Director of Photography

Chris Jones

Charlie Robins directs a hypnotic promo for The Comet Is Coming.&nbsp;Unabashedly wild and atmospheric, the visual sees a small group of people driven insane by an enigmatic force, visualised in the form of a circle.&nbsp;Kept purposefully vague, Robins combines live action with elements of animation, demanding&nbsp;viewers to come to their own conclusion as to what's happening. One thing's for sure, it's not your everyday scenario.[imgtoken data:1]"This was always going to be pretty nuts," says Robins. "I had a great conversation with the band about the new album called Hyper Dimensional Expansion Beam. That name was enough of a jumping off point, and I just threw a load of crazy shit at it. It felt right to be weird and post-apocalyptic but also disorientating and fucked up. I wanted to make people feel a bit sick in all honesty. "The music is so crazy yet intricately put together, there is something beautifully chaotic about it which fit very well with some post and camera techniques I’ve been developing for a while."I worked very closely with the immense team at Agile (particularly the post guys!) to make this film happen. What a seriously talented, generous and wonderful bunch of humans they are."&nbsp;

Joe Munro

Max Johnson

Philippe Medina

Andrius Vizbaras

En Williams

James Sayer

Sefa Kocakalay

Agile Studio

Andrew Patrick

Bella Dupèe

Charlie Robins

Joseph J Goldman

OB Management

Agile Films

Kerstan Mackness

Sam Crooke

Jack Exton

Sana Khan

Precious Mahaga

Abbey Valentina

George Nelson

Austen Philips

Nick Curry

Toby Mckay

Kairo Jones

Natasha Lawes

Kevin Corry

Joshua Gochez

The Assembly Rooms

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Jenn Sanders

Alizee Levrino

David Horsburgh

Miles Jovian

Luisa Paige

Universal

The Comet Is Coming 'Technicolor' by Charlie Robins

The-Comet-Is-Coming--'Technicolor'-by-Charlie-Robins

The human race's symbiotic relationship with nature is explored in AG Rojas' video for Naeem.&nbsp;Exploring the potential of intergenerational healing, the complex and mysterious video - Bon Iver's first live action visual in seven years- focuses on two sets of family members who each encounter a floating rock in the middle of a road. A Father sets his dying adult son in front of this rock, and a Mother encourages it to open up the next day to provide water to cleanse her baby son.&nbsp;Intentionally ambiguous, Naeem is full of symbolism with reference to religion, femininity and intergenerational trauma, and each viewer's perception of the events will no doubt be informed by their life experience. Touching upon powerful and important ideas, the video meditates on the state of our planet and people, and the cycle of life and death that every living being encounters throughout our shared journeys. The word Naeem can be translated as "happiness" or "comfort", suggesting a return to a peaceful existence, the status quo of our earliest ancestors.&nbsp;The power of change and potential for peace is the message we are encouraged to take away from this project, and the importance of questioning life at every corner to ensure we are acting in a way that is mutually beneficial to both the universe and to ourselves.&nbsp;

United States

AG Rojas

Pete Vitale

Park Pictures

Jackie Kelman Bisbee

Dinah Rodriguez

Alexis Zabe

Tatiana Valentin

Sonia Hernandez

Rock

Bon Iver 'Naeem' by AG Rojas

Bon Iver - Naeem (Official Music Video)

Danish artist Kill J collaborates with Ben Thornley on the video for Dead Weight Soldier, which begins intriguingly with a sinewy female bodybuilder dragging a baseball bat studded with nails across a&nbsp;factory floor.What follows is a symbolic act of revenge,&nbsp;an unquestionably strong image delivered in stark black and white which suits Kill J&#39;s uncompromising approach, and may be too strong for some.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Denmark

Ben Thornley

Kill J

James Baxter

J6 Films

Malc Smith

James Broadfoot

Paul Burrows

Alex Jackson

Jolanda

Inuka Bacote

Nettwerk Music Group

Kill J 'Dead Weight Soldier' by Ben Thornley & Kill J 

Kill-J-'Dead-Weight-Soldier'-by-Ben-Thornley-&-Kill-J-

Mark Lediard&#39;s second video for rock outfit Glitter Machine is a fine follow-up to his first for Take The Pain, capturing a muscular band performance in a stylish studio set-up, and using in-camera FX that progress the optical themes of the first video.&nbsp;And Lediard adds a cast of colourfully-garbed characters, wigging&nbsp;out to the power-riffs of Black Bird, for good measure.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Mark Lediard

Scott Coulter

Undefined

Kerry Saxon

John McKeown

Glitter Machine 'Black Bird' by Mark Lediard

Glitter-Machine-'Black-Bird'-by-Mark-Lediard

A compelling full-performance video for the heavy riffing psych-rock outfit Glitter Machine by Mark Lediard, who captures the band on a prowling camera rotating around them.The overriding midnight&nbsp;blue hue sets the spectral mood, augmented by bursts of bright colour, coming from the lens and and the Aladdin Sane-style makeup design on the faces of the band, and their mysterious dancer...

Ross Marshall

David Nobel

Brodie  Carson

Richard Simpson  Rachel-claire Killeen

Laura Tallentire

Glitter Machine 'Take The Pain' by Mark Lediard

Glitter-Machine-'Take-The-Pain-'-by-Mark-Lediard

AG Rojas has created a beautifully-shot meditation on the effect of ethereal beauty in his second video for Florence + The Machine - an emotion that we tend to call Love.As counterpoint to a lovely performance by Florence, this is a story&nbsp;of a glorious work of art: an ancient&nbsp;statue, and its journey from he point of rediscovery in the last century. It&#39;s&nbsp;gazed upon and adored, sometimes loved, but sometimes unseen &ndash; and eventually it&#39;s transformed.&quot;This song is about the ways we look for love in things that are perhaps not love, and how attempts to feel less alone can sometimes isolate us more,&quot; says Florence about Hunger.&nbsp;&quot;I guess I made myself more vulnerable in this song to encourage connection, because perhaps a lot more of us feel this way than we are able to admit. Sometimes when you can&#39;t say it, you can sing it.&quot;While she sings it, AG Rojas has expressed it in this gorgeous video.

Joe Faulstich

Evan Prosofsky

Shane Reid

Greg Reese

ARTJAIL

Alex Fisch

Florence + The Machine 'Hunger' by AG Rojas

Florence + The Machine - Hunger

The spotlit performance in Ben Thornley&#39;s video for Kill J&nbsp;is punctuated with light drawings and bursts of colour that reflect the bonds between science and religion, according to the Scandinavian artist.&quot;The video is supposed to illustrate the theme of the song, which is when in a crisis, you can find calm and centeredness in the laws of nature in the same way we do in religion,&quot; says Kill J. &quot;Gravity&nbsp;is a prayer. Experiencing the weight of your body being drawn down or into another larger body (in our case, the earth) is a peaceful comfort &ndash; a relief from anxiety. Because no one and nothing is alone. Everything is constantly being pulled, pushed or drawn towards other bodies. The forces of the universe makes sure it.&quot;The light drawings in the video are supposed to illustrate the many similarities between religion and science. &quot;The symmetry in religious ornamentation is not so different from the scientific formulas and illustrations we find in science. And in a way, for me, they often tell the same story. I am not religious in a traditional sense, but I have faith. I believe, that science will save us all in the end and deliver us from evil and heartache.&quot;​

James Fisher

Paul Bez Burrows

Rachel-claire Killeen

Robin Fuller

Nettwerk

Kill J 'Gravity' by Ben Thornley

Kill-J-'Gravity'-by-Ben-Thonrley

Metal band&nbsp;Of Mice &amp; Men&#39;s new video for Pain, directed by Mark Lediard, combines a stark,&nbsp;black and white performance, with eery footage of girls in leotards&nbsp;writhing on the ground, contorted in pain - and then contorting some more.It&#39;s a bleak, angst-ridden, darkly humourous&nbsp;vision, employing overlayed&nbsp;video clips, and sped-up footage,&nbsp;heightening the sense of jitteriness and&nbsp;dread. It&#39;s cool stuff.

Andy Snape

Richard Simpson

Rachel Killeen

Sophie Troughton

Pixie Le Knot

Sean Heydorn

Rise Records

Of Mice & Men 'Pain' by Mark Lediard

Of-Mice-&-Men-'Pain'-by-Mark-Lediard

Kevin Batchelor delivers an exciting, high-octane Sweeney-style caper - with a big twist at the finale -for former World Superbikes champion James Toseland, to partner his frantic rocker Hearts And Bones...

Kevin Batchelor

Electric Robin

Ross Brandon

Conor O'Grady

52 Music / Absolute

Toseland 'Hearts And Bones' by Kevin Batchelor

Toseland-'Hearts-And-Bones'-by-Kevin-Batchelor

AG Rojas&#39;s ambitious and arguably controversial video for Run The Jewels&#39; Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck), featuring Zack de la Rocha from Rage Against The Machine, addresses the controversy over American police brutality towards the African American community by imagining it as a one-on-one conflict&nbsp;between two individuals - the white cop and the black citizen.It&#39;s beautifully crafted, with amazing cinematography by&nbsp;Michael Ragen.&nbsp;It&#39;s also a surprisingly&nbsp;ambiguous exercise, in which the personalities of the actors (Shea Whigham&nbsp;and&nbsp;Keith Stanfield)&nbsp;and the extreme&nbsp;physical demands of their roles - has an inevitable impact on what we&#39;re seeing. It&#39;s not quite a case of mutual hatred, and in fact, there is no &#39;bad guy&#39; here. It may seem to run&nbsp;counter to the fierce polemic for which RTJ&#39;s Killer Mike and El-P (to say nothing of De la Rocha) have become renowned.&nbsp;But they say it gels with their views that&nbsp;it&#39;s the whole system, rather than rogue individuals, that is the problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;This video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system,&quot; says Killer Mike&nbsp;&quot;There is no neat solution at the end because there is no neat solution in the real world. &nbsp;However, there is an opportunity for dialogue and to change the way communities are policed in this country. &nbsp;Salutes to AG Rojas for his unique take on the subject matter and to Shea and Keith for giving us their all and bringing it to life.&quot;[imgtoken data:1]

Peter Vitale

Mary Ann Marino

Michael Ragen

Natasha Newman-Thomas

Justin Dial

Gregory Reese

Laurie Devine

Jamie Kohn Rabineau

Michael Dignum

Ari Robbins

Bobby Wotherspoon

Ryan McGuire

Chris Gutierrez

Keith Stanfield

Shea Whigham

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Lark Creative

Alternative, Hip Hop

Run The Jewels ft Zack de la Rocha 'Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k)' by AG Rojas

Run The Jewels feat. Zack de la Rocha - "Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k)"

For this new acoustic performance promo of McFly's Room On The Third Floor (originally a Top 5 hit in 2004), Kevin Batchelor's three camera shoot consisted of multi passes and a 2 hour edit. 
Although proving to be a tough cut due to the quick turnaround (for tv show The National Lottery), the end result is both charming and stylish.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=debN23H5clo

Kevin B

EndemolUK

Steve Cass

McFly 'Room On The Third Floor - Acoustic' by Kevin Batchelor

McFly-'Room-On-The-Third-Floor---Acoustic'-by-Kevin-Batchelor

Harry Dwyer delivers a lesson in projection with this handsome performance promo for Young Knives' Human Again, shot both in the studio and on location around London.
"All the layered performance in the video is done for real with a small video projector," says Harry. "There are no effects in any of the shots, even though weirdly we had problems with some of the projections looking too bright - almost as though we'd actually faked them. 
"The around-town shots were all projected from a car. The projector was powered from a silver 1997 Vauxhall Cavalier - the projectionist's vehicle of choice and a joy to spend the evening in..."

Harry Dwyer

Young Knives' Human Again by Harry Dwyer

Young-Knives'-Human-Again-by-Harry-Dwyer

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