Bright Night captures the hazy energy of a riotous house party, in the video for London-based artist Ian Leone's The Life. Combining slick DIY freeze frame setups with frenetic snapshots of the night unfolding, the video explores the way time passes in different ways when you're drunk, as opposed to the morning after. The video perfectly captures the transcendent, liminal feeling of the state between being buzzed and hungover, and does so with plenty of style and flair."Stopping time was a big practical challenge for everyone on set," says the director. "The camera move had to be timed out at double speed so we could halve the frame rate for a smooth look, and everyone had to hold their poses, not blink, get in as much of a performance as they can while not moving. "The end effect seems more technical than it is, which is cool. We wanted the editing and shooting style to match the mental state of Ian as he goes through the party, right through to the morning after. We wanted to finish with that feeling you get at 4 or 5 AM when you’re melting into the sofa."

Celebrity Deathmatch meets Groundhog Day in Chris Ullens' terrific and cheerfully gory video for UK teen pop singer Gayle's team-up with singer-songwriter Blackbear - featuring the pair as toys in toytown suburbia, with homicidal tendencies.In this stop-motion epic of nextdoor neighbour hostility, Gayle takes the form of a figure the size of a toy soldier, leaving her house (after guzzling down a real-size frankfurter) to wage war on Blackbear, who lives next door. As he is mowing the lawn to make a rude sign, she feeds him and his friends to the mower. And that just starts the begins the increasingly extravagant ways in which they dispatch each other on a daily basis. Ullens is the king of stop-motion animation who has given us some wonderful videos for the likes of Fergie, Rex Orange County and Lee Ann Womack, all from his tabletop studio. This one falls into the category of toy-related gore that he pioneered with Two Fingers' Vengeance Rhythm, a real stomach-churning splatterfest involving a psychopathic teddybear. This is rather more playful - as the animation was created with a series of non-moving plastic figurines. Ullens also only had a four-week turnaround to create his dark comedy - and he still manages to engineer something of a Happy Ever After...

Tom Gorst directs an absorbing promo for Cat Burns, filmed while the singer-songwriter was on tour with Ed Sheeran. Reflecting on life on the road and the various highs and lows that come with extended travelling, the video for Ghosting blends intimate behind the scenes moments with spectacular performance footage."To me the track is about trying to find space for yourself," says Gorst. "As Cat was supporting Ed Sheeran across his European tour, I wanted to explore how this idea would apply to an artist on tour."From the euphoric highs to the many in-between moments that punctuate life on the road, we aimed to create a heightened reality of Cat's experiences."

Carly Cussen directs a glossy performance promo for Eyelar. In the video for Till You Hate Me, we see two opposing worlds collide, reflecting the dichotomy of emotions in the track. DoP Rick Joaquim creates a distinctive look for each of the worlds - the first is an ethereal, realistic environment, with soft lighting and a sense of calm. The other world is full of shadows, hard lighting and a gloomy, otherworldly colour palette. The opposing aesthetics perfectly encapsulate the themes of the concept, and pay homage to videos of the late 90's and early Noughties. Great work with a standout style and plenty of engaging imagery.

William Glass directs a mesmerising promo for London band Gentle Stranger's Dragonfly.The video presents a series of captivating slow-mo portraits of the band, complete with glitter, cascading playing cards and an overall aura of youthful magic. The abstract nature of the concept is the star of the show here, rejecting any sense of narrative or sense of place, to instead capture the transient nature of a moment in time. "I wanted to make something simple and enchanting," says Glass. "The visuals came from thinking about the clunky and child-like magic of school plays and village halls."The song has a beautiful economy of elements, so I wanted the video to be stripped back to the essentials too; a series of shimmering slow-motion portraits of both the band and their instruments."

Anne-Marie finds good reason to suspect that Aitch is up to no good, in Samuel Douek's entertaining video for Psycho.Douek creates a boisterously colourful, almost cartoonish series of environments in which Anne-Marie can wreak havoc upon Aitch's attempts at serial cheating. The director's approach gels nicely with the light-hearted tone of the collaboration between two of the UK's biggest pop stars.And he gets sterling support from the production design by Tilda Bonham Carter, styling by Cora Delaney and Justin Rose, and the casting of Aitch's numerous other girlfriends."The idea of the video was to empower anyone who has been in Anne-Marie’s position before," says Douek. "It was no mean feat to pull off, shooting eight scenes in one day - including moving the entire production from one location to another."I'm really proud of what we managed to pull off and I hope the viewer has as much fun watching it as we did making it."