Director of Photography

David Liddell

Director Oscar Sansom delivers another striking visual work for Biffy Clyro,&nbsp;this time in the form of a ten-minute long concept encapsulating two tracks.&nbsp;The first segment of the video&nbsp;is a paint-drenched performance concept, featuring the group in an industrial warehouse, playing whilst kicking, throwing and splattering blue paint everywhere.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;The second part of the video takes a more abstract, surreal turn, narratively exploring a cult-like group in the forest, with glitchy vignettes of people running away, circling the group and the appearance of enigmatic black squares floating in the atmosphere.&nbsp;A regular collaborator with the band, Oscar has created a truly striking work here which features some incredible visual moments, intriguing storytelling, and explosive (and at times extremely&nbsp;messy) band performance.[imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Oscar Sansom

Beth Allan

Forest Of Black

Nico Biarese

Rasmus Rani

Sean Mcdonald

Annie Mitchell

Denise Coombes

Mia Currie

Jennifer Ivory

Warner Records

Alternative

Rock

Biffy Clyro 'A Hunger In Your Haunt/Unknown Male 01' by Oscar Sansom

Biffy-Clyro-'A-Hunger-In-Your-Haunt-/-Unknown-Male-01'-by-Oscar-Sansom

Be Charlotte shows off her dance skills in Ainsley Bowman's&nbsp;choreography-centric video for Lights Off.&nbsp;Utilising various practical lights and an army of dancers, the video is contemporary and glossy, with killer styling and a dramatic colour palette.&nbsp;

Ainsley Bowman

Hannah Currie

Luca Michelli

Marie Lidén

Amanda Blackwood

Jack Baxter

Sara Hill

Tamsyn Russell

Louie John Lewis

Sony Germany

Be Charlotte 'Lights Off' by Ainsley Bowman

Be-Charlotte-'Lights-Off'-by-Ainsley-Bowman

Following the brilliant video for&nbsp;Born Cold - nominated for best video at the Heavy Music Awards 2020&nbsp;-&nbsp;director Oscar Sansom returns to direct Cyanide, the second instalment in&nbsp;a trilogy of videos for Creeper.&nbsp;This promo for Cyanide&nbsp;delivers a captivating performance for the TV cameras from the band, with frontman Will Gould's rock 'n roll star persona on full display,&nbsp;while the video also hints at other&nbsp;aspects of the album's narrative.DP&nbsp;David Liddell contrasts the almost clinical lighting of the band performance with a more subdued setup backstage, creating a&nbsp;striking juxtaposition, whilst utilising plenty of camera movement to reflect the hyperactive energy of Gould's performance.

Bartek Kloc

Alice Walker

Ainslie Currie

Charlotte Clutterbuck

Sean Corbett

Danny Corr

Dom Mckiernan

Roadrunner Records

Creeper 'Cyanide' by Oscar Sansom

Creeper-'Cyanide'-by-Oscar-Sansom

Oscar Sansom releases the first video from his collaboration with Creeper for&nbsp;theatrical nightmare Born Cold.Blending elements of theatre and performance with cinematic vignettes, the visual is an introduction to a new era for the group, and&nbsp;to a darker set of characters and themes. Thematically borrowing elements from dystopian fiction, glam rock and iconic videos in the genre, it's a visual feast that promises to expand and deliver even wilder imagery in the chapters that follow.&nbsp;

Steve Arthur

Amp; Ainslie Currie

Kenny Gibb

Creep Post

Alternative Rock

Creeper 'Born Cold' by Oscar Sansom

Creeper-'Born-Cold'-by-Oscar-Sansom

Ainsley Bowman's video for Glasgow band The Ninth Wave,&nbsp;shot in an old shipbuilding warehouse in the artist’s hometown, is a&nbsp; dark and surreal visual that places the artists centre stage as they slowly entangle themselves with rope.

Nicki Reilly

Leon Brehony

Cara Roxburgh

Debbie Black

The Ninth Wave

Distiller Records

The Ninth Wave 'Human Behaviour' by Ainsley Bowman

This superb film for Scottish Ballet, with music by Callum Easter, uses movement and film editing to explore the fluidity of gender roles.And by framing Myles Thatcher's choreography among the monolithic concrete pillars underpinning Glasgow's motorway flyovers, director Eve McConnachie thrillingly presents contemporary dance within an everyday urban landscape.

Eve Mcconnachie

Tony Currie

Paul Forest

Fergus Cruickshank

I'll Be Your Mirror

Lost Map Records

Martin Newstead

Callum Easter 'Make A Move (Frontiers)' by Eve McConnachie

Calum-Easter-'Make-A-Move-(frontiers)'-by-Eve-Mcconnachie

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;

Ciaran Lyons

Danny Filmer

Flore De Hoog

Matador Records

Indie

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

Belle & Sebastian - "Poor Boy"

Michael Sherrington celebrates humanity in a simple and pure set-up for Belle &amp; Sebastian.Sherrington&#39;s video for I&#39;ll Be Your Pilot (from the Scottish band&#39;s new album How To Solve Our Human Problems, Pt 2) situates his cast in a photographic studio and invites his subjects to enjoy some&nbsp;peaceful contemplation. And Davd Lidell&#39;s luminous cinematography contributes greatly to the viewer&#39;s experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Michael Sherrington

Sefa Ucbas

Erika Iesse

Las Bandas Be Brave

Belle & Sebastian 'I'll Be Your Pilot' by Michael Sherrington

Belle-&-Sebastian-'I'll-Be-Your-Pilot'-by-Michael-Sherrington

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...

Clare Mcintyre

Daniel Harris

Sony Music Entertainment

Art Rock

Glam Rock

White 'Living Fiction' by Ciaran Lyons

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

Travis singer Fran Healy turns director for this charming video heralding the return of the melancholic pop legends. Fran also stars as our patient hero, ready to put with a lot of abuse from his red-headed co-star. We had a chat to Fran to talk about his multi-tasking.
PROMO: Why did you decide to go more &lsquo;hands-on&rsquo; with this music video and direct? Is filmmaking something you&rsquo;ve always nurtured, or something developed more recently?
Fran Healy: None of the treatments we received felt right. I&rsquo;d written/art directed the video for our teaser song &ldquo;Another Guy&rdquo; which Wolfgang Becker directed and it had turned out nice, so our project manager Emma Greengrass suggested I treat for this too.
Travis have a rather wonderful back-catalogue of music videos. When you&rsquo;ve been in a band for a while and you have so much experience to draw from are you more tempted to look at things and think &lsquo;You know, I could do that as well&rsquo;?
Did I think I could direct? Not really but since moving to Berlin, and being around Wolfgang and X-Filme, I learned if you surround the idea with an experienced watertight team &ndash; a great producer, great art director, a great DP, and a great first AD and a shit hot editor then things get done no matter who is in the director&rsquo;s chair. The job of a director then becomes more about having a clear vision and delivering that in one piece.
Can you walk us through the concepts and ideas behind the video? Obviously it isn&rsquo;t nice to see you harmed, but you really have made it amusing. Why use yourself as the target, rather than bringing in an actor?
The song is about sticking with someone no matter what &ndash; through thick and thin, sickness health, etc. And the video is a visual representation of this. It came from the first line of the song &ldquo;Bumper car me left of right, I&rsquo;ll take a thousand knocks&rdquo;. I originally had our guitarist Andy in the role as he is way funnier actor than me. But it became clear, as I was the face of the band, it would be better if I did it. Realising my role as a supporting actor and making the role of the female the main one was important.
Although I suppose you&rsquo;re no stranger to being a target in your music videos &ndash; I seem to remember you doing the North by Northwest and getting shot at by a spitfire in &lsquo;Writing to Reach You&rsquo;, getting pushed off a wall as humpty-dumpty in &lsquo;Coming Around&rsquo; and even getting attacked by death himself in &lsquo;Walking in the Sun&rsquo;. Is there a running theme, or are these unfortunate coincidences?
Yes, there definitely is a running theme. John Hardwick started it. Thanks John.

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