Suzie Fownes

Production Company

Bullion Productions

Freddie Leyden continues his collaboration with Natasha Khan - aka&nbsp;Bat For Lashes - on videos for her new album The Dream Of Delphi, with an atmospheric video evoking the off-kilter aesthetic of David Lynch.&nbsp;&nbsp;Khan's performance of At Your Feet&nbsp;takes place in a set-up that&nbsp;echoes the Lynchian atmosphere of the 'Red Room' in Twin Peaks&nbsp;- all the more enigmatic has Khan acts a silent hand choreography for the first half of the song before the vocals start at the halfway point.&nbsp;A hint of smoke or mist passing in front of her suggests what is eventually revealed, that is taking place in a forest at night. And it&nbsp;feels like an abstract snapshot of a story that will unfold further, promising more to come in this visual world. But this in itself makes for an&nbsp;utterly absorbing watch.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;"Natasha described At Your Feet&nbsp;as being about 'the hallucinatory state of being sleep deprived in the night, breastfeeding and rocking the baby'," explains Leyden.&nbsp;"She and the creative director Alexandra Green&nbsp;had developed wonderful choreography for the live show, which I saw in a few videos. It was beautiful, simple, and moving. I wanted to use what had developed organically for this video."The goal became to establish an elevated and surreal setting for this on film. Placing the tiny lone stage deep in the forest seemed like the perfect solution. It felt like we were painting a picture in the woods. Working with cinematographer David Bird, gaffer James Duffy, production designer Richard Nic Evans, and stylist Lucie James, I'm super pleased with the Lynchian composition we were able to achieve."

United Kingdom

Timothy John Bartlett

Chihiro Kawasaki

Caterina Danzico

Lucy James

Freddie Leyden

Suzan Mustafa

James Duffy

David Bird

Guy Fuhrer

James Willis

Anoushka Abel

Tedz Leonard

Ben Benayo

Liam Meredith

Michael Mrzoczek

Richard Nik Evans

Billie Mckenzie

Alexandra Green

Toby Tomkins

Maria Ciorba

CHEAT

Alternative

Singer-songwriter

Alt-Pop

Bat For Lashes 'At Your Feet' by Freddie Leyden

Bat For Lashes - At Your Feet (Official Video)

Ozzie Pullen directs an ambitious promo for Sean Paul &amp; Kes' official anthem for the International Cricket Council Mens T20 World Cup 2024.&nbsp;The video for Out Of This World features grassroots cricket players match-cut with real footage from professional matches, as well as plenty of energetic performance scenes and&nbsp;official dance-step choreography created for the video.&nbsp;It's a video that celebrates the sport and the international reach of the championship, which is set to be the biggest cricket spectacle ever,&nbsp;with 20&nbsp;international teams playing 55 matches across the West Indies and USA.&nbsp;A breezy, playful promo which delivers all the good vibes.&nbsp;

Cecile Burrowes-samuels

Alix Khouri

Ozzie Pullin

Gareth Crothers

Earl Brown

Adric Watson

Jack Newman

Maxine Baille

Garreth Daley

Kadri Samuels

Rand Francis

Delroy Johnson

Marcia Charlebois

Marcia Tain

Sandra Gayle

Fin Melluish

Jack McGinity

Alchemy Studios

Chris Gayle

Sean Paul

Usian Bolt

T20 Cricket World Cup 2024

Sean Paul & Kes 'Out Of This World' by Ozzie Pullin

Sean-Paul-&-Kes-'Out-Of-This-World-'-by-Ozzie-Pullen

Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, returns with an&nbsp;evocative, ethereal promo for the first release from her new album, directed by Freddie Leyden, with creative direction&nbsp;by hugely experienced director and choreographer Alexandra Green.&nbsp;Khan's sixth studio album Motherwitch is described as 'an ode to motherhood'&nbsp;- it was recorded during Covid, when the artist gave birth to her daughter Delphi -&nbsp;and this represents the first stage of her exploration of the notion of maternity as she performs The Dream Of Delphi alone on a sun-kissed&nbsp;shoreline and forest.&nbsp;"This is the arrival of the Motherwitch," explains Green of the concept behind the video.&nbsp;"She moves through her choreography, establishing herself as a new and distinct force in this world. She is imbued with great power, a woman with a solid connection to the natural world, able to summon the elements.[imgtoken data:1]"We get this across through choreography, lighting, and editing, seamlessly blending her movements with visuals of the world around her, things like sea birds, lighthouses, cliffs, and various folkloric symbols and imagery."This video is expansive and serves to introduce the three pivotal figures of the film: THE MAIDEN, THE MOTHER, and THE CRONE, all essential to the entire film."It's an ambitious concept which toes the line between promo and performance art, delicately exploring the multifaceted transition of motherhood in an ethereal, transcendent way."

Richard Jakes

Ben Banayo

Mara Ciorba

Universal Music

Indie

Bat For Lashes 'The Dream Of Delphi' by Freddie Leyden

Bat-For-Lashes-'The-Dream-Of-Delphi'-by-Freddie-Leyden

Directing duo Uncanny direct a poignant performance promo for Loyle Carner.&nbsp;Exploring themes of identity, belonging and emotional connection, the one-take video&nbsp;opens on Carner's face and gradually pulls back to reveal a spectacular climactic shot of the artist rooted into the ground, whilst holding a kid of his own.&nbsp;Shot on an infrared camera, the distinctive aesthetic adds a fragile, ethereal look to the cinematography, and distorts the surroundings into an amalgam of fantasy and reality.&nbsp;

James Middleton

Uncanny

Joel Spencer

OB Management

Marco Grey

Riz Ahmed

Fraser Rigg

Ben Murray

Kevin Cheung

Ali Copeland

Andrej Rybar

Hip Hop

Loyle Carner 'Nobody Knows (Ladas Road)' by Uncanny

Loyle-Carner-'Nobody-Knows-(ladas-Road)'-by-Uncanny

There are few words that would give justice to&nbsp;this promo for Scottish DJ Hudson Mohawke. Brilliant, is probably one of them.Alan Resnick, director of much hilarious and weird content for Adult Swim,&nbsp;and actor Patti Harrison, known for her work in&nbsp;Shrill and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, have collaborated to create a wonderfully daft and visceral video for Mohawke's Biscan. It's a&nbsp;1-v-1&nbsp;basketball game with a difference,&nbsp;as one character wants to play the game and the other - played by Harrison -&nbsp;just wants to dance her heart out.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;It's a trippy, hypnotic fantasy complete with superhero backstory, choreography - and lots of questionable bodily fluids. It's both relentlessly dreamlike, and propulsively&nbsp;energetic and visceral, as the song and Harrison's pumping dance moves demand.&nbsp;And for a concept so absurd and frantic, the video looks beautiful, blending vintage textures with some truly horror-esque moments, with some spot-on&nbsp;performances.A blast from start to finish - even if the basketball match is a bit one-sided.&nbsp;

Alan Resnick

Patti Harrison

Casey Rup

Tom Mendosa

Brandon Winters

Electronic

Hudson Mohawke 'Bicstan' by Alan Resnick & Patti Harrison

Hudson-Mohawke-'Bicstan'-by--Alan-Resnick-&-Patti-Harrison

Kasabian return with an intriguing dive into the possiblities of Artificial Intelligence-driven animation, working with Rawtape - aka Rory A Wood - to reimagine a band performance of Scriptvre, the first release from the upcoming new album.As we have seen with visuals such as <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/03/11/max-cooper-exotic-contents-xander-steenbrugge/75368" target="_blank">Xander Steenbrugge's recent video for Max Cooper</a>, it will be fascinating to see where we are heading with&nbsp;AI-manipulated imagery. In this case, Kasabian and Rawtape have dipped into&nbsp;the new box of tricks to enhance&nbsp;Kasabian's existing iconography.Certainly looks&nbsp;like there has been some&nbsp;judicious&nbsp;use of the 'Francis Bacon' setting.[imgtoken data:1]

Chris Henderson

Rawtape

Theo Hue Williams

Lea Ogunlami

Nathan Rubins

Afzal Robbiani

Tom North

Ondrej Rybar

Alan Scott

Jackie Tyson

Rory A. Wood

Darren Rae

Cinelab Film and Digital

Belle Docherty (AI Artist)

Kieran Cook (AI Artist)

Declan Colquitt (AI Artist)

Maximilian Kreig (AI Artist)

Sony Music

Rock

Kasabian 'Scriptvre' by Rawtape

Kasabian-'Scriptvre'-by-Rawtape

Thom Yorke collaborates with director Mark Jenkin, and takes on an extraordinary role, in the new video for The Smile, Yorke's new project with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner.Yorke plays a miner, working deep underground, in the video for Skrting On The Surface - directed, shot and edited by Jenkin, the BAFTA award-winning director of lo-fi, no-budget Cornish-set drama Bait, and created in the same homespun, tactile way as that remarkable film.Jenkin has described the video as 'a subterranean road movie', which was shot on location within&nbsp;a real Cornish tin mine. Yorke plays the lonely miner pushing a skipful of rock through gloomy&nbsp;tunnels, his&nbsp;toil made mesmerising by Jenkin's remarkable use of film, where the grain, abrasions and markings on the stock itself become part an integral part of the story.As with all of his films - including for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/02/01/smile-smoke-mark-jenkin/74762" target="_blank">The Smoke</a>, his previous video for The Smile - Jenkin hand-developed the footage, shot on&nbsp;black and white 16mm stock. In this case,&nbsp;he has used the water from the mine itself in the developing process, which not only pays homage to a venerable location, but also ties in with the theme of renewal at the heart of the video - when its revealed that Yorke's toil is for an altogether surprising purpose.And Jenkins' unique style also&nbsp;works, of course, as a brilliant means to showcase Yorke's unique&nbsp;screen charisma. He has made a significant contribution in making so many great Radiohead videos, and this one stands up with the best of those.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;&nbsp;

Joe Gray

Mark Jenkin

Denzil Monk

Chris Baker

Scott Wright

Colin Holt

Ella Turner

Callum Mitchell

XL Recordings

The Smile 'Skrting On The Surface' by Mark Jenkin

The-Smile-'Skrting-On-The-Surface'-by-Mark-Jenkin

Joao Retorta explores the connection between people and possessions in his quietly devastating visual for the American composer/performer Stephan Moccio.The video for Moccio's solo piano composition Halston&nbsp;is set&nbsp;in a&nbsp;Lost Property Office, where a solitary officer on the nightshift diligently records newly arrived belongings -&nbsp;photos, books, wallets, spectacles, passports, toys, and more - archiving and photographing each item.&nbsp;The viewer is invited to reflect upon&nbsp;the people who have lost these treasured possessions - who are represented in the film as anxious voices enquiring after lost items on the office answering machine.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>I was interested in the question of what the objects we leave behind say about ourselves.</blockquote>Retorta and his director of photography Fraser Rigg create a cinematic atmosphere in this setting with subdued and subtle lighting, complimenting the art direction by Louis Simonon, and allowing&nbsp;the plaintive&nbsp;refrain of Moccio's Halston&nbsp;to flourish&nbsp;as an emotional soundtrack to the human stories that accompany each object.&nbsp;And the understated performance by Linda Edmonds as the lost property officer provides a&nbsp;focus for the sense of loss and loneliness evoked by the music."I was interested in exploring the question of ‘what do the objects we leave behind tell us about ourselves?’," says Joao Retorta.&nbsp;"This setting works as a vehicle for us to look at these items and question their previous lives and owners,&nbsp;and how they&nbsp;came to be lost. I wanted them to work as small windows for something bigger. Something that is down to the viewer to fabricate."[imgtoken data:2]This is a&nbsp;real&nbsp;departure from much of Retorta's&nbsp;previous work in music videos. But the contained nature of the idea and the setting&nbsp;allows some magic to take place once the viewer is drawn in. Most importantly, it allows the cinematic emotion of Moccio's music to flourish."At its core, the video is about human experience," Retorta&nbsp;continues. "I wanted to create something that subtly explores life in the city by looking at the objects that its people left behind. Hopefully I achieved it to some degree.

Joao Retorta

Riaz Ahmed

Louis Simonon

Liam Bachler

Tenthree Editing

Alex Gregory

No.8

Charlie Morris

Klong

David Knight

Decca Records

Modern Composition

Stephan Moccio 'Halston' by Joao Retorta

Stephan Moccio - Halston

Mark Jenkin brings his distinctive analogue talents to the&nbsp;promo for The Smile's new track,&nbsp;The Smoke.&nbsp;In the video, abstract patterns collide with simple, handwritten words and gritty 16mm textures, creating a vintage, avant-garde aesthetic.&nbsp;Similar to the DIY experimentation Jenkin has shown on his videos for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/05/19/flyte-easy-tiger-mark-jenkin/64889">Flyte</a>, the video doesn't conform to traditional narrative or promo logic, existing instead as a conceptual form to accompany the music.&nbsp;

The Smile 'The Smoke' by Mark Jenkin

The Smile - The Smoke (16mm Film)

To mark the release of her new album The Gods We Can Touch, artist Aurora and director Alexandra Green present an ethereal, experimental live experience.&nbsp;This is a trailer for the performance&nbsp;- which streamed digitally worldwide on the 25th January - and offers a rousing glimpse at the conceptual visuals, promising energetic dance breaks, otherworldly set design and breathtaking soundscapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The livestream has already happened, but replays of the show can be purchased at&nbsp; https://www.momenthouse.com/aurora.&nbsp;

Nailah Clair Blissett

Kia Fern Little

Sarah Asmail

Jim Bracher

Experimental

Aurora 'A Touch Of The Divine' by Alexandra Green

Aurora-'A-Touch-Of-The-Divine-'-by-Alexandra-Green

Bullion Productions' producer&nbsp;Joel Spencer has been promoted to Head of Music and Branded Content at the London-based production company.Spencer, already an established creative voice in production at <a href="https://www.bullionproductions.com/" target="_blank">Bullion</a>, will head up a team devoted to high quality branded content, music videos and speciality projects.Spencer’s credit and collaboration list is formidable, from breaking in BAFTA-winning auteur Mark Jenkin to the world of music video, to working with A listers such as Dizzy Rascal and Stormzy. He now heads up Music and Branded Content, working with a roster of directors including Alexander Green, Andrew Donoho, Ben Murray, Davis Silis, James Willis, Joao Retorta, Joe Wilson, Jenkin and Ollie Wolf.“Joel is a cornerstone of the Bullion family," says&nbsp;Bullion MD&nbsp;Jack&nbsp;Newman. "He has great instincts for spotting and&nbsp;nurturing talent and keeps his finger on the pulse when it comes to music."&nbsp;&nbsp;Newman adds that "Branded Content and Music have been the "backbone of the company for over ten years. With our commercial arm really taking off, it’s now as important as ever to up our game in Music Videos and Branded Content. We are excited with Joel’s ambition to take the department to the next level.”• Bullion Productions website <a href="https://www.bullionproductions.com/" target="_blank">here</a>

Bullion appoint Joel Spencer as Head of Music & Branded Content

Alexandra Green directs a powerful live promo for Nao's&nbsp;And Then Life Was Beautiful.Shot in one continuous take, the video features&nbsp;thoughtful cinematography and choreography which seamlessly intermingle to&nbsp;create an ever-evolving&nbsp;piece, placing&nbsp;Nao and her singers centre stage.Boasting a bright, spacious location and some simple yet effective set decoration, the video's aesthetic is fresh, contemporary and memorable.&nbsp;

Becs Rainey

Steven Olubenga Eniraiyetan

Nanu Segal

Nao 'And Then Life Was Beautiful' (Live) by Alexandra Green

Nao-'And-Then-Life-Was-Beautiful'-by-Alexandra-Green

Ollie Wolf collabs with People Just Do Nothing stars Kurupt FM in the shimmery promo for Summertime, featuring Craig David.&nbsp;Reimagining Miami with a South London vibe, Wolf shows the&nbsp;boys 'poolside', before revealing it's all green screen trickery in a car showroom forecourt&nbsp;that's making the magic.&nbsp;Featuring a tongue-in-cheek narrative and plenty of space for the guys to stretch their comedy chops, it's a video tailor-made for summer vibes, and a brilliant follow up to <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/03/kurupt-fm-ft-ed-sheeran-comic-relief-ben-ross/47126">Kurupt FM and Bullion's Comic Relief collab back in 2017.</a>“It felt very Kurupt and luckily, the boys agreed," explains Ollie Wolf.&nbsp;"As a huge fan of the show, it was a joy to film especially, the car salesman scene; he nailed it and it still gets me every time.”[imgtoken data:1] &nbsp;

Ollie Wolf

Oli Falcon

Luke Goodrich

Hamish Anderson

Owain Morgan

Fin Sullivan

Coline Bach

Matt Nee

Metal Edit

Tim Smith

Carla Thomas

Puneet Aggarwal

Craig David

Kurupt FM

Daisy Deane

Emma Garrett

Dubstep

Kurupt FM ft Craig David 'Summertime' by Ollie Wolf

Kurupt-Fm-Ft.-Craig-David-'-Summertime'-by-Ollie-Wolf

Two rival motorbike gangs have a high stakes dance-off, in&nbsp;Joao Retorta's spectacular new promo for Royal Blood.&nbsp;Featuring cinematic action scenes and&nbsp;sharp choreography, the video for Limbo steams ahead at breakneck pace, whilst&nbsp;Jake Hunter's mesmerising cinematography captures&nbsp;the wonderful surrealism of Kiev and the industrial locations.&nbsp;It's an action-packed yet enigmatic&nbsp;video which feels like a trademark Retorta work, encompassing high-energy, high concept ideas with true flair and craftsmanship.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Tom Birmingham

Alex Savelov

Jake Hunter

Daniel Dubrovsky

Taff Williamson

Brendan Jenkins

TenThree

The Mill

Jennifer Ivory

Dom Mckiernan

Warner Records

Dasha Deriagina

2332 Films

Max Salo

Margarita Shekel

Slavomir Hilinskiy

Royal Blood 'Limbo' by Joao Retorta 

Royal-Blood--'Limbo'-by-Joao-Retorta-

Loski and Stormzy are men on a mission - to deliver satisfaction to all sorts of women - in Joao Retorta's thoroughly enjoyable video for Flavour.They play a couple of delivery men, making a number of drop offs around London to supply their special product. What is it? Well, the clue is very much in the songtitle.It's a winning concept, which plays to the strengths and the chemistry of Loski and Stormzy, and provides a series of engaging episodes as they service an&nbsp;increasingly upscale clientele.&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Harry Wheeler experiments with vibrant lighting and buoyant camerawork to match the steady flow of the track, allowing the charming performances to take focus. And it's a confident step by Joao Retorta into building a narrative around a pair of charismatic artists.&nbsp;