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Brian and Karl

Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston&#39;s video for Brendan Maclean, is a tribute to Hal Fischer&#39;s 1970s study of gay semiotics, taxonomies and sexual behaviours, and features highly explicit scenes of unsimulated penetrative gay sex. And then it keeps on going.&nbsp;Brian and Karl and Maclean follow Kirsten Fischer&#39;s observations&nbsp;into the world of extreme fetish behaviour and a final shot which, well, once you&#39;ve seen it, you can&#39;t really ever unsee it. It involves a bottom having a poo and Maclean&#39;s head.&nbsp;There you go. Should&#39;ve written Spoiler Alert&nbsp;at the start of this piece, I guess. But it looks like a lot of people have already seen this anyway. Including, before it&nbsp;was inevitably&nbsp;removed,&nbsp;a viewing&nbsp;figure on&nbsp;YouTube almost as mind-boggling as the video itself.&nbsp;The inevitable furore it&#39;s caused has also led to pieces by&nbsp;Hollywood Reporter and Huffington Post, and of course plenty of online reaction - even death threats. Brendan Maclean has also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/07/queer-art-pushes-boundaries-why-i-made-my-explicit-gay-porn-music-video?CMP=share_btn_fb" target="_blank">himself written about the experience of making the video</a>, and below Brian &amp; Karl explain their thinking in making this highly explicit and controversial music video.[imgtoken data:1]

Alex Paterakis

COMPULSORY

Vincente Ben

Tom Fraser

Brian Fairbarn

Brian and Karl on their controversial take on 1970s gay culture for Brendan Maclean

Directing duo Brian and Karl have paired up with English folk rock trio&nbsp;The Staves for these lovely, troubling visuals for Steady.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm film, the ambiguous&nbsp;clip sees the three sisters in a state of anxiety and fear, looking at themselves into&nbsp;scenes of their own death. On their Facebook page,&nbsp;The Staves - who seem to enjoy a dark sense of humour&nbsp;-&nbsp;summarise the video with the phrase,&nbsp;&quot;Jess face down in a swimming pool, Camilla struggling to turn off an alarm clock and Emily pretending she&#39;s in The Godfather.&quot;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Hannah Shipley

Kadri Mahmoud

Chris Toumazou

Toby Sherborne

Benjamin Barber

James Leckey

Darren Ladbury 

Antonis Tsiakos

Dean Zinmarakis

Matt Perry

Juno Calypso

AJ O'Neill

Sophie Medhurst

Hope Van Joel

Laura Mellor

Oisín O' Driscoll

The Mill

Marisa Garner Associates

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Folk Rock

The Staves 'Steady' by Brian and Karl

THE STAVES // Steady

Directing duo&nbsp;Brian And Karl&#39;s video for Jack Colwell&#39;s Don&#39;t Cry Those Tears depicts an emotional performance&nbsp;turned&nbsp;breakdown in a dimly-lit sauna.&nbsp;The dark, smoggy&nbsp;intimacy of the steamroom &ndash;&nbsp;and the nude men within it &ndash;&nbsp;provide an atmospheric backdrop that mirrors&nbsp;the artist&#39;s stripped-bare operatics...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Paul Flamand

Chris Parkes

Jack Colwell 'Don't Cry Those Tears' by Brian and Karl

Jack-Colwell-'Don't-Cry-Those-Tears'-by-Brian-And-Karl

Shot at The Underwater Studio, Brian &amp; Karl totally nail the haunting, surreal atmosphere within Marika Hackman&#39;s Drown with this cool, slow-burning and dramatic promo.Powered by exquisite photography from DP Mark Silk, Marika lip-syncs the lyric as she moves around in the dark depths of the water then things get a bit creepy as a pair of hands start to caress her face...

Squire

Phil Tidy

Rohan Scully

Mark Silk

Bernie Prentice

Siwan Hill

Marty

Rushes

Dirty Hit Records

Ed Blow

Acoustic

Electronica

Marika Hackman 'Drown' by Brian & Karl

Marika Hackman - Drown

Sarah Belkner delivers a mesmerising performance in Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston&#39;s excellent promo for her single With You.The Sydney-based singer-songwriter performs in a simple set-up, sitting on an un-made&nbsp;bed, whilst Fairbairn and Eccleston unleash their magic using minimal props and very effective lighting...

Australia

Marty McMullan

Christopher Parkes

Sarah Belkner 'With You' by Brian & Karl

SARAH BELKNER - With You

Centred on a spirited and brilliant&nbsp;performance from London drag queen Meth, Brian &amp; Karl deliver this hard-hitting promo for Blood Red Shoes&#39;&nbsp;Speech Coma.&nbsp;Shot in black and white and drenched in atmosphere, we see Meth dripping and spewing blood as she performs&nbsp;- which looks a deep, menacing black in monochrome - lip-syncing her way through the lyric, all beautifully and&nbsp;dramatically captured by DP Nathan Mackintosh.

Burning Reel

Janna Bartlett

Nathan Mackintosh

Rhys Waters

Dan Gibling

Charlie Whiteway

Chris Parks

Sam Shepard

Tom Reid

Mike Tyler

PIAS

Craig Penney

Indie

Blood Red Shoes 'Speech Coma' by Brian & Karl

Blood Red Shoes - Speech Coma

Following her big night at the prom, a young girl recounts the evening&#39;s events as a turning point in her life in Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston&#39;s cinematic promo for Far From View by Jack Colwell And The Owls.

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