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Adam Smith

Adam Smith and&nbsp;Marcus Lyall's latest for The Chemical Brothers is a shot of lightning from the arm - a maverick, Japanese sci-fi B-movie sent from the future.&nbsp;A mousey businesswoman transforms into an intergalactic superhero to fight craterous monsters, furry cyborgs and a robot wizard. And there's Aurora too, dressed like Robot Boy.Lyall and Smith’s video has the renegade spirit of a cult movie. There are shades of&nbsp;Kung Fury, the low-budget Youtube movie that spawned an entire genre. And also of Ed Wood, the eccentric 1950s filmmaker, who directed the camp classic Plan 9 from Outer Space (It’s nice to imagine that if Wood were resurrected today, handed a 4K camera and a box full of lycra, he would have tried to make Eve of Destruction).The real hallmark of a Chemical Brothers video is a frenetic harmony of music, choreograph and editing. This is a shining example. The video is exhausting in the best way: no beat, bar or lyric goes by without a punch, a strobe or a spark. The costume design is also top-tier.&nbsp;The characters are not only original and impressive, they are also charmingly homemade, with fantastic costume design by Katie Tabor.And the sheer directness of the direction is best explained by the relationship that Smith and Lyall&nbsp;have with Tom and Ed of the ChemBros. Individually the pair work on very different things: Lyall creates light installations in grand public spaces; Smith is the legendary director of the band’s own Galvanize, as well as some of the best-loved episodes of Doctor Who and Skins.&nbsp;As a team they&nbsp;have been making the band's distinctive live visuals for years. And the Eve Of Destruction video was originally created as visuals for their live show.Best live visuals ever?

United Kingdom

Marcus Lyall

Matthew Cummins

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Suzie Lavelle

James Sharpe

Job Reineke

Matt King

Sol Saihati

Ollie Tiong

Katie Tabor

Deanna V’Icevska

Amit Lahav

Dave Garrick

Jonny Stopford

Mark Whelan

Marcus Lyall Ltd

Dance

Dance, Electronica, Pop

The Chemical Brothers 'Eve Of Destruction' by Adam Smith & Marcus Lyall

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Basak Erol takes us on a ride with Anne-Marie and her friends as they journey through a colourful Moroccan community.That journey, and their performances, are set across vibrant landscapes and unique architecture, where the contemporary meets the ornate with bursts of colour and a bit of magic.

Basak Erol

Ruffian

David Richards

Jean David

Valentin Vignet

Zoheir Seffir

Nabil Kabbaj

Mimi Laraki

Phoebe Lettice Thompson

Nick Peters

Liz Martins

Julia Knight

Houmam Abdallah

Savanna Small, Fifi Anicah, Najia Li Saad, Nathalie Miller

Shadeh Smith

Atlantic Records

Anne-Marie 'Ciao Adios' by Basak Erol

Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios [Official Video]

Following his Clueless homage for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/05/iggy-azalea-ft-charli-fancy-director-x" target="_blank">Iggy Azalea</a>,&nbsp;Director X delivers his second promo this week with this very &#39;up&#39; and&nbsp;cheerful romp for DJ Cassidy&#39;s Calling All Hearts.In a joint production between DNA in Los Angeles and Luti Media in London, the promo was shot on a minimalist and very pink set, featuring&nbsp;appearances from Robin Thicke and Jessie J - who totally get into the spirit of things...

Director X

Luti Media

Missy Galanida

Luti Fagbenle

Stefano Moses

Rupert Savage

Paul Mackay

Life Garland

Dave Hussey

Company 3

Loan Nguyen

Bex C-A

Will Jasper

Miles Roberts

Columbia

Saul Levitz

DJ Cassidy ft Robin Thicke & Jessie J 'Calling All Hearts' by Director X

DJ Cassidy - Calling All Hearts ft. Robin Thicke and Jessie J (short version)

Director X takes Little Mix on an emotional journey in his moving promo for their single Little Me.The video, with a concept by Greg Francis, sees the band take a more adult approach as they perform in a broken environment with some gripping emotional moments as ordinary people strive for a better life...

Greg Francis

Aaron Reid

Anna Mould

Collette King

Smoke & Mirrors

Sony Music

Lisa Foo

Little Mix 'Little Me' by Director X

Little Mix - Little Me

Mark Locke has made videos for Misty's Big Adventure before. His efforts for the songs <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/02/16/misty%E2%80%99s-big-adventure%E2%80%99s-between-you-and-me-and-i-can%E2%80%99t-bring-the-time-back-by-mark-locke/" target="_blank">Between You And Me and I Can't Bring The Time Back</a> back in 2009 were full of character and utterly charming. But now we have a new single called Aggression, and Mark has come up with something far darker to accompany the Birmingham band's gloomy assessment of English life. It's a lurid nighttime landscape of drunkenness, sex, violence and fast food, a scattershot comic horror, like a modern Hogarthian look at the underbelly of middle England - with a nod to both the classic Barney Bubbles-directed video for The Specials' Ghost Town, and Thriller...



Mark Locke on the making of the video for Misty's Big Adventure's Aggression
"I guess you could've gone a number of ways with a video for Aggression, but I loved the idea of Gareth in a crap Midlands town on a Friday night, trying to get a pizza.
"Misty's are a Midlands band and with Aggression's ska vibe the obvious reference was The Specials' 'Ghost Town'. Especially being as we seem to be living in new Ghost Town times. But I didn't want to get too depressing or political, I was trying to channel the spirit of 'Ghost Town', Robin Askwith movies and 'Thriller'.
"In actual fact it was shot in a number of crap Midlands towns, around eight in all, and the shoot felt more like 'Apocalypse Now'. We had the most rain on record, one of our actors had a stroke and the budget just spiralled, from £500 to £850.

"The most difficult part was the chip shop. We've no connections in the chip shop world and the one chippy who said yes would only let us film when they were open. We picked a quiet night but it wasn't quiet at all, and definitely not an ideal situation to film a girl fight. Well, unless you want to film an actual girl fight. Instead of being enamoured by the Hollywood glamour of it all, customers were tripping over our track and saying, 'What the fuck is going on I'm trying to get pie and chips for my children.'..."

Mark Locke

FortMark

Paul Ullah

Stuart Key

Jim Bracher @ The Mill

Misty's Big Adventure 'Aggression' by Mark Locke

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Quite a change-up for Nicki Minaj, admittedly in rather reflective mood with Freedom. She&#39;s a Shakespearian tragic heroine in Colin Tilley&#39;s video - in a suitably moody and stark setting, mostly in black and white until a bit of colour seeps in there...Never thought we&#39;d be talking about Nicki, Ingmar and Orson in the same sentence, but the bleak masterpieces of Bergman and Welles do spring to mind...

Colin Tilley

Amalia Rosen-Rawlings

Rob Witt

Alex Brown, Theo Milford

Tom O'Keefe

Alex Delgado

Richard Shoyemi

Javier Alejandro, Kulaba Kyabanji

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Stefan Yap

Nicki Minaj 'Freedom' by Colin Tilley

Nicki Minaj - Freedom (Explicit)

Forced to go public sooner than planned - after a very poor quality version leaked online 2 days ago - is Vaughan Arnell's promo for the first One Direction single from their second album Take Me Home (November 12).
Vaughan captures the band at the height of world domination (and clearly enjoying every second of it) with this bright, breezy promo for Live While We're Young which sees the lads get up to all sorts - in the name of summery fun...

Vaughan Arnell

Rokkit

Tom Birmingham

Benj Edwards

Clive Tickner

Joe Wright

Mike Linforth

Billy Edwards

Caroline W

Leo King

Sabrina Charpentier

Stitch Editing

One Direction 'Live While We're Young' by Vaughan Arnell

One-Direction-'Live-While-We're-Young'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Shot at B1 in Bloomsbury, Henry Scholfield delivers his gorgeous promo for Aluna Francis and George Reid&#39;s Your Drums, Your Love.&quot;There were so many personal elements that had been brought into it&quot; explains Aluna. &quot;We had been trying to work with Arran for a while and we just love sick dancing&quot;.

Henry Scholfield

Partizan Darkroom

Claire Stubbs

Brett Webb

Niklas Johansson

Richard Lewis

Brooke Milliner

Lou Corcoran

Foluke Anglin

Rushes

Simone Grattarola

Ben Harrex

Ailsa Ronertson

AlunaGeorge 'Your Drums, Your Love' by Henry Scholfield

Bringing new meaning to the term 'elevator music', Jesse John Jenkins shoots The Vaccines riding a lift where they manage to not only perform catchy new song Teenage Icon with all their equipment, they also transform into teen-friendly female and/or androgynous versions of themselves in a parallel universe-cum-lift.
Following his signing to Partizan and coming hot on the heels of his lovely video for The Vaccines' <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/06/15/the-vaccines-no-hope-jesse-john-jenkins-now-signed-partizan/" target="_blank">No Hope</a>, Jesse coaxes a spirited (if somewhat claustrophobic) performance out of the West London fourpiece - and their gorgeous counterparts. 
The opening and closing sequences were shot in the municipal magnificence of Wandsworth Town Hall, and the performances at Malcolm Ryan Studios. Good stuff.

Jesse John Jenkins

Trevor Forrest

Lewis Arnold

Bex Croft Atkins

Luke Morrison @ The Mill

Pete @ Nice Biscuits

Max Windows

The Vaccines 'Teenage Icon' by Jesse John Jenkins

Institute For Eyes deliver this tangled tale of romance fraught with danger to accompany Delilah&#39;s cool, edgy ballad Breathe - with some excellent work from DP David Procter.

Institute For Eyes

Somesuch

David Procter

Nigel Ruwende

Darren Baldwin

Delilah 'Breathe' by Institute For Eyes

Directed by Marcus Lundin, the promo to new Olly Murs single Oh My Goodness was filmed in the Westfield shopping mall in East London. 
All of Stratford's new shopping mecca is Olly's playground, as Marcus shot in stores, restaurants, and even the bowling alley. A story of love at first sight, Mr Murs journeys through the mall trying to catch up with the girl who caught his eye whilst riding down an escalator...

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Marcus Lundin

Rory Shaw

Olly Murs 'Oh My Goodness' by Marcus Lundin

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Don&#39;t Think, the Chemical Brothers&#39; feature length concert doc directed by longtime visual collaborator Adam Smith, is released early in 2012. As the new trailer suggests, it&#39;s completely awesome.Adam&#39;s innovative direction of the BBC&#39;s coverage of the Chems&#39; Glastonbury show this year was a mere taster of what he&#39;s achieved with Don&#39;t Think. Shot at the famous Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, its a complete immersion of live event and concert visuals into an extraordinary sensory experience. It&#39;s also the first-ever concert recorded in Dolby 7.1 surround sound.&quot;After 18 years of working on the Chemical Brothers live show we have finally captured it on film; you could almost say it&#39;s 18 years in the making,&quot; Adam has told the NME. &quot;The aim was to create a different type of concert film for a different type of show.&quot;There&#39;s a special advance screening being held at Picture House, Hackney on Thursday, 26 January 2012. Tickets to the event can be purchased <a href="http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/film/The_Chemical_Brothers_Dont_Think_Exclusive_Advance_Screening/" target="_blank">here</a>, and a special event to be held on February 3rd, with details coming soon.<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/21UItm9UCr0" width="560">&lt;/p&gt;</iframe>

Svana Gisla

Lee Groombridge

Jessica Wylie

Marc Swadel

Ash Clifford

Tom Balkwill @ Dirty Looks

Stefan Demetriou 
Don't Think Website

The Chemical Brothers 'Don't Think' by Adam Smith: the trailer

UK-Music-Video-Awards-2012-–-all-of-last-night's-winners!

Dynamic Icelandic duo Arni + Kinski return to music video to take Florence's new pre-Raphaelite look and give it a quasi-1930s makeover for Florence + The Machine's No Light No Light. 
It sees Florence being hounded by a 'neon pink voodoo gremlin', while teetering on the edge of a New York skyscraper, while a choir sings in a cathedral below.
Shot mainly in West London at St Augustine's Church on Kilburn High Road, the epic and dramatic theme matches the equally dramatic pounding soundtrack.

Arni and Kinski

Skin Flicks

Chris Massey

Christopher Doyle

James H

Gareth McEwen

Serena Noorani

James Bamford

Adam Lambert

Ailsa Robertson

Florence & The Machine 'No Light No Light' by Arni and Kinski

Olly Murs is in trouble with the law, but it's all in a good cause in Marcus Lundin's promo for new single Dance With Me Tonight. 
It's another very watchable, bright and breezy video for Olly, with a well-executed narrative directed by Marcus Lundin - his UK breakthrough following impressive Swedish videos like his 'monkey boy' vid for Adam Tensta's Like A Punk.

James Dyer

John Strandh

John Holloway

Portobello Post

Olly Murs 'Dance With Me Tonight' by Marcus Lundin

Olly-Murs-'Dance-With-Me-Tonight'-by-Marcus-Lundin

Ben Crooks takes a studio-based performance from Staines' finest, adds a bit of mystery, dark forces, heat and a generous splash of panache for the band's forthcoming Fire In The House single...

Ben Crook

Stuart Bentley

Julian Fletcher

Hard-Fi 'Fire In The House' by Ben Crook

Adam Smith, now more usually occupied directing telly like Dr Who, resumes his longstanding role as visual-maker for the Chemicals and takes it to the next level.Including first single Swoon, which follows the thematic tradition of Adam aka Flat Nose George&#39;s previous work with Tom &amp; Ed: reverse silhouettes rush by, cleverly lit up in a myriad of colourful ways, and a young couple remember to escape from the mundanity of ordinary life.Like the other visual work this is also on a DVD which comes with the album...

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