Emile Rafael directs a pure, very atmospheric performance video of Catfish and The Bottlemen’s Homesick – shot at The Backstage Centre in Purfleet. Says Emile: “The track is a powerhouse of explosive energy, both simple, immediate and raw. The guys have built a reputation for their strong performances on stage: all we needed to do [...]

Marrying the powerful lyrics – a ‘metaphor of the Dresden bombing and a beautiful relationship ruined’ with strong graphic animation, Robisrob’s promo for OMD takes its lead from classic James Bond title sequences. “The rotoscoped style seemed to fit the illustrated look of OMD’s visual output and the slow-motion movements and fighting narrative were a [...]

Leone, an Italian director with a strong background in music videos who has gone on to make commercials for the Italian, French, German and Portuguese markets, has now joined HSI London. Whilst a student in Milan, he started working as an editor and photographer with major music magazines. He has continued with his photography, which [...]

The Presets’ Fall has presented Clemens Habicht with the opportunity to put the band’s Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes through the ultimate physical drop – a skydive thousands of feet above the Spanish Costa Brava, out of skydiving hub Empuriabrava. The resulting video is pure skydive thrills – and, okay, that isn’t really Julian and [...]

Having made a big impression with his first ever music video for The Maccabees’ Young Lions, Peter Szewczyk has not directed one for a couple of years. But now he’s made another labour of love for the Icelandic singer ÍRiS’s Swiftly Siren, and the result is a perfectly-formed supernatural thriller. The drama is gripping from [...]

Daniel Gomes adds artistic flourishes – and a half-naked light sabre-wielding lady – throughout this darkly-lit performance piece for Jamie N Commons, contrasting with the jaunty soundtrack of his Rumble And Sway single. Jamie N Commons Rumble And Sway (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope) Director: Daniel Gomes Production Company: Good Company Producer: Alli Maxwell Director Of Photography: Alejandro Lalinde [...]

Nikolai Galitzine has directed and shot this tale of a doomed London gangster taking a bad turn in the boxing game for the rampaging mod-rock of The Deets’ Charlie. “The Deets’ music video takes it’s inspiration from Jules Dassin’s classic film noir Night & The City (1950) with Richard Widmark playing a low life wrestling [...]

This is a brilliantly imaginative feast for the jazzy-dance music of Hugo & The Prismatics’ Le Mystère, directed by designer and director Raoul Paulet, in which a woman embarks on a journey of self-discovery through a strange world composed of shape-shifting objects and manipulative shadow people – all created in live action on a tight, [...]

Currently enjoying an exclusive on the Nowness video channel is Vincent Haycock’s monochrome beauty for London composer/producer Raffertie’s stirring Build Me Up. Shot in the South Central district of Los Angeles, Vince has documented the lives of the three Mays brothers, with their family and friends as co-stars, with outstanding cinematography by Evan Prosofsky. Vince [...]

James Copeman delivers a striking video for London five-piece Vuvuvultures’ Safe Skin, centred around their photogenic singer Harmony Boucher, who delivers a strong performance – and exposes a good amount of skin herself in the process. It’s his second video for the band, following I’ll Cut You last year, and a definite step-up in the [...]