Producer

Alessia Lendrum

Colin Solal Cardo follows his <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/11/21/kimbra-replay-colin-solal-cardo/79358">hypnotic promo for Kimbra</a> with something much more down to Earth, in this breezy, uplifting&nbsp;piece&nbsp;for&nbsp;Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.&nbsp;The video for Easy Now features Milly Alcock (of&nbsp;House Of Dragons fame), and sees her character move from despair to euphoria, as she tears up the streets of London.Watched over by Gallagher himself - who chills on the sidelines, in a brief yet very welcome cameo - the video is anchored by a wonderful performance from Alcock, as she jumps on cars, disrupts groups of pigeons and eventually does a victorious run down the middle of the road, full of glee.&nbsp;A poignant concept which cements the fact that music has the ability to transcend, elevate and pull you out of yourself on the darkest of days.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Ellie Kowslowski

Maeva Berthelot

Ellie Walker

Colin Solal Cardo

FRIEND

Emily Tedrake

Greg Probert

Jeremy Valender

Danny Herman

Lily Ashton

Rose Lucas

Rick Woollard

Jess Saunders

Mark Gee

Amelia Tavenner

Amy Brandon

Lucy Berry

Final Cut

Kaytlin Battisheli

Ethos Studio

Wash

Jon Evans

Milly Alcock

Ignition Records

Rock

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Easy Now' by Colin Solal Cardo

Noel-Gallagher's-High-Flying-Birds-'Easy-Now'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

Will Clark directs a curiously enigmatic promo for pianist and composer Neil Cowley's new album Battery Life, where the director visualises elements of the music in an&nbsp;an evocative string of abstract vignettes.Clark places Cowley at the core of a series of these moments, that tread a line between dreamworld and reality, as a gardener, making symbolic movements with a real spade.&nbsp;The composition of the visual - in particular the close-up shots of objects and details - helps elevate the dreamlike vibe of the piece, and builds upon the themes of missing memories and gaps in the narrative of events.[imgtoken data:1]"Battery Life is an album of abstract memories and stolen excerpts," Clark explains.&nbsp;"It is Neil’s perception of the past before the detail is filled in. Blurred pictures, strange details, a feeling and above all the freedom to redefine the past at his whim."In an age where we are able to archive virtually any amount of life experience at the press of a button, it calls into question the value of a memory, both undetailed and detailed."&nbsp;&nbsp;

Olivia Jessop

Caitlin Batchelor

Will Clark

Jamon Creative

Al Rice

Stephen Dunn

Jamie Chalmers

Matt Farrant

James Tilyard

Sharleen Oldaker

Becky Garner

Connor Coolbear

Electirc Theatre Collective

Tilly Cowley

Pat Gray

Alternative

Modern Composition

Neil Cowley 'Battery Life' (Album Teaser) by Will Clark

Neil-Cowley-'Battery-Life-Album-Teaser'-by-Will-Clark

Ruth Hogben directs a feisty, witty and hugely stylish&nbsp;promo for Bree Runway's That Girl.&nbsp;A&nbsp;tour de force&nbsp;of conceptual fashion setups and hypnotic editing, the video echoes Noughties hip-hop videos with a contemporary pop twist.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Boasting Runway-ready styling and a standout performance, it's another hit for the artist which will no doubt hold its own in an already iconic videography.&nbsp;Exceptional work from Ruth Hogben, best known for her work in fashion photography and film work, and her long creative partnership with Lady Gaga. And this collab with Bree also looks like a match made in heaven...&nbsp;

Anna Trevelyan

Ruth Hogben

Arabella Kemp

Robin Brigham

Natasha Duursma

Matt Gyton

Josh Jacob

Esther Adushi

Seraiah Hair Artistry

Tomi

Lydia Chan

Bree Runway 'That Girl' by Ruth Hogben

Bree-Runway-'That-Girl'-by-Ruth-Hogben

Tayo Sound enjoys a day in the countryside with his girl - and brings along the bed - in Will Clark's sweet video for Hide And Seek, Tayo's collab with Rudimental.Things begin to take an increasingly surreal turn as the camera rotates over the bed in the meadow, and his girl is replaced by lots of blood-red apples. Tayo’s world is flipped upside down when the lines of reality blur as he searches for someone special… but were they ever real?

Clel Allen

Vision

James Adair

Jamie Monks

Anil Duru

Nicolas Di Matteo

Bibi Baker

Eliza Clarke

Elyse Raphael

Tenthree Editing

Electric Theatre Collective

James Taylor

Black Box Recordings Inc.

Rhea Daley

Deadbeat Films

Tayo Sound x Rudimental 'Hide & Seek' by Will Clark

Tayo Sound & Rudimental - Hide and Seek

Camden Cox is hooked into a relationship that veers between the yummy to the toxic - and back again - in Rebekah B's stylishly-shot video for Elevated.Shot in a deserted nightclub, reality and fantasy collide in a number of dreamlike set-ups crafted with the characteristic skill by the&nbsp;director, with terrific use of colour. And the passion between Camden and her co-star&nbsp;looks pretty convincing.

Neuma Llusiados Santos

Sian O'Donnell

Rebekah B Creative

Marisa Garner Associates

Greatcoat Films

Lea Ogunlami

Sachin Parmar

Miguel Carmenes

Micheal Newton

Simon Oxley

Bukola Sonubi

Joshua Jacob

Harry Coleman

Felix Widley

Shukeel Murtaza

Charlotte Fitzjohn

Sam Hardy

Alex Nerzic

Tag Collective Art

Sony Music

Camden Cox 'Elevated' by Rebekah B Creative

Camden-Cox-'Elevated'-by-Rebekahbcreative

Vasilisa Forbes continues her collaborative streak with Pale Waves, directing the theatrical promo for Clean.The video is set in a theatre, and explores the contrast between the intimate backstage world, (the inner-self) and ‘putting on a show’.Inspired by cabaret and Old Hollywood glamour, we see vocalist Heather backstage, draped in pearls and luxury styling, before appearing on stage with the band, playing to an empty room.&nbsp;Amplifying the dichotomy of reality and fiction, the video is peppered with surrealist moments - such as an homage to the iconic red rose sequence in American Beauty - and traverses the line between fantasy and the real world.&nbsp;

Vasilisa Forbes

OB Management

Lowkey Films

Rae Lemeshow

Tom Nowell

Ruaraid Achilleos

Vanessa Mc Donnell

Ella Ezeike

Joshua Jacobs

Andy Gonsalves

Josie Rafter

Ernest Tu

Joel Spence

Isabel Alsina

Ellie Bond

Rebecca Cawthra

Daniela Rotaru

Glassworks

Dirty Hit

Indie

Pale Waves 'Clean' by Vasilisa Forbes

Pale-Waves-'Clean'-by-Vasilisa-Forbes

The Trash Factory (aka James Arden)&nbsp;continues his collaborative streak&nbsp;with Dylan Fraser, with&nbsp;this transcendent ride for Vampire.The hypnotic visual&nbsp;sees Fraser holding onto featured artist Alaska&nbsp;Reid, as they ride a motorbike through coruscating lights and an abstract otherworld.&nbsp;The theme&nbsp;of showing your worst self in front of a loved one is&nbsp;visualised by a bold step into horror at the end, which acts as a perfect climax to the haunting yet surprisingly intimate promo.&nbsp;

Joshanne Dar

Renäta Fabri

Trash Factory

Kim Jarrett

Krunal Saadrani

Ronnie McQuillan

Anna Brooks-beckman

Chay Mcgill

Rafal Rakoczy

Kristiana Zhekova

Shaquilla Alexander

James Arden

Alex O'Brien

Nomad Editing Company

Atlantic Records

Dylan Fraser ft Alaska Reid 'Vampire' by Trash Factory

Dylan-Fraser-'Vampire-(with-Alaska-Reid)'-by-Trash-Factory

Vasilisa Forbes follows up her video for Pale Waves' <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/05/18/pale-waves-lies-vasilisa-forbes/76477" target="_blank">Lies</a> with a starkly monochromic performance piece for Jealousy.The high-contrast cinematography is inspired by the work of taboo-busting Irish photographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Carlos_Clarke#DVDs" target="_blank">Bob Carlos Clarke</a>, and gives the promo an editorial-meets-punk aesthetic.[imgtoken data:1]The minimalist art direction and expansive white cyc backdrops create a glossy, luxurious feel, which is perfectly balanced by the rougher textures and frenetic camerawork.&nbsp;"I wanted to take Pale Waves into a punk and minimal world," says Forbes.&nbsp;"Chains represent&nbsp;suppression and being held back by jealous thoughts and emotions - caging, carrying a weight, oppression and breaking bonds."

Morgan Sinclair

Vanessa Mcdowell

Sam James Fullerton

Nacho

James Huth

Katie Dymmock

Coffee & TV

Laura Gamezzz

Indie Rock

Pale Waves 'Jealousy' by Vasilisa Forbes

Pale-Waves-'Jealousy-'-by-Vasilisa-Forbes

Ben Newbury helms a scintillating and breathless POV journey of a rocket-powered space woman as she flies across the globe, Iron Man-style, for Navos and Galantis's uplifting dance anthem What It Feels Like.Newbury has harnessed the latest in both drone and greenscreen technology to create this action-packed extravaganza, to make it feel like a woman really can fly - speeding through&nbsp;some glorious landscapes, both natural and urban - until she makes a truly spectacular&nbsp;crash-landing.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;"You know you’re on to a basic concept that will probably make a good video when each time you talk it through everyone keeps having more and more ideas for it -&nbsp;that totally happened with this," says Ben Newbury. "I have to give props to the commissioner John Hassay. He was looking for a video that: a young audience would watch to the end;&nbsp;a video that captured euphoria (the feeling not the TV show). Challenge accepted.<blockquote>Having a wild visual idea is one thing but you’re only going to hook the audience if they connect to it.</blockquote>"So the pitch was this… we experience the explosive, psychedelic journey of a spacewoman as she re-enters the atmosphere and hurtles round the surface of the earth - all from a POV inside her helmet. This hyper-colour, over-saturated, warp speed journey takes us from the edge of space, through epic mountains, forests, cities and deserts, flying through impossibly small spaces and trippy VFX wormholes, to match the euphoric feeling of the track. Before she smashes into the ground. Easy peezy."The flight itself was created with FPV drones, filmed around the world, frame matching different takes to create one sequence. Adding in the initial fall from space and trippy wormholes in VFX. Once our VFX wizards had the edit stitched together, and we had all enjoyed another Covid test, we headed to the XR stage in Garden Studios. After some careful testing, Olly Nice our cinematographer extraordinaire rigged the camera inside a space helmet, created by our fabulous art director Katie South, ready for the XR screens to play back the journey.[imgtoken data:2]"The XR screen array enabled us to perfectly match the lighting in the reflections inside the helmet and on her hands and arms, allowing our space woman to appear to look around and throw her arms out in time with the flight (as well as becoming the desert backdrop and lighting for our final shot). Our wonderful actress Poppy Christie positioned herself underneath the camera, while our SFX team (the whole rest of crew) held all manor of wind machines, spritzers, leaf blowers and smoke machines ready for launch. This made the final video pretty much a one-taker, with everyone firing smokers and squirting water at the camera."One goal I kept coming back to throughout pre-production was to make sure the video was about the emotional experience the space woman was having on her journey down to earth. Having a wild visual idea is one thing but you’re only going to hook the audience if they connect to it. If they care. It needed a human element to create that sense of jeopardy. So our solution was to shoot a plate shot of Poppy performing the flight facing the XR screen without the helmet, then composite that as a reflection into the visor in a final round of post, to allow the audience to see her performance.[imgtoken data:3]"Pulling all this off would not have been possible without the brilliant Ramy Dance and Alessia Lendrum from Common People Films. Alessia harnessed the true purpose of the internet, organising FPV drone pilots all around the world, who shot in deserts, mountains, jungles and cities to create the amazing footage that makes up the flight."Big shout out to Tom Bailey and Greg Ayala at FNDM who designed the artwork that kicked off the thought process. I also want to thank our head leaf blower op and PA - Ynez Myers, AC - Mark James, HMU - Eliza Clarke, the Drone Pilots - Luca Morandini, Fabrizio Botto, Smirnov Dmitrii Olegovich, Zakir Mohammad &amp; Jerry Chan. Then on Edit - Matthew Blacklock, Grade - Kathryn Dymmock, Sound Design - James Hall and our VFX brains - James Taylor, Darri Thorsteinsson and Shivam Solanki. As well as Andy Roberts, Amy Collins and Mariama Camara. And finally Navos and Galantis for making such a massive banger."

Ben Newbury

Las Bandas Be Brave

Common People Films

John Hassay

Olly Nice

Ramy Dance

Ynez Myers

Mark James

Katie South

Matthew Blacklock

Darri Thorsteinsson

Shivam Solanki

Poppy Christie

Island Records

Dance

Navos X Galantis ft YOU 'What It Feels Like' by Ben Newbury

Navos-X-Galantis-'What-It-Feels-Like-Ft-You'-by-Ben-Newbury

Vasilisa Forbes directs a stylish performance promo for UK rock outfit Pale Waves.Interweaving her fashion sensibilities with portraiture-style vignettes, Forbes uses lighting and art direction to visualise the compelling track.&nbsp;Shot in a studio, the video for Lies spans three contrasting setups which each&nbsp;offer a conceptual take&nbsp;on the lyrics.[imgtoken data:1]"(The track) spoke to me of heartbreak and frustration, yet with punchy empowerment," says Vasilisa Forbes.&nbsp;"I wanted to create a striking performance-focused video for Pale Waves with Heather at the forefront; in a lighting and colour driven studio environment."A blue diamond shape is repeated through a performance cube where we mirror ceiling and floor, and a diamond studio formation ‘inversion’. Shadows and mysterious lighting-tonality speak to me of ‘LIES’ - covering up, hiding, sinister details...thoughts taking place in the shadows."Playfully the heart motif is presented and repeated through the use of blood-red tones, and heart cut-out lighting frames."&nbsp;

Vanessa Mcdonnel

Samuel Fullerton

Nacho Guzman

Pale Waves 'Lies' by Vasilisa Forbes

Pale-Waves-'Lies'-by-Vasilisa-Forbes

The Trash Factory lives up to his director moniker in this excellent video for Dylan Fraser.&nbsp;In the video for&nbsp;Apartment Complex On The Eastside, we see the artist in a sea of trash, getting pushed around by passing pedestrians until he breaks out into a much roomier exterior space.From the custom set design through to the inspired colour palettes, it's a simple concept that is imbued with passion and creativity, which elevates it to a whole new level.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>I wanted Dylan to be physically overwhelmed...</blockquote>"[The video is about]&nbsp;feeling like the world is fucked, that you're just a passing person in an indifferent urban sprawl, but finding some freedom in that pessimism," says James Arden - aka The Trash Factory.&nbsp;"Built around the thought-provoking opening lyric - 'Someday I will lay beneath some new apartment complex on the Eastside'&nbsp;- I wanted Dylan to be physically overwhelmed by rushing pedestrians who don't give a shit about him. So, continuing my fondness for burying musicians in their own music videos, we decided to throw trash at Dylan until he was engulfed completely.&nbsp;"Visually, this video was heavily inspired by 90s Radiohead promos, the absurd films of Roy Andersson, and one specific shot in Spiderman 2 where Peter Parker is bashed around picking up his books on campus, that I became obsessed with and wanted to include in a video. I'm glad it found its home."&nbsp;And so are we.&nbsp;

The Trash Factory

Reprobates

Andi Chu

Black Kite Studios

Dylan Fraser 'Apartment Complex On The Eastside' by The Trash Factory

Dylan-Fraser--'Apartment-Complex-On-The-Eastside-'-by-The-Trash-Factory

Creative trio Three Shades direct an infectiously fun promo for Bastille.&nbsp;The video for Shut Off The Lights is a&nbsp;light-hearted look at how people might react if&nbsp;their connection to the virtual world was suddenly broken, in the middle of their working day.In an age of short attention spans and technological takeover, the video follows a&nbsp;rag-tag bunch of office workers, and details their escapades as they are left to&nbsp;their own devices (pun intended).Building upon the dystopian world of ‘Future Inc’ that Bastille had already created for their upcoming album, Three Shades set out to capture the joy, euphoria and childlike innocence of human interactions in their most basic forms. It's safe to say they have achieved that and much more in entertaining video.

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