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It's the start of a brand new year - but we still have unfinished business with the old one. So before we get stuck into 2025, let's look back at the most extraordinary work and significant achievements of 2024. Starting with the Videos Of The Year.
Over the next few days Promonews will present our selection of the best music videos of 2024. They are organised in alphabetical order of the title of the track, and preceded by numerical order - hence, the first video in our list of (approximately) 60 videos happens to be a big winner at the UKMVAs last October....
The first 10 in our Videos Of The Year includes links to our original stories about these fantastic videos, and to directors pages and featured site sponsors.
The star-studded and entirely era-defining video for Charli XCX that wittily encapsulated and satirized our very messy modern times. And won Video Of The Year at the UK Music Video Awards 2024.
Director
Aidan ZamiriColour grade company
Studio RMA music video-cum-documentary that celebrates the indefatigable spirit of the 99-year-old entertainer Dick Van Dyke - and his friendship with the similarly inclined and undaunted Chris Martin.
Director
Spike JonzeDirector
Mary WigmoreEditing company
Final CutScott Dungate's third video for Texan band Khruangbin is an offbeat comedy where a young local Thai lad is attempting to woo a tourist girl. A charming tale of blossoming love that complements the band's distinctive sound.
Director
Scott DungateEditing company
Trim EditingIn one of the most memorable reinventions in modern memory, Jade Thirwell takes on different characters - or different versions of herself - each at different points on the ladder of pop star fame, in an imaginative, biting, and often bizarre satire on the music biz.
Director
Aube PerrieProduction company
Pulse FilmsMETTE gets to grips with her phenomenal power - in the guise of her sprite-like alter ego - in C Prinz's marvellously inventive and surprising video for Bet.
Mad Max meets Easy Rider in John Angus Stewart's brilliant one-shot video for Aussie rockers Amyl & The Sniffers, shot on the desert flats of Joshua Tree, capturing the band frontwoman Amy Taylor's rebellious spirit. No helmets here.
Director
John Angus StewartDirector's Rep UK
Academy FilmsA brilliant comedy of office politics and machinations, recorded on security cameras, with French singer Yseult as the glamorous and terrifying boss of a motley group of worker drones whose fury is aroused by a fashion-forward employee.
Director
ShadrinskyA gruesome horror by Houang for Hana Vu that follows the story of Hana's murder, moving backward in time from the moment the police discover her discarded head...
Director
Maegan HouangA feverish hyper-pop fantasy exploring the intense and unusual bond between the artist and his fans in a wonderfully off-kilter multi-media blockbuster.
Director
Hugh MulhernProduction company
Riff Raff FilmsEditing company
Trim EditingIconoclastic performer Lynks gets the hots for a sexy paramedic in Kassandra Powell's riotous, subversive, and thoroughly entertaining promo.
Director
Kassandra PowellColour grade company
Electric Theatre CollectiveDirector's rep
Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UKNext in Best of 2024: Videos Of The Year (Part Two) and Directors Of The Year....
