Division

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Alex Courtès

As we know, making music videos beats proper working for a living. But it&#39;s also tough &ndash; really tough if no-one informed you the artist, and his entourage of twerking girls, are all 30 feet tall.Alex Courtès&#39;s latest video explores this unlikely scenario and its remarkable consequences in his new video for Sean Paul and Major Lazer. And the director also plays himself&nbsp;- or a long-suffering hangdog version of himself &ndash;&nbsp;with aplomb.&nbsp;He has the air of a man who&#39;s seen it all, suffered much, but has never quite seen this.The video was achieved with a combination of post and practical effects, with Sean and his posse given the VFX treatment at Machine Molle in Paris.It&#39;s rare for a video to work as straightahead commercial pop video, and satirical comedy on the process - and the storyboard shot will make you laugh or cry, and possibly both - but this definitely has its cake and eats it.

United States

Théo Gall

Benoit Roques

Simon Chaudoir

Daniel Dittman

Adriana Legay

Machine Molle

Dancehall

Dance

Sean Paul & Major Lazer 'Tip Pon It' by Alexandre Courtès

Sean Paul & Major Lazer - Tip Pon It

Alex Courtès elevates sex to a higher plane in his stunning and steamy video for Justice.A naked couple&#39;s throes of sexual passion take place in an abstract space and charged with beams of light, until the pair become positively godlike. Courtès orchestrates the action and their passage to sexual immortality with real panache, the sense of Kubrick-style perfection of the whole piece confirmed by the final shot.

France

Elsa Rodach

Clémence Cuvelier

Nicolas Loir

Delphine Genest

Electronica

Justice 'Pleasure' by Alex Courtès

Justice | Pleasure

Alex Courtès&#39; new Cassius video is all about intriguing, ingenious, and ironic visual juxtapositions: stock shots from the&nbsp;commercial mainstream are spliced &ndash; horizontally and vertically - with deeply contrasting, graphically connected images to create a constant flow of striking combinations.&nbsp;It all starts with the Earth becoming the bottom half of a pile of tagliatelli. But much of what follows includes movement that makes the combinations even more effective.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]What a research job that must have been. This was all created with stock footage, edited by Zoé Sassier, graded by Vincent Heine and post work at Division&#39;s regular partner&nbsp;Home Digital Pictures to their usual impeccable standards.And of course, great to see Alex Courtès, a true master of the medium, making a music video&nbsp;again. &nbsp;

Home Digital Pictures

Bianca Benloukil

Zoe Sassier

Maud Sicre

Daniel Rodriguez

Vincent Heine

Alternative Pop, Dance

Cassius ft Pharrell Williams & Cat Power 'Go Up' by Alex Courtès

Cassius - Go Up ft Cat Power & Pharrell Williams (Official Video)

In Fleur and Manu&#39;s ambitious, layered, cameo-littered epic for&nbsp;A$AP Rocky&#39;s Everyday, we follow the irrepressible Rocky&#39;s career in reverse - from a point where all that lavish living has definitely caught up with him.Bloated, used-up, and face-down in a pool, Everyday (which samples Rod Stewart&#39;s vocal from In A Broken Dream)&nbsp;tracks an old rapper&#39;s past through flashbacks which see him popping prescription pills and going under the knife to retain his fading looks, becoming unrecognisable. Rod (who has looked after himself)&nbsp;makes a brief appearance too, and Mark Ronson, as this whirlwind of scenes of partying, drugs and girls reveals present-day Rocky in all his current gorgeousness.There&#39;s a&nbsp;&#39;money can&#39;t buy&nbsp;happiness&#39;&nbsp;message in there somewhere, but Rocky still comes out as more of a carpe diem&nbsp;type of guy...&nbsp;

Fleur and Manu

Jules de Chateleux

Roman Pichon Herrera

PJ Sodaski

Virginie Drouot

Manar Humidan

Mitch Yapkon

Nicholas Ybarra

Akila Robinson

Hope Wilson

Chace JOHNSON

Natalie Avital

Alexis Zabe

Lol Crawley

Mike Cerda

David OLAONIYE

Devon Taffe

Kyle BEIERMEISTER

Nghia Khuu

Jason Fijal

Danny Garcia

Michael Poudrier

Oskar Salas

Mindy Le Brock

Matthew Henson

Kyle Blackmon

Sussy CAMPOS

Lauren Michelle

Lauren Ishii

Kevin Fallon

Marcel Banks

Patsy Fitzgerald

Eric Browning

Mathematic

Clément Pignal

Paul Crehange

Géraldine Bourguignat

Nicolas Larrouquere

Simon COLLIN

Didier Le Fouest

Daniel Rodrigues

Didier Lefouest

A$AP Rocky 'Everyday' by Fleur and Manu

Fresh from their Glastonbury headlining slot, Kasabian and director Alex Courtes deliver this thrilling epic-scale promo to new single Bumblebee.&nbsp;The video sees the band performing the song in front of an excited,&nbsp;charging audience -&nbsp;using shots of a&nbsp;pack of dogs as a powerful metaphor - and is characterised by some beautiful slo-mo sequences including frontman Tom Meighan diving into the crowd, all beautifully and expertly captured by DP Steve Annis.

United Kingdom

Aurelie Bruneau

Steve Annis

Mark Zarka

Fauna Films

Nicholas Larrouquere

Elise Bouquet

Sony Music

Mike O'Keefe

Indie Rock

Kasabian 'Bumblebee' by Alex Courtes

KASABIAN "BUMBLEBEEE "

A marvellous video for Warp signing Jackson And His Computerband&#39;s Dead Living Things - featuring the distinctive vocal stylings of Planningtorock - by Alex Courtès, that really is good for repeated viewings.It has an impenetrably&nbsp;surreal, vignette-style that has become quite familiar&nbsp; - and Alex has commented on its debt to other notable filmmakers, saying on <a href="http://warp.net/records/jackson-and-his-computerband/new-video-dead-living-things" target="_blank">the Warp Records site</a> that &quot;this project is a direct reference to the works of Fellini and David Lynch. It is a juxtaposition of life scenes and actions that have nothing to do with each other in particular, that however create a fantastic dynamic and resolutely surreal experience.&rdquo;Absolutely. But it&#39;s worth adding that the film really has the true&nbsp;quality of a dream. These scenarios are conjured from imagination, like a random dreamer&#39;s thoughts, with&nbsp;a coherent narrative just tantalisingly out of reach.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jean Davi

Francois Lizé

Mathieu Plainfosse

Marie D'Alençon

Amaury Brougalay

Sebastien Grasso

Olivier Benoist

Joy Sauvage

Alain Tamaya

Djoher Ait Amer

Béatrice Han Ching

Warp

Alternative

Jackson And His Computerband 'Dead Living Things' by Alex Courtès

Jackson and His Computerband - Dead Living Things (Official Video)

With brilliant choreography from Olivier Casamayou and Carine Charaire, Alex Courtès delivers a ripper of a promo - a pure pop extravaganza -for Willy Moon's Yeah Yeah.
Moon gives a very confident and spirited performance within Alex's very simple set-up of a platform and mirrors - making the 16-strong dance troupe appear as hundreds...

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=GaWXA5e0YTQ

Axel Cosnefroy

Loïc Andrieu

Reem Kuzayli

Kazue Deki

Olivier Casamayou, Carine Charaire

OB Management

Willy Moon 'Yeah Yeah' by Alex Courtès

Willy-Moon-'Yeah-Yeah'-by-Alex-Courtès

As if he&#39;s reached the logical conclusion of all his previous videos, Sébastien Tellier collaborates with Alex Courtès to become the guitar-wielding Rasputin of Sex, overseeing a belter of a disco-orgy, in the video for Cochon Ville, first single from the upcoming album My God Is Blue.Of course its sexy. Its also pretty funny, and somewhat unsavoury. And you really don&#39;t want to put a firework there...Lets put it this way: Ken Russell would&#39;ve absolutely loved it. Thinking about it, Ken&#39;s probably the inspiration for the whole thing...

Helmi

Laurent Tangy

Joy M

Vincent Heisne

Sébastien Tellier 'Cochon Ville' by Alex Courtès (NSFW)

Sébastien-Tellier-'Cochon-Ville'-by-Alex-Courtès-(NSFW)

Life, death and the cosmos... only the big stuff in the mesmerising video for Justice's On 'N' On by Alex Courtes - his big return to directing videos since completing his first feature The Incident - and his first music video through Division. 
Alex explores the theme of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas" target="_blank">Vanitas</a>, applied to the realm of rock 'n roll, with an epic vision, and the relentless forward motion of his (&amp; Martin's) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=6j7huh5Egew" target="_blank">Seven Nation Army</a>. Wonderfully shot, and the FX work, by Mathematic in Paris, is superb.

Christelle Tastet

Eleonore Coupry & Clementine Delorme

Marie Mezeray

Josephine De La Baume &amp; Alison Abroux

Guillaume Lemerle

Claude Neron

Justice ‘On ‘N’ On’ by Alex Courtes

Justice-‘On-‘N’-On’-by-Alex-Courtes

A spectacular, beautifully-engineered unveiling of the timeless Moroccan city of Fez (it&#39;s the largest medieval city in the world, apparently) in Alex Courtes latest video for Bono and co.Veteran UK art direction/sfx team Einstein&#39;s Octopus and Paris post house Mikros Image supervised the unveiling in U2&#39;s second Moorish-themed video, following Stephane Sednaoui&#39;s belly-dancing, wobbly-vision vid for <a href="https://vimeo.com/42347030" target="_blank">Mysterious Ways</a>&nbsp;all those years ago. The result is uplifting.

Partizan Darkroom

Malachy McAnenny

Omer Ganai

Delphine de Casanove

Tom Lindsey

Simone Grattarola

Mikros Image, Paris

Jean

Sharon Blankson

Tom Bird

U2’s Magnificent by Alex Courtes

U2 - Magnificent

U2 are back with a top-notch collage-effect video by their old pal Alex Courtes.It is somewhat in the same ballpark as Alex &amp; Martin&#39;s genius <a href="http://www.partizan.com/partizan/v.php/alex_and_martin_white_stripes_seven_nation_army/">Seven Nation Army</a> promo for The White Stripes, but this is a fine piece of work in its own right. It&#39;s precision-engineered to do what&#39;s required: be endlessly watchable over several billion viewings.The song is even quite good in parts - although there is a point where His Holiness actually removes his shirt to show us his pecs. You have been warned.

J Maskrey

Dan Sherwen

U2’s Get On Your Boots by Alex Courtes

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