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Portia Barnet-Herrin explores conflict and escapism in her promo for Aurora Dee Raynes' Crazy That You Love.Focused on a relationship that is fizzling out, we see Aurora vocalist&nbsp;Danielle Kranendonk run and hail a cab, leaving her on-screen partner - played by&nbsp;Emmanuel Ogunjinmi - alone in the cold.We see snippets of the relationship, intertwined with a laidback performance, where Kranendonk leans out the top of the cab, allowing the breeze to take her away in the moment.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Portia Barnet-Herrin

Preference Studio

Yohan Forbes

Lee Vasell

Collette Gerald

Danielle Kranendonk

Stephen Raynes

Nuala Sheridan @ The Farm

The Farm

Emmanuel Ogunjinmi

Tru Thoughts

Electronic

Alternative

Aurora Dee Raynes 'Crazy That You Love' by Portia Barnet-Herrin

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Ben Strebel has created a strikingly metaphorical and intensely visceral&nbsp;video for The Hour; a harrowing look at disenfranchised Britain and the exploration of freedom.The film features faceless, masked figures engaging in a dramatic event, which appears ominous and threatening. But Strebel invites the viewer to explore their perceptions, as the lack of sinlge identity is shown to be liberating:&nbsp;&nbsp;no class, no gender, no race, no disability. Everyone is the same, and ultimately a supportive community.The Hour is a collective of anonymous artists who themselves wear masks when performing live on stage, allowing the group to change freely over time. The mask is about being free and equal, also captured in Strebel&rsquo;s film.&nbsp;He explains:&nbsp;&ldquo;I wanted to examine the almost utopian idea of anonymity in the face of a society crazed by nihilism (social media driving us to extreme antisocial behaviour and mental illness).&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;

Ben Strebel

India Lee

Skunk London

Kate Taylor

Miri De Villers

Chris Malin

Benjamin Todd

Silvio Bersani

Nick Leishman

Oliver Hogan

Edie Ashley

Lucy Clements

Sadaf Nazuri

Luke Morrison

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Futurekind

The Hour 'Wasted' by Ben Strebel 

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Sia, Diplo and Labrinth are now all together in a new musical project they have called, for obvious reasons, LSD.And with unshakeable logic the video for first&nbsp;single Genius is a decidely trippy affair: the Sia and Labrinth characters eccentric&nbsp;romance&nbsp;is interrupted by Diplo&#39;s monolithic head, which is also a spacecraft...The video is directed by Ben Jones at Emmy-winning animation studio Bento Box Animation,&nbsp;home of&nbsp;Bob&#39;s Burgers. Ben directed the equally colourful and compulsive lyric vieo for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-LaiQNY5s&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Coldplay&#39;s Aliens</a>&nbsp;last year.&nbsp;

Bento Box Animation

Gabriel Alcala

LSD ft Sia, Diplo, Labrinth 'Genius' by Ben Jones

LSD - Genius ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth

Charlie Manton establishes a lurid and unsettling&nbsp;sci-fi scene for&nbsp;American singer VÉRITÉ&#39;s&nbsp;When You&#39;re Gone - in fact, perhaps the bleakest family dinner ever created.Creepy, solemn cyborgs&nbsp;eat methodically in short bursts when a central computer directs them to do so, as&nbsp;Vérité keeps a close eye on the man&nbsp;with the controls sat opposite her. But when she decides to disconnect&nbsp;herself from the computer&nbsp;- all hell breaks loose in a glitchy system error - and the poor dinner guests are unable to avoid face-planting plenty of excellent-looking desserts in the process.&nbsp;

Charlie Manton

Emily Everdee

Duelling Productions

Will Maas

Rose Hockaday

Emily Howard

Katie Adamson

John Lucy

Kobalt

VÉRITÉ 'When You're Gone' by Charlie Manton

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Bloody bloggers. Lily Allen wrote URL Badman&nbsp;about the internet&#39;s hipster trolls&nbsp;in response to the backlash she received from her song Hard Out Here. The Sacred Egg&#39;s&nbsp;Ed and Alex have expanded on that idea, translating the wrongness of trolling&nbsp;bloggers into a&nbsp;physical glitch. As a result, they have&nbsp;produced an intriguing visual effect.&nbsp;Exploiting their debatable fashion sense, Lily&#39;s keyboard cowboys&nbsp;get split in half, and&nbsp;warp into increasingly bizarre rainbows. This it was achieved in a fairly&nbsp;ingenious fashion - sets of twins were composited to appear as one person split in two, with individual pixels being stretched to achieve the final result.Another strong idea by The Sacred Egg after their videos for Breach and DJ Fresh - and a deadeye hit on a unpleasant modern phenomenon. Bloody bloggers...

The Sacred Egg

Riff Raff Films

Sarah Boardman

Sonya Sier

Bertie Berkeley

George Nelson

Jake Scott

Simon Plunket

Mike McDuffie

Gary Varney

Ian Buckley

Jerry Bland

Nick Akass, Roddy Walker

Grace Snell

Lisa Zipper

Phoenix Taylor

Adam Crocker

Sam Bould

Big Buoy

Warner Brothers

Sam Seager

Lily Allen 'URL Badman' by The Sacred Egg

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Leah McFall, runner-up on The Voice last year, teams up with her coach and mentor Will.I.Am on her debut single Home, with the promo handled by director Elisha Smith-Leverock.&nbsp;The Northern Irish singer-songwriter and former fashion student puts in a sterling performance with the Black Eyed Pea delivering&nbsp;quirky support in Elisha&#39;s stark, eye-catching setting...

Elisha Smith Leverock

Tom Birmingham

Gem Souleyman

James Dyer

Steve Wingrove

Ben Todd

Silvio Berstini

Chris Belcher

David Bagnall

Mark Morley

Nick Platt

Ollie Tiong

Adam Pang

Luke Harcourt

Leila Ziu

Rio Sreedharan

Danielle Kahlani

Oonah Anderson

Nicole Kahlani

Nathan Klein

Jerry Reeve

Rebecca Dyer, Dale Chapman, Shea Coleman, Yasmin Afifi

Howard Dean, Steve Murphy, Andrew Walton

Capitol Records

Marisa Garner Associates

Rokkit

George K

Leah McFall ft Will.I.Am 'Home' by Elisha Smith-Leverock

Blake Claridge's video for English alt-folkies A Band Of Buriers' Filth sees him move confidently into short film territory. In fact, it's very powerful - the story of a young man and woman, living together in a country cottage, that builds to a horrific, unexpected climax. 
Initially it appears that the story - written Rob Hayes and the band - is all about the deteriorating relationship between the couple, played by Lily Loveless and Matthew Lewis - the latter best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies. 
But it becomes clear that a human bone, to which the girl is strangely attached, is playing a darkly pivotal role in that relationship. And we'll find out what part of the human anatomy that bone comes from...

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=8o0j692t2a0

Blake Claridge

Nice & Polite

Flaura Atkinson

Luke Morrison @ The Mill

Claira M

Sam Heasman

Family Editing

A Band Of Buriers 'Filth' by Blake Claridge 

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London fourpiece Ivyrise - the first UK act to fund their debut release via investment programme/record label <a href="http://www.mymajorcompany.co.uk/" target="_blank">My Major Company</a> - team up with Ben Jones for the handsome part-performance promo, part-mystery drama, to the rousing Line Up The Stars.

Davey Inc

Gail Davey

George Steel

Becks Robertson @ Ten Three Editors

Thomas Ur

Ivyrise's Line Up The Stars by Ben Jones

Excellent macro photography of general household items combined with micro-projections of the band and archive footage, for London band The High Wire by Michael Humphrey.
Michael directed the impressive slo-mo reaction video for Polar Rapid's 1995 back in his native New Zealand, but he's now based in London. "The band wanted to incorporate some pre-recorded footage into the promo so I pitched the idea of shooting some projected images against a backdrop of small objects - a sort of 'macro world'. We modified a projector to project an image size just a little bit bigger than your thumbnail, then projected the archival footage and performance onto a whole bunch of little objects - chalk, trophies, a toaster - to name a few. This was then filmed using macro lenses to get in very very close to the objects. 
"We inter-cut this footage with some lovely macro shots of various bits and pieces without projections, sourced from food stores, the Dalston street markets and £1 stores. Using all manner of objects such as shower gels, dried seeds, effervescent vitamin tablets, food dye and glass objects, we built up shots that lost a sense of tangibility - I love the fact that nothing was created in post but it's often very hard to tell what you are looking at. We used extension tubes for these shots - sometimes the front glass element was literally millimetres away from what we were shooting."

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Paul Devaney

The High Wire’s Pump Your Little Heart by Michael Humphrey

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Watch: <a href="http://www.daveyinc.com/directors/ben-jones/dionne/">here</a>

Davey Inc.

OB Management

Adrian Wild

Aimee P

Mel Thomas

Final Cut

Tom Ur

Bob Brimson & Tamara Brooks

Ben Harrex

Dionne Bromfield’s Mama Said by Ben Jones

Neil Coxhill has directed and animated a viral for Amelia magazine that's an artful combination of live action, illustration and animation - and also definitively proves that even after Armageddon, there will still be fashion. That's a relief.
Neil's making a habit of bringing fashion editorial spreads to life, in collaboration with photographer Julia Kennedy and illustrator Laura Quick. They've also completed an impressively ornithological one called <a href="http://web.me.com/neilcoxhill/web08/movies/the_birds.mov">The Birds</a>.
Neil's repped for promos at P For Production, and he and Julia have also just shot a good-looking, lingerie-tastic video for dance act <a href="http://web.me.com/neilcoxhill/web08/movies/feel.mp4">Opposite Worlds</a>.

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