Directing team HARRYS channel the imagery associated with some Seventies greats for their video for Kurt Vile’s Never Run Away – the first video from new album Waking On A Pretty Daze – with possibly a hint of Otto from The Simpsons thrown in… Framed in a 4 x 3 photo format within the usual [...]

Warren Fu delivers a richly photographed voyeuristic-type monochrome promo for Depeche Mode’s Soothe My Soul, with an aspect ratio that feels like you’re viewing the action through a peep-hole. The band play in shadows intercut with fleeting glimpses of nudity, wet skin, snakes and close-ups all adding to a tense, intimate atmosphere. Depeche Mode Soothe [...]

Now represented by Partizan, Zaiba Jabbar demonstrates her unique eye for colour in this cool, stutter-edited promo to partner the dreamy, indie swirl of Crystallized by Parisian singer-songwriter Melody Prochet – aka Melody’s Echo Chamber. Melody’s Echo Chamber Crystallized Director: Zaiba Jabbar Producer: Brett Webb Production Company: Partizan Exec Producer: Claire Stubbs PM: Harriet Towler [...]

A spooky boy, some tearful girls and, in outer space, a beautiful yet ominous-looking meteor…. these images resonate in Olivier Groulx’s video for Fryars’ On Your Own, beautifully photographed by DoP Ula Pontikos. The video was shot around London, with the horse footage at Bromley Common Livery. And the asteroid isn’t CGI. Oli made it [...]

Since spending the last two years shooting mainly commercials in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, Kinga Burza marks her return to the UK with this promo to Gabrielle Aplin’s Panic Cord. Oscillating between a performance piece and flashbacks to a past bittersweet relationship, Kinga’s promo echoes the poignancy of the lyric. “Working with Gabrielle [...]

Partizan have announced the signing of New York-based directing duo HARRYS to their global roster of directors. The pair – both called Harry – have been making videos together since childhood, having grown up in the same building in New York. Their recent two promos for Toro y Moi, for Say That (pictured) and So [...]

Tom Beard joins Gabriel Bruce as they set sail on a stormy sea aboard a large ship in his promo for Cars Not Leaving. In reality it’s MS Stubnitz moored up in Canary Wharf but nevertheless it’s a fine romp with Gabriel turning in a great performance and features a cameo from Fred from Spector [...]

Shot over two days in LA and Palm Springs, Bastille singer Dan Smiths flees Los Angeles and its strange-eyed inhabitants to the calmer confines of the desert in Jesse John Jenkins’ promo for Pompeii. Producer Brett Webb explains: “Jesse wanted to capture the dramatic change in landscape you can get in California going from LA [...]

18 year old Tiny Dancer delivers a fantastic performance in Zaiba Jabbar’s one-shot promo for the title cut of her EP Who Am I. Zaiba shoots the UK singer/songwriter in a minimal studio setting with only a few props for company – retro liquid projections, ribbons, balloons and some very effective lighting and use of [...]

Building anticipation for the forthcoming Wish To Scream album (May 20), Tribes get together with director Tom Beard for the promo to first single How The Other Half Live. As the cool Camden rockers deliver an enigmatic performance within a ‘TV studio’ set-up, Beard overlays graphics (helped out by Hayden Keys), text and lo-fi grunge [...]