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 [...]

For Montreal duo Majical Cloudz’s Childhood’s End, Emily Kai Bock returns with a surreal, cinematic tale of an old man’s daily struggle, and his flight into fantasy – including his dramatic encounter with a vintage locomotive. The Childhood’s End video features Kenneth Welsh, best known for his role as Wisdom Earle in David Lynch’s cult [...]

Reflecting her fascination with North Africa and her partly Algerian heritage, Institute For Eyes (Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull) travelled to Casablanca in Morocco with young singer Yadi to shoot the video for The Blow – with a combination of regular collaborators and local crew. The result is an absorbing snapshot of real life in [...]

Institute For Eyes – aka directing duo Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull – have created a very atmospheric and mysterious video for former Beta Band and King Biscuit Time frontman Steve Mason’s new single Oh My Lord. It features a mystery man – with a full Invisible Man-type face and hands bandage – who starts [...]

Hailed as the ‘Sound of 2013′ by The BBC and promptly signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation imprint, London singer Arlissa teams up with Abteen Bagheri for the promo to her debut Sticks And Stones. Shot on the Honey Swamp Island in Louisiana, Bagheri delivers a tribal, mystical fairytale to match the pounding Gabriel-esque drums in [...]

George Belfield’s video for Richard Hawley’s majestic Don’t Stare At The Sun has a compelling, almost wilfully simple concept. These are scenes from ordinary life, each lingering shot takes in the back of someone’s head. These are people in contemplation, whereever they are. And they do offer a reflective mood that gels with Hawley’s trademark [...]

In Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas’s video for Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah’s Drinking From The Bottle, we get a tour of LA and Hollywood from the big bad man himself. It’s the Devil, doing the dirty work down on the streets, in the guise of veteran actor Brad Dourif. This is an idea that [...]

Following her appearance in Vince Haycock’s promo for Calvin Harris’ Sweet Nothing, Florence Welch teams up with the LA-based director again for her own band’s single Lover To Lover. Shot in California and starring Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, Vince, speaking to nowness.com, had this to say about Welch’s performance in his tale of ‘American heartbreak’: [...]

Here’s the new video for Trimbal’s Confidence Boost – featuring James Blake – by Rollo Jackson, who is now represented for music videos and commercials by Somesuch & Co. With an effervescent directing style and often taking an experimental and resourceful approach in his music video work, Rollo’s credits include promos earlier this year for [...]

After his acclaimed video for Once And For All, Ben Strebel follows up with another fine collaboration with Clock Opera for The Lost Buoys – and comes up with a sort of gothic tale with a modern resonance. Like in Once And For All the central character is a man in his later years, but [...]