Director

Ciaran Lyons

Oscar Sansom and Ciaran Lyons, directing colleagues at The Forest Of Black, have collaborated for the first time as a directing team on this lovely video for Belle &amp; Sebastian's Poor Boy.They take us to a classic Glasgow tenement, where a young lad takes a voyeuristic interest in the strange behaviour of his neighbours (including several members of B&amp;S).Like a very eccentric Glaswegian Rear Window, and nicely bolsters the burgeoning reputations of both Sansom and Lyons in one fell swoop.&nbsp; &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Oscar Sansom

Beth Allan

Forest Of Black

David Liddell

Danny Filmer

Cara Roxburgh

Flore De Hoog

Debbie Black

Matador Records

Indie

Rock

Belle & Sebastian 'Poor Boy' by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons

Belle & Sebastian - "Poor Boy"

Ciaran Lyons&#39; latest video for Leeds rock outfit Hookworms examines a young salaryman&#39;s unexceptional&nbsp; routine, in all it&#39;s repetition and its minor variations - and lack of personal interaction -&nbsp;with a characteristic graphic sensibility and dry wit.After the rapid&nbsp;vignettes, this relentless cycle come to rest in the past 30 seconds or so, on the man&#39;s face - a picture of confusion and fear. Plenty of time to ponder on the point of it all...&nbsp;The track Static Resistance comes from Hookworms forthcoming Domino release, Microshift.

Vanessa Mc Donnell

Gas&Electric

Matt Klemera

Nick Aiton

Sefa Ucbas

OB Management

Andrew Law

Domino

Hookworms 'Static Resistance' by Ciaran Lyons

Hookworms-'Static-Resistance'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons&#39; directs Glasgow alt-pop&nbsp;duo Bdy Prts as performers in a bizarre ballet, employing visual wit, VFX&nbsp;and his trademark pixellation technique to create another impressive work.As he explains below, Lyons was inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadisches_Ballett" target="_blank">Oscar Schlemmer&#39;s Triadisches Ballett</a>&nbsp;- originally developed and performed in the 1920s, and filmed in 1970 &ndash;&nbsp;which saw dancers bound into extraordinary, and highly restrictive balloon-like&nbsp;costumes. If your music video knowledge goes back to the 80s, you may also discern a likeness to New Order&#39;s landmark video for True Faith at the start. That&#39;s no bad thing either.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Bdy_prts

Alt-Pop

Bdy Prts 'Take It To The Top' by Ciaran Lyons

Bdy_prts-'Take-It-To-The-Top'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

A bunch of city kids set up camp in a former munitions factory, and start acting like weirdos in Ciaran Lyons&#39; video for The Ninth Wave.This is a psychedelia-tinged surreal drama&nbsp;shot on 16mm, and something of a departure from the prolific Lyons&#39; recent run of work featuring pixellated action and comedy.

The Ninth Wave 'Reformation' by Ciaran Lyons

The-Ninth-Wave-'Reformation'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

MNEK&#39;s Paradise video explores beauty, pain, and makes a powerful statement about police brutality. &nbsp;

Vanessa Mcdonnell

Tom King

James Medcraft

Daniel Deighton

Lloyd Cook

Andy Walton

Xander Mitchell

Claudia Walder

Dennis Okwera

Lisa Foo

Virgin EMI

Alex Gregory

MNEK 'Paradise' by Ciaran Lyons

Mnek-'Paradise'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons latest puts new-rockers Otherkin at odds with a fat and self-important old man, who is suitably pocket-sized at the beginning,&nbsp;but is getting bigger all the time.So begins this horrible human&#39;s black and white reign of terror. A simple analogy, in which&nbsp;this Sean Spicer-alike finally gets his comeuppance. Nice work from Lyons, who is on a roll with his distinctive pixellated style and lo-fi FX-driven comedy.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ian Forbes

Jack Knott

Sian

Clifford Hume

Rubyworks

Otherkin 'React' by Ciaran Lyons

Otherkin-'React'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons&#39; slaps some of his signature style onto the faces of Dead! in this technicolor cut-out performance.Combining live action and hand-drawn elements into the same frame, Ciaran creates an energetic performance video that celebrates a rough-around-the-edges, handmade aesthetic of DIY punk energy.

Tom O'Keefe

Arran Green

Alex Edyvean

Undercranked

Dead! 'Enough Enough Enough' by Ciaran Lyons

Dead!-'Enough-Enough-Enough'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons&#39; video for Glaswegian hiphop duo Jay Rolex &amp; MC Almondmilk is a treat for anyone who has a soft spot for the ugly side of the so-called Beautiful Game.Lyons sticks the pair in their own shockingly rudimentary football-with-ultraviolence videogame, with the occasional (unauthorised) interjections from TV football&#39;s most famous faces.&nbsp;Ciaran Lyons says: &quot;Making a video for a big Scottish man rapping about football is actually very liberating, because you know that you don&#39;t have to try to appeal to everybody. The concept was to try and create a really moronic, violent game of football, without spending any money.&quot; Job done.

Alternative, Hip Hop

Jay Rolex & MC Almondmilk 'Studz Up' by Ciaran Lyons

Jay-Rolex-&-Mc-Almondmilk-'Studz-Up'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons applies his distinctive pixellation&nbsp;technique to the vibrant, colour-saturated performance of Ibibio Sound Machine, and a song about the 276 Chibok girls who were abducted in Northern Nigeria in 2014, and who mostly remain missing to this day.&nbsp;

Jonny Dew

Lindsey Kronmiller

Merge Records

Ibibio Sound Machine 'Give Me A Reason' by Ciaran Lyons

Ibibio-Sound-Machine-'Give-Me-A-Reason'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons explores the world of crowd-sourced art in this clip for Glasgow band Catholic Action.With the song centred around the eponymous pop star, Lyons decided to scoop out drawings of her from the bucket of weird that we call the internet. The results were, to put it nicely, varied, but that&#39;s all part of the fun.

Catholic Action 'Rita Ora' by Ciaran Lyons

Catholic-Action-'"rita-Ora"'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons has achieved something distinctive with his video, somewhere between photography and illustration,&nbsp;for Scottish artist The Pictish Trail. That&#39;s because of the painstaking amount of work he put into it.&quot;It&#39;s about the porous connection between our life and and non-life, explored via the medium of a slightly cheesy pop music video,&quot; says Lyons. In fact, Johnny Lynch&nbsp;aka The Pictish&nbsp;Trail makes an endearing hero who undergoes a splitting of his personality when his reflection develops a life of his own. Both characters acquire an aura around them, which gives the video that distinctive look.This was achieved frame by frame, by hand.&nbsp;The video was created from&nbsp;tonnes of still photographs. &quot;Each of&nbsp;the video&#39;s approximately 11000 masks was individually hand drawn,&quot; explains Lyons. Very nice job.

Alternative, Singer-songwriter

The Pictish Trail 'Dead Connection' by Ciaran Lyons

Pictish-Trail-'Dead-Connection'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Scottish filmmaker Ciaran Lyons -&nbsp;who previously directed and starred as a fidgety mess in the&nbsp;hyperreal clip for&nbsp;Slaves&#39; <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/31/slaves-sockets-ciaran-lyons" target="_blank">Sockets</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;has continued to&nbsp;develop his video&nbsp;experimentation, bridging&nbsp;stop frame and live action with&nbsp;exciting results in his new video for&nbsp;Glaswegian&nbsp;five-piece rock band,&nbsp;White.With a hyperreal colour palette and jagged movement, White&nbsp;are all glitter and art rock glamour as&nbsp;their performance is&nbsp;heightened by the awesomely effective&nbsp;stop frame technique. Hypnotic zooms draw&nbsp;us into the sexy, solemn world of two young lovers, playing out their affair in perfect pouts and poses...

Paul Forest

Clare Mcintyre

I'll Be Your Mirror

Las Bandas Be Brave

Daniel Harris

Sony Music Entertainment

Art Rock

Glam Rock

White 'Living Fiction' by Ciaran Lyons

White-'Living-Fiction'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Shot in a tiny, claustrophobia-inducing flat and paired with&nbsp;some killer&nbsp;art direction, this&nbsp;video for Slaves&#39; track Sockets is a&nbsp;wonderfully&nbsp;greasy and zany&nbsp;stop-motion piece directed by Ciaran Lyons.Lyons himself plays&nbsp;the lead character, a sweaty, fidgety&nbsp;mess of a man stuck in front of his telly,&nbsp;undergoing some&nbsp;sort of nervous breakdown. Delirious and frightened, arms emerge from behind corners,&nbsp;threatening to suck his energy in strange, nightmarish ways.&nbsp;

Rob Jelley

Halcyon

Jack Pirie, Alex Hylands-white

Tristan Hefele

Edgar Dubrovskiy

Thom Nicholson, Ben Ashton

Hannah Jell

Aaron Szogi

Jen Stewart

Rory Gordon, Ciaran Lyons

James Hackett

Sonny Horwell

Richard Parsons

James Vorley

George Garnish

Alex Coles

Punk

Slaves 'Sockets' by Ciaran Lyons

Slaves-'Sockets'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Ciaran Lyons explores the territory between stills photography and animation in his impressive&nbsp;two-part film Sleepwalker, which serves as a promo for two tracks by Hot Since 82 (aka Leeds-based DJ and producer Dan Padley), Restless and The Core.With the influence of animation genius Jan Svankmeyer clearly evident, the clever bit is how, rather than sequential, the two parts form a kind of film palindrome. In the Restless video, a sleepwalker is pulled by a string through an urban hinterland, past dream images and a&nbsp;sleepwalking woman, towards a high-rise, and into that woman&#39;s bedroom. In The Core, the woman makes the return journey... &nbsp;

Rory Stewart

Michael Sherrington

Struan Robertson

Moley Campbell

Louise Allen

Nicole Stafford

Blair Young

Jen Farmer  Male Lead - Rob Heaslip Halloween Kids - Reuben

Martha Gizzi Suitcase Dragger - Jessica Arnold Tv Watcher - Rory S

Valentina Vistoli

Ultra Records

House, Dance

Hot Since 82 'Restless' & 'The Core' (Sleepwalker Parts 1 & 2) by Ciaran Lyons

Hot-Since-82-'Restless-(sleepwalker-Part-1)'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Hot Since 82 - The Core

For Hero Fisher&#39;s glam-stomping, distorted thrasher&nbsp;Punk, Ciaran Lyons captures an intense band performance shot lo-fi style with added colour-bleached city scenes, all (intentionally) roughly edited together to enhance to the leftfield throb of the soundtrack...

Jack Pirie

Alex Hylands-White

Niall Coffey

James Neal

Irene Moreno Feliu

Lou Box

Claire McGonigal

Final Cut

Matt Troughton

Met Film Post

Lucy Berry

Chris Lynch

IE Music

Sarah Gates

Hero Fisher 'Punk' by Ciaran Lyons

Hero-Fisher-'Punk'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

In keeping with the title of Mike Mago&#39;s latest dancefloor-filler Outlines, a&nbsp;greyscaled dancer (Ida May) enters a studio and proceeds to leave technicolor silhouettes around the room in Ciaran Lyon&#39;s nicely-executed video.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Ciaran Lyons

Director

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