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Barney Batchelor

Director duo Simon Davis and Jason Sondock - aka rubberband. - craft a bold and daring video for Bakar&nbsp;where&nbsp;the British alt-soul artist literally stops the traffic in the middle of Piccadilly Circus.The video for Alive! begins at this iconic British location, where curious onlookers are transfixed by the car that has stopped, holding up all the&nbsp;traffic behind on a rain-sodden day in central London. And then Bakar emerges, abandoning the vehicle, astonishingly, to&nbsp;begin an expressive performance of the song - choreographed by C Prinz -&nbsp;and escaping into the street.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]It's an ambitious concept, to say the least, and represents the themes of breaking free and challenging boundaries, whilst encouraging&nbsp;viewers to embrace their true selves and celebrate the joy that comes from taking risks and expressing one's individuality.The candid camerawork adds a DIY sensibility to the promo, echoing the online aesthetic of YouTube prank videos, whilst a focus on reactions - most of which are less than enthusiastic - helps solidify the message of the concept.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>Alive! is about the freedom and self expression, and what that means in the context of a greater whole.</blockquote>“Alive! was an extraordinary experience in every way," declare rubberband.&nbsp;"Working with an artist as brave and creative Bakar is the sort of collaboration you dream of but rarely find."The idea for the video was simple, abandon a car in the middle of Piccadilly Circus during rush hour and perform the song. This was done for real. Alive! is about the freedom and self expression, and what that means in the context of a greater whole. To stand in front of a sea of faces and attempt to feel Alive.”Brilliant work and a very memorable promo indeed.[imgtoken data:3]

United Kingdom

Katherine Fu

rubberband.

Theo Hue Williams

SMUGGLER

Michael Lewin

Patrick Golan

Elizabeth Doonan

Black Butter Records - Sony Music

Ty Hack

Chris Starkey

C Prinz

Experimental

Indie Rock

Bakar 'Alive!' by rubberband.

Bakar-'Alive'-by-Rubberband.

Rich Hall puts indie band Elephant Kind on an intergalactic tube train chockful of aliens - in his superb video for Love As.The production team at Riff Raff&nbsp;says: "Possibly the most extreme recce we’ve done in a while, was to the Moon and back. Rich Hall wanted to set Elephant Kind’s video there, so we popped over to get the vibe. But the train on the way back to Earth was just so packed with characters, it was like a casting director’s hallway. So Rich said f*** it, let’s just shoot it now."The DoP decided zero-gravity worked in favour of a spinning train carriage shot, and the producer agreed to pay travel expenses for being outside the M25, only because they’d save on camera kit by using alien drool to a dolly effect."So the band warmed up, and busted out their single ‘Love As’. And that’s how we got a video for an indie band about intergalactic space train love.*"*actual sequence of events may have differed."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3][imgtoken data:4]

Oian Arteta

Leanne Flinn

Rich Hall

Luke Tierney

Hands 

Riff Raff Films

Kidda Selassie

Will Shanahan

Adam Bell

Ben Todd

Laura Clayton

Suzan Mustafa

Alasdair Copland

Jake Whitehouse

Will Crafts

Celia Arias

Dom Hamilton

Georgia Olive

Ben Corfield

Homespun

Pete Oppersdorff

The Mill

Will Howland

Lora Nikolaeva

Mola Records

Elephant Kind 'Love As' by Rich Hall

Elephant Kind - Love As (Official Video)

Brock Neal Roberts's new video for Sam Fender - his second for the South Shields singer-songwriter, after last year's&nbsp;MVA-nominated&nbsp;video for&nbsp;Seventeen Going Under - elevates an everyday story of teenage friendship&nbsp;with a clever visual device.&nbsp;In the video for Getting Started, we see four friends work their way down their tower block, picking each other up on the way as they prepare to head for a night out. And each stage is mainly presented as a three dimensional photo, the camera tracking through the boys as they are caught static,&nbsp;in the moment.[imgtoken data:1]Brock has mainly used&nbsp;in-camera effects to create this sense of hyperreality, with the young actors freezing their bodies in a physical way&nbsp;rather than achieving the effect in post-production - identical twins were used to play the same characters, to bring the complex blocking to life.&nbsp; Imaginative art direction assists to make this work, such as the spray of a deodorant can and smoke from a cigarette created with cotton wool.Sam Fender's performance&nbsp;is the final piece of the jigsaw, walking through the same night-time streets, the unseen narrator of the boys' lives. In the Director's Cut we are featuring here, he is slightly more incidental to the action than&nbsp;in the official release. Ultimately, it is a charming and positive representation of youth and young male friendship.[imgtoken data:2]

Louis Simonon

Bardha Krasniqi

Holly MacDonald

Brock Neal Roberts

Manoela Chaibai

George Telfer

OB Management

Agile Films

Semera Khan

Vini Curtis

Precious Mahaga

Sana Khan

Smera Kumar

Elle Lotherington

Nick Teulon

Katya Bourvis

Kiloh Falby Clark

Ed Cooper

Assembly Rooms

Richard Fearon

Bruce Langfield

Black Kite Studios

Polydor

Digital Orchard

Rock

Sam Fender 'Getting Started' (Director's Cut) by Brock Neal Roberts

Sam-Fender-'Getting-Started-(dc)'-by-Brock-Neal-Roberts

Duncan Loudon imagines the life of a stuntman in his remarkable video for DJ/producer Tourist.Loudon takes us on to a film set, and into the world of stuntman-supreme Andy Bennett, as he goes about his daily business - and at the same time, also childminds his young daughter. And it all leads up to one of the most terrifyingly impressive of all movie stunts, when Bennett is doused in petrol and set alight, and then becomes a walking man on fire.Loudon establishes a mesmeric tone with a combination of documentary and impressionistic teasing beyond the frame of reality. Bennett also plays the part of the leading actor that he is doing stunts for. The division between the two is not easily distinguishable.But then there is of course the setpiece stunt. It is unmistakeably&nbsp;authentic,&nbsp;and Loudon takes us right into this feat of technique and sheer courage - and makes it poetic.&nbsp;Brilliantly achieved.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

Bon Walsh

Duncan Loudon

Ayo Davis

Somesuch

Greg Kreszowiec

Krzysztof Trojnar

Tash Tan

Thomas Davis (costume designer)

Melanie Szabo

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Kole Onis

Georgina Fillmore

Andre Reid-McKinley

Andy Bennett

Marc Cass

Tourist 'Your Love' by Duncan Loudon

Tourist-'Your-Love'-by-Duncan-Loudon

Loyle Carner tells his life story in one take in the impressive video for Yesterday, directed by The Coyle-Larner Brothers - Ben Coyle-Larner, aka Loyle Carner, and his brother Ryan.&nbsp;The video presents a touching coming-of-age story that comes full circle, all in one continuous take. We see the baby become a music-obsessed boy, an increasingly digruntled youth - as he grows to understand the world around him - becoming creative and learning&nbsp;to speak out against political and social discrimination. Then he starts making music, and finally becomes the man holding the baby.The beauty of the piece is how each element of the video works as it own world, even as the transitions occur seamlessly&nbsp;within a single Steadicam shot. It's ambitious and has been executed to perfection - and for that, Ben and Ryan engaged with the rapper's first love of theatre. They enlisted crew members from the West End, National Theatre and the stage team of Hamilton to bring their vision to life, to devise some ingenious set movements within a small space and a short amount of time.The fact that the Loyle Carner Brothers&nbsp;have come up with such a strikingly&nbsp;accomplished video, exploring the creative&nbsp;connections between music video to musical theatre&nbsp;to make serious message,&nbsp;augurs very well for their future career as directors.

The Coyle-Larner Brothers

Rosie Brear

Spindle

Stitch Richardson / Greg Hackett

Frankie Willcock

Clara Paris

Molly Manning Walker

Jonny Lewis

Bill Rae Smith

Charlotte King

Mikey Krzyzanowski

Aaliyah Oke

Tim Swaby

Toby Tompkins

CHEAT

No.8

Barny Wright

Antonio Jimenez

James Hackett

EMI Records

Greg Hackett

Hip Hop

Loyle Carner 'Yesterday' by The Coyle-Larner Brothers

Loyle-Carner-'Yesterday'-by-The-Coyle-larner-Brothers

Paul Mescal makes an emotional call to his girlfriend at the beginning of the video for The Rolling Stones' Scarlet, directed by Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor - aka Us.&nbsp;So far, so Normal People.&nbsp;But then we notice that Mescal is living in the lap of luxury. In fact he has the run of Claridge's Hotel, no less.&nbsp;After leaving a half-drunken love note to his girlfriend, Mescal&nbsp;(the sensitive Connell&nbsp;in TV hit&nbsp;Normal People) spins this previously unreleased track from The Stones' early '70s&nbsp;album&nbsp;Goat's Head Soup,&nbsp;proceeds to drink his body weight in whiskey, dance cheesily in the mirror, have an emotional breakdown and trash the hotel room.&nbsp;And then he heads down to the hotel lobby - which is even grander than the one in that other famous deserted hotel video, Weapon Of Choice.&nbsp;The video was made under social distancing guidelines, and clearly it could not have happened at any other time - and probably for no other band in the world. It's certainly a treat for the growing legion of the Mescal fans - and for fans of Barrett and Taylor too.

Us (Chris Barrett & Luke Taylor)

Georgina Smith

Academy Films

Maurizio Von Trapp

Gemma Priggen

Benji Edwards

Mauro Chiarello

Stephen Finberg

Mark Connell

Sara Sensoy

Lucie Blundell-Jones

Supple Nam

Ellie Johnson

Tenthree Editing

Simone Grattarola

Time Based Arts

Sean Ewins

Paul Mescal

Mouthpiece

The Rolling Stones 'Scarlet' by Us

The-Rolling-Stones--'Scarlet-'-by-Us-(chris-Barrett-&-Luke-Taylor)

Warren Fu serves up a rapid-fire visual feast for his third collaboration with The 1975 -&nbsp;a video with a nü-metal edge, and frontman Matty Healy rocking Marilyn Manson-esque long hair.The band performs in a box featuring flashing lights, words and images that shift from wall to wall as the camera moves chaotically around them. At one point, Healy has a bomb strapped to his chest that he sets off, and that explodes into more digital images.

Warren Fu

Mayling Wong

Partizan

Jack Bristow

Steve Wingrove

Rob Witt

Matt Wright

Onx Narang

Patricia Villirillo

Yusuke Morioka

Annesophie Costa

Taylor Walsh

Cabin Edit

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Carbon

Ed Blow

Dirty Hit

Charlie Scannell

The 1975 'People' by Warren Fu

The 1975 - People (Official Video)

Tom Dream&#39;s video for the seductive dream-pop of Thandii&#39;s Another One places the performance within the seductive delights of Margate.&nbsp;From the windblown boardwark above the Winter Gardens&nbsp;to&nbsp;Dreamland&#39;s roller rink&nbsp;to&nbsp;The Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, here&#39;s the idiosyncratic beauty of the Kent coast in all its glory, in a film that was inspired by the slow disco scene of the late 70s. &nbsp;

Tom Dream

Hunter Daly

Toby Mckay

Charlie Wyldeck

Jade Williams

Jemelia Elise Whitaker

Gus Sharpe

Thandii 'Another One' by Tom Dream

Another One - Thandii [Official Video]

Libby Burke Wilde captures the voice and guitar of Brit Award nominee Lewis Capaldi at London Road Fire Station in Manchester.&nbsp;Shot on beautiful 16mm film by DoP Jordan Buck, Burke Wilde helms Capaldi&#39;s&nbsp;performance of his song Someone You Loved as one continuous take.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Libby Burke Wilde

Joshua Noon

Archer's Mark

Fiona Bamford Phillips

Jordan Buck

Jessica Oxley

Andy Grundy

Jade Kewley

Paula Maxwell

Taylor Fawcett

Joseph Bicknell

Connie Meade

Virgin EMI

Singer-songwriter

Lewis Capaldi 'Someone You Loved' (Live) by Libby Burke Wilde

Lewis-Capaldi-'Someone-You-Loved-(live)'-by-Libby-Burke-wilde

Hannah Marshall directs a powerful new music video for Iranian artist Gola, using the film as a&nbsp;rallying call to anyone that has ever defied those who have told them &#39;no&#39;.&nbsp;Gola had to leave her homeland in order to pursue a career in music, having been a member of&nbsp;Orchid, Iran&rsquo;s first girl group, who were banned from releasing music and whose female-only concerts were heavily patroled by morality police, so attendees were not permitted to dance or sing along. Now&nbsp;Gola uses her voice to bring awareness to Iran and the power of women in her country.&nbsp;And Marshall says her&nbsp;visual concept was&nbsp;conceived &ldquo;as an ode to female potency and empowerment. This individual and collective striving is central to the structure of the video.&quot;&nbsp;She adds: &quot;I focused on three zones of the body, each corresponding to a different form of communication: eyes (the gaze), mouth (the voice), and hands (the touch). The clothing both impresses upon and provides gateways of expression for the body. The lived experiences of women are complex and the debates around their bodies often highly charged and politicised. Through the ritual of covering up and concealing what lies beneath, the intention is to present the hijab and veil as a self-contained source of power, an armour-like second skin that is loaded with life force and freedom.&rdquo; &bull;<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/xwjq8j/gola-iranian-artist-the-line" target="_blank"> i-D</a>: Hannah Marshall on her Gola video&nbsp;

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