Post Producer

Chloe Ensor

Thomas James directs a beautifully twisted and sublimely surreal exploration of&nbsp;inner demons coming&nbsp;to life, in his promo for Bring Me The Horizon's Strangers.In a nondescript industrial space, a host of characters undergo Cronenberg-style body horror transformations, intercut with a suitably haunting performance from the band.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Bodies twist, contort and conjoin in a horrific yet eerily beautiful way, balancing a nightmarish aesthetic with hyper-intimate, bravura cinematography by Adam Barnett.James draws on a host of influences - including&nbsp;a special nod to Chris Cunningham and Aphex Twin's Rubber Johnny - but adds his own facility for narrative and sense of humanity to the outstanding VFX work. It's a brilliantly successful execution of a stunningly ambitious concept.[imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Finn Sullivan

Emma Garrett

Karen Plowden

Worldwide Production Agency

Thomas James

Craig Dixon

Kat Cattaneo

Ian Stowe

Adam Barnett

Sam Holmes

Chris Malin

Callum Watt  

James Wicks

Patrycja Cygna

Begoña Fernández Martin

Jake Armstrong

Whitehouse Post

Peter Oppersdorff

Tom Cole

The Mill

Rca Sony Music

Lucy Bradley

Rock

Alternative

Bring Me The Horizon 'Strangers' by Thomas James

Bring Me The Horizon 'Strangers' (dir. Thomas James)

Ian Roderick Gray was nominated for a UKMVA for his last collaboration with Charlie Winston - a live video&nbsp;of the singer-songwriter performing <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/05/04/charlie-winston-lost-memory-ian-roderick-gray/64634" target="_blank">Lost In The Memory</a> at a villa in the South of France. Now they collaborate again in another memorable location - La Frette Studios in Paris - for Here I Am.As the director&nbsp;explains below, the idea was to document the recording process of the song at La Frette and give it the dynamism of a music video. Subtitled, 'The Anatomy Of The Song', Gray has demonstrated how layers of sounds and intrumentation were added to the track via a simple method of a continual circular camera motion.&nbsp;Starting with Winston laying down the vocal track, he is then joined by each accompanying musician in turn to build the sound of Here I Am: tabla player&nbsp;Aref Durvesh, singers&nbsp;Maria Marolany and Marieline Marolany - and then finally legendary cora player&nbsp;Toumani Diabaté.[imgtoken data:1]

Ian Roderick Gray

Adham Hunt

Grayscale Productions

Alfred Thirolle

Raphaël Dougé

Clement Duroux

Jessica Kell

Johnny Thorpe

Glassworks VFX

Athene Xenia

Afishant

Charlie Winston 'Here I Am (The Anatomy Of A Song)' by Ian Roderick Gray

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Florence Kosky brings the transcendent style she recently employed with Labrinth to play with Raissa, who embarks on an epic, wondrous journey into a magical unknown in the video for Crowded.&nbsp;With the live action footage of Raissa wandering into the great outdoors at night touched by hyperreal colour and glowing lights, her journey into fantasy is completed by the switch to full 2D animation. That is the work of&nbsp;Anthony Scheppard -&nbsp;a master of animated psychedelia, who employs his style to fulfill Kosky's vision. It's a notable piece to showcase the young artist, signed to Mark Ronson's Zelig label, and this up-and-coming director.

Florence Kosky

Alex Newland

Geronimo Boy Film

Joshua Trigg

Emily Carlton

Daphne Schmon

Annette Remler

Matt Choules

Kieran Poynter

Luca Piercey

Stefania Lucchesi

Zoey Olechnowicz

Joseph Tims

Daniel Rotaru

Steve Askey

Columbia

Anthony Schepperd

Tommaso Colelli

Raissa 'Crowded' by Florence Kosky

Raissa-'Crowded'-by-Florence-Kosky

Oscar Hudson is back, directing&nbsp;a&nbsp;fever dream wrapped in a music video for Slowthai.&nbsp;The concept for Feel Away opens&nbsp;rather innocently... Slowthai - real name Tyron Frampton - is with his girlfriend (played by Guindilla Ontanaya) at a maternity ward, shot through her first person perspective.Reality soon takes&nbsp;a distorted plunge into more surreal territory, as the perspective switches&nbsp;and it's Frampton who now has a baby growing inside of him. Cascading into multiple nightmare scenarios, his love interest falls in love with a doctor, his limbs turn into cake and the baby lipsyncs the lyrics via&nbsp;the ultrasound screen.&nbsp;Truly weird and wonderful, the video takes a sharp turn into the uncanny valley and doesn't let up until the final, haunting frame. The use of first person perspective drops the viewer right into the middle of this world, creating an erratic and claustrophobic environment with no way out.&nbsp;

Oscar Hudson

Callum Harrison

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Tom O'Driscoll

Steven O Eniraiyetan

Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Bill Rae Smith

Taff Williamson

Daniel Pacitti

Amber Pitkin

Ellie Johnson

TenThree

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Kharmel Cochrane

Rich Savage

Asia Rose Kilgallon

Hip Hop

Slowthai ft James Blake & Mount Kimbie 'Feel Away' by Oscar Hudson

Slowthai-'Feel-Away-Ft.-James-Blake,-Mount-Kimbie'-by-Oscar-Hudson

Charlie Winston teams up with Ian Roderick Gray for a unique&nbsp;live-performance visual, filmed in a villa in the South of France.&nbsp;Whilst recording at the&nbsp;villa, Charlie Winston noticed the various acoustic qualities of the residence, and the different effects each room/ location had on the sound. So&nbsp;dozens of microphones were wired up around the villa, and Gray was tasked to capture a one-take video - shot with entirely live sound.&nbsp;This requred near-perfection from both the crew and Winston. One wrong move, and it would all need to be reset - which happened on numerous occasions, as Gray explains below. Finally, as the sun was setting and the light was fading away, they nailed it...&nbsp;

Mike Hannides

Pablo Dolado

Sony France

Thomas Burgess

Folk

Indie

Charlie Winston 'Lost In The Memory' by Ian Roderick Gray

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Sophia Ray’s second collaboration with Ella Eyre is&nbsp;full of&nbsp;wild energy&nbsp;and a touch of the surreal, as she navigates her newfound single status and buries her negative emotions.&nbsp;The video follows Ella after a break up, where we see her take control of her life and reinvent herself. The edit rockets from one scene to the next, tracking Ella’s transformation as the&nbsp;exaggerated vignettes heighten the narrative, emphasising the artist's&nbsp;sense of empowerment.Full of wacky angles and videogame style animation, it's a contemporary take on the breakup concept, plugged in to the fast-paced social world we live in today.&nbsp;

Sophia Ray

Stephanie Paeplow

Partizan

Mayling Wong

Joe Browne

David Calland

Ben Todd

Dan West

Damon Sewell

William Pope

Lucy Cooper

Daisy Deane

Marcia Lee

Kristina Theodoris

Kit Wells

Final Cut

Mouthpiece

Laura Clayton

Island Records

Ella Eyre 'New Me' by Sophia Ray

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A gang of scarily-masked, boiler-suited&nbsp;intruders break into Ashnikko's house,&nbsp;in new FRIEND signing Lucrecia Taormina's sassy and full-bloodied video for Hi, It's Me.Up in her bedroom, Ashnikko is all of a dither about a useless no-good boy. But the interlopers have a weird surprise for her - they reveal themselves to also be Ashnikko. Much bolshier alter-egos, in fact, and determined to snap out her nonsense.Taormina brings out&nbsp;Ashnikko's considerable charisma in the video, and with the catchy Hi, It's Me, she's like a&nbsp;spiky, punkier Taylor Swift.This is Taormina's third video produced through FRIEND in London, and an impressive way to announce&nbsp;her official addition to the FRIEND roster.&nbsp;"We're very excited to announce Lucrecia Taormina is signing to FRIEND," says Luke Tierney, EP of Music.&nbsp;"Having created three videos together we've already created a strong partnership, something we're excited to take further."• Watch Lucrecia Taormina's reel at FRIEND <a href="http://friendlondon.tv/directors/lucrecia-taormina#cat-musicvideos" target="_blank">here</a>

Lucrecia Taormina

Joseph J Goldman

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Jack Green

Matthew Emvin Taylor

Malte Huebner

Conor Hall

Kieren Alexander

Ash Halliburton

Holly Adamthwaite

Claire Moore

Porsche Poon

Meg Thorne

Cut+Run

Philip Wood

Sam Seager

Grant Sandy Phillips

Jamie Neale

Ashnikko 'Hi It's Me' by Lucrecia Taormina

Ashnikko-'Hi-It's-Me'-by-Lucrecia-Taormina

Lili_dreams only has 17K followers. It’s high time she fixed that. Sophia Ray directs this sumptuously photographed story about a wannabe influencer for Ritual.Real life influencer Cailin Russo&nbsp;gives a heartfelt performance as Lili, a young woman on a mission&nbsp;for online validation. She experiments with different smiles, products and filters, and initially she finds success. But ultimately, there seems to be nothing she can do to stay relevant and&nbsp;raise her profile. As she loses followers and friends alike, her online world becomes impossible to differentiate from reality.You’ve seen this story before, but rarely with this much flair. The video has a close relative in Nosedive, the episode of Black Mirror in which Bryce Dallas Howard pays the price for her obsession with social media and interaction-based credit. But where Nosedive was all pastels and nihilism, Ray’s video is a more sympathetic portrayal.Alexandre Jamin’s photography is a delight, rendered in all the jewel tones and honeyed glow of an Instagram fantasy. And VFX artist Leanne Pletersky has done great work with frame-jumping texts and 3D graphics that look both realistic and absolutely part of the world they’re helping to depict. Ultimately the biggest credit goes to Sophia Ray, who achieves a great balance between her characteristic visual polish and narrative drive. She really shows what she can do.

Jack Bristow

George Nelson

Alexandre Jamin

Max Beauquesne

Leon Frind

Salvador Gomez-Lopez

Benny Casey 

Luci Ellis

Coco Hirani

Jess Clarke

James Demetriou

Glasssworks

Glassworks London

Leanne Pletersky

Cailin Russo

Felix Spooner

Alternative Pop, Dance

Ritual ft Emily Warren 'Using' by Sophia Ray

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Dream-team Bree Runway and Fred Rowson continue their ambitious collaboration with this second, pointed foray into the world of 'Crackney'.Runway has never suffered fools gladly. Her short visual canon is reliably barbed and political. We first encountered her in <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/09/26/bree-runway-what-do-i-tell-my-friends-fred-rowson/49791">What Do I Tell My Friends</a>, in which the singer murdered an abusive fashion photographer and desecrated his corpse. This, her first collaboration with Rowson, was a caustic piece of wit in 2017 that anticipated the #MeToo campaign.Two years later, for Runway’s latest project, the two have developed the cartoonish, satirical world of Crackney. Their magical realist conception of London is a springboard for criticisms of culture and the city, in which dark skin-tones are a profitable commodity and Runway doppelgängers run amock.Big Racks takes aim at rigged capitalism and white gatekeepers of industry. Gentrifiers, procedural bureaucrats and trendy columnists who feel entitled to a piece of Runway (“I must touch your hair!”) This episode hones in on a beauty tycoon character we met in <a href="http://https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/29/bree-runway-2on-fred-rowson/58936">20N</a>. This time, the businesswoman is&nbsp;trying to secure a patent on her home brewed ‘Be Runway Body Spray’. Leading with the headline,<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/02/revealed-the-stark-evidence-of-everyday-racial-bias-in-britain"> “57% of ethnic minorities feel they have to work harder to succeed in a British workplace”</a>, the video skewers&nbsp;the myth that hard work is the only factor at play in personal success. Even with a fistful of cash, she can only secure a deal with a literal paper bag over her head.The video benifits from some hyperactive, mixed-format photography by Stefan Yap. And a fresh, comic&nbsp;book colour palatte, for which we can thank stylist&nbsp;Holly Adamthwaite and colourist&nbsp;Edwin Metternich. Spiky politcal satire rarely looks so fun.

Fred Rowson

Ghandi El-Chamaa

Blink

Laura Northover

Ellie Britton

Tom Allan

Stefan Yap

Stephen Dunn

Kieran Brown

Lucie Red

Marvin Francis

Paige Cole

Ben Crook

Speade

Edwin Metternich

Martha Kinn

Contemporary R&B

Trap

Bree Runway ft Brooke Candy 'Big Racks' by Fred Rowson 

Bree-Runway-Ft-Brooke-Candy--'Big-Racks-'-by-Fred-Rowson-

Fred Rowson and Bree Runway revive the collaboration that began with&nbsp;2017&rsquo;s&nbsp;What Do I Tell My Friends? (where&nbsp;Bree murders a fashion photographer and twerks over his dead body) with an&nbsp;ambitious new project starting with this video for 2ON. &nbsp;After his work on the last Years &amp; Years&rsquo; release, Palo Santo, Bree asked Fred Rowson to take on the role of Creative Director. This time, Bree wanted something much larger in scale - a satirical concept based around her experiences growing up in Hackney, coming from a Ghanaian family, and finding that the darkness of her skin tone was the source of bullying and commentary throughout her childhood.From these painful beginnings, Bree and Fred created a cartoon world - Crackney - in which the concept of skin tone is malleable, in which Bree is a fashion tycoon, with her office based in her real-life living room, running a business that sells Be Runway Body Spray - a spray that turns the wearer into, of course, Bree Runway.With a set of references spanning from Aqua&#39;s Barbie Girl video to Twin Peaks, via Mortal Kombat, Bree and Fred created a colourful, heightened visual world which link narratively her social media presence, the songs themselves, the stills and EP artwork - shot by Charlotte Rutherford - and the two music videos, written and directed by Fred. Fred and Bree are planning to extend the concept to Bree&rsquo;s live shows in the future.

Julie Hoult, Leomie Francis Anderson,  Richard Myers, Rebecca Morrison, Taneisha Bodmer

Bree Runway '2ON' by Fred Rowson 

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