A conceptualist and creative film director, pushing boundaries for artists and for how an audience may consume that work. She is an ideas factory – absorbing art, image, music, fashion and dance and evolving this into future creativity. A director, a performer, a singer, a poet, a filmmaker – Beki is trusted by artists to bring vision to their art, to take it and push it forward. Understanding that ideas have to be communicated and welcomed into the audience’s world.   Recent film projects have included creating and directing music performance films for global superstars such as Rita Ora, Glass Animals, Sigrid, James Bay, Melody Gardot, Sting, Paloma Faith, Joy Crookes, Pop Smoke feat. Quavo, Conan Gray, Shiseido &amp;amp; Paris Jackson.   Short films for Damelfrau , Manysheva and Lost Colours.   On the other side of the camera, writing and performing with artists as diverse as seminal punk band Crass to Tessa Pollit (The Slits) to the French collective Nouvelle Vague, Beki was also asked to sing with Royksopp – something she was thrilled to do, citing them as a huge musical influence and cultural shifters themselves.Beki created a band - The Living Gods Of Haïti- in which she composed with Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague) and was the vocalist. It was after hearing one of these songs that prompted Royksopp to connect with Beki - the result of which is « This Time, This Place », released as their second single on the new album, “Profound Mysteries”.

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Beki Mari

Beki Mari directs a dazzling live video&nbsp;for Glass Animals' sleeper hit phenomenon Heat Waves, shot at the Dreamland theme park in Margate for the band's recent guest spot on&nbsp;The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.Glass Animals' frontman Dave Bayley roams the Americana-style park, which is buzzing with light and colour but deserted save from his performing bandmates - which also shares the name with the album (released in 2020) from which this huge hit came.&nbsp;Mari has made extensive use of FPV drone technology&nbsp;to create a dizzying camera moves around Bayley while he performs. It's a very successful conceptualisation of the nostalgic world evoked by the song, and beautifully executed.There is also a tinge of loneliness to the concept, highlighting the absence of crowds and collective fun due to the Covid-19 lockdowns, during which this was filmed - epitomised by the atmospheric shot of Bayley's walking among&nbsp;the huge letters of the Dreamland sign.

Xander Mitchell

Thomas Liam Davis

Ruth Parrish

247 Productions

Gordon Goodwin

Richard Buffy Dunton

John Pryer

George Doherty

Mark Pickard

Cara Mcdaniels

Sylvain Canaux

Republic Records

Glass Animals 'Heat Waves' (Live for The Tonight Show) by Beki Mari

Glass Animals – Heat Waves (Live On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

Beki Mari directs a brilliant performance of It Gets Dark by Sigrid on The Late Late Show with James Corden."Paying homage to a classic rock and roll performance, it’s an idea of extreme contrasts; of black and white, futuristic, raw energy," says Mari. "We play with this stark simplicity and thus light becomes our point of difference."The deceptively simple concept - consisting of a performance in a white cyc studio - emanates huge amounts of energy, elevated by Sigrid and her&nbsp;band's riotous&nbsp;performance and the dramatic lighting cues.&nbsp;"We used a mix of programmed and handheld light to dramatically change the space; from bouncing bright white light to suddenly being plunged into darkness," continues Mari."The effervescence of this contrast&nbsp;then careers us into&nbsp;a new wildness; flashing spots and a drenching of sensory blue until we land softly, sinking into prismic, celestial sparkle - created using mix of handheld foil, laser mirrors and an Astroraggi."Those elements all combine to showcase&nbsp;a stellar performance by Sigrid, reminding us why she is one of today’s most exciting pop stars.

Macy Dingle

Ahida Agirre

Phil Penfold

Thomas English

Sam Savile

Abbi Yardley

Rob Hawkins

Gabriella Floyd

Island Records UK

Sigrid 'It Gets Dark' (Live) by Beki Mari

Sigrid: It Gets Dark

Beki Mari directs a sensual promo for&nbsp;Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell, produced by 247 Productions.&nbsp;The video for&nbsp;This Foolish Heart Could Love You is&nbsp;curated in partnership with the Musée Rodin in Paris, and features two dancers in place of the artists themselves -&nbsp;Marie-Agnès Gillot, who also choreographed the piece, along with her male counterpart from L’Opera Garnier,&nbsp;Germain Louvet.Dressed in&nbsp;archive pieces by Japanese Designer Issey Miyake, the video externalises the romantic themes of the track, and the dancers take inspiration from the breathtaking art that surrounds them, bringing to life the sculptor August Rodin's work, as if to ‘flip the switch’ on who is the muse and who is the artist.&nbsp;"Some of our most powerful memories are re-lived through music which is why it is so vital to film-making," says Beki Mari.&nbsp;"Music inspires movement both externally and internally and in this piece, surrounded by some of the worlds greatest sculptures, we project ourselves through this combination of movement and song in order to dream through the romance, ending in the slow stillness of silence."For me, the fascination of creating films is this ability to conceive or birth a kind of visual language which is understood uniquely, each time it is played."&nbsp;

Germain Louvet

Marie Agnes Gillot

Fiona Omnes

Murray Rose

Cheyne Tillier Daley

Helene Orjebin

Max Mitochine

Alexandre Bloch

Lea Sassine

Camille Arnaud

Decca Records

Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell 'This Foolish Heart Could Love You' by Beki Mari

Melody Gardot, Philippe Powell - This Foolish Heart Could Love You

Beki Mari

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