Choreographer

Aaron Sillis

Rita Ora proceeds over a not-so-ancient ritual in this flawless dance video by Sophie Muller.Muller is the undisputed monarch of the performance video. It is difficult to overstate quite how long and impressive her reel is, let alone her influence on the music industry. While her videos have no obvious identifier, there is a timeless succinctness that carries through her repertoire, and this is a slick example of her light touch.This pared-down take on an pagan ritual for Ora's team-up with Tiësto and&nbsp;Jonas Blue is a pretty good analogy for her style. Muller understands that Rita Ora doesn’t need a multitude of setups to command a video. There is a bold light display, and some typically brilliant choreography from Aaron Sillis. But the ritual&nbsp;magic in question is Ora’s magnetic charisma. And Muller provides her with everything she needs to express it.

United Kingdom

Sophie Muller

Hannah May

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Marian Mikhail

Chris Kelly

John Perez

Scott Williams

Jomar O'Meally

Nathan Matthews

Alison Dominitz

Karen Clarkson 

Shon Ju

Marie Bruce

James Hackett

Universal

James Smith (AC)

Lucy Kelly

Julian Pugh Cook

Dance, EDM

Dance

Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora 'Ritual' by Sophie Muller

Tiësto,-Jonas-Blue-&-Rita-Ora-'Ritual'-by-Sophie-Muller

Over the first two videos of the new album campaign Fred Rowson has explored the alternate universe that powers Years &amp; Years&#39; new album Palo Santo - released today (July 6th). And now, following <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/03/12/years-years-sanctify-fred-rowson" target="_blank">Sanctify</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/05/16/years-years-if-youre-over-me-fred-rowson" target="_blank">If You&#39;re Over Me</a> comes the accompanying short film - also named Palo Santo - that brings it all together.In fact, this beautifully made short sci-fi drama, shot in Thailand, really is what the campaign is all about. It adds&nbsp;a new dimension to the story more broadly touched upon in the videos, of human enslavement by android masters, to provide round-the-clock entertainment.&nbsp;At the heart of it is Olly Alexander&#39;s role as entertainer-in-chief in this android world Palo Santo, and the prize property&nbsp;of an android apparachnik and ringmaster - a subtle and sympathetic&nbsp;characterisation by the Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm.[imgtoken data:1]The previous videos are abbreviated in the film to give more room to&nbsp;the narrative, while&nbsp;there are some surprising cameos - the ominiscient voice that directs life in Palo Santo is provided by none other than Dame Judy Dench; there&#39;s also an appearance by Ben Whishaw.&nbsp;It looks stunning, courtesy of photography by DoP Jaime Feliu Torres, and superbly edited by Sacha Szwarc at Speade.&nbsp;Written by Alexander and Rowson - who have a long association of working together - the pace of Palo Santo never drops, as it flips seamlessly&nbsp;between character interplay&nbsp;and performance set-pieces, taking in moments of humour and pathos. It becomes&nbsp;a genuinely emotional ride. Ultimately it&nbsp;shows what an accomplished director that&nbsp;Fred Rowson has become.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Fred Rowson

Corin Taylor

Blink

Paul Weston

Jack Bingham

Jaime Feliu Torres

Inthira Sawantrat

Siranat Ratchusanti

Nick Royal

Emma Croft

Maxine Crew

Jacob Holme

Indochina Productions

Simon Nicholas

Mutita Na Songkla

Atchariya Pinitsanpirom

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Sacha Szwarc

Speade

Lewis Crossfield

Alex Bingham

Semera Khan

Polydor

Martha Kinn

Years & Years 'Palo Santo' by Fred Rowson

Years & Years - Palo Santo (Short Film)

Years &amp; Years return with a dystopian adventure directed by the band&#39;s regular collaborator Fred Rowson, featuring frontman Olly Alexander as the last human in a future world populated by androids.In this the first part of a sequential series of videos from tracks from the new Years &amp; Years, Olly is captured and presented as entertainment for a panel of judges in the Eastern city of Palo Santo (the video was shot in Thailand).&nbsp;In a way the video is the reverse of Justin Timberlake&#39;s Dirty video - a human dances for an android audience, rather than the other way around. But like Dirty, the&nbsp;track Sanctify has that huge Michael Jackson influence.

Jaime Feliu-torres

Ryan Beck

Final Cut

Gloria FX

Vithaya Pansringarm

Richard Grewe

Years & Years 'Sanctify' by Fred Rowson

Years-&-Years-'Sanctify-'-by-Fred-Rowson

The second video for Kwaye by Billy Boyd Cape&nbsp;reinforces the sense that we&#39;re looking at a very exciting new talent - both an authentic new soul&nbsp;performer and great dancer.There is not much more here than song and dance performance here - the latter choreographed by Aaron Sillis &ndash;&nbsp;in an interesting church-like location, and the director and artist - and his dancer friends - make it compelling.&nbsp;

Billy Boyd Cape

Academy Films

Liz Kessler

Morgan Clement

Leah Joyce

James Dyer

Molly Manning Walker

United Agency

Xander Mitchell

Sue Odell

Gaby Winwood

Ruth Hegarty

The Assembly Rooms

Daniel DeVue

Glassworks

Mind Of A Genius

Titus Hajek Moore

Soul

Kwaye 'Little Ones' by Billy Boyd Cape

Jack Whiteley and Laura Brownhill's winning video for Elton John's music video competition The Cut&nbsp;imagines his mid-70s classic&nbsp;Bennie and The Jets&nbsp;as a gorgeous black and white dance film inspired by classic Hollywood.With nods to Busby Berkley musicals and the work of Fritz Lang, the promo imagines a retro-futurist dance competition floating through space. With wonderful choreography, set design, costume, make-up, camerawork and editing all working in perfect synchronicity to evoke a modern twist on a distinct era, the video is a wonderful celebration of Expressionist cinema.

Jack Whiteley

Laura Brownhill

Rattling Stick

Andy Orrick

Tess Mitchell

Marc Gómez del Moral

Georgia Shelton

Rosa Dias

Marta Wozniak

Monika Swiatek

Chris Roebuck

Cut+Run

Ruffian Post

Martin Leitner

Jerome Franc

Jason Wallis

Rock

Elton John 'Bennie And The Jets' by Jack Whiteley and Laura Brownhill

Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (Official Music Video)

Music video&#39;s blockbuster surrealist Joseph Kahn delivers a mind-bender for Imagine Dragons.Shot in Dubai and featuring a trio of street dancing aliens, the incredible black and white clip throws more VFX at you per second than your brain can possibly process. Infinitely replicating cars, band members and sheep(?) populate the world of this video, with fireworks adding injections of colour&nbsp;sporadically.Visually it&#39;s what we&#39;ve come to expect of Kahn over the years, and then some. As if somewhere in space the ship from Michael and Janet&#39;s Scream&nbsp;video crashed into the ship at the end of&nbsp;The Fifth Element&nbsp;and the survivors came to Earth to dance.

United States

Joseph Kahn

Jil Hardin

Nathan de la Rionda

Charleen Manca

Supply&Demand

Ingenuity Studios

Imagine Dragons 'Thunder' by Joseph Kahn

Imagine Dragons - Thunder

Inspired by the heavily-neon, urban&nbsp;aesthetic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Blade Runner,&nbsp;Alex Southam has created a world of city nightscapes for Snakehips&#39;s track&nbsp;Cruel,&nbsp;featuring a performance by ex-One Direction singer&nbsp;Zayn. With&nbsp;fluorescent lighting throughout, we discover a&nbsp;new world that is still in keeping with Snakehip&rsquo;s previous nighttime promo visuals.Capturing Zayn&rsquo;s characteristically cool performance, the video boasts some&nbsp;warped, distorted post-production trickery and wicked, winding camera movement.&nbsp;Stylish&nbsp;and bold, it&nbsp;focuses on a central tracking move whereby the camera seamlessly tracks forward passing through CCTV camera to&nbsp;apartment to alleyway -&nbsp;cop car to nightclub.&nbsp;Alex enlisted VFX juggernauts Coffee &amp; TV and created the 2D/3D animations himself with Lev Bravo. Expertly shot&nbsp;by Rob Witt, the&nbsp;resulting video&nbsp;sure is a colourful, visually&nbsp;engaging and energetic pop promo with a modern feel.&nbsp;

Alex Southam

Rachel Rumbold

London Alley

Jess Bell

Rob Witt

Zach Apo-tsang

Dan Moran

Coffee & TV

Ryan Huffman

Anthem Films

Chris Chard

Ollie Ramsay

OB Management

Dan Millar

Lisa Foo

Sony Music

Snakehips ft. Zayn 'Cruel' by Alex Southam

Snakehips-'Cruel'-by-Alex-Southam

Can Evgin gives a contemporary look and feel to this infectious Paul McCartney remix - dancing 1985 right into 2016.This video - shot by Jake Scott, choreographed by Aaron Sillis &ndash;&nbsp;provides the perfect blend of&nbsp;Colour, Choreography and Cool to this incredibly catchy track. A pair of dancers intertwine with one another through washes of neon colours, all whilst &#39;70s-vintage Macca croons away on a set of TVs.It&#39;s a stylishly executed video&nbsp;that allows both Paul&#39;s archival performance and the new track itself to shine, complimented by the great neon-clad set&nbsp;design and minimal simplicity of the costuming. The two contrasting pieces of footage glitch and intertwine - becoming one.

Can Evgin

Evonne O’Rourke

Wanda Productions

Jake Scott

Kerry Green

Richard J Lewis

Chris Abitbol

Antony Price

Rosa Rooney

Hopi Demattio

Anastasia Romanchuka

Michael McDuffie

Steve Finberg

Francesca Di Mottola

Dorita Nissen

Regina Messen

Julia Knight

Paul McCartney, Wings, Timo Maas, James Teej 'Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five' by Can Evgin

Paul McCartney, Wings, Timo Maas, James Teej - Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five

&quot;What is this?&quot; is the first line of dialogue uttered in this silly, ultimately quite confusing video. Which seems apt, as many of the bands&#39; fans are asking the same question in the comments section on YouTube.Saam Farahmand&#39;s video sees super-duo Alex Turner and Miles Kane galavant around a lavish location&nbsp;of the Café Royal,&nbsp;like a pair of foppish European playboys. Pink shirts, white blazers, coiffured hair and fake tan, et al. Their will-they-or-won&#39;t-they homoerotic horseplay plays out like a tongue-in-cheek taunting of the fans who seem to spend hours and hours online debating whether or not the duo are in fact a couple. No, really.&nbsp;On the face of it, it has little in common with Farahmand&#39;s previous and closely-linked&nbsp;TLSP videos, for&nbsp;Everything You&#39;ve Come To Expect and Aviation - although it could be the prequel of sorts to both.&nbsp;And as the film crew and equipment&nbsp;start to become visible, the video itself seems to be bored with Alex and Miles&#39;s shenanigans. Very self-aware, but the song is actually good enough to handle it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Saam Farahmand

Black Sheep Studios

Dan Keefe

Sophie Dewey

Alex Barber

Merrit Gold

Alexandra Voikou

James Sharpe

Phil Murray

Ron Nichols

Harry Elvin

Rob Gavigan

Pat Miller

Arthur De Borman

Nicholas Hancock

Emma Rees

Jessica Snyder

Topaz Knight

Holly Dale

Ediz Moustafa

Miles Lacey

Houmam Abdallah

Olivia Jessop

The Last Shadow Puppets 'Miracle Aligner' by Saam Farahmand

The Last Shadow Puppets - Miracle Aligner (Official Video)

British soul singer-songwriter Laura Mvula captivates us in her&nbsp;second collaboration with director Alex Southam for Overcome &ndash; following the stunning&nbsp;narrative video for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/07/12/laura-mvula-she-alex-southam" target="_blank">She</a>&nbsp;- and choreographed by&nbsp;Aaron Sillis.Overcome is incarnated through a&nbsp;powerful,&nbsp;pulsing movement&nbsp;as our singer is freed from a huge&nbsp;golden cave&nbsp;through dance and music, by a troupe of&nbsp;dancers. With a positively sublime&nbsp;wardobe of&nbsp;soft, silken&nbsp;blacks and bright golden jewellry, the troupe transform themselves&nbsp;into an&nbsp;epic, joyful&nbsp;and triumphant celebration of life.&nbsp;

Rebecca Mason

George Nelson

Ben Fordesman

Alexandra Day

Gabriella Ciullo

Cut + Run

Four Walls

Andy Brown

Sony

Mark Connell

James Hamilton

Mike Linforth

Singer-songwriter

Laura Mvula ft. Nile Rodgers 'Overcome' by Alex Southam

Laura-Mvula-Ft.-Nile-Rodgers-'Overcome'-by-Alex-Southam

FKA twigs&#39; new EP M3LL155X&nbsp;features five songs, four of which - Figure 8, I&#39;m Your Doll, In Time and Glass &amp; Patron - are accompanied by a video directed by twigs herself, that&nbsp;come together to form a single continuous 16 minute film.&nbsp;As the last of the four, for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/03/26/fka-twigs-glass-and-patron-fka-twigs" target="_blank">Glass &amp; Patron</a>, was released&nbsp;as part of the 2015&nbsp;YouTube Music Awards back in March, the collected videos in&nbsp;M3LL155X puts that&nbsp;final chapter into context. And as a whole, its a big statement on the birth of creativity - involving sex, pregnancy, pain, and ultimately liberation.It&#39;s an intense&nbsp;experience, with&nbsp;memorable imagery - and elements of humour &ndash; &nbsp;as twigs&#39; work as a director blossoms&nbsp;in tandem with her work as a artist-performer.&nbsp;That&#39;s already been recognised at this year&#39;s MTV VMAs, where her self-directed&nbsp;video <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/01/15/fka-twigs-pendulum-fka-twigs" target="_blank">Pendulum</a> is nominated, together with the Nabil-directed video for Two Weeks. And she has just&nbsp;directed seven dance performance films for the Manchester International Festival &ndash; part of her residency there last month - which should be released later in the year.[imgtoken data:1]

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