, and transcendence.

Norwegian director Thor Brenne returns to music projects with a captivating hybrid - part live video, part mini-doc - for his compatriots nonne. The film kicks off with the two bandmembers announcing they've been busy creating a lot of new music and are ready to play more live shows. A Table of Contents then tells the viewer what to expect next before jumping into live show excerpts presenting three of the duo's songs - when the band played at industry festival Northern Expo last year - but these abruptly interrupted by off-screen interview segments.Brenne is inventive in how cuts between live performance and the interviews throughout the film. For example. while Nonne explain the band name, the video shifts away from the live segments to show the band in a rehearsal environment and what appears to be a photoshoot, before jumping back into the live setting again.The unconventional approach suits both the music and the band's aesthetic - even if the abrupt interruptions of the songs might just make some record executives shake their heads. In fact, the the execution and editing of a well-crafted concept is makes this highly entertaining and engaging.

The UK Music Video Awards, the greatest global celebration of excellence in music video, has launched its 18th annual event and is now open for entries.The UKMVAs has opened its doors today (June 11th) for UK Music Video Awards 2025, with the premier awards show for music video creativity now accepting submissions for work accomplished in the UK and around the world in music video and music visual projects during the past year on the official website.It's the start of the annual journey that will lead to a huge celebration of achievement in music video production in the UK and beyond at the UK Music Video Awards 2025 ceremony, which will take place at Magazine London on Thursday, October 30th.Once again, the UK Music Video Awards will be honouring the full range of creativity in music videos this year with 38 separate categories, including two new categories. Entrants can submit their work from now until the entry deadline on August 1st 2025. Details of how to submit can be found on the Entry Info page of the website.Work entered at the awards must have been completed between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025, and as always can be entered in a range of categories, which cover directorial achievement by music genre, technical and craft achievement, live video, and special projects, while there are also awards for individual achievement in several different fields of endeavour.There are two new awards at UKMVAs 2025. Best Casting in a Video joins the technical and craft achievement categories, recognising the contribution of casting directors in the process of music video production. A new honour of Best Low Budget Video has also been added, for visual projects under £5K. This is in addition to the traditional Newcomer categories at the UKMVAs, where entries will no longer have to be under a certain production budget. Here is a full list of categories for UKMVAs 2025: Best Pop Video – UKBest R&B / Soul /Jazz Video – UKBest Dance / Electronic Video – UKBest Rock Video – UKBest Alternative Video – UKBest Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – UKBest Pop Video – InternationalBest R&B / Soul /Jazz Video – International Best Dance / Electronic Video – InternationalBest Rock Video – InternationalBest Alternative Video – InternationalBest Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – InternationalBest Pop / R&B / Soul / Jazz Video – Newcomer Best Dance / Electronic Video – NewcomerBest Rock / Alternative Video – NewcomerBest Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – NewcomerBest Low Budget VideoBest Live VideoBest Special Video ProjectBest Performance in a VideoBest Casting in a VideoBest Production Design in a VideoBest Styling in a VideoBest Choreography in a VideoBest Cinematography in a VideoBest Cinematography in a Video - NewcomerBest Colour Grading in a VideoBest Colour Grading in a Video - NewcomerBest Editing in a VideoBest Editing in a Video - NewcomerBest Visual Effects in a VideoBest Animation in a VideoBest Creative CommissionerBest New DirectorBest DirectorBest ProducerBest Executive ProducerBest Production CompanySince its inception in 2008, the UKMVAs has grown into the most important annual event in the calendar for the world of music video production. There is a two-level judging process for the ceremony involves hundreds of Jury Members from the music video production community. Find out more about the 17 previous UK Music Video Awards here.• UK Music Video Awards website here

Ashaine White is trapped in a surreal never-ending stairwell - forced to reckon with different versions of herself in order to break free - in Isabella Culver's video for Whole Lotta Me.