Director

Chris Boyle

The video for Kruangbin&#39;s Maria También, the first single from the Texas-based trio&#39;s new album,&nbsp;tells the story of Iranian women prior to the revolution of 1979 that transformed the country into a theocracy.Before that, from 1925 onwards, Iranian women had gained numerous rights, access to education and employment, the freedom to petition for divorce and child custody - and had become TV entertainers.&nbsp;Chris Boyle, making one of his periodic&nbsp;return to music video directing, mines numerous recordings of&nbsp;pre-Revolution Iranian TV&nbsp;shows, showing the women who were on TV in the 70s in Iran -&nbsp;artists, singers, dancers and songwriters - being enjoyed by mass audiences, and who have either been exiled or silenced since the revolution.Khruangbin and Boyle have brought them back into the spotlight to honour their artistry - and of silenced women everywhere.&nbsp;

United States

Helen Power

Private Island

Las Bandas Be Brave

Nighttime Stories

World music

Khruangbin 'Maria También' by Chris Boyle

Khruangbin-'Maria-También'-by-Chris-Boyle

Chris Boyle has&nbsp;returned to music videos&nbsp;to create this power-packed saga in the span of four minutes -&nbsp;for British rock band&nbsp;Biffy Clyro&#39;s first single Wolves Of Winter,&nbsp;from&nbsp;their seventh&nbsp;album&nbsp;Ellipsis.The 3D-animated visual journey is epic&nbsp;to say the least, taking us through time and space in at&nbsp;dizzying&nbsp;speed. In the span of one video we see&nbsp;a massive&nbsp;T-Rex hunting down a glitched-out&nbsp;wolf,&nbsp;through to bone-crushing&nbsp;scenes of medieval warfare, to World War&nbsp;fighter pilot shootouts, to&nbsp;a car chase which turns into a Star Wars-style mission.

United Kingdom

William Nichols

Warners

Kieran Gee-Finch

Paul Gardner

Rock

Biffy Clyro 'Wolves Of Winter' by Chris Boyle

Biffy-Clyro-'Wolves-Of-Winter'-by-Chris-Boyle

Chris Boyle seems a little fond of the end of the world. &nbsp;Now&nbsp;we&#39;re not saying he&#39;s looking forward to it, but it has featured in his videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2011/09/21/three-trapped-tigers-reset-chris-boyle">Three Trapped Tigers</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/03/22/emperor-yes-cosmos-chris-boyle">Emperor Yes</a>. &nbsp;Nevertheless, the end of days is back on the agenda, and a forlorn newsreader and her beligerent co-anchor are the target of this throroughly heartwarming video.Seemingly spurned by a boisterous male newsreader, reporting on the end of days brings the female lead closer together with her colleague. &nbsp;It also brings together Summer Camp couple in the guise of weather-person Elisabeth and doomsayer Jeremy. &nbsp;Of course, this is all actioned with Chris Boyle&#39;s unique narrative voice and commendable post-production skill. &nbsp;It looks fabulous and the narrative is carried off with humour and warmth.

Nick Wood

Caroline Story

STK Films

Dream-pop

Indie-pop

Indie

Summer Camp 'Two Chords' by Chris Boyle

Summer Camp - Two Chords

New STK Films signing Chris Boyle delivers this tasteful animated video for Keane&#39;s Higher Than The Sun - one of the extra tracks on their forthcoming singles collection The Best Of Keane (November 11).&nbsp;The promo charts the history of the band from their humble beginnings in Battle, East Sussex, referencing past albums including Under The Iron Sean and Perfect Symmetry.

Sam Ballard

Mantas Grigaitis

Island Records

Keane 'Higher Than The Sun' by Chris Boyle

Keane - Higher Than The Sun

Having made their video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/09/06/emperor-yes-wasps-by-chris-boyle/" target="_blank">Wasps</a> last year, Chris Boyle is back with Emperor Yes, with another characteristic bout of comic lunacy combining live action and animation.
Firstly there's the band performing the song - all wearing extraordinary yeti-like outfits - in what Chris describes as "a marshmallow and lightsaber dream-cave", albeit blissfully unaware of the epic struggle for survival going on under their very noses, at ant level. 
A very small army of courageous ants are on a dangerous quest, and thanks to the band, not all of them are going to make it... So a little bit tragic. But mainly just nutty, and lots of fun.
"Huge thanks to Nick Wood for making the live action look lovely and to Sam Ballard for his gorgeous illustration," says Chris. "Oh, and the band are wearing ex-Chinese military arctic warfare suits. It's what all the cool kids are wearing..."

Emperor Yes 'Cosmos' by Chris Boyle

Emperor-Yes-'Cosmos'-by-Chris-Boyle

For Emmy The Great's God Of Loneliness promo, Chris Boyle delivers this excellent black comedy starring Peepshow's Isy Suttie and Shazad Latif from Spooks.
Half music video, half short film, the story peeks behind net curtains to reveal a happily macabre, odd-ball world where a woman will stop at nothing to have the perfect date night. A bitter-sweet Coen-esque comedy about a twee woman mutate from failing domestic goddess to manslaughtering boggle player in under six minutes.
"Emmy approached me looking to do something a little different for the re-release of her album Virtue, and I suggested that we shot a dark little character-based narrative," explains Chris. 
"Once I'd written the script we sent it out to cast and my first choices, Shazad and Isy were available and up for it... Plus, as an added bonus I also managed to blag a location in Trellick Tower to shoot for free. 
"We had a great day's shooting - the crew were amazing, Isy and Shazad knocked it out the park, DoP Nick Wood really nailed their performances and a special mention should to Caroline Story's amazing, if not flipping creepy, portrait of Isy..."

Rokkit

Tom Knight

David Sohanpal

Maite Chemin

Emmy The Great 'God Of Loneliness' by Chris Boyle

Emmy-The-Great-'God-Of-Loneliness'-by-Chris-Boyle

It&#39;s not every day that a new video for a classic track from one of the iconic British rock bands comes along - but here&#39;s one.Chris Boyle - who won an UK MVA for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=hh1uD-hxIrc" target="_blank">Best Music Ad</a> last October - gets to grips with The Who&#39;s Tattoo, reworking the band&#39;s classic iconography and introducing tat-influenced visuals in a evocative retro trip reminiscent of the old theater light shows.The video was commissioned to celebrate the re-release of the classic Who album Live At Leeds, and created using a heady mix of 2D, 3D and hand drawn animation.

The Who’s Tattoo by Chris Boyle

The-Who’s-Tattoo-by-Chris-Boyle

With a striking and charismatic performance by singer Juju and shot by Nick Wood, Chris takes the accelerated punk thrash and turns it into something special...

Little Fish’s Whiplash by Chris Boyle

Little-Fish’s-Whiplash-by-Chris-Boyle

You can hardly get a bigger subject than this - on a smaller scale.
Chris Boyle and the team at JJ Stereo have realised landmark events from the often bloody and grisly history of mankind in scale model form for the philosophical Just Jack. It's like a highly ambitious but rather less-explicit work by Jake and Dinos Chapman.


Chris Boyle and John Paveley on making the video for Just Jack's Embers
"The concept was basically to make the ultimate high school science project, showcasing the very human capacity for screwing up. So we built a 20 ft long diorama of the history of man.

"On the day, D.O.P. Nick Wood shot the model in one, so we could sync it to the track - every inch of the diorama corresponding to a second of the song.
"Then, after a quick green screen shoot and a couple of weeks manic post... the History of Man in three minutes thirty seconds!"

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