Director

Carly Cussen

Carly Cussen directs a glossy performance promo for Eyelar.&nbsp;In the video for Till You Hate Me, we see two opposing worlds collide, reflecting&nbsp;the dichotomy of emotions in the track.&nbsp;DoP Rick Joaquim creates a distinctive look for each of the worlds - the first is&nbsp;an ethereal, realistic environment, with soft lighting and a sense of calm. The other world is full of shadows, hard lighting and a gloomy, otherworldly colour palette.&nbsp;The opposing aesthetics perfectly encapsulate the themes of the concept, and pay homage to videos of the late 90's and early Noughties.&nbsp;Great work with a standout style and plenty of engaging imagery.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Felix Coles

Dom Strachan

Thea Dagnaud

Jaime Jarvis

Independent Talent Group

Kem Ekundayo

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Playmaker Films

Adam Trz

Rick Joaquim

Lisa Foo

Sam James

Michael Rock Perring

Joanna Cuper

Lauren Bell

Aimee Twist

Samuel Marr

Homespun

Tom Matthews

CHEAT

Sony Music

Eyelar 'Till You Hate Me' by Carly Cussen

Eyelar - till you hate me (Official Video)

Carly Cussen directs a neon-hued vision for Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta's Remember.&nbsp;Set in a beautiful, anachronistic venue, the walls are adorned with neon lights, lending&nbsp;a retrofuturistic, Miami-style&nbsp;vibe to the concept.&nbsp;Hill is front and centre throughout, and her electric performance is impossible to disengage with - whether she is dancing, singing to camera or tying up classic sculptures with rope, her presence and energy are unmatched, cementing her status as one of the most exciting popstars of the moment.&nbsp;

Fred Bonham Carter

Just Fred

Alexa Haywood

Yasmin Godo

James Medcraft

Jonquil Lawrence

Vanessa Reynolds

John Holloway

Marisa Garner

Andrew Rawson

Becky Hill & David Guetta 'Remember' by Carly Cussen

Becky-Hill-&-David-Guetta-'Remember'-by-Carly-Cussen

Daniel Carberry and Carly Cusson collaborate to create an atmospheric and at times claustrophobic showcase for Australian singer-songwriter CLOVES.&nbsp;It's all largely achieved due an excellent appreciation of the interplay between shadow and light, as CLOVES finds herself in stark&nbsp;yet effectively-mounted scenes - representing different levels of a videogame - that visualise frustration, and the sense of being boxed-in."The inspiration for this video was the isolation, exhaustion and repetition that anxiety creates," says CLOVES.&nbsp;"It can feel like an over-functioning game in your mind. So I wanted to travel through my worlds game, each 'level' with a visual cue of what those barriers in your mind feel like - only to end up right back where you started, [in] what feels like an impossible cycle to break."

Daniel Carberry

Lanette Phillips

Editegg

Tommy Labuda

Alexandre Jamin

Furmann Ahmed

CLOVES 'Dead' by Daniel Carberry & Carly Cussen

Cloves-'Dead'-by-Daniel-Carberry-&-Carly-Cussen

Carly Cussen explores a tumultuous relationship in her video for Becky Hill's Space.&nbsp;The minimalist concept takes&nbsp;place in a series of artificial environments, each designed to distort&nbsp;the idea of distance and space.Open-ended staircases warp&nbsp;into surreal kaleidoscopes, separating the couple and their respective worlds, blocking the path back to normality. The video captures&nbsp;a sense of the universal isolation we are experiencing as an international community, and the fear&nbsp;that the world as we know it has changed forever.&nbsp;Loneliness and heartbreak are common themes in many music videos, but with this project, Cussen has created something emotionally affecting and haunting, which transcends traditional pop visuals.&nbsp;Anthony Neale's art direction also makes a big impact, with brutalist yet functional structures which highlight the drama in the concept.&nbsp;

Jack Meredith

Danny Hayward

Anthony Neale

Felipe Szulc

Dan Hawkins

Mouthpiece

Becky Hill 'Space' by Carly Cussen

Becky-Hill-'Space'-by-Carly-Cussen

Stefflon Don has taken the money and she's running from the Law with her man, in Carly Cusson's slick, cash-filled video for Phone Down.Together with a glamorous phonebox in the desert&nbsp;sequence in shocking pink fur, Steff takes a break to hang out with Lil Baby too in this variation on the classic Bonnie &amp; Clyde story.&nbsp;

Peter Williams

Happy Street

Jeff Pantaleo

Matthew Chaung

Andrei Zamfir

Coco

Trenton Weaver

Alex Jairus

The Quarry

Jim Bracher

Yungster

Kerry Barnes, Claude George, Rigo Obezo, Debrion Brooks

Polydor

Stefflon Don ft Lil Baby 'Phone Down' by Carly Cussen

Stefflon-Don-Feat-Lil-Baby-'Phone-Down'-by-Carly-Cussen

Marlon Roudette brings his music&nbsp;to the world - via his special rooftop recording studio - while different young people struggle to find inner peace, in Carly Cussen&#39;s uplifting video for Ultra Love.From the inner city London to the country, this&nbsp;looks marvellous, courtesy of Simon Plunket&#39;s cinematography, capturing the &#39;tangerine skies&#39; mentioned in the lyrics. And that outdoor recording studio is very cool indeed.

Once Upon A Film

Simon Plunket

Dale Slater

Undercranked

John Moule

Island Records

Marlon Roudette 'Ultra Love' by Carly Cussen

Marlon Roudette - Ultra Love

Laura Mvula covers a song made famous by The Fugees in the &#39;90s, but brings out the pop-soul qualities of the original by The Delfonics in the&nbsp;&#39;70s. And Carly Cussen&#39;s video for Ready Or Not (also the soundtrack for House Of Fraser&#39;s Christmas ad this year) does an excellent&nbsp;job in showcasing the singer as a star performer within a traditional studio performance.It&#39;s&nbsp;full of energy, with lots of smart graphic ideas. Most importantly, Mvula&#39;s singular look, and her charisma shines through the video.

Amalia Rose Rawlings

Mark Meadows

Smoke & Mirrors

Pop, Soul

Laura Mvula 'Ready Or Not' by Carly Cussen

Laura-Mvula-'Ready-Or-Not'-by-Carly-Cussen

Inspired by the themes in the vocals, Carly Cussen&#39;s music video for&nbsp;Jerome Price&#39;s&nbsp;Me Minus You is&nbsp;all about telling a simple story through creative and complex dancing.&nbsp;In it, we see the emotional rollercoaster&nbsp;of a romantic relationship -&nbsp;love, hope, fear, anxiety and conflict&nbsp;-&nbsp;expressed through pop-and-lock hip hop moves.&nbsp;Carly explains, &quot;the song uses mathmatics to describe a relationship, so we used finger tutting to compliment the metaphor. It was beautiful and expressive dance used in a really cool and original way.&nbsp;Rule one - never underestimate how intricate and difficult this style of dance is.&quot;

Jeremiah Zazueta

Dan Miller

Jon Chema

Dytto + Raino

Dan Moran

Sony Bmg Uk

Dance

Jerome Price 'Me Minus You' by Carly Cussen

Jerome Price - Me Minus You (Official Video)

The renaissance of Craig David continues apace with this video for One More Time, which taps into&nbsp;one aspect of his new life in Miami - hosting some of the most exclusive parties at the TS5.And the director gives the video&nbsp;an additional layer of richness by adding in footage shot on&nbsp;Super 8mm film.&nbsp;&quot;We decided to use Super 8mm to give this stylish lifestyle piece some urbanity and personality,&quot; she says.&nbsp;

Doomsday Entertainment

Danielle Hinde

Courtney Davies

Claudia Rivas

Joe Labisi

Caroline Clayton

Insanity Group

Urban, R&B, Dance

Craig David 'One More Time' by Carly Cussen

Craig David - One More Time (Official Video)

Carly Cussen has delivered another great&nbsp;looking video, this time&nbsp;shot in Vegas, baby!It sees British drum &amp; bass producer Wilkinson chilling at&nbsp;a Californian motel lot with Wretch 32, who raps&nbsp;while pretty ladies dance,&nbsp;skaters do tricks and break dancers show off their impressive&nbsp;stunts. Featuring the awesome backdrop of&nbsp;Vegas&#39; Neon Museum - six acres of retro neon signage&nbsp;- the result is Carly&#39;s specialty:&nbsp;a colourful,&nbsp;fun and lighthearted video that focuses on the artist&#39;s style and&nbsp;performance.&nbsp;

Corey Jennings

Mike Tingley

Christian Corio

Desmond Smith

Celina Rodriguez

Lucid Media

Gina Leonard

Jamee Ranta

Joe Shahood

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Drum & Bass

Wilkinson feat. Wretch 32 'Flatline' by Carly Cussen

Wilkinson - Flatline ft. Wretch 32

Carly Cussen recently directed this warehouse party style&nbsp;performance clip for Lawson&#39;s upbeat track Money. Shot in Shoreditch east London, the clip shows the band in full party mode, playing beer pong, getting tattoos and&nbsp;playing for friends and fans. And although they&nbsp;sing about wanting more money, it would appear they don&#39;t need loads of it&nbsp;to have a&nbsp;great time.&nbsp;

Antoine Dixon-Bellot

Luke Biggins

Hanan Cher

Pop-Rock

Rock

Lawson 'Money' by Carly Cussen

Lawson - Money

Carly Cussen has recently directed this slick, monochromatic performance video for&nbsp;Reece Whyte aka Raylo&#39;s track Winner, which&nbsp;follows a young woman as she faces her pre-show jitters and&nbsp;gets on stage to&nbsp;translate&nbsp;Raylo&#39;s rap into&nbsp;sign language.The track, which recently appeared on an ad for&nbsp;Pot Noodle&#39;s &#39;You can make it!&#39; campaign, was produced by&nbsp;Pot Noodle and music agency Big Sync. Brand manager Lena Portchmouth explained to <a href="http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1382049/unilever-creates-music-video-launch-rap-artist-pot-noodle-campaign">Marketing Magazine,</a>&nbsp;&quot;Building off the success of the &lsquo;You can make It&rsquo; campaign, this music video is not only relevant to Pot Noodle&rsquo;s target audience, it also allows us to create fantastic content in channels we know they engage with&quot;. &nbsp;

Aaron Reid

Antoine Dixon Bellot

East London Studios

Hip-Hop

Raylo 'Winner' by Carly Cussen

Raylo - Winner (Official Video)

Carly Cussen has directed this sleek and stylish video for Youtuber-turned-rapper&nbsp;KSI&#39;s track Smoke And Mirrors. Not straying far from the song title, the video sees the performers in an elaborate studio setup of neon lights, smoke, and mirrors, captured with&nbsp;swerving camera moves to add that&nbsp;dynamic&nbsp;pop.

Rohan Scully

Afzal Robbani

Daniel Osei

Sonny Horwell

Sam Traviss

Eleri Shone

Stefan Yap

James Chegwyn

Alex Kirkwood

2ND AC:

Tom O'Keefe

Charlie Gustian

Arron Walters

James Adair

Laurentiu Maria

Charlie Whiteway

Charlie Whitney

Ayishat Akanbi

Sadie Hewlett

Konstantin Ermakov

KSI ft. Tiggs Da Author, Lunar C & Nick Brewer 'Smoke And Mirrors' by Carly Cussen

KSI - Smoke And Mirrors ft Tiggs Da Author, Lunar C & Nick Brewer

Pop video specialist&nbsp;Carly Cussen has put together this colourful performance video for KDA&#39;s Turn The Music Louder, featuring Tinie Tempah and Katy B.&nbsp;With a circular track revolving around four retro stage setups, the&nbsp;clip takes us through 30&#39;s Mondrian,&nbsp;60&#39;s and 70&#39;s glamour, and zany&nbsp;80&#39;s&nbsp;graphics, providing colourful backdrops for the&nbsp;heavily styled&nbsp;artists and performers (just check out the&nbsp;glam squad in the credits!)&nbsp;to do their thing. &nbsp;

Angelica Polonczyk

Andrew Potter

Ben Keswick

Rosie Owens

Jake Scott

Ahmet Hussein

Tom North

Sam Harding

Lee Parfitt

Paul Sheppard

Terry Rob

Ed Riley

Amy Lord

Jess Ciantor

Supple Nam

Grace Snell

Kirsty Hanlon

Big Buoy

Julia Frost

Ministry of Sound

Smoke and Mirrors

KDA feat. Tinie Tempah, Katy B 'Turn The Music Louder' by Carly Cussen

KDA - Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) ft. Tinie Tempah, Katy B

Dead&nbsp;set on working in Music Videos from a very young age, Carly Cussen started off as a runner soon after leaving school and&nbsp;steadily worked her way up until she could direct her own videos.She cut&nbsp;her teeth by making&nbsp;videos for UK&nbsp;Grime scene artists such as Lethal Bizzle and Tinie Tempah, and&nbsp;eventually went on to doing pop videos&nbsp;for the likes of&nbsp;Olly Murs, Little Mix, Missy Elliott, and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/profiles/carly-cussen-0">many&nbsp;more</a>. Her style focuses on visually heightening&nbsp;artists&#39;&nbsp;performances through clever visual ideas, eye-catching locations, crisp cinematography and energetic dance choreographies.&nbsp;Some of her recent work includes the&nbsp;ultra cool n&#39; edgy Hip-Hop dance-off for Diztortion&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/08/diztortion-feat-sacha-keable-put-your-love-me-carly-cussen" target="_blank">Put Your Love On Me</a>&nbsp;and some lovely&nbsp;utopic&nbsp;summer visuals for&nbsp;Ella Eyre&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/30/ella-eyre-good-times-carly-cussen" target="_blank">Good Times</a>.&nbsp;We thought, what better time but the present to get to know Carly better? So we asked if she might want answer our questionnaire, and luckily for us she said yes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Education:&nbsp;Just plain old comprehensive school. I left at 16 and after months of begging production companies for a chance, jumped straight on set and never looked back.Previous occupations:&nbsp;Is being a &ldquo;maker of tea&rdquo; an official occupation? I definitely did my fair share of that. I think they are called runners now.&nbsp;Favourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;I really enjoyed Kendrick Lamar&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/01/kendrick-lamar-alright-colin-tilley" target="_blank">Alright</a>&nbsp;- Amazingly creative from concept to colour. So many elements that just keep layering and layering. Awesome.&nbsp;I also re-watched&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/01/08/sia-elastic-heart-sia-and-daniel-askill" target="_blank">Elastic Heart</a>&nbsp;quite a few times. Its awkward and bizarrely stunning. I would love to work with Ryan Heffington.Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;Gaga - Bad Romance, I watched it 10 times on repeat before realising I was obsessed with madness! It&#39;s beautifully deranged.&nbsp;It&#39;s like 5 people had different ideas and they all contradicted each other but they went and shot them all anyway! Genius!&nbsp;Favourite food/restaurant?&nbsp;I&#39;m a sucker for spice, but love Mediterranean and Mexican. Humous and chillies&hellip; yes!Favourite drink/drug?&nbsp;Amaretto sour wins every time! Bittersweet but far too short!Last movie you saw (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Yes it really was good, and something I would never usually watch. Fat Girl a french film directed by Catherine Breillat, If you have ever been self-conscious, miserable or had a bitch of an older sibling this will really ring true.&nbsp;I also recently got into Orange Is The New Black&nbsp;(I know it&#39;s not a movie) but I&#39;m addicted&hellip;another surprise for me.Favourite directors?&nbsp;In the world of videos, Ryan Hope, Anthony Mandler, Sophie Muller, Christian Larson, Jake Nava, Dave Ma, Oliver Hadlee Pearch, I would clearly have a field day at Black Dog haha! There are so many directors I enjoy watching. I love Anthony for his colourful yet dark twisted tones, I LOVE Vince Haycock!Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?&nbsp;The Weeknd, as always just him, a stage and music that I love because I can&#39;t relate to it in any way shape or form. Its interesting seeing a whole different world through the eyes of its addict.Favourite bands/artists:&nbsp;I really like what Banks was making last year. Of course Sia is fantastic. I&#39;m a big fan of Tinashe&#39;s earlier stuff, and I recently became a fan of Tink. The more interesting thing is my two favourite genres of music are alternative Hip Hop and classical. At home the only music playing is James Howard Newton. I love being taken out of reality.Currently reading/favourite book:&nbsp;My favourite books are all very fantasy&nbsp;based, it all started with Phantastes by George Macdonald, as previously mentioned I love either being taken completely out of reality in to a non-existing world of fantasy or&nbsp;being taken so far into a hard reality its not relatable on any level.What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job?&nbsp;Fun question, I was a stand-in/runner on a Max and Dania music video for Jay Sean. I was 16 years old but I still remember the drinks order. Diet coke/pepsi for Max and Earl Grey tea for Dania. And I make a cracking cuppa cha!Favourite job of the past 12 months:&nbsp;Really enjoyed Wretch 32,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/10/15/wretch-32-6-words-carly-cussen" target="_blank">6&nbsp;words</a>&nbsp;and Alexa Goddard, <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/28/alexa-goddard-we-broke-sky-carly-cussen" target="_blank">We Broke The Sky</a>, I love an epic landscape and an honest performance. Both seem to have that essence.&nbsp;And building a mountain of speakers was just hilarious!What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?&nbsp;An epic sci-fi fantasy blockbuster with an all star cast and billions of dollarrr&hellip;. Nope, I&#39;m actually working on a really interesting narrative video. Something to show off my story-telling side!What would most improve your life?&nbsp;A helicopter or small flying car contraption?...&nbsp;Traffic needs to go into room 101&hellip;Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?&nbsp;A tweet from Simon Cowell&hellip; or Working with Missy Elliot&hellip;? Both are going on my CV haha!Worst moment?&nbsp;We really want to go there ay&hellip; haha. A 27-hour grade which seriously took a turn for the worst after the 18th hour. I don&rsquo;t think I even have the guts to mentally revisit that day/night/day. Luckily we delivered 3 hours before it was screened at a showcase.Biggest frustration?&nbsp;What to order for lunch at a grade, the menus in post houses have way too many choices especially at Smoke &amp;&nbsp;Mirrors&hellip; I know everyone has been there&hellip; way too many opinions and just as you think you know what you want. The post producer (Andy) recommends a place that isn&#39;t even on the menu but sounds too good to resist&hellip;. it&#39;s probably not even frustration&hellip; it&#39;s the best part of grading.What&rsquo;s the big issue or issues facing music video makers right now?&nbsp;Accessibility!!&nbsp;Everything now being online has opened up the accessibility gate.I guess it&#39;s a double edge sword. On one side, it&#39;s great to have so many platforms to showcase work. Blogs, websites, social media&hellip; all amazing places to promote your art. But the other side of the blade breeds too many people picking up an iphone and calling themselves a director because they shot an ice-bucket challenge. I know art is art BUT now there are 4 music video directors in my immediate family and three of them are under the age of 10! I just cant get taken seriously anymore haha!Person you most admire?&nbsp;I admire David LaChapelle for being brave enough to do everything he wants&hellip; and in the most controversial way possible to mankind!What advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production?&nbsp;If you are starting off as a runner, make sure you can conjure up a good cup of hot tea... it will get you further then you think!!!!&nbsp;Any hot tips on who will be the future stars in music video in the next couple of years &ndash; directors or otherwise?&nbsp;Charlie Galustian&nbsp;is crazy mental talented. He blows me away with what here hears in music that is often overlooked.&nbsp;I&#39;m really looking forward too seeing what he does in the future.

The Questionnaire: Carly Cussen

Ella Eyre&#39;s new video for Good Times by Carly Cussen is the perfect Carpe&nbsp;Diem of summery visuals, reminding you to grab a friend,&nbsp;head to Greenwich and make the most of your sunny holidays.&nbsp;Shot documentary style on 8mm film, it shows off&nbsp;Ella&#39;s fun-loving side&nbsp;in a playful and cinematic clip for her&nbsp;Drum &amp; Bass fueled summer&nbsp;hit.

Mos Films

Shabana Mansuri

Nathan Perry-Greene

Cut + Run

James Hackett

Ella Eyre 'Good Times' by Carly Cussen

Ella Eyre - Good Times

Carly Cussen has delivered this slick video for Alexa Goddard&#39;s We Broke The Sky, composed of&nbsp;glamorous shots of Goddard performing her song&nbsp;in the studio as well as in&nbsp;Three Cliffs Bay, Wales. The video plays out like an elegant, well-composed pop video that lets the weather conditions express the lyrics.&nbsp;

Amalia Rosen-Rawlings

Dave Paul

Andre Augusto

Alexa Goddard 'We Broke The Sky' by Carly Cussen

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