Director of Photography

David Bird

Directing duo Mathy &amp; Fran return to music videos with a very characteristic piece for Georgia's latest pop gem: sensitive, humane and pastel-hued. And it touches on a subject that many&nbsp;people have faced, literally and metaphorically.&nbsp;In the video for Give It Up For Love, a range of characters take turns to stand upon a high diving board, and are challenged to make an all-important leap.It's a relatable moment where personal courage is required, but given a metaphorical&nbsp;element by it's staging, on a bright yellow platform against a pastel-pink studio background. And when the characters start to leap, they are captured in mid-air, in a state of blissful freedom.It's a simple yet powerful concept to match the sentiment at the heart of the song - letting yourself go to allow love to come in.&nbsp;Georgia's empathetic performance helps tie the whole project together.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Ellen Amann Johns

Alexandra Green

Dilia Knobel

Emily Davies

Jonie Myburgh

Rhona Ezuma

Mathy & Fran

Natalia Maus

Lydia Martland

DOGEATDOG

Carrie Sutton

Leopold Neassens

Danny Stoker

Andy Sauer

Jonny Lewis

Colleen Lee

Luke Moran Morris

Anastatsia Stylianou

Grace Sinnott

Marta Wozniak

Natasha Lawes

Meg Thorne

The Quarry

Jack McGinity

CHEAT

Domino

Phil Lee

Georgia 'Give It Up For Love' by Mathy & Fran

Georgia-'Give-It-Up-For-Love'-by-Mathy-&-Fran

Noel Paul directs an alluring ghostly&nbsp;fantasy for Let's Eat Grandma.&nbsp;Following up his previous collaboration with the indie-pop duo on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/01/06/lets-eat-grandma-happy-new-year-noel-paul/74465">Happy New Year</a>, the video for Levitation depicts Jenny Hollingsworth from the band on a train&nbsp;ride, peering out of the window on a journey and seeing her reflection - played by&nbsp;bandmate Rosa Walton, mirroring her every move.As&nbsp;the train speeds on, Rosa develops an increasingly separate identity, and the dreamlike quality of the video begins to transcend&nbsp;the material world. Paul develops the train carriage vignette into an exhilarating scene of the pair flying through the skies together, hand in hand.Noel Paul has done a marvellous job with this strongly conceptual performance piece that&nbsp;dares to cast Jenny and Rosa as heroines in the tradition&nbsp;of classic English literature and film - an aesthetic also championed&nbsp;by artists such as&nbsp;Kate Bush and directors like Sophie Muller. It also carries forward the surrealism of the previous visual for Happy New Year - and encapsulates the haunting quality of the song.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Noel Paul

Aisha Kemp

Danny Herman

FRIEND

Dan Henderson

Charlotte Hayde

Matt Nolan

Stephen Allwright

Charlotte Brason

Sholto Price

Teme Samuel

Lauren Webster

Indie

Let's Eat Grandma 'Levitation' by Noel Paul

Let's Eat Grandma - Levitation (Official Video)

Ethan + Tom direct a&nbsp;Tarkovsky-inspired video for singer-songwriter Ethan P. Flynn - a bold one-take of Flynn's performance in front of a raging inferno.&nbsp;Shot in&nbsp;Kazakhstan, the video sees the artist at first traversing a spectacular&nbsp;landscape: a lake, backdropped by mountainous plains and a dreamy red sky. Flynn is walking towards a light, which is revealed as a small wooden house, engulfed in flames.&nbsp;The video is an external representation of the inner turmoil of the lyrics of the song Father Of Nine, and as Flynn performs in front of the burning house, the camera smoothly drifts wider and then closer, to capture the intensity of the experience. And it's such a powerful&nbsp;image.[imgtoken data:1]

Ethan + Tom

Ali Beisekov

Academy Films

Maurizio Von Trapp

Yan Kasyanov

Ethan Barrett

Mouthpiece

Young

Luke Morrison

Electric Theatre Collective

Alternative

Ethan P. Flynn 'Father Of Nine' by Ethan + Tom

Ethan P. Flynn - Father of Nine

Stephen Isaac-Wilson's captures a stunning performance from Griff in his video for One Foot In Front Of The Other - supported by a troop of dancers and set against gorgeous pop aesthetic set pieces.&nbsp;This latest collaboration with Griff follows Isaac-Wilson's lush video for Say It Again last year and marks another step towards the big time for the Griff, recipient of this year's Brits' Rising Star award.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Stephen Isaac-Wilson

Ella Toal Gangar

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Lottie Allen

Ty Hack

Mahalia John

Yan Murawski

Christopher Melgram

Kamran Rajput

Anna Cofone

Chynara Kojoeva

Chris Wilson

Homespun

Jason Wallis

Charles Ndiomu

Hands London

Dom Mckiernan

Warner Records

Kate Glanfield

Richard Lewis

Jonny Pickup

Tony Cardenas

Marc Ramos

Griff 'One Foot In Front Of The Other' by Stephen Isaac-Wilson

Griff-'One-Foot-In-Front-Of-The-Other'-by-Stephen-Isaac-wilson

Director&nbsp;duo&nbsp;Machine Operated explore regret and loss in the beautiful visual for Grace Carter.&nbsp;Opening with a 45-second segment of glitchy memories and snapshots of past love, the video for Blame transitions into an ethereal series of performance setups.&nbsp;Building upon their work with fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton, Nike and Fendi, the&nbsp;editorial aesthetic combines&nbsp;abstract and realistic concept to create something otherworldly and poignant.&nbsp;

Machine Operated

Poppy Ashton

Forever

Oli Falcon

Brendan Harvey

Leo Naessens

Louis Simonon

Toni Blaze

Rannia Williams, Cloe Nelson

Lucy Thomas

Max Dos Santos

Toby Tomkins

Olivia Lightfoot

Steph Haughton

Polydor

Contemporary R&B

Grace Carter, Jacob Banks 'Blame' by Machine Operated

Grace-Carter,-Jacob-Banks-'Blame'-by-Machine-Operated

Directed by Boston Bun himself, the video for Don't Wanna Dance has a remarkably simple premise- a man dances down the street&nbsp;in one take, beginning to end. However it's the message on the wall and the final shot that make the video outstanding, and we won't ruin it for you here. Check it out now!&nbsp;

Boston Bun

Precious Mahaga

Luke Tierney

Elena Muntoni

Yulia Yurchenko

Vlad Barin

Olivia Jessop

Island Records

Couscous

Salim El Arja

Jordan Cardoso

Dance

Boston Bun 'Don't Wanna Dance' by Boston Bun

Boston-Bun-'Don't-Wanna-Dance'-by-Boston-Bun

Ray BLK brings her band to perform on a London estate, instilling some joy into the lives of the residents, in Thomas Ralph&#39;s delightful&nbsp;video for Paradise.As day becomes night, the camera picks out the white-dressed Ray and band from new positions, elevating the emotion, and Ralph cuts between the performance and heartfelt images that are meant to mirror the friendship between Ray and a friend who has passed away.

Thomas Ralph

Natalie Steiner

Caviar

Daniella Manca

Zoe Travica

Luke Goodrich

Simon Lakos

Jomar O'Meally

Danny Hayward

Laura Little

Terri Higgins

Jess Summer

Charlie Von Rotberg

Tim Smith

Oliver Whitworth

Caroline Clayton

Lucy Rogers

Chris Kane

Soul

Ray BLK 'Paradise' by Thomas Ralph

Ray-Blk--'Paradise-'-by-Thomas-Ralph

They call it Heelwork - the extraordinary displays by dogs and their owners, which amount to extraordinary human and canine choreography.It&#39;s also a reflection of an unconditional love between these owners and their animals, and that is the true subject of Fanny Hoetzeneder&#39;s fascinating video for Love Is Magic - the first song released from John Grant&#39;s forthcoming fourth album.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are portraits of three champions of British Heelwork - Nicci, Sandra and Jill - and their dancing companions: Nala, Elsa, Leo, Fiz, Chelsey, Demelza and Matisse. A rather kitsch but beautiful world where the pervading emotion is happiness.

Fanny Hoetzeneder

Barbara Maria Hauser

Knucklehead

Ore Okenodo

Jordi Estapé

Leopold Naessens

Jill

Nicci, Sandra

Jane Third

Bella Union

Rock

John Grant 'Love Is Magic' by Fanny Hoetzeneder

John-Grant-'Love-Is-Magic'-by-Fanny-Hoetzeneder

Raoul Paulet&#39;s video for London-based Italian duo MwS is an intriguing take on the idea of restoring one&#39;s individuality.&nbsp; &nbsp;With the scenario developed before a camera in a single fixed position, and told in a single take, this is a theatrical piece that takes us to a strange, almost&nbsp;Oz-like place.It&#39;s set &quot;somewhere in the Cosmos...&nbsp;hidden between worlds old and new,&quot; according to the blurb released with the video.&nbsp;&quot;In this place there is a factory. Every day newcomers travel through this whimsical space, where devoted workers - trapped there for unknown reasons - have the unique gift of returning what seemed lost.&quot;

Italy

Raoul Paulet

Cecilia Linares

Giuseppe Percuoco

Arturo Bandinelli

Dan McCormick

Urte Janus

Martyna Parzniewska

MwS 'Island' by Raoul Paulet

Mws-'Island'-by-Raoul-Paulet

Dara Carroll&#39;s performance video for Video Blue is an all-too-real reminder that success doesn&#39;t come easy.A pub performance to a deeply disinterested crowd is the setting for this clip, as we watch on helplessly as a singer seems almost ghost-like as he wanders into a pub and puts his heart and soul into a performance nobody cares for, before leaving again to just as much fanfare.A simple concept that reminds any performer out there that success is a path paved with a hell of a lot of disinterest.&nbsp;

Dara Carroll

Henry Landgrebe

Andrew Niblo

Video Blue 'Dusk Moves' by Dara Carroll

Video-Blue-'Dusk-Moves'-by-Dara-Carroll

Daniel Brereton&#39;s video for Drones Club is a carefully choreographed surveillance sermon set atop the toxic wastes of Beckton Alps.Shot on several formats, from mini DV to 16mm and, of course, drones, the clip documents Drones Club documenting themselves as they make a pilgrimage to the top of the wasteland, which has a storied history of pollution and abject failure in the face of regeneration.Dressed like a high-fashion militia, the band dance in the golden hour and shout their manifesto to the city sprawling out below in what becomes a dreamy mixed-format statement of intent.

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