Director of Photography

Andre Chemetoff

Dua Lipa returns with the propulsive Houdini and a video by Manu Cossu that adds magic and panache to a dance rehearsal sequence.Shot at the The English National Ballet’s Mulryan Centre for Dance, it's edgier,&nbsp;a bit more 'Tove Lo', than previous videos for Dua by the likes of Henry Scholfield and CANADA - but just as beautifully put together.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Manu Cossu

Iconoclast

Hands 

Maëva Tenneroni

Romain Gavras

Martha McGuirk

Arthur De Borman

Charm La Donna

Lorenzo Posocco

Lisa Eldridge

Peter Lux

Matt Allsop

Mathieu Caplanne

Jérôme Pesnel

Léo Gatelier

Dua Lipa 'Houdini' by Manu Cossu

Dua Lipa - Houdini (Official Music Video)

Remi Besse directs an atmospheric promo for IDK and Kaytranada.&nbsp;The short film follows several delivery riders in Paris, who transcend their grim reality and launch off into the sky, soaring above the city streets and letting go of the emotional baggage that is weighing them down.&nbsp;It's a feelgood concept with an introspective, raw treatment, and looks absolutely beautiful - thanks to DoP&nbsp;André Chemetoff's polished cinematic style.&nbsp;

Conan Lorendot

Dan Sablon

Remi Besse

Horace De Gunzbourg

Rémi Farkas

Francesco Colombo

Iconoclast France

Sacha Nacéri

Thomas Burgess

Jon Echeveste

Icecream Paris

Kevin Le Dortz

Nighshift

Poster - Nightshift

Cousin Bizarre

IDK & Kaytranada 'Breathe' by Remi Besse

Idk-&-Kaytranada-'Breathe'-by-Remi-Besse

It's the meeting of&nbsp;two towering French pop icons from different eras -&nbsp;and&nbsp;Colin Solal Cardo captures the magic in one of the best performance videos all year.Indochine, a pop star in France for decades, and the living embodiment&nbsp;of Parisien froideur, comes up against the unstoppable charismatic pizzazz of Christine - so Solal Cardo does the sensible thing and lets them get on with it. A simply art directed set, clever use of lighting orchestrated by DoP Andre Chemetoff, and then its all about capturing the two compelling performers.Christine is, as ever, wonderful. She evidently adores her aloof co-star. And even Indo, who looks like he has been too cool to smile for about forty years, eventually cracks. Brilliant.&nbsp;

France

Colin Solal Cardo

Camille Grazie

Production Paris

Lucie Libotte

Emilie Turck

Delphine Courteille

Angloma

Edouard Mailaender

Arthur Paux

Nightshift

Elodie Latapie

FRIEND

Afif Baroudi

Garlone Jadoul

Natacha Voranger

Teva Vasseur

Karin Westerlund

Indochine & Christine And The Queens '3SEX' by Colin Solal Cardo

Indochine-&-Christine-And-The-Queens-'3sex'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

Helmi takes the reins for the latest video for Rosalía, and imagines the sadness at the heart of her song Bagdad, with a new twist on&nbsp;a classic metaphor of heartbreak.As she withdraws to a toilet stall in a club bathroom, in the aftermath of a devastating phone call, Rosalía starts to cry. And she keeps crying, the equivalent of crying a river. The water rises in the stall, and&nbsp;Rosalía&nbsp;is resigned to&nbsp;drowning in her own tears.&nbsp;In the way that has marked out all her videos so far, Helmi mixes passion, grittiness and fantasy to make a wholly seductive piece for this&nbsp;sensational Spanish artist.&nbsp;

Spain

Helmi

Théo Gall

Division

Marie Lesay

Gabriel Levy

Jill Gattegno

Djoher Ait Amer

Marie Charlotte Moreau

Mathematic

Capitaine Plouf

Guillermo Enguita

Rosalía 'Bagdad (Cap.7: Liturgia)' by Helmi

ROSALÍA - BAGDAD (Cap.7: Liturgia)

Grant Singer shows&nbsp;Camila Cabello hogging the limelight in two different formats - on home video and music video. &nbsp;

Grant Singer

Anonymous Content

Somesuch

Saul Germaine

Jacob Swanhyam

Nina Soriano

Joseph Bennett

Nick Rondeau

Arcade Edit

Lark Creative

Epic

Camilla Cabello 'Never Be The Same' by Grant Singer

Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same

With friends like these... dark undertones simmer throughout Alex Hulsey&#39;s absorbing promo for Wilkinson&#39;s Hopelessly Coping, as an ordinary girl goes through her day, from working at the local racetrack, to hanging out with friends.&nbsp;It&#39;s an unfussily believeable scenario, as she is forced to question&nbsp;her unsatisfying existence - hopelessly coping with her surroundings &ndash; with&nbsp;Alex Hulsey&nbsp;coaxing natural performances from a collection of local non-actors from Tucson, Arizona...

Alex Hulsey

Chris Black

Will Parnall

Nicholas Geib

Erick Aguilar

Symeon Platts

Darious Britt

Leila Saraff

Trim Editing

Simon Bourne

Framestore

Glassworks

Johnny Fairburn

Female Lead: Cortney Radtke / Male Lead: Mark Orantez

Dylan Kearny

Jon Mendenhall

Lucinda Spurrier

Paige Cuff, Isabelle Smith

Jordan Fuller

Virgin EMI

John Moule

Tash Tan

Daniel Wolfe

Wilkinson 'Hopelessly Coping' by Alex Hulsey

Wilkinson-'Hopelessly-Coping-'-by-Alex-Hulsey

A word of warning: if you&rsquo;re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don&rsquo;t watch this video. Or if you&rsquo;re in a workplace with other people that aren&rsquo;t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously&hellip;But for everyone else &ndash; well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce&rsquo;s video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s Dancing Anymore &ndash; which, although it contains explicit and relentless sexual imagery, is not actually pornography. Not really.It is, of course, the follow-up to the French directing team&rsquo;s sensational, hugely successful video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s The Greeks, and it is very much its conceptual sequel. And it shares a good deal of The Greeks&rsquo; genius too. It&rsquo;s just that instead of cartoon violence from the imaginations of small boys playing Nerf gun wargames, we are confronted with the contents of an male adolescent&rsquo;s brain, at the point when he has the opportunity for some serious masturbation action&hellip;Mathematic in Paris provided the adult-oriented animation &ndash; appropriately more three-dimensional than that used in The Greeks, yet deliberately imperfect in a rather perfect way. Meanwhile we asked Leo Berne, one of the four-man directing collective that is Megaforce, a few questions to get some insight into the making of the video&hellip;Leo Berne from Megaforce on making the video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s Dancing AnymoreHow would you describe the similarities between this and The Greeks?We see them as a diptych. In both videos, we use a post production trick to represent what is happening in the minds of our protagonists.In the first video, we intentionally shot very roughly with a cheap camera. In our opinion, it was the best way to express the wild side of childhood. To contrast with that, we wanted the representation of their fantasies to be very thorough. We choose japanese animation for its incredible power to represent explosions and blood in a fascinating, aesthetically compelling way.For this new one, we wanted the story to be more cinematic, more intimate. We achieved this contrast through adding unperfected CG characters with all of their bugs and glitches. This was mostly because our of our fascination about those things comes specifically from the way in which they fail to replicate reality.What were the difficulties in making the video? Did you have trouble selling the idea to the band and the label?Well the cadre of all the people we worked with was so high, that we can honestly say that is wasn&rsquo;t a difficult video to shoot. Our production company Iconoclast, the DOP André Chemetov and his team, the post production company Mathematic, the Label Kitsuné and the band, they all trusted and supported us from the start till the finish with no major glitches.What was the budget? Did the success of The Greeks mean you had more money to make this one? How long did it take to come together?The budget was low, basically the same than for the Greeks, but this time the production company and the post production company invested more in it. We will be eternally grateful for that. You need huge balls to support a project like this.Where did you shoot the live action (nice place!)?Its in one of the poshest areas in the suburbs of Paris called le Vesinet. We wanted a house that was almost unreal, in which you would clearly feel the excitement in the freedom to be left alone in there. Besides, the living room was very convenient because it was big enough to place all the green screens we needed for the full CG scenes.Did you have any trouble casting your &lsquo;hero&rsquo; (ie, any contenders for the part put off by the idea of having to be masturbating through most of the video?)It was tricky but our casting director Philippe Elkoubi is really someone we can trust. It actually was a very short casting, we only met 4 guys. Each guy we saw brought the film in a very different direction. One of them declined when we explained to him more precisely what it was all about. Anyway, when I saw Louïs I said to myself &ldquo;That&rsquo;s him! That&rsquo;s my bro!&rdquo;, from that moment I started to be able to picture the film.Who worked on the animation? And which one of the Megaforce team had the job of directing the animation? Was the job done in a veil of secrecy, or under more secretive conditions, due to the nature of the content?The modeling, the animation, the integration, all of that had been done by the brilliant teams at Mathematic. The 4 of us at Megaforce had an eye on what was going on and we often popped into the studio to give our comments. Yes, it was quite tricky for them to hide their screens when they welcomed clients&hellip;Is this going to be released through the usual channels? Have there been any concerns from the label and the band about where the video is going to be shown, getting banned or censored, etc?Well, we knew that it was going to be difficult but still we feel that being banned from YouTube is unfair, the video only lasted for 25 minutes on the site. We didn&rsquo;t do the video to shock people and achieving buzz through controversy was not our intention. We just want to make videos that touch us and share them with all those who will take the time to receive them.Are there any plans for a third video in the series? After dealing with Sex, is there any need&hellip;?Well we&rsquo;re thinking about it, but we will only do something if we think we have something that&rsquo;s worth it.

Megaforce

Riff Raff Films

Roman Pichon Herrera

Jean Davi

Gildas Fablet

Eleanor Hart

Matthieu Desnos

Sandy Moreau

Camille Perrier

Adrien Euverte

Martin Trepreau

Indie

Is Tropical ‘Dancing Anymore’ by Megaforce 

Is Tropical / Dancing Anymore

Edward Housden takes us into tough world of the professional ballet dancer and gymnast in his excellent promo for The Juveniles' Through The Night.
The girls are in training in the dance studio - and put on a splendid performance. But not quite splendid enough for the vile and irate dance instructor... 
It's Edward's impressive first video through El Niño/Irène in Paris (he's repped by Independent for commercials in the UK) - and he worked with Andre Chemetoff, Romain Gavras's regular DoP (and former MVA best cinematography winner) on the Juveniles project. So not surprisingly, it looks great.

Edward Housden

Irène

Marie Le Grevellec

Kaveh Saminipour

Alix Penichon

Jérémie Leloup

Romain Houssais

Maddlyne Di Mino

Harold Chlewicki

Annick & Jo Siclay and the Paris Gym 15 crew, Sylvie Wolff & Ruth

The Juveniles 'Through The Night' by Edward Housden

The-Juveniles-'Through-The-Night'-by-Edward-Housden

Bad girl M.I.A. is back with bad boy Romain Gavras for Bad Girls, and it's an awesome, beautiful, horizon-widening, spectacle. Beamers driving on end, boy racers in keffiyahs, mind-boggling stunts, skidding blow-outs, silky dancers with AK-47s - and Arab stallions in full gallop....Shot in Morocco, it's arguably Romain's first proper pop video - which also smashes a stereotypical Western view of the 'Middle East'. And it puts M.I.A's middle finger to the all-American Superbowl-watching viewers into some kind of perspective. What else could she possibly do

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