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Our review of the past 12 months continues with the second batch of our selections of the Videos Of The Year.
The second instalment of our choices of Videos Of The Year - organised in alphabetical order of songtitle, from D to some Gs - includes videos for IDLES, Jeshi, FKA Twigs and RAYE. It includes work from emerging directors, featured for the first time on Promonews in 2024. One very famous artist. And a directing legend who's made more than everyone else put together.
The following 10 picks for our Videos Of The Year includes links to the original stories about these fantastic videos in Promonews, and to the profile pages of the directors and featured site sponsors.
Directing duo BLACKWALL's mesmerizing take on 'our spiralling addiction to technology' features rapper Jeshi in constant movement in a series of locations, captured by a perpetually rotating camera.
Earth is under attack and only a long-suffering pub barman - who happens to look different from everyone else - can save a barely deserving world, in James Ogram's terrific promo for South London indie-rock outfit Fat Dog.
Kylie proceeds from hotel room with TBM through nightclub, playground, tennis court and finally, fully-clothed dip in a swimming pool at Pykes in Ibiza, in Sophie Muller's guerrilla-style video that's a miracle of can-do attitude.
The first release in FKA Twigs' latest project - and her first music video collaboration with Jordan Hemingway - returns to the intensity of her earlier work, and pushes the ambition in terms of craft and choreography to new levels.
Raman Djafari curated an international team of 15 animators working in a wide variety of disciplines - from stop motion to laser cut felt - to craft linked scenes that serve a bigger, continuous narrative.
Evoking early silent films and Tim Burton's Gothic style and nearly all in black and white, but it's also a Taylor Swift video through and through. Unveiled with the surprise release of Tortured Poets Department, the world's biggest artist shows she's no slouch in the directing department either.
Young versions of A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak cruise a world where traditional tropes of the genre are reimagined through the lens of youthful innocence in Rousselet's wildly imaginative, beautifully executed video.
RAYE and Otis Dominique's magnum opus takes a metaphorical and constantly inventive journey through the extremes of a pop star's life, from the depths of depression, to the spotlight of stardom and connected pressures and temptations - to its joyful antithesis.
Helman orchestrates a range of eccentrics in a series of enjoyably absurd scenarios within a giant warehouse store, and captures the essence of our anxious, unpredictable age in the perfect IDLES video.
Next in Best of 2024: Videos Of The Year (Part Three) and Directors Of The Year....
