A really marvellous video by Nabil Elderkin for Foals’ Bad Habit, taking a classic notion and making it thoroughly his own. Foals lead singer Yannis finds himself marooned in a vast desert, but it soon appears he’s not alone: he’s trailing a girl (entirely naked) who makes plants grow in the sand where she walks. [...]

Interpretative dance takes centre stage in Daniel Cloud Campos and Tamara Levinson-Campos beautiful promo for Laura Welsh’s Cold Front. Commissioned by Dilly Gent, the video focuses on director Tamara Levinson-Campos’ own brilliant performance acting out the song’s theme of losing control of one’s emotions – as we see her being toyed with by shadowy hands. [...]

Frank Borin shoots a contrasting host of characters who amusingly audition to be Angel Haze, in his promo for No Bueno by the Detroit rapper, throwing up some inspired performances… Angel Haze No Bueno (Universal/Republic) Director: Frank Borin Producer: Jenn Mickelson Prod Co: London Alley Editor: Frank Borin DP: Corey Jennings Director’s Rep – FreeAgent [...]

After getting together with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to co-direct the video for Thrift Shop – and then watch it become a YouTube phenomenon over the past nine months – Jon Jon Augustivo then worked with Ryan on the ambitious and unabashed film for Same Love, their song fighting for the cause of gay marriage. [...]

Shot around his sold-out shows at the world-famous Troubadour club in West Hollywood, Tom Odell delivers a brilliant performance in Jamie Thraves’ excellent and thought-provoking new video for his song Another Love. Working on two levels as a short film and music promo, Tom is frantically on the search for a missing lover (played by [...]

A young woman parts with her beloved stuffed panda in Adam Neustadter’s sweet, all-narrative promo for Michel Cleis’ Hey Lady Luck. Shot over two days in California, We follow the heartbroken bear as he wanders the streets of Los Angeles on an epic journey of self discovery. “What really drew me to this concept was [...]

Documenting the end of a love affair, Daniel Gomes directs this emotional promo for Arizona five-piece The Maine, taken from their album Forever Halloween. Shot in one take and graded in black and white, Daniel finds an ‘honest, unedited look for a single moment at the end of a relationship’ played out by Margaux Brooke [...]

After his work for Death Grips, Galen Pehrson brings his distinctive retro-animation style to the hip-hop-meets-sweet soul of Talib Kweli and Miguel’s Come Here. A story of a lonely Egyptian princess about to find her Anubis – in the ‘hood… Talib Kweli ft. Miguel Come Here Director: Galen Pehrson Animator: Galen Pehrson

Ninian Doff could have been forgiven for thinking that New York rapper and poet Mykki Blanco would want a video to show off her feminine side. Mykki is, after all, the female incarnation of the multi-faceted artist Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. But instead, the video for The Initiation goes in a completely different direction, with [...]

Shot in downtown LA, Carly Cussen films a wistful Olly Murs at home, on a city rooftop, wandering the streets… as he mourns a past love in this reflective promo for Dear Darlin’, the third single from his double platinum album Right Place, Right Time. Dear Darlin’ Olly Murs (Sony Music) Director: Carly Cussen Producer: [...]