A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously… But for everyone else – well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce’s [...]

For Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider who came back against all the odds to compete again after suffering a terrible injury. Using numerous cameras – some fixed on [...]

Megaforce are not exactly strangers to controversy. But the French directing team’s video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Sacrilege is a different story from, say, the comic grossness of Is Tropical’s The Greeks. This is very dark indeed. In the video we witness the life of a highly promiscuous girl, played by Lily Cole, and [...]

The band are French, the director is American (now based in Paris) – and the video is Korean. That is, Patrick Daughters has taken Phoenix’s Entertainment – the first single from long-awaited new album Bankrupt – and fashioned a faithful approximation of a South Korean soap opera to go with it… It’s a leftfield idea [...]

Samuel J Bailey, director of acclaimed videos for Francobollo and festival favourite short film The Horsemen, has joined Riff Raff Films for music videos and commercials, entering the company’s stable of up-and-coming directors, The Nursery Of Evil. Sam first demonstrated his considerable talents for inventive, dialogue-free comedy with the short film I Can Never Find [...]

Dizzee Rascal is back with a new anthem that’s going to rival Bonkers for levels of audience participation at future live shows – and in Megaforce’s video he adopts the perfect persona to perform Bassline Junkie. He’s a charismatic, white-suited preacherman, delivering his singular, uncompromising message all over London, aided by goofy sidekick (a winning [...]

The Sacred Egg deliver this unique ‘eye control’ promo for Amplify Dot’s Get Down, where the artist’s eye movement controls the angle of the shot. Mixing furious staccato performance edits with animation snippets and stills, The Sacred Egg drive the thunderous soundtrack to excellent effect. “We wanted to do a performance video where someone’s eyes [...]

The campaign for the second Hurts album Exile starts with this impressively cinematic two minute mini-promo for The Road directed by Nez – who has now joined Riff Raff Films for music videos and commercials. Conceptually, the video takes the viewer on a journey of the life of Hurts duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson [...]

Filmed on location in Los Angeles and Paris, we meet a succession of eccentric people expressing themselves to the full in Jonas & François’ promo for Labrinth’s Express Yourself. Pop Art meets The Simpsons with a colourful and quirky effect… Labrinth Express Yourself Directors: Jonas&François Producer: Jules Dieng DoP: Larkin Siepai Post-prod and SFX: Mathematic [...]

A stunning video for the Stargate remix of Depeche Mode’s classic Personal Jesus by Patrick Daughters. A dark night, a mob of superstitious villagers… and a girl about to be subjected to a practice reserved to those suspected of witchcraft. This is how it begins. Things don’t go to plan. Shot in the Czech Republic [...]