Producer

Daniella Manca

Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale, best known for his brilliant work in live concert filmmaking, steps into music videos to herald the return of Liam Gallagher, performing with his live band on the roof of the iconic Midland Hotel in Manchester.Dugdale's video emphasises the optimism&nbsp;of Better Days by adding&nbsp;visual effects, layered into the skyline behind the band,&nbsp;elevating that&nbsp;sense of optimism within the lyrics and creating a feeling of psychedelic euphoria.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;It also&nbsp;taps into Gallagher's love of all things Beatles-related, from the track itself referencing the Fab Four's&nbsp;groundbreaking Tomorrow Never Knows, while the video is almost certainly&nbsp;tipping&nbsp;a hat to The Beatles' final live performance,&nbsp;on the roof of their Savile Row&nbsp;building - filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969, recently restored by Peter Jackson for his remarkable documentary&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Get_Back" target="_blank">Get Back</a>.&nbsp;The uplifting&nbsp;track is the latest release from&nbsp;Gallagher’s upcoming third solo album,&nbsp;C’mon You Know, to be released next month.&nbsp;All UK proceeds from Better Days will be donated to War Child for the rest of this year.

United Kingdom

Paul Dugdale

Freddie Barrass

Untold Studios

Rosie Ford

James Rhodes

Vid Price

Trim Editing

Tim Smith

No.8

Kirstin Cruickshank

Rock

Liam Gallagher 'Better Days' by Paul Dugdale

Liam Gallagher - Better Days (Official Video)

Batu self-directs the atmospheric and sultry promo for Solace.&nbsp;Featuring a captivating performance from dancer Rosalie Pearce Bell, the video jumps between a neon-lit world and a natural forest environment, exploring the contrast between the solitary worlds.&nbsp;The haunting soundscapes are perfectly complemented by off-kilter camerawork and vivid primary colour lighting, and the hypnotic editing elevates the surreal vibes.&nbsp;

Rosalie Pearce Bell

Batu

Lauren Mills

Jed Darlington-Roberts

Jak Waughman

Zeynep Ağcabay

Jonny Tully

CHEAT

Batu 'Solace' by Batu 

Batu--'Solace-'-by-Batu-

James Barber directs some of the most talented young riders from the London bike scene for Rain Radio.&nbsp;Barber mixes&nbsp;formats, interspersing candid footage with controlled cinematic vignettes to create an immersive and engaging film for Talk About.&nbsp;

James Barber

Ghandi El-Chamaa

Jack Green

Sam Meyer

Eve Carreno

Ines Duarte

Kieran Brown

Thomas Goldser

Avenues

Alex Gregory

Charlie Morris

John Hassay

Polydor

Rain Radio 'Talk About' by James Barber

Rain-Radio-'Talk-About-'-by-James-Barber

Lisette Donkersloot's second video for NAO - following the splendid <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/08/05/nao-messy-love-lisette-donkersloot/72248" target="_blank">Messy Love</a> - the songstress occupies another near-abstract space that reflects the sentiments of the song.For Wait, a song which is an intimate look at how mistakes grow in a relationship, we see NAO against a blacked-out background on a small floral island. Then&nbsp;her body and others become islands themselves in this space, creating landscapes as they appear in varying sizes&nbsp;and proportions.[imgtoken data:1]“For this video I wanted to&nbsp;create a landscape out of body parts," confirms Donkersloot. "Over the course of the beautifully-sung ballad the camera travels through a water surface, past several tableau of NAO&nbsp;in different scales/proportions mimicking elements of a landscape, where she will star as the mountains, the rocks, landshore and also a human on land surrounded by water.”&nbsp;After a while, the sky turns into a beautifully gradient colour and NAO emerges as all landscapes at once, creating a gorgeous surrealistic dreamscape. Another wonderful example of the director creating a graphic sensibility that is perfectly attuned to the artist and her performance. &nbsp;

Lisette Donkersloot

Caviar

Sorcha Shepherd

George O'regan

Aaron Reid

Murat Akyildiz

Jack Lightfoot (camera dept)

Joe Mcnally

Ash Halliburton

Edmund Bossman

Mata Marielle

Ramario Chevoy

Maya Scarlette

Dave Warren

Nomad

Martin Goodwin

Rob Peacock

Felipe Szulc

Kat Cattaneo

Sony Music

Soul

NAO 'Wait' by Lisette Donkersloot

Nao - Wait (Official Video)

Lisette Donkersloot creates a gorgeously graphic combination of artist and dance performance for the triumphant return of Nao.Inspired by Infrared photography, and working with choreographer Shay Latukolan, the Dutch director builds a radiant spectrum of colour and movement around the East London songstress's compelling performance of Messy Love - an ode to self-love, self-respect and choosing peace over the never-ending struggles of a detrimental relationship.[imgtoken data:1]Donkersloot creates a little bit of magic with the combination of her&nbsp;studio staging - a series of ever-changing backdrops of sunsets in a range of colours - and the astounding dancers in their&nbsp;fantastic 'alien' mode: covered in indigo blue bodypaint and orange-coloured gravity-defying braid hair styles.&nbsp;&nbsp;The dancers perform an abstract choreography throughout the video to augment Nao's central position. They start out on the floor, then work their way up, portraying a metaphor of plants growing as they receive sunlight and water. In the end, they return to their original horizontal positions, holding on to their goddess NAO who is ready for a new circle of life.Ultimately the video reflects the theme of the song and Nao's empowering lyrics in Messy Love, about a&nbsp;relationship that’s on the rocks: "I won’t break, said I won’t change my ways not even this time”. This is just as graceful, uplifting and beautiful as those words.[imgtoken data:2]

Mark Gillespie

Grant Sandy Phillips

Shay Latukolan

Laura Cairney-keize

Butterscotch Post

The Mill

Nao 'Messy Love' by Lisette Donkersloot

Nao - Messy Love (Official Video)

In Thomas Ralph's video for Prospa, the young protagonist embarks on a remarkable journey - after his death.For the UK dance-electronic act's increasingly euphoric Want Need Love, Ralph confronts&nbsp;some well-worn nostrums about the Afterlife, and then gives them a proper rave-style makeover. This out-of-body experience bears all the&nbsp;hallmarks of a seriously psychedelic experience.&nbsp;This is partly due&nbsp;to Ralph collaborating with macro photographers Chris Parks and Roman Hill on sequences that echo sequences from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Altered States,&nbsp;and beyond. As a result this road traffic accident victim passes experiences extraordinary beauty as he transitions to his&nbsp;new post-Life reality.[imgtoken data:1]

Thomas Ralph

Thomas Hoffman

Nina De Taye

Jordan Vanschel

Didier Frateur

Tim Janssens

Flup Marinus

Daphne Zwanenberg

Jack Singer

Angela Hart

Homespun

Margaux Baruch

Nomad Editing Company

Hands London

Louis Danckwerts

Marco Grey

Dance

Electronica

Prospa 'Want Need Love' by Thomas Ralph

Prospa - WANT NEED LOVE (Official Video)

Quba Tuakli's video for Brixton-based Turkish artist Emir Taha takes us on a surreal trip in the back of a South London minicab.In the video for&nbsp;Katakulli - the lead track on his latest EP Hoppa Pt 2 - Taha encounters a&nbsp;larger-than-life cab driver from his homeland when he enters a taxi heavily flavoured with&nbsp;Turkish culture.Warding off any bad vibes with his ancient Nazar beads, Taha heads off on this journey into the unknown, a likeably dazed figure at the centre of&nbsp;Tuakli's wacky visual comedy. He calmly takes the changing surroundings, and the&nbsp;stern lecture he's getting his opinionated elder driving the cab&nbsp;- even when he finds his cab has detoured from South London and finds itself in&nbsp;outer space.These things happen when&nbsp;you take the wrong exit on the South Circular...[imgtoken data:1]

Quba Tuakli

Joseph J Goldman

Ash Teague

Joe Mulvihil

Pieter Snyman

Louis Vella

Louis Simonon

Berfin Ağca Karakurt

Lewis Munro

James Duffy

Max Smith

Sam Crook

Steve Wells

Lane Casting

Jamie O'Donnell

Hoppa Records

Hip Hop

Emir Taha 'Katakulli' by Quba Tuakli

emir taha - Katakulli (Official Music Video)

Maxim Kelly marshals an army of virtual men to the alluring beats of Dense &amp; Pika in his coolly witty video for Honey.Just as the DJ production team of Alex Jones and Chris Spero (aka&nbsp;D&amp;P) hit the sweet spot between dark house and booming techno - assisted on Honey by slow-burn techno maestro Matthew Dear&nbsp;on vocals - Kelly manipulates a familiar early-CGI graphic style down a less predictable and metaphorical&nbsp;path.[imgtoken data:1]This digital army collect before the omnipotent&nbsp;decks of Dense and Pika - with the features of Jones and Spero more humanised than their acolytes. Then four horsemen carrying magnums of champagne trigger a strange effect on the rows of figures, and the end of the first phase of regimentation - to be replaced by something a bit loosier and groovier, but arguably more ominous. Now the men are suited and booted, becoming more individual, and pleased with themselves.“For Dense and Pika featuring&nbsp;Matthew Dear, I thought I would keep it simple and make the music video about everything," says Kelly - who&nbsp;worked with Barcelona-based Martes Studio on the animation.&nbsp;"It’s a creation or Genesis story in three&nbsp;minutes. From Big Bang to Garden of Eden to Apocalypse. A parable which takes us through the principal political ideologies of our times. Concluding with a compelling theme or moral: 'don’t guzzle the honey.'”

Maxim Kelly

Martes Studio

Stephanie Paeplow

Dense & Pika ft Matthew Dear 'Honey' by Maxim Kelly

Dense & Pika feat. Matthew Dear - Honey (Official Video)

New pop hope Griff turns in a splendid live performance of Black Hole in Thomas Ralph's film shot at the newly restored Hackney Church. In the process it&nbsp;shifts from infinite darkness to space and light, and then back and forth between day and night.Griff is initially seen against total blackness - actually a&nbsp;black infinity wall that&nbsp;is revealed as such when the camera moves outwards to reveal the location and the teenage singer's fellow musicians. Then the church is revealed and a sense of space and light streaming from a giant stained glass window is a real mood-lifter.Most importantly of all, Griff reveals herself as a genuinely exciting talent with a great version of this excellent song.[imgtoken data:1]

Lana Salfiti

Anna Horlick

Jordan Buck

Jake Whitehouse

Ben Keswick

Ali Baines

Josh Tilley

Bill Rae Smith

Kamran Rajput

Tomoni Roppongi

Chynara Kojoeva

Charlie Von Rotberg

Ray Okudzeto

Dom Mckiernan

Warner Records

Cinelab Film and Digital

Griff 'Black Hole' (Live at Hackney Church) by Thomas Ralph

Griff - Black Hole (Live Performance from Hackney Church)

Ben Howard returns with the first release from his fourth album and a satirical take on the mores of the English landed classes in a widescreen comedy&nbsp;with bite directed by Cloé Bailly.For What A Day Bailly plants the viewer firmly in the English countryside, with a hunting party of shotgun-toting gentry. These increasingly drunken upper class twits are prospective Elmer Fudds, on the hunt for rabbits - which are being protected elsewhere in the field by Ben Howard himself.The fun really starts when one of the party begins to turn into one of the very creatures that he and his pals intend to fill with buckshot. Mysteriously sprouting a bunny tail, prominent teeth and floppy ears becomes increasingly difficult to hide from his boozed-up pals - leading to a shootout worthy of a&nbsp;decent Spaghetti Western.<blockquote>Ben wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties.</blockquote>“When Ben told me he wanted a dark comedy music vid for What A Day, I was just psyched," says Cloé Bailly.&nbsp;"It's my favourite genre to explore. He wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties. In his own words, it&nbsp;was a nonsense idea loosely based upon the Old English rhyme, ‘back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other’.[imgtoken data:1]"People loving to hunt just for the sake of killing, not out of necessity, might as well end up shooting each other and loving it too... But what if on top of this nature took revenge? What if the predator turned into the prey so in this case a hunter turned into a rabbit?!<blockquote>Cloé is a queen of dark comedy - I’m so grateful we got to work together on it.</blockquote>The video was actually shot in Bulgaria - in countryside&nbsp;that could pass for the rolling hills of the home counties.&nbsp;"Shooting in the Bulgarian mountains was intense but Ben, the crew and I were like kids," comments&nbsp;Bailly. "It's exhilarating to play with human emotions in a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huis_clos" target="_blank">huis-clos</a>, to imagine what people are truly capable of. And it’s always so good to see a whole crew getting on board with such a nonsense concept based on animal hysteria and group homicide. And of course, it goes without saying that having a dozen adorable bunnies around makes any shoot sweeter...”Ben Howard has added that&nbsp;“Cloé somehow transformed a basic countryside shoot ‘em up into an amazing tale of delightful retribution. Cloé is a queen of dark comedy and I’m so grateful that as friends we got to work together on it. The eclectic Bulgarian cast and crew somehow managed to pull this off in strange times, made all the more entertaining in a completely foreign language.”

Cloé Bailly

B2Y Productions

Ivan Ivanov

Nico Poulsson

Konstantin Velichkov

Alexander Trenev

Kris Lekov

Sergei Yordanov

Flaura Atkinson

Matthieu Toullet

Leianna Campbell

Micha Barban-Dangerfield

Laura Clayton

Island Records

Singer-songwriter

Ben Howard 'What A Day' by Cloé Bailly

Ben Howard - What A Day (Official Video)

Maxim Kelly teams up with South London alt-rockers Shame to create a masterful reimagining of archive footage for new single Nigel Hitter.Applying deepfake technology onto film from mid-20th century child developmental research, Kelly drops the band -&nbsp;frontman Charlie Steen,&nbsp;in particular&nbsp;- into the world of vintage equipment, whitecoated medics&nbsp;and&nbsp;lots of babies, undergoing all manner of tests and examinations. It's all part of the project led by that man who introduces the film and has his name on the front of the hospital... Nigel Hitter, MD.The effect of this clever refashioning of the past is both funny and creepy - which becomes more pronounced when the babies 'learn' to sing the lyrics of the song, and the human babies' number is increased by a painfully thin baby rhesus monkey. Now we are sliding into David Cronenberg territory of&nbsp;curious institutions, strange experiments and unfeasibly gifted toddlers.You could also argue that the video is also a kind of reflection on the past year - a relentless testing of human behaviour, where the medical profession play a prominent role. It echoes the manner in which the song, which features on the band's new album Drunk Tank Pink (out on Friday, 15th January). As Steen explains, it started life as&nbsp;the band adjusted to being locked down at home, having spent much of their adult life on tour.&nbsp;“Nigel Hitter is one of the vital organs of Drunk Tank Pink," he says. "A necessary pulse. Focused on daily routine, repetition, and how extraordinary any ordinary task seemed to me after coming home from touring. A world of percussion and joy lies within.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And Maxim Kelly was clearly inspired by the lyrics in coming up with the concept behind the video. The way he has executed that idea into the finished work - with the help of his team, including DoP Franklin Dow, editor Charlie Reddie and VFX artist RoBert Chandler - is nothing short of a marvel.

Franklin Dow

Juan Minotta

Noah Furrer

Ciprian Stroiny

Charlie Reddie

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Robert Chandler

Fatima Ouklilane

Robby Morris

Dead Oceans

Shame 'Nigel Hitter' by Maxim Kelly

shame - Nigel Hitter (Official Video)

The third track released from Cannot Be, Whatsoever, the forthcoming third album of Novo Amor - aka Welsh producer Ali Lacey - has inspired an arresting visual journey by Dutch director Lisette Donkersloot, to symbolise the reality of a painful breakup.Through the use of stunning setups and styling Donkersloot addresses the process&nbsp;- the betrayal, heartache, solitude and finally moving on and rebirth after losing someone you love. It's a relatable subject treated in a very imaginative fashion, with memorable imagery, and&nbsp;the charismatic Yu Lun&nbsp;Wong embodies the damaged lovelorn individual with a terrific&nbsp;performanceIn a series of wonderful scenes, Yu Lun arranges a roomful of hard-boiled eggs around them, hugs a huge tree, watches their heart sitting alone in a butcher's cabinet - all the time with&nbsp;a&nbsp;set of knives deeply entrenched in their back.Donkersloot brings a highly-crafted, fashion-forward, rather witty&nbsp;sensibility to each scenario,&nbsp;but also&nbsp;untangles the different, deep sides of Novo Amor’s music in the process.[imgtoken data:1]

Werner De Coninck

Eva Van Riet

Maxim Desmet

Charly Vandedrinck

Nathan Lederman

Arnaud Hock

Tim Roels

Najib Braeckenier

Adrien Gras

Laura Noben

Emiel Nuninga

Kris Janssens

Erik Van Den Heuvel

De Grot

Yu Lun Wong

Dave Grinnell

Novo Amor 'I Feel Better' by Lisette Donkersloot

Novo Amor - I Feel Better (official video)

Maxim Kelly employs 19th century tech to create a mesmerising, appropriately-shaped video for Django Django's Spirals, the band's first new material since 2018.By recreating the Phénakisticope, a pre-cinematic invention to create 'motion pictures', Kelly has created&nbsp;a series of mandala-like circular patterns, encompassing images of Django lead singer David Maclean, that animate as they spin around. As they do so, they also replicate the spiralling effect that's referenced in the lyrics and also the music.This smart visual idea takes the viewer on a psychedelic experience that also sits perfectly with the band's canon&nbsp;of inventive visuals for their music.The single will be available to stream and download on all the usual digital platforms and also as a 10” vinyl b/w exclusive track The Ark, available from www.djangodjango.co.uk and all independent record shops.

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