Director of Photography

Benoit Soler

Fenn O’Meally directs a touching promo for&nbsp;Lil Silva and Sampha, combining modern and archive home video footage, filmed in&nbsp;London and Jamaica.&nbsp;The concept for new track Another Sketch&nbsp;creates a symbiotic relationship between the past and the present, connecting the two worlds and sketching a visual and cultural history, placing the act of congregation at the heart of it all.[imgtoken data:1]Utilising a mix of both newly-created and vintage footage, the film explores&nbsp;the characters and zeitgeist of each time period, through&nbsp;a celebratory, emotional lens.The video is book-ended with the text 'he waves back home', and it's&nbsp;a wonderful way to encapsulate the entire concept in one short phrase.&nbsp;"This project has a special place in my heart," says O'Meally. "Until you dig deep you're unaware of just how many layers you're immersed in.[imgtoken data:2]"From the genius of Silva's music to his community and their stories, the footage old and new and even the ripples of sound throughout - like the waves I recorded on a trip to Jamaica in February - there are so many moments of life past and present that contribute to this piece.&nbsp;"I always dream of making work that really and honestly makes you feel something deep within you. So this has been an incredibly fulfilling project, more than I could have ever anticipated. I'm so grateful to Bafic, Silva and Sampha for the opportunity."

United Kingdom

Joshua Gochez

Calvin How

Juanjose Mouko Nsue

Fenn O’Meally

Luca Chapman

OB Management

SMUGGLER

Elliott Beach

Elizabeth Doonan

Georgie Dale

Niomi Collins

Charlie Cowper

Rupert Hornstein

Kairo Jones

Shanice Noel

Michele Baylis

Lainy Black

The Assembly Rooms

Thomas Mangham

Alt Soul

Lil Silva ft Sampha 'Another Sketch' by Fenn O’Meally

Lil-Silva-Ft-Sampha-'Another-Sketch'-by-Fenn-O’meally

Vincent Catel makes his music video directing debut with a love story told in a series of beautifully composed moments for Paris-based producer&nbsp;Bamao Yendé and singer Le Diouck.Catel's video for&nbsp;Marvin Gueye follows the emotional life of a young couple, with their intimate life captured in wonderfully crafted sequences. Through Benoit Soler's cinematography, Catel employs a striking use of colour and light, together with the couple's performances, to convey a warm and sensual atmosphere.It's a notable debut from Catel, former creative director at Iconoclast Paris who worked on campaigns for&nbsp;Hermès, Dior, Paco Rabanne and&nbsp;Chloé, and music videos for The Blaze, before joining Diplomats in Paris to expand his artistic vision as a director.

France

Vincent Catel

Pierre-Edouard Sigwalt

Diplomats

Adrien Chibatte

Jean-Baptiste Moreau

Romain Malavoy

Rafael Bolivar

Henri Lecluse

Alizée Quitman

Edem Dossou

Aude-Andrea Gbazi

Simon Colin

Arthur Paux

Vincent Heine

Boukan Records

Electronica

Bamao Yendé & Le Diouck 'Marvin Gueye' by Vincent Catel

Bamao-Yendé-&-Le-Diouck-'Marvin-Gueye'-by-Vincent-Catel

Strange goings-on in an exclusive Parisian nightclub, in Kim Chapiron's provocative video for Pink Noise.The denizens are invited to test the legendary hallucinogenic properties of the common (or not so common) toad, by licking these weird, wonderful creatures. And if that is not startling enough, then the licking continues, between a pregnant&nbsp;partygoer (Tina Kunakey) and the young woman&nbsp;(Molly Constable) who arrives by limo, who is not quite what it seems...&nbsp;Licking good.

Kim Chapiron

Olivier Muller

Phantasm

Benjamin Weil

Mathematic

Tina Kunakey

Molly Constable

Pink Noise 'Too Hot' by Kim Chapiron

Pink Noise - Too Hot

Albert Moya&nbsp;draws us into a hugely ambitious, enigmatic, surreal and gripping narrative to accompany Exits, the first song released from Foals&#39; hugely anticipated two-album project Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost.Like disparate scenes from a movie, we enter the threatening world of a teenage girl and boy, characterised by authoritarian cruelty and stunning set-pieces. Moya&#39;s vision - shot in spectaular locations in Spain and Hungary - was to&nbsp;&quot;build a dystopian and beautiful world with very powerful interpretations - surreal and intriguing, yet entertaining for the audience.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The unsettling drama of the video reflects the intensity of Exits, which&nbsp;Foals&rsquo;s frontman Yannis Philippakis says is a response to current events.&nbsp;&quot;Lyrically, there are resonances with what&#39;s going on in the world at the moment,&rdquo; Philippakis has said. &ldquo;I just feel like, what&rsquo;s the utility of being a musician these days, if you can&rsquo;t engage with at least some of this stuff? These songs are white flags, or they&rsquo;re SOSs, or they&rsquo;re cries for help... each in a different way.&rdquo;&nbsp;

Albert Moya

Karen Saurí

CANADA

Oscar Romagosa

Alba Barneda

Alexandra Jordana

Adrian Bernal

Carlos Font Clos

Marc Morató

Metropolitiana

Lane Casting, Leo Pintér

Roman Pichon Herrera

Marta Bobić

Cristina Ramos

Álvaro Posadas

Rock

Foals 'Exits' by Albert Moya

Albert-Moya-'Foals-'exits''-by-Albert-Moya

Jessy Moussallem brings us&nbsp;into the world of an tight-knit army unit - training, bonding, relaxing, fighting - within the ruins of a building on the shores of the Meditteranean, in this hypnotic video for Agoria.As she explains here, Moussalem was inspired by a family tragedy during a traumatic time for her country - the civil war in Lebanon in 1983. Here she dramatises&nbsp;the days and hours&nbsp;before actual conflict, where a militia of young men build up the camaraderie that they will take into battle.

Jessy Moussallem

Marie-lynn Nasrallah

Georges Cassab

Vincent Toubel

Simon Bourne

Framestore Uk

Sapiens

Agoria 'Embrace' by Jessy Moussallem

Agoria-'Embrace'-by-Jessy-Moussallem

Another modern jazz classic from Kamasi Washington and his amazing band gets a mesmerizing visual by Jenn Nkiru, as experimental as the music.It&#39;s a single-shot and in many ways a still-life too, revealed in a dead-slow reverse zoom to reveal three night-gowned and sashed women performing in front of a flag - in fact, it&#39;s artist-director&nbsp;Larry Achiampong&#39;s work&nbsp;Pan-African Flag For The Relic Traveller. And then the zoom reverses to close in one face even more close-up than before.&nbsp;The track is Hub-Tones,&nbsp;taken from Kamasi Washington&#39;s second album Heaven and Earth,&nbsp;out on Young Turks.

Jenn Nkiru

Lana Salfiti

Iconoclast

Emily Rudge

Polly Hartley

Ed Bellamy

Michael Hannides

Cameron Axsel

Paul Allen

Jenny Wells

Charlotte Mensah

Grace Marie Ellington

Kit Wells

Final Cut

Tim Smith

Electric Theatre Collective

Nathan Parker

Jazz

Kamasi Washington 'Hub-Tones' by Jenn Nkiru

Kamasi-Washington-'Hub-tones'-by-Jenn-Nkiru

Jessy Moussallem has written and directed a new film for songs from electronic artist Damian Lazarus &amp; The Ancient Moons&#39; new album Heart Of Sky, which opens up a little-known&nbsp;world - the farming communities that cultivate and harvest Lebanese Red hashish in the Bekaa valley, between the mountains of eastern Lebanon - and plays in the spaces between documentary and fiction.It&#39;s a moving portrait of the people&nbsp;who work the fields of the illegal industry, and the realities of their lives. But Lebanese filmmaker Moussalem adds a level of cinematic experimentation to the raw intimacy. She was given&nbsp;free rein to work with the music of Damian Lazarus &amp; The Ancient Moons, using sounds and samples. The film, a co-production between Phantasm Paris,&nbsp;Clandestino Films and Caviar London, features numerous tracks from their new album.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Eli Souaiby

Clandestino Films

Sorcha Shepherd

Wissam Smayra, Olivier Muller

Nightshift

Georgie Macechern

John Hassay

Crosstown Rebels/BMG

Caviar

Dance

Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons 'Heart Of Sky' by Jessy Moussallem

Damian-Lazarus-&-The-Ancient-Moons-'Heart-Of-Sky-'-by-Jessy-Moussallem

Neneh Cherry&#39;s charisma bursts&nbsp;through the screen as she assumes various personas&nbsp;in Jenn Nkiru&rsquo;s beautifully shot video for&nbsp;Kong.&nbsp;

Nkem Egbuchiri

Jannis Birsner

Elliot Ruby

Wayne Bentley

Oliver Whitworth

Sarah Crux

Neneh Cherry 'Kong' by Jenn Nkiru

Neneh-Cherry-'Kong'-by-Jenn-Nkiru

Instead of a video for one track from American jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington&#39;s new album Heaven And Earth, director Jenn Nkiru and creative director Bradford Young are behind an innovative campaign of one minute &#39;teaser&#39; videos for four different songs.The first two in the series are Fists Of Fury and&nbsp;Space Travelers Lullaby, featuring enigmatic scenarios that draw&nbsp;you into Washington&#39;s glorious music.In Fists Of Fury, a trio of dancers in 1930s&nbsp;Ethiopian miliary garb execute a jaunty running dance around a red star; in Space Travelers Lullaby, a mysterious ceremony takes place in a forest, where a red-garbed priest bestows a blessing upon a young woman. And both certainly makes you want to see and hear more.

United States

Young Turks

XL Recordings

Bradford Young

Ivan Blackstock

Kamasi Washington 'Fists Of Fury' and 'Space Travelers Lullaby' by Jenn Nkiru

Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury

Kamasi Washington - Space Travelers Lullaby

French duo The Blaze - that&#39;s Jonathan Alric and Guillaume Alric &ndash; direct a layered and cinematic homecoming for their song Territory, the follow-up to the MVA-award winning video for Virile.Shot in Algiers, the video follows a man reunited with his family after spending time out of the country. The gorgeous surroundings are an incredible backdrop to the focused study of male friendship and bravado that takes on a primal life thanks to some dynamic choreography.France&#39;s historic involvement in Algeria and Algiers in particular, and the images of a group of men in dominant display, add layers of meaning to the concept of territory, this video very clearly establishes itself as an intelligent and incisive work.

The Blaze

Deux Horloges

Juliette Alleaume

Dali Benssalah

Electronica, Dance

The Blaze 'Territory' by The Blaze

The Blaze - Territory - Official Video

Dua Lipa hangs with her fierce&nbsp;girl posse&nbsp;in this fiery new video for Blow Your Mind, directed by&nbsp;Kinga Burza.The Barbican provides the angular,&nbsp;brutalist playground for the super modern, individualistic and stylish&nbsp;girls to pose, strut and have fun. Awesomely styled by&nbsp;Lorenzo Possecco, the resulting video&nbsp;channels&nbsp;plenty of feminine swagger, with a&nbsp;pop-meets-lookbook&nbsp;glamour&nbsp;treatment.

Kinga Burza

Jason Oakley

Partizan

Claire Stubbs

Lucy Rogers

Dominic Asbridge

Thomas Nicholson

Jomar O'meally, Will Gardner

Rik Burnell

Anna Rhodes

Lorenzo Possecco

Anna Cofone

Francesca Brazzo

Emilie Aubry

Oisín O'Driscoll

The Mill

Lucy Mason

Caroline Clayton

Warner Music Group

Dua Lipa 'Blow Your Mind' by Kinga Burza

Dua-Lipa-'Blow-Your-Mind'-by-Kinga-Burza

David Wilson&#39;s gripping and thought-provoking video for Tame Impala&#39;s melancholic Let It Happen follows a businessman who,&nbsp;while dashing to catch a&nbsp;flight,&nbsp;collapses on the ground while&nbsp;clutching his chest. Never a good sign.This catastrophic event sets&nbsp;off a disorientating sequence of&nbsp;lapses in time and place, which take the businessman (and us) on&nbsp;a startling rollercoaster involving a plane&nbsp;crash and the man free-falling towards Earth.&nbsp;And although we lose&nbsp;our sense of&nbsp;reality,&nbsp;his palpable sense of&nbsp;dread is made&nbsp;all&nbsp;the more real for it.It&#39;s a&nbsp;perfectly&nbsp;dismal situation - and there is no conventional happy ending. But it&nbsp;plays out in a captivating and even beautiful way -&nbsp;a finale that unabashedly&nbsp;suggests a journey after Death.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Australia

David Wilson

Colonel Blimp

Paul Weston

Corin Taylor

Nathan James Tettey

Sophie Dewey

The Directors Bureau

Radioaktive Film

Kate Galytska

Kristina Ilyina

Kasja Soderlund

Thomas Grove Carter

Trim Editing

James Bamford

Kait Boehm

Jordan Sharon

Michael Instone

Universal Music Australia

Roman Coppola

Glen Goetze

Indie, Rock, Psychedelic, Alternative Rock

Tame Impala 'Let It Happen' by David Wilson

French artist&nbsp;Data&#39;s self-described&nbsp;&#39;future funk&#39; track Don&#39;t Sing has been paired with this&nbsp;marvellous&nbsp;video by Paris-based director&nbsp;David Bertram, which is very much about the dark and twisted heart of humanity - and how thoroughly entertaining that can be.Within an outwardly pleasant&nbsp;suburban community, some seriously twisted,&nbsp;violent&nbsp;and sexy goings-on are revealed, designed to make the viewer squirm - and grasping for answers. And then things take an illuminating turn&nbsp;when a spectacular&nbsp;car&nbsp;accident shakes the residents out of their respective distractions...

David Bertram

Standard Films

Funk

Data 'Don't Sing' by David Bertram

DATA - DON'T SING (Official Video)

They may be animation legends but&nbsp;Shynola are pretty much all about live action these days when it comes to their outings in music video. But the magic is still there, as this intriguing fantasy&nbsp;for Hot Chip&#39;s wistful Need You Now&nbsp;shows.Band frontman Alexis Taylor, in&nbsp;a post break-up daze, and marooned in a familiarly desolate and drizzly English seaside town, finds himself caught in a strange&nbsp;time-loop. He ends up in a cat-and-mouse chase with himself - and playing both the cat and the mouse.It&#39;s intricately structured - with&nbsp;the mystery increased as versions of Alexis are&nbsp;obliterated as everything turns to black. But the chase still goes on,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;video does an excellent job of depicting a sense of helpless anguish, amidst&nbsp;a feeling of unfinished business - all reflecting Alexis&#39;s emotive vocals in the track.&nbsp;

Shynola

Jacob Swan Hyam

Black Dog Films

Hot Chip 'Need You Now' by Shynola

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