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David Hamilton

Jason Koenig channels our collective visual memory bank&nbsp;of Christmas Past to create this spectacular, celeb-studded video for Ed and Sir Elton's new Christmas classic of the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;The video for Merry Christmas starts with the pair performing in a festive fireside scene, and then moves seamlessly to a succession of classic seasonal scenarios.With lots of affection and a touch of irreverence, they&nbsp;pay homage to some memorable Christmas videos - including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNhdjoF-6M" target="_blank">the East 17 one</a>,&nbsp;with the help from some famous friends -&nbsp;and Ed gets to recreate the flying scene in&nbsp;The Snowman. All leading to a very big climax.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]It remains to be seen if Merry Christmas stands the test of time&nbsp;like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRtGMm96F8" target="_blank">Elton's Christmas hit of 1974</a>. But Jason Koenig, who has directed some of Ed Sheeran's most-watched videos including the multi-billion viewed Shape Of You, has returned to direct one of the biggest British videos of the year.And it's for a couple of good causes.&nbsp;Profits from this year’s Christmas period will go to the Ed Sheeran <a href="https://www.essmf.com" target="_blank">Suffolk Music Foundation</a>, and the <a href="https://www.eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org" target="_blank">Elton John AIDS Foundation</a>.<div>&nbsp;</div>

United Kingdom

Jason Koenig

Shabana Mansuri

Alex Dawson

James Dyer

Johnny Valencia

Pete Blakemore

Elisa Spigariol

Paul Wilcox

Emma Lipop

John Allan

Rebecca Davenport

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Ed Sheeran & Elton John 'Merry Christmas' by Jason Koenig

Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas [Official Video]

Wretch 32 worked with director Edem Wornoo on this epic 11-minute short film weaving tracks from his Little BIG Man project&nbsp; - a nine-track meditation on incarceration, violence and poverty - into a narrative about the cycle of reoffending, inner turmoil and home.Shot on location in London, the film explores themes of work, community and performance with scale and sensitivity.Last year, Wornoo was one of five unsigned British directors to win a place on <a href="https://threeminut.es/" target="_blank">Three Minutes</a> – Ground Work’s incubator scheme funding five music videos by rising talents.The scheme is produced in association with our production company Ground Work and made possible by Burberry, Shure and BFI NETWORK. The project has also received funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.

Edem Wornoo

Melissa Giles

Ground Work

Aaron Z. Willson

Anna Butler

Tom Fraser-Ivens

Ahmet Husseyin

Murat Akyildiz

Jack Lightfoot (camera dept)

Yann Murawski

Terri Higgins

Nibras

Daisy Deane

Steve Shaw

Alex Gregory

The Mill

Jordy Meya

Marco Grey

Polydor

Grant Sandy Phillips

Three Minutes

Wretch 32 'Little Big Man' by Edem Wornoo

Wretch-32-'Little-Big-Man'-by-Edem-Wornoo

Will Hooper kicks off the New Year with an impeccable promo&nbsp;for Rag’n’Bone Man’s&nbsp;All You Ever Wanted.&nbsp;Visualising the song’s social commentary on overpopulation and gentrification, Hooper presents the idyll of a pristine model village, bringing his trademark charm and wit to the table.&nbsp; As the track progresses however, the layers are peeled back to reveal the reality hidden beneath: an unhinged dystopia playing&nbsp;out in live action.Every detail in the video had to be meticulously planned out through a series of animatics and storyboards. This took place weeks prior to shooting, in order for the model village set build - led by Jennifer Kidd - to work with the matchframe scenes in the live action.This attention to detail has paid off - the video is a stunning and unexpected take on very important themes, with an unforgettable aesthetic and visual style, which perfectly complements Hooper's recent steps into the bizarre and uncanny.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Will Hooper

Emma Wellbelove

Blink

Laura Northover

Sebastian Jowers

Ty Hack

Molly Manning Walker

Jerry Pardon

Ines Duarte

Amir Moulfi

Nohelia Reyes

Hannah Ashby Ward

Sam Allen

Homespun

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Jack Stone

Dan Millar

Jack Bingham

Steven Enriaiyetan

Oliver Ford

Alasdair Baines

Josh Tiley

Leopold Neassens

Rag'n'Bone Man 'All You Ever Wanted' by Will Hooper

Rag-N-Bone-Man--'All-You-Ever-Wanted'-by-Will-Hooper

Royal Blood come roaring back, with a suitably powerful visual accompaniment to the rousing, very catchy&nbsp;Trouble's Coming by Lx.Combining both performance and elements of narrative, Lx draws upon the band's visual history to make something fresh. So there's a sketched storyline involving with a brooding threat of violence - and involving the RB boys Mike and Ben finally setting off in their vintage Cortina GXL. That's blended with a performance by the duo which is slick and stylised - and, crucially, it's as viscerally&nbsp;engaging as the narrative.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a departure from his usual stamping ground of hip hop and grime, Lx shows that his strength in delivering charismatic performances, within a framework of strongly art directed and VFX-enhanced set-ups translates extremely well for the Brighton-based duo's banging rock tune. No trouble at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Dir. Lx

Kareem Adeshina

Greatcoat Films

Sandra Spethmann

Andy Roberts

Palma Derzsi

Luke Goodrich

Olan Collardy

Kate Eccarius

Salvador Gomes-lopez

Shiv Ashman

Jo Lewandowska

Okay Studio

Jonny Tully

Big Buoy

Bravespark Media

Las Bandas Be Brave

Jen Ivory

Warner Records

Gary Coogan

Simon Oxley

The Quarry

Denova Media

We Are Covert 

Rock

Royal Blood 'Trouble's Coming' by Dir. Lx

Royal Blood - Trouble's Coming (Official Video)

Jordan Stephens, once of Rizzle Kicks, plays Tiger, the inveterate stoner who finds himself on a weird, weed-related voyage of discovery in Jamie Whitby's marvellous short film to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a landmark Warp Records release - Nightmares On Wax's Smokers Delight.&nbsp;When Tiger discovers he has been locked out of his flat&nbsp;after a night of serious toking with his mates, it triggers a series of increasingly outlandish&nbsp;episodes - which moves from stoner-noir to full-on acid trip when our hero tumbles into full 2D animation.Music from Nightmare On Wax's classic 1995 album is an unobtrusive motif throughout the film, written as well as directed by Whitby. It is something of a departure&nbsp;from his largely conceptual work in music videos, but it shows that comedy-drama, mixed with a splash of pure surrealism, is his forté. He gets great performances from a talented cast, led by Stephens - possibly channelling Jeff Bridges&nbsp;in Lebowski - and has been rewarded with a nomination at this year's UKMVAs, in the&nbsp;Best Special Video Projects category, for his efforts.

Jamie Whitby

Scarlett Barclay

Agile Films

Hayley Williams

India Bradshaw

Spike Morris

Rob Hawkins

Bulman Arshehit

Hélio Ribeiro

George Buxton

Natasha Lawes

Myles Payne

Jack Williams

Edward Coope

Assembly Rooms

David Horsburgh

Jordan Stephens

OB Management

Warp Records

Harry Chambers

Rachel Bashford

Fionn Hutton

Jamie Hitchens

Alternative

Nightmares On Wax 'Smokers Delight' by Jamie Whitby

Nightmares-On-Wax-'Smokers-Delight'-by-Jamie-Whitby

F*** this photocopier. Marika rocks her corporate hellhole in this simple, effervescent video by Louis Bhose.Somehow, Marika Hackman has ‘given up her soul’ for an ill-fitting suit and a dead-end office job. And she’s starting to wonder how she got here. In a fantasy sequence, she performs inside an enormous, strobing photocopier. Which she proceeds to smash.Hackman has charisma in buckets, or ‘BDE’, to borrow her phrase. In the visual cycle for her upcoming album Any Human Friend, we’re beginning to realise quite how much comic potential the songwriter has always had. Most recently, she had a star turn in Will Hooper’s dry and relatable <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/23/marika-hackman-im-not-where-you-are-will-hooper/58874">I’m Not Where You Are</a>. It’s a treat to see rockstar Hackman, and in&nbsp;classic pop video mode; The One could easily be a long lost visual for Heaven 17 or The Human League.The concept is Hackman’s own. According to Agile Films,&nbsp;the story behind it reads a little like this:“Marika Hackman: I want to do a performance vid in a photocopier, where the imagined rockstar in me performs with gusto as the mediocre, let-down version of me watches.Hack Video Director: say no more”.

Louis Bhose

Callum Harrison

Elle Lotherington

Murren Tullett

Chris Hayden

Yolande Haynes

Sam Alberg

Thomas Liam Davis

Emily Engleman

Jack McGinity

CHEAT

Chris Dunleavy

Connie Meade

Amf Records

Alternative, Indie Rock

Alt Rock

Indie

Marika Hackman 'The One' by Louis Bhose

Marika Hackman - the one

London electropop singer-producer Ben Khan concocts a smorgasbord of stylish visuals, directing his own video for Ruby, the title track from his forthcoming debut album.It&#39;s the second video that Khan has made with producer Dom Thomas, who recently set up the UK office of Object &amp; Animal with fellow former Academy producer Morgan Clement.

Ben Khan

Dom Thomas

Morgan Clement

Object & Animal

Heather Cook

Tristan Chenais

Simon Lakos

Daniel Kolditz

Rebecca Rice

Mathematic

Dirty Hit Records

Electronica

Ben Khan 'Ruby' by Ben Khan

Ben Khan - Ruby

Shaun James Grant teams up once again with Black Honey for the sequel to their previous video Dig - this time taking the influences into the 70s harking back to Saturday Night Fever.

Shaun James Grant

Harri Kamalanathan

Haus Pictures

Iain Simpson, Ben Turnbull

Sophie Ede

Tibo Travers

Joel Honeywell

Eve Carreno

Angela Garcia 

Ben  Millar

Craig Hemming

Jake Gallagher

Mattie White

Kit Jennings

Oisín O'Driscoll

Charlie Denis, Charlie Barker

Rileasa Slaves

Dan Potts

Foxfive Records

Jake Whitehouse

Black Honey 'Midnight' by Shaun James Grant

Black-Honey-'Midnight-'-by-Shaun-James-Grant

Jessica Wilde turns her man into all kinds of useful everyday items in Brigitta Szaszfai&#39;s video for Cry For Me.It&#39;s certainly fired by an interesting idea. As men have a problem showing their emotions, they need a little push. So turning them into a a bathroom tap is a good way to get the tears flowing.Szaszfai brings the metaphor&nbsp;into a classic pop video world, with boldly colourful sets built in the studio.&nbsp;

Brigitta Szaszfai

Tony Longe

Ian Robertson

David Pimm

Anthony Mchugh

Tim Warner

Leon Pyszora

Subby Nolan

Abo Talooni

Jack Kibbey Newman

Adam Wilkes

Jessica Wilde

Ben Francis

Jessica Wilde 'Cry For Me' by Brigitta Szaszfai

Jessica-Wilde-'Cry-For-Me'-by-Brigitta-Szaszfai

With Rudimental and Major Lazer&#39;s anthemic collaboration Let Me Live about to take over our summer, South African photographer and director Chris Saunders provide the fantastic blockbuster video that the dancehall-inspired track&nbsp;deserves.As the song is a global alliance of music artists in the UK (Rudimental and guest singer Anne-Marie) the US (Major Lazer) and Africa (Nigerian rapper Mr Eazi), Saunders has created a brilliantly vibrant video that pinballs between London and Johannesburg.[imgtoken data:1]And in the South African section in particular, Saunders stages a remarkable show of colour, choreography and characer: some of the most talented dancers in South Africa provide a heart-surging display of music, dance, fashion and street culture, in an underpass of Jo&#39;burg&#39;s M2 motorway. It&#39;s dazzling, and as lead performer, Anne-Marie doesn&#39;t disappoint either - she&nbsp;is completely wrapped up in the moment too.&nbsp;Saunders, who is based between Johannesburg and Paris,&nbsp;has spent years researching and documenting South African dance and performance culture. He has revealed&nbsp;that&nbsp;the choreography for the Let Me Live video was designed to showcase the dancers&rsquo; original work.&ldquo;These dancers are often asked to work within pre-existing choreographies and set pieces,&rdquo; says Saunders. &ldquo;This was an opportunity to collaborate with the highest-level African performers on original choreography in a more consultative and respectful way.&rdquo;

Chris Saunders

Rudimental & Major Lazer ft. Anne-Marie & Mr Eazi 'Let Me Live' by Chris Saunders

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