Director of Photography

Benjamin Wearing

Maxim Kelly takes South London band Tiña down the pub for a heart-to-heart and some magic realism for their single Closest Shave.&nbsp;Taken from the band's acclaimed debut album Positive Mental Health Music, Kelly matches the breezy blend of surrealism and humour in the track&nbsp;with his inventive take on a one-shot video. It's a dreamlike journey into a cinematic London, a combination of the familiar and the off-kilter, that begins in a rain-lashed car park, past the band sheltering in a doorway, and then heading into the cozy indoors of the pub.With the song describing a chat between&nbsp;lead singer&nbsp;Joshua Loftin and his dad, and lyrics describing the world as “nervous like a big dinner plate”, Kelly makes the flamboyant frontman the&nbsp;focus of proceedings, popping up in different sequences, including talking to his actual dad Rufus in the video, surreally veering into an underground walkway, before completing a pub performance with the band, to an audience of men, slow-dancing with each other.Kelly&nbsp;used various methods to create this 'one-shot' - without calling upon motion control. His invention and resourcefulness has paid off with a result that's charming and cool. A&nbsp;joy to watch, in fact.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

United Kingdom

Maxim Kelly

Lauren Mills

Caviar

Sorcha Shepherd

Sophie Compton

Justin Theodore

Bernin Isaac

Joshua Dadson

Salvador Lopez Gomez

Lottie Highfield

Jared Behl

Daisy Smith

Charlie Reddie

Homespun

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Three Wise Monkeys

Carl Grinter

Brian King

Speedy Wunderground

Joe Mulvihill

Rock

Indie

Tiña 'Closest Shave' by Maxim Kelly

Tiña - Closest Shave

Brock Neal Roberts pieces together&nbsp;an intimate portrait of youth, in his promo for Sam Fender's Seventeen Going Under.&nbsp;Built around the idea of trying to find existence and clarity amongst the chaos of being 17, the video interconnects naturalistic vignettes which touch upon romance, growing up, and fights between friends.&nbsp;The video boasts striking cinematography from&nbsp;Benjamin Wearing, and a bold change in style for Brock&nbsp;Neal Roberts from his last video, the surreal vision for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/04/15/eli-brown-talk-show-trouble-brock-neal-roberts/70411">Eli Brown's Trouble.&nbsp;</a>[imgtoken data:1]

Brock Neal Roberts

Ersan Beskardes

Agile Films

Precious Mahaga

Emily Mulkerrins

Aidan Robert Brooks

Ellicia Lotherington

Anil Duru

Alan Ramsey

Lisa Davidson

Charles Gamble

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Bruce Langfield

OB Management

Semera Khan

Ivan Hinchley

Cinelab Film and Digital

Alternative

Sam Fender 'Seventeen Going Under' by Brock Neal Roberts

Sam-Fender--'Seventeen-Going-Under-'-by-Brock-Neal-Roberts

This mesmerising video for UK producer Warsnare by directing duo George Thomson and Lukas Schrank explores the breakdown of a character in a suitably claustrophobic location.Thomson and Schrank have matched the repetition of the track with an innovative &#39;triptych&#39; edit style where three acts of the story play out simultaneously, relentlessly cutting between scenes, inviting the viewer to piece together the puzzle, but also reflecting the dislocated mental state of a man who finds himself wrestling his inner demons while confined in isolation.&nbsp;In that respect, the directors could have hardly found a more atmospheric&nbsp;place of confinement: a decommissioned&nbsp;Soviet submarine, moored in a river in Kent.

George Thomson

Visitor Studio

Rana Darwish

Ami Bevilacqua

Ryan Monteith

Visitor

Charly Hawkins

Phil Hambi

Infinite Machine

Lukas Schrank

Warsnare ft Charlie Stark 'Syndrome' by George Thomson & Lukas Schrank

Warsnare-Ft-Charlie-Stark-'Syndrome'-by-George-And-Lukas

The second half of The Architect, Thomas James&#39; two-part sequence of videos for Paloma Faith, continues the story where it left off at the end of Crybaby: one boy cannot stand the oppressive regime of an institution that is &#39;creating&#39; the future leaders of a cruel totalitarian state. He flees and the supportive Paloma races after him.That sets off a chain of events explored in Guilty, where the cruel rulers of the Darwinian school that punishes any weakness or sensitivity in its students are faced with a revolt, and their demise.But if that is predictable, what happens after that is not. In a way, James ramps up the cruelty further, as the true Architect is revealed. But he also manages to maintain the sense of a pop video even as the narrative gets ever darker.

Thomas James

Christian Gill

Black Dog Films

Sam Holmes, Martin Roker

Alex Noble

Hair Designer

Lan Nguyen

James Wright

TenThree

Zoe Hockings

Holly Wolfers

Elizabeth Doonan

Sony

Paloma Faith 'Guilty' by Thomas James

Paloma-Faith-'Guilty'-by-Thomas-James

Patrick Killingbeck&#39;s vision for the latest Disciples video is a series of highly stylised, dramatically-lit vignettes, drawing out aspects of the song&#39;s theme, Jealousy.With the concept driving the action rather than a linear narrative, the video revolves around the loosely representative scenes of delusion, faith, paranoia and possession. Against deep colours, pulsing lights and in enigmatic locations, the video features the three members of Disciples each performing their part in the representation of Jealousy.

Patrick Killingbeck

Rosie Woods

Brave Spark

Tom O Driscoll

Jonathan Sidwell

Robbie Cairns

Nacho Munoz De Leon

Paul Brennon

Chloe Brady

Daisy Deane

Amy Brandon

Ben Corfield

Work Editorial

Jessica Vile

Framestore

Eugene Magee

Derran Hufford, Sam Mundon

Sam Seager, Danielle Barnes

Warner

Disciples 'Jealousy' by Patrick Killingbeck

Disciples-'Jealousy'-by-Patrick-Killingbeck

Paloma Faith returns with the first video from her new album The Architect, and the first&nbsp;of a two part collaboration with UKMVA-nominated Thomas James.For Crybaby, we&#39;re thrust into a brutal future society&nbsp;where young boys are drilled and bullied into their expected roles of hard, emotionless domination. A bit like going to an English public school. Paloma&nbsp;is one of the submissive maidens&nbsp;at the institution who develops a protective instinct for one of the more vulnerable boys.Paloma has commented: &ldquo;The lyrics are a conversation between a man and I, and the song questions whether global conflicts would cease to exist if men successfully dealt with their feelings.&nbsp;Would things be resolved without attack and with measured discussion?&rdquo;Thomas James has interpreted the lyrics in&nbsp;his distinctive dark narrative style, and having built the&nbsp;scenario with a series of harrowing scenes - intercut with Paloma&#39;s performance - he ends it on a cliffhanger. Everyone who watches this will want to watch part two.

Sam Holmes

Eamonn Hughes

Rebecca Luff

Sony Music

Martin Roker

Alexander Cameron

Paloma Faith 'Crybaby' by Thomas James

Paloma-Faith-'Crybaby'-by-Thomas-James

Fred Rowson&#39;s video for Bree Runway is an all-too-believeable story of exploitation&nbsp;of young female talent in the pop industry, with a righteous side-order of revenge.Bree becomes the subject of a photo session with a top photographer, who uses his position to assert increasing levels of control, which ratchets into sexual abuse. But he has messed with the wrong girl.Fred Rowson does a very good job here in creating a dramatic situation that deals with a serious issue&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;and showing just how feasible this is &ndash; while retaining conventions of the pop video, including performance.&nbsp;&quot;Ever since Bree and I shared a mutual love of Kanye West on the dance floor, I knew I wanted to make a music video for her,&quot; he says. &quot;We dedicated this to perverts everywhere; your days are numbered.&quot;

Fred Rowson

Sara Fawsitt

Colonel Blimp

Paul Weston

Jack Bingham

Kerry Green

Alicia Howitt

Coline Bach

Emma Croft

Ryan Beck

Final Cut

Tim Smith

Ardith Birchall

Kharmel Cochrane

Martha Kinn

Richard Grewe

Bella Jefferson

Corin Taylor

Urban

Bree Runway 'What Do I Tell My Friends?' by Fred Rowson

Bree-Runway-'What-Do-I-Tell-My-Friends?-'-by-Fred-Rowson

HMLTD are being hailed in some quarters as the UK&#39;s most thrilling new band, and their theatrical mix of glam and goth becomes a rich source of inspiration for Ilona McIlwain in her first video for the band.McIlwain portrays HMLTD frontman Henry Spychalski like a consumption-flecked Romantic poet in a crumbling English pile, accompanied by pouting fellow bandmembers and haunted by memories, in the deliciously atmospheric mini-epic for the sprawling Satan, Luella and I.It&#39;s McIlwain&#39;s full debut in music videos, following her impressive crossover into directing with the film of <a href="http://promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/20/fujiko-nakaya-x-min-tanaka-x-ryuichi-sakamoto-ilona-mcilwain" target="_blank">Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya&#39;s installation at Tate Modern</a>&nbsp;earlier this year,&nbsp;and suggests an exciting future lies ahead.&nbsp;

Ilona Mcilwain

Joel Spencer

LEZ Creative

Mary Calderwood

Rob Gerrard

Zik Udenze

Sarah Hall

Matt King

Jaime Ackroyd

Heather Lines

Jo Lewandowska

Cut+Run

Jack McGinity

Time Based Arts

Sean Ewins

HMLTD 'Satan, Luella & I' by Ilona Mcilwain

Hmltd-'Satan,-Luella-&-I'-by-Ilona-Mcilwain

Hurts&#39;s Theo Hutchcraft displays some impressive acting chops - and dance skills &ndash; in the powerful video for Ready To Go by Thomas James.Hutchcraft plays the role of bereaved partner in a mirror-image narrative. It&#39;s a&nbsp;sequence of scenes depicting the couple&rsquo;s passionate relationship, all choreographed and cleverly cut against parallel footage of the grief-stricken frontman at his late partners wake.The video, produced by Black Dog in partnership with LS Productions, was shot&nbsp;at various locations in and around Horwich and Bolton, Greater Manchester &ndash; Hurts&rsquo; home city. The two-day shoot required 26 cast members, one horse, three locations, one caravan, 30 live butterflies and several stunts.

LS Productions

Abi Atkinson

Elizabeth Webster

Anthony Neal

Alexandra Green

Nicci Topping

Seven 7 Management

Adrian Thomas

UNIT

Jake Armstrong

Marshall Street Editors

Hurts 'Ready To Go' by Thomas James

Hurts - Ready to Go

Thomas James&#39;s second video for Nothing But Thieves sees band frontman Conor Mason in a state of reflection, whilst nothing less than the end of days unfolds around him.Shot in Kiev, and created on a similarly&nbsp;impressive scale as James&#39; previous NBT video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/05/22/nothing-thieves-amsterdam-thomas-james" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, Sorry is both satisfyingly simple and detailed. A range of&nbsp;reactions to the imminent Apocalypse is sketched through a series of vignettes where individuals resort to anger, sex and murderous revenge, as well as family love and passive&nbsp;acceptance in their final hours. All the while&nbsp;everything revolves around Conor Mason, who walks past the ensuing chaos in a regretful, apologetic mood under a beating sun, towards his fate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Sorry is about getting older and the difficulties associated with it. It&rsquo;s about looking inwards and facing your demons,&quot; comments Nothing But Thieves&#39; guitarist Joe Langridge-Brown, who penned the track. &quot;The song hinges around a flawed individual who can&rsquo;t hold down a relationship, both to the detriment of themselves and their partner.&rdquo;Thomas James adds: &ldquo;The track to me felt like the last stop, a point in a relationship where you can be super honest, because it&rsquo;s the end. So we took that, and exaggerated it a teeny weeny bit, and went with the end of the world. If everyone has only got a couple of hours left &ndash; you&rsquo;re going to do and say exactly what you want. Whether that&rsquo;s poetic human honesty, or getting dominated one last time at a sex party.&rdquo;

Elizabeth Doolan

Daniel Millar

Anthony Neale

2332 Films

Sasha Chernyavsky

Daria Stepani

Carys Duffield

Absolute Post

Chris Tobin

Geri Krasteva

Mike Bovill

Oisín O’Driscoll

Lucy Mason

The Mill

Nothing But Thieves 'Sorry' by Thomas James

Nothing-But-Thieves-'Sorry'-by-Thomas-James

Zhang+Knight&#39;s new clip is a powerful meditation on aging and mortality, told from the perspective of a vampire couple.Like if Only Lovers Left Alive was remade in the British social realist tradition, the clip sees the vampires become so defeated by their own blood addiction that they decide the only way is out. We follow them as they come to terms with their decision in the desolation of Clacton On Sea.A mix of the bizarre, the grotesque and ultimately, the heartbreaking - as the sun rises with our protagonists sitting on the beach, we all know what&#39;s coming.

Zhang + Knight

Emma Britton

Katie Lambert

Izzy Walton

Gareth Lewis

Dan West

Simon Mills

Zoe Klinck

Taff Williamson

Natalie Young

Phillip Hambi

Craig Penney

Alternative, Indie Rock

Mark Lanegan 'Beehive' by Zhang+Knight

Mark Lanegan - Beehive

Róisín Murphy has released another self-directed video for Whatever, a companion piece to her previous video for Ten Miles High.Róisín walks through central London in her own little world, surrounded by social-mediafied people, whose heads have been replaced with emojis and Snapchat filters. And unlike her seamless integration into the bustle of the city in Ten Miles High, the&nbsp;artist&#39;s melancholic musings take on a particularly self-reflective quality, as individuals&#39; faces turn into homogenous smilies and massive location pins loom large and&nbsp;ominous.Off-kilter and idiosyncratic as ever,&nbsp;Róisín delivers a wholly modern take on lost love and disconnection in a hyperconnected world.

Róisín Murphy

Simon Ward

Róisín Murphy 'Whatever' by Róisín Murphy

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