Editor

Nicolas Larrouquere

Francois Rousselet and the VFX/animation team at Electric Theatre Collective set the creative benchmark for the year with the brilliant video for Pharrell's team-up with 21 Savage and Tyler the Creator.It's a technically state-of-the-art take on one of the earliest cinematic devices - the zeotrope. And Rousselet has devised his promo as a similar type of machine - endlessly rotating, revealing delights within -&nbsp;but with endless possibilities.This is due to the remarkable way its been made,&nbsp;the incredible attention&nbsp;to detail: endless layers and stories appear within this magnificent rotating construction, and breaking all rules of physicality as its been created in CG.A magnificent conjuntion of imagination and execution, by Rouseelt, the team at ETC, led by CDs and VFX supervisors Greg McKneally and Iain Murray. And on top of that - a terrific performance video by the artists. Tyler is larger than life than ever...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Francois Rousselet

Division

Jules de Chateleux

Electric Theatre Collective

Jon Purton

Greg McKneally

Iain Murray

Connor Coolbear

Pharrell ft 21 Savage & Tyler the Creator 'Cash In Cash Out' by Francois Rousselet

Pharrell Williams - Cash In Cash Out (Official Video) ft. 21 Savage, Tyler, The Creator

For their new track Queens, Jonathan and Guillaume Alric of The Blaze have created a&nbsp;highly emotive, cinematic narrative and video.It tells the story of youth and friendship but also painful loss, conveying the most intense of human emotion and capturing the euphoric&nbsp;highs and crushing lows.Another&nbsp;brilliantly executed piece by the duo,&nbsp;from the&nbsp;direction to acting to camera work, that brilliantly accompanies&nbsp;their beautifully atmospheric sound. And a worthy successor to their earlier triumphs.&nbsp;

Jonathan Alric

Guillaume Alric

Nicolas Loir

Maëva Tenneroni

Horace De Gunzbourg

marion brillouet

Jean Miel

Mathieu Caplanne

The Blaze 'Queens' by Jonathan and Guillaume Alric

The Blaze - Queens (Official Video)

Louis De Caunes tells the story of a prophet and his disciples for Ebenezer, transplanting elements of story of Christ to a modern setting.Classic religious and mythological symbols are reinterpreted in the urban world of 2018 - including a figure&nbsp;walking on water, a Last Supper,&nbsp;and references to Michelangelo&#39;s&nbsp;The Creation of Adam. But this is a more gritty and down-home approach to the visual pillars of Christianity, than in recent videos for Ariana Grande and Travis Scott.Shot in New Orleans, with Steve Annis DoPing for De Caunes, this looks ravishing as well as being more fixed in the real world.

United Kingdom

Louis De Caunes

Julie Mathieu

Standard Films

Tom Bertrand

Matt Sewell

Steve Annis

Eira Wyn Jones

Matt Guidry

Jonathan Morrill

Juliette Alleaume

Simon Bourne

Framestore

Poster - Nightshift

David Lezaun

Kevin Stoffel

James Hackett

Universal Music Uk

Hip Hop

Ebenezer '53 Sundays' by Louis De Caunes

Ebenezer-'53-Sundays'-by-Louis-De-Caunes

The Blaze bring us a family outing on a blissful summer&#39;s day in their distinctive, rousing style.&nbsp;As with its amazing predecessors there is a&nbsp;subtle magic going on, as a community enjoy an escape from the grind of normal life, a continuous moment of Heaven.

France

The Blaze

Iconoclast

Roman Pichon Herrera

Guillaume Le Gat

Matias Boucard

Adriana Legay

Myron Mance

Evidencia

Poster

Kevin Bago

Dance

The Blaze 'Heaven' by The Blaze

The Blaze - Heaven (Official Video)

Fleur Fortune&#39;s compelling&nbsp;short film for Travis Scott is a neo-futurist, dystopian look at near-death experiences.Shot in Detroit, the clip starts off by essentially establishing Scott as an unlikeable figure, and one in need of redemption. A brilliantly executed long takem shot in a car interior as it moves through the Detroit streets is the build up to a narrative-altering event, and one which takes this video from gritty, realistic short film territory straight into the realm of transformative experience.A masked figure walks forwards as the world moves backward around him - buildings crumble. We assume that it&#39;s Travis himself, as he&#39;s visited from people in the earlier part of the narrative. An out-of-body experience? Purgatory? Something else entirely?The video has a strange symmetry to it, with scenes from the first half of the 15 minute short being mirrored and echoed cleverly in this much more fantastical second act. It&#39;s an ambitious and enigmatic work - being shown exclusively on&nbsp;Apple Music for 90 days - that invites repeated viewing.[imgtoken data:1]

United States

Fleur Fortune

Clémence Cuvelier

PJ Sodaski

Shawn Kim

Andrew Chaffkin

James McGovern

Richie Piert

Jenny Feterovich

Dennis Royes

Jason Fijal

Elise Bouquet

Christina Flannerys

Simon Colin

Emile Aubry

Mathematic Studio

Travis Scott 'Birds In The Trap' by Fleur Fortune

Travis Scott - Birds in the Trap

Simon Cahn has transplanted Japanese kawaii culture into Mexico in this original video for French artist&nbsp;Breakbot&#39;s track&nbsp;2GOOD4ME.It captures the fast paced&nbsp;day-in-a-life of a young, defiant&nbsp;Lolita living in Tijuana, as&nbsp;she walks her brother to school, has a picnic with other Japanophiles, and heads to a club in&nbsp;the back of a lustful boy&#39;s truck. The video&nbsp;paints&nbsp;a portrait of&nbsp;present-day urban youth, and ends with a surreal flourish&nbsp;as the girl hovers&nbsp;over the city on her walk back home.&nbsp;Upon the video&#39;s release,&nbsp;Cahn explained to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/29289/1/watch-breakbot-s-trippy-ode-to-japanese-subculture-in-mexico" target="_blank">Dazed</a>:&nbsp;&ldquo;The link between Mexican and Japanese culture is weirdly very strong in Mexico. It&rsquo;s very unexpected and interesting&hellip;I decided to play with this Japanese/Mexican link. All the characters are real people from Tijuana and non-professional actors.&ldquo;The video, for me, is like the 24-hour rollercoaster of emotions of a young woman; travelling abruptly from comedy to anger, from joy to pain etc. Working with a non-classic narration, I wanted to embody all these different emotions with the structure of the video echoing the feelings of someone intoxicated.&quot;

Simon Cahn

Elsa Rakotoson

Arthur Cantin

Alexis Zabe

Reepost Paris

Didier Le Fouest

Benzene

Ed Banger

Frenzy Paris

Breakbot '2GOOD4ME' by Simon Cahn

Breakbot  “2GOOD4ME” - Official Music Video

In Fleur and Manu&#39;s ambitious, layered, cameo-littered epic for&nbsp;A$AP Rocky&#39;s Everyday, we follow the irrepressible Rocky&#39;s career in reverse - from a point where all that lavish living has definitely caught up with him.Bloated, used-up, and face-down in a pool, Everyday (which samples Rod Stewart&#39;s vocal from In A Broken Dream)&nbsp;tracks an old rapper&#39;s past through flashbacks which see him popping prescription pills and going under the knife to retain his fading looks, becoming unrecognisable. Rod (who has looked after himself)&nbsp;makes a brief appearance too, and Mark Ronson, as this whirlwind of scenes of partying, drugs and girls reveals present-day Rocky in all his current gorgeousness.There&#39;s a&nbsp;&#39;money can&#39;t buy&nbsp;happiness&#39;&nbsp;message in there somewhere, but Rocky still comes out as more of a carpe diem&nbsp;type of guy...&nbsp;

Fleur and Manu

Alex Courtès

Virginie Drouot

Manar Humidan

Mitch Yapkon

Nicholas Ybarra

Akila Robinson

Hope Wilson

Chace JOHNSON

Natalie Avital

Lol Crawley

Mike Cerda

David OLAONIYE

Devon Taffe

Kyle BEIERMEISTER

Nghia Khuu

Danny Garcia

Michael Poudrier

Oskar Salas

Mindy Le Brock

Matthew Henson

Kyle Blackmon

Sussy CAMPOS

Lauren Michelle

Lauren Ishii

Kevin Fallon

Marcel Banks

Patsy Fitzgerald

Eric Browning

Home Digital Pictures

Mathematic

Bianca Benloukil

Clément Pignal

Paul Crehange

Géraldine Bourguignat

Simon COLLIN

Zoe Sassier

Vincent Heine

Daniel Rodriguez

Daniel Rodrigues

Didier Lefouest

A$AP Rocky 'Everyday' by Fleur and Manu

Fleur &amp; Manu's Groundhog Day tribute for Skrillex's Doompy Poomp, which dropped on Groundhog Day, is actually better than Groundhog Day.

Fleur & Manu

Lien Moulin

Simon Chaudoir

Jean Luc de la Montagna

Susan MacQuarrie

Andrée Jade Hélie

David Deveaux

OWSLA

The Creators Project

Techno, Dance

Skrillex 'Doompy Poomp' by Fleur & Manu

Fleur & Manu x Skrillex - Doompy Poomp

Dizzee Rascal and&nbsp;Émile Sornin&#39;s amazing, stomach-churning horror movie for A Couple Of Stacks appeared at Halloween and promptly disappeared again - a bit&nbsp;like it banned itself.So now, for Pagans, comes the second part of their amazing exploitation double-bill - the ninja movie. Dizzee is just as badass in this one, but in a different way:&nbsp;he&#39;s the ninja master, training a small army of warriors, and using his own telepathic powers to defeat the bad guy - doing&nbsp;some serious damage to a Buddhist temple in the process.It&#39;s another brilliant&nbsp;production job by Division in Paris too, another marvellous collaboration between Dizzee and Émile. And we trust this baby will be sticking around...&nbsp;

Émile Sornin

Riff Raff Films

Guillaume Le Grontec

Julien Meurice

Marie Le Grevellec

Francois Bourguet

Thomas Van Maele

Guillaume Marien 

Dirtee Stank

John Moule

Dizzee Rascal 'Pagans' by Émile Sornin

Dizzee Rascal - "Pagans" (Official Video)

Has there ever been such a grisly, blood-spattered, graphically violent gorefest of a video as this?Emile Sornin&#39;s promo for Dizzee Rascal&#39;s Couple Of Stacks arrives on the spookily warm Halloween of 2014 as a premiere on Vice - and not even on YouTube. That&#39;s no doubt due to it&#39;s unspeakably gory content. But there&#39;s also something else going on here - the elusive element that the old 70s and 80s&nbsp;classics of the genre had, and generally&nbsp;lacking nowadays - actual Horror.In fact, thank god Dizzee is in here, a fairly comforting presence, even as a machete-wielding psychopath. Everyone else, as in the highly memorable dining room scene, looks absolutely terrified. Which makes the viewer terrified.&nbsp;&nbsp;In short, Emile Sornin does a remarkable job, walking a line between&nbsp;cult comedy horror, and a harrowing gut-wrenching terror - sometimes in the same shot. Its an absolute belter for All Hallows Eve, and there&#39;s more to come.Couple Of Stacks is just the first half of a Dizzee and Emile &#39;Z-movie&#39; double-bill. Look out for the &#39;ninja&nbsp;movie&#39; vid next month...&nbsp;

Dizzee Rascal 'Couple Of Stacks' by Emile Sornin

The minimalist electronica and deadpan wit of&nbsp;Tiga&#39;s Bugatti has inspired a brilliant video by Helmi - driven&nbsp;by the rhythms of the track, witty, sexy, and the complete&nbsp;opposite of minimalist. The inspirations are essentially, 80s surrealism (particularly the album cover design of Hipgnosis) and alpine sports, conflated into a stream of imagery that offers up more things each time you watch it. Great stuff - and we had a little chat about it, and other stuff,&nbsp;with Helmi...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PROMO: The Bugatti promo is wonderfully surreal and provocative.&nbsp; What inspired it?HELMI:&nbsp;Merci. The Bugatti music video was inspired by Tiga, love for the 80&rsquo;s and the new wave. I love working within the universe of the artist so I began to read and watch everything I could on this period as well as the references. It&#39;s more &laquo;pop&raquo; culture than a specific period. I took inspiration from everything I found cool. For me it&#39;s one of the most interesting parts of the job and of course the internet help&rsquo;s a lot. ;)&nbsp;You&rsquo;ve already developed a unique style which is apparent in all four of the videos you&#39;ve made at Division in Paris.&nbsp;Who/what have your influences been so far?My influences are all the 90&rsquo;s music videos I watched as kid. That&#39;s what makes me want to make music videos. All the Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham... All these masters have influenced me!What do you hope to achieve over the next year?&nbsp; What are you currently working on?My prospects for the next two years.... To just have more and more fun on each project and meet new cool people. I&rsquo;m writing and testing new concepts but if &laquo;I tell you I have to kill you...&raquo; :) &nbsp;Your ideas are fresh and contemporary - so do you feel frustrated that some artists/labels are more inclined to &lsquo;play it safe&rsquo; with their choice of videos? &nbsp;Has this affected your work?I&rsquo;m not frustrated with my ideas. People are always waiting for new things and sometimes its a good time and sometimes you are too early or even too late. I don&rsquo;t feel any pressure by the label or artist if they don&rsquo;t like an idea. I can&rsquo;t force them but I have to find a better way to sell my ideas. It&rsquo;s amazing when you are on the same page as an artist. This is what happened with Tiga. It was just perfect to work like this...Is there a particular musician/artist you want to work with soon?I would love to work with Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Notorious BIG, 2-Pac, Amy Winehouse, Freddy Mercury, Elton John...&nbsp;But more seriously I would love to work with&nbsp;top charts artist&nbsp;like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Kanye West. Maybe one day! I&rsquo;m listening to a lot of The Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus... The only important thing &nbsp;for me is if I like the music then I&#39;ll do it, no matter the artist. Except one... ;)&nbsp;Has there been a&nbsp;director who&#39;s work you&#39;ve particularly admired this year?&nbsp; What&rsquo;s your favorite video of the last twelve months?&laquo;Movement&raquo; by Fleur&amp;Manu and also &laquo;CHANDELIER&raquo; by&nbsp;Daniel Askill and Sia. They are the kind of videos I can watch and watch again from this last twelve months.&nbsp;Can I just add this big thank you to all the DVSN familly, and all the crew who work on this project. :)&nbsp;

Helmi

Francois Lebourg

Ana Brun

Najat Younsi

Universal

Dance, Alternative

Tiga 'Bugatti' by Helmi

Tiga - “Bugatti” (Official Video)

And now for something explosive. And also tender, and thought-provoking.&nbsp;Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s latest video, for the Sydney trio Movement&#39;s track Ivory, is a frank exploration of sexual intimacy between a young couple. It&#39;s all about&nbsp;sex - but it&#39;s also about love.&nbsp;A young couple, nude, recline on a bed, and then they begin to perform sex. It is real and natural,&nbsp;but then it becomes frozen, abstracted &ndash; literally framed - where both parties view themselves from without,and then becomes lost in surrealism. &nbsp;This is brave work - and frankly, very French - with courageous performances from the boy and girl. Maybe it will be the&nbsp;most controversial of the year so far - for all the right reasons.&nbsp;

Carl Nilsson

Eddy Penot

Glen Goetze

Modular

Roxane Faure Huet

Movement 'Ivory' by Fleur & Manu

Movement - Ivory (NSFW)

<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/profiles/nicolas-larrouquere" target="_blank">Nicolas&nbsp;Larrouquere</a>&nbsp;is one of the best editors working out of Paris - or anywhere else.&nbsp;Our latest Promo Questionnaire&nbsp;respondent&nbsp;regularly works with leading French directors like&nbsp;Fleur &amp; Manu, Alex Courtès, Emile Sornin and Jonas &amp; François, and just in the past year or so his credits include two videos for&nbsp;Gesaffelstein (Pursuit&nbsp;and Hate Or Glory), Dislosure&#39;s Grab You, Jackson &amp; His Computerband&#39;s Dead Living Things, and Jack White&#39;s Lazaretto.&nbsp;And he has been known to come to London to make some noise at the MVAs...&nbsp;&nbsp;Education: Higher National Diploma in editing and post-production, Paris &ndash; Saint Denis/SugerFavourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;Earl Sweatshirt&nbsp;&#39;Hive&#39;; Flying Lotus &#39;Until The Quiet Comes&#39;; Beach House &#39;Wishes&#39;; The Shoes &#39;Time to Dance&#39;Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;There&rsquo;re so much I like&hellip; I can&rsquo;t tell.What are your favourite publications and&nbsp;websites: <a href="http://www.brain-magazine.fr/" target="_blank">Brain magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.whatyouth.com/" target="_blank">What Youth</a>&nbsp;Favourite food/restaurant: Asian food!!! Guilo Guilo, ParisFavourite drink: BeersLast movie you saw (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Nebraska &ndash;&nbsp;so good, and so funny!!Favourite directors? There&rsquo;s Fleur &amp; Manu, Alex Courtès (it wouldn&rsquo;t have been fair not to include them) but I also love the work of many others such as Hiro Murai, Kahlil Joseph, Martin de Thurah, Megaforce&hellip;Last gig you went to (and was it any good)? Connan Mockasin at Le Trianon, Paris. Crazy as fuck!Favourite bands/artists: I like every kind of music, but at the moment I&rsquo;m looping Kendrick Lamar&rsquo;s latest album, Good Kid, Maad City. So good!!!Currently reading/favourite book: I don&rsquo;t read so much. Never did.Previous occupations: Working as a waiter in an holiday camp in Weston Super Mare! It was fun.What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job? I think it was for a French hip hop artist called Rohff,&nbsp;and I probably did all the assistant-editor work like digitalisation, synchronisation, etc<blockquote>&quot;Best moment?&nbsp;Every year when I come with all my friends to London for the UKMVA.&nbsp;Such a good moment with everybody.&quot;</blockquote>Favourite job of the past 12 months? Gesaffelstein &#39;Hate Or Glory&#39;, and Willy Moon &#39;Yeah Yeah Yeah&#39;What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on? The new Kasabian promo with my friend Alex Courtès!What would most improve your life? Doing the same with the same but living by the ocean.Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far? Every year when I come, with all my friends from Division, to London for the UKMVA. Such a good moment with everybody. (By the way I think I was part of the raucously loud French people from last year ceremony!!)Worst moment? Every time I can&rsquo;t finish a job. I hate that!Biggest frustration? I can&rsquo;t skateboard anymore because of my knee.Person you most admire? My father.Your favourite (or most overused) phrase? &ldquo;Ouf&rdquo;, which is an old slang French expression meaning crazy in backward. My girlfriend hates it.What advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production? Go for it! You can&rsquo;t imagine the amount of interesting people you will meet in this world, it&rsquo;s crazy! And on top of it, most of these people will make you grow and move to different genre, such as commercials, documentary or even cinema if you&rsquo;re lucky.&nbsp;Live your own dream. Mine was to be an editor.&nbsp;

The Questionnaire: Nicolas Larrouquere

The stunning parade&nbsp;of imagery in Jonas &amp; Francois&#39;s spectacular&nbsp;video for&nbsp;Jack White&#39;s&nbsp;Lazaretto&nbsp;includes a screeching Corvette, a seriously raging bull, lots of&nbsp;exploding digital&nbsp;glass and, of course, Jack and his very awesome guitar-playing.&nbsp;It all adds up to&nbsp;a triumph: more commercial, yet more rock &#39;n roll than any video he&#39;s previously done. And it feels like a proper statement of intent. Jack may have quickly apologised for leaked comments about the Black Keys owing their sound to The White Stripes&nbsp;this past week, but this takes on all-comers,&nbsp;designed to destroy all pretenders to his crown. Jack is most certainly back.

Jonas & François

Eli Born

Indie Rock

Jack White 'Lazaretto' Jonas & François

Jack White - Lazaretto

David Brent immortalised the boss you love to hate in The Office, that boss that you&#39;ve all had at least once. In&nbsp;Disclosure&#39;s &#39;Grab Her&#39;, Emile Sornin returns to the scene creating the boss who is so dislikeable everything&nbsp;he touches is physically repelled.&nbsp;Continuous laugh-out-loud moments lead up to a climax that can&#39;t help but put a smile on your face.And as always with&nbsp;Emile there is an air of &#39;how the...?&#39;, as a mix of post production and on set tricks&nbsp;confuses the senses...Emile Sornin&nbsp;talks to Luke Tierney about making the video for Disclosure&#39;s Grab HerThe boss character is portrayed perfectly. Were there any influences when creating him?The influence was clearly Ricky Gervais in &quot;The Office&quot;, i think is the funniest man in the world.Comedy can at times be very hit or miss, did you have any apprehensions with the concept?Not at all, when we found the main character (Jean-Baptiste) I didn&#39;t have any apprehensions because he was really funny during casting. He was able to bring to any gravity trick to the next level.As always with your projects, post production plays an interesting and important&nbsp;role. How much of the effects were done in camera, how much was post?Well a magician can never reveal his tricks. But most of the effects weren&#39;t too hard to make, aha.The desaturation of colour is key to setting the tone and the (late 70s/early 80s) period. Why did you set the video in the past?It&#39;s not a matter of temporality. I think I just love 70&#39;s gear and aesthetic, and it matches perfectly with my concept (telephone with wire, big computer etc...)You&#39;ve worked with a series of interesting British artists who, like your promos, are very different from each other (Alt-J, Dizzee Rascal and now Disclosure). Has this been intentional? Who is next on your wishlist?I&#39;m really influenced by British humour, so that&#39;s why it works well with English bands or artists. There is something absurd and second degree in English humour that I really like... Every one knows that Monty Python are the best in the world. They create the best jokes I ever saw.&bull; Check out Luke Tierney&#39;s blog,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wordischeap.wordpress.com">Word Is Cheap</a>, or his Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/wordischeap">@wordischeap</a>, for more thoughts on his favourite music videos.

Jean Davi

Didier Billet

Disclosure 'Grab Her' by Emile Sornin

Disclosure - Grab Her (Official Video)

Their first video for Gesaffelstein is multi-nominated for awards at UK Music Video Awards 2013. And&nbsp;here&#39;s Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s&nbsp;follow-up,&nbsp;for the head-banging DJ/producer&#39;s Hate Or Glory, which expands&nbsp;on the&nbsp;enigmatic gold glove motif of Pursuit with an allegory on the corrupting effect of power and riches.&nbsp;We&#39;re down in the &#39;hood to witness a young gangster&#39;s brutal rise to dominance &ndash; and then his uniquely extravagant method of&nbsp;demonstrating his accumulation of wealth. Like a&nbsp;sort of King Midas in reverse, he gold-plates himself. Now that&#39;s a bold statement, and frankly, you&#39;re asking for trouble...

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