David Wilson is a music video director and artist based in London, UK.

Riff Raff Films

Director

David Wilson

A tube train carriage&nbsp;transforms into a coruscating disco wonderland in David Wilson's flamboyant promo for Zach Witness.&nbsp;The intimate video&nbsp;pays homage to two queer icons - Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan - and transports viewers back&nbsp;to 70’s New York, to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ roots of dance music.Exuding a hyper-confident, sexy aura, Zach Witness&nbsp;moves and shakes his way through the glorious track, creating countless iconic moments in just under three minutes.&nbsp;An intense&nbsp;visual feast from David Wilson - directing&nbsp;his first music video since pre-pandemic times -&nbsp;that deserves a tonne of attention.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Richard Fearon

Ajay Arora

Bernie Prentice

Brian Fawcett

Laura Clayton

Olly Ginelli

Frank Hellebrand

Jeff Vine

Christian Swaine

Rachel Hopkins

Darcy Wallace

Lucy Upton-Prowse

Chloe Rose

Meg Thorne

The Quarry

Zach Witness

Cinelab Film and Digital

Dance

Zach Witness 'Frankie And Levan' by David Wilson

Zach-Witness-'Frankie-And-Levan'-by-David-Wilson

David Wilson explores the breakdown of a nuclear family in his oddball promo for Glass Animals' Tangerine.&nbsp;Taking place on a surreal car journey - with vocalist Dave Bayley playing a Mother, Father and child at various ages - the story follows a typical modern day life-cycle... Boy meets girl, they have a&nbsp;kid, get annoyed with each other and end up splitting, just for the process to repeat when the kid reaches adolescence.The poignant message is wrapped in a layer of quirky imagery, with subtle visual effects allowing the three characters in tandem.The execution is top-notch, and a clever way to get around social distancing and the various challenges that have carried over from the year so far.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Matthew Clyde

Natalie Arnett

Kate Brady

Ugne Ciesiunaite

James Dyer

Ruben Dechamps

Eve Carreno

James Groves

Paul Molloy

Stephanie Williams

Scarlett Wallis

Louise Hinton

Lucy Berry

Final Cut

Black Kite Studios

Polly Durrance

Ronan Fourreau

Hands 

Emily Tedrake

Polydor

art pop

Indie pop

Glass Animals 'Tangerine' by David Wilson

Glass Animals - Tangerine (Official Video)

If you need something uplifting right now,&nbsp;look no further. Paloma Faith and director David Wilson lament the gentrification of London in brilliantly feisty fashion,&nbsp;in the wonderful&nbsp;promo for Gold.&nbsp;Decked out in a trademark whimsical dress and radiating heaps of&nbsp;energy, Paloma skips and dances down an East London market and into a building site, dangling from an excavator, kicking down doors, and just having a riotous time with some of her fellow, equally colourful&nbsp;residents.&nbsp;Paloma is magnetic as always, the supporting cast - all dancers in the Theo Adams Company - are great too, and DoP&nbsp;David Foulkes matches her energy in sweeping crane shots and fluid camera movement. It all adds up to sheer entertainment. Absolutely marvellously fabulous.[imgtoken data:1]

Natalie Steiner

Ben Glickman

David Foulkes

Kate Eccarius

James Malamatinis

Alex Gibbins

Liz El-kadhi

Nick Royal

Phoebe Arnold

Eamonn Hughes

Lan Nguyen-Grealis

Cut+Run

Tamara Mennell

Josh Glanc

Michael Lewin

Sony Music

Charlie Rizek

Theo Adams

Paloma Faith 'Gold' by David Wilson

Paloma Faith - Gold (Official Video)

Ever since his marvellous video for Metronomy's The Bay, David Wilson has been able to make magic happen by the pool. And that's what happens in his video for Glass Animals' It's All So Incredibly Loud.GA's frontman Dave Bayley emerges through wisps of smoke to&nbsp;negotiate&nbsp;the diving board of a&nbsp;swimming pool in a suburban home at night. Yes, once again Wilson is making an English summer appear impossibly glamourous. He also&nbsp;brings us a heightened reality which&nbsp;almost seems nostalgic in its visual crispness.The intention&nbsp;is to capture a moment, and explore it's metaphorical meaning. Shot on both a Phantom and an Alexa, the time when Bayley inevitably enters the pool's water is stretched out to last as long as possible. Time is slowed, just as seems to happen&nbsp;when you dive into cold water - and also when you are faced with the emotional issues discussed in the song.Suitably Bayley also delivers a heartfelt performance to camera in this video that marks a triumphant return by David Wilson to the music video mainstream. A nod too to marvellous camerawork, supervised by DoP&nbsp;David Foulkes.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Luke Goodrich

Alice Hayes

Luke Jefferson

Jonathan Treherne

Steve Wells

Danny Hayward

Scarlet Wallis

Ross Hallard

Trim Editing

Tatyana Alexandra

Indie

Glass Animals 'It's All So Incredibly Loud' by David Wilson

Glass Animals | It's All So Incredibly Loud

David Wilson returns to music videos with this delightful work for Christine and the Queens: a Hamlet-inspired homage to the scorned Ophelia, for Comme si.&nbsp;Shot in the flower-strewn streams of Thailand, the artist picks up where Ophelia&rsquo;s tragic tale ends, reinterpreting the play&rsquo;s pivotal moment with solo interpretive dance and krumping.

France

Anna Roudaut

La Pac

Loubna Khenissa

Fouad Gaber

Mathieu Toulet

Because Music

Alex Lamarque

marion brillouet

Sylvian Fabre

Louis Ditapichai

Christine And The Queens 'Comme Si' by David Wilson

Christine-And-The-Queens-'Comme-Si'-by-David-Wilson

Dita Von Teese, Sébastien Tellier and David Wilson looks like a threesome made in heaven - and so it proves.The leading lady of Burlesque has got together with the most amorous man in French alt-pop to create the eponymously-titled LP Dita Von Teese. Wilson&#39;s &#39;Musical Film&#39; - which includes two full tracks&nbsp;from the album and clips from a couple of others - makes the most of the surprising chemistry between them, and the sheer visual contrast between her beautifully crafted artifice and his rough hewed hairiness.A delightful soufflé of romance, glamour, fantasy and sauciness -&nbsp;with it&#39;s tongue firmly in its cheek.&nbsp;Eight minutes just flies by...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Billy Pena

Elise Butt

Jean Clement Soret

Tom Cole

John Moule

Record Makers

Tamsin Glasson

Dita Von Teese ft Sébastien Tellier 'A Musical Film' by David Wilson

Dita Von Teese: A Musical Film featuring Sebastien Tellier (Official Video)

David Wilson&#39;s long-awaited mega-video for Arcade Fire is a double-sided beauty as contrasting as it&#39;s title, Money + Love.First comes the Black Mirror-esque satire for Put Your Money On Me, where the band are sold ino recod company slavery, with Toni Collette as the ice-hearted label exec, who makes them play a&nbsp;product-endorsing show at a casino.But following the band&#39;s break for freedom, the storyline dissolves into a pure, mesmerising performance of We Don&#39;t Deserve Love, captured in brilliant sustained&nbsp;takes. That in itself makes this a fantastic piece of work.&nbsp;And David Wilson has celebrated it&#39;s release this week by <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/music/arcade-fire-played-surprise-show-last-night-gramercy-theatre-spotify-spike-jonze-2264736" target="_blank">taking the stage at an Arcade Fire show in New York, with none other than Spike Jonze</a>...

Richard Ostiguy

Jason Baum

The Directors Bureau

Sue Yeon Ahn

Christophe Collette

Louisa Schabas

Becca Blackwood

Renata Morales

Vid Price

Thomas Grove Carter

Simon Bourne

Framestore

Technicolor Uk

Ben Dobson, David Schagerström

David Schager

Arcade Fire 'Money+Love' by David Wilson

David Wilson returns to music vids with the new Chromeo video, and heading for the orange groves of verdant California, in the process makes probably&nbsp;the&nbsp;best ad in the world ever&nbsp;for freshly squeezed OJ.And, along the way, keying into the &#39;leg&#39; iconography that&#39;s distinguished several of their&nbsp;album covers (and keyboard stands), Wilson reveals that Dave-1 and P-Thugg&nbsp;have by far the shapeliest, and best-waxed-and-heeled legs of all the male electro-pop duos.Yes, those incredible pins are their real legs...

United States

The Director's Bureau

Simon Chaudoir

Almitra Corey

Biff Butler

Electric Theatre Collective

Chromeo 'Juice' by David Wilson

Chromeo - Juice (Official Video)

David Wilson&#39;s gripping and thought-provoking video for Tame Impala&#39;s melancholic Let It Happen follows a businessman who,&nbsp;while dashing to catch a&nbsp;flight,&nbsp;collapses on the ground while&nbsp;clutching his chest. Never a good sign.This catastrophic event sets&nbsp;off a disorientating sequence of&nbsp;lapses in time and place, which take the businessman (and us) on&nbsp;a startling rollercoaster involving a plane&nbsp;crash and the man free-falling towards Earth.&nbsp;And although we lose&nbsp;our sense of&nbsp;reality,&nbsp;his palpable sense of&nbsp;dread is made&nbsp;all&nbsp;the more real for it.It&#39;s a&nbsp;perfectly&nbsp;dismal situation - and there is no conventional happy ending. But it&nbsp;plays out in a captivating and even beautiful way -&nbsp;a finale that unabashedly&nbsp;suggests a journey after Death.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Australia

Colonel Blimp

Paul Weston

Corin Taylor

Nathan James Tettey

Sophie Dewey

Radioaktive Film

Kate Galytska

Kristina Ilyina

Benoit Soler

Kasja Soderlund

James Bamford

The Mill

Kait Boehm

Jordan Sharon

Michael Instone

Universal Music Australia

Roman Coppola

Glen Goetze

Indie, Rock, Psychedelic, Alternative Rock

Tame Impala 'Let It Happen' by David Wilson

David Wilson&nbsp;has been&nbsp;directing of some highly&nbsp;diverse,&nbsp;eye-catching videos as of late, including&nbsp;ultra-gorey&nbsp;animated video featuring evil aliens in bunny costumes&nbsp;for Royal Blood&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/06/royal-blood-out-black-david-wilson-christy-karacas" target="_blank">Out Of The Black</a> as well as&nbsp;Arcade Fire&#39;s epic&nbsp;queer statement video&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/19/arcade-fire-we-exist-david-wilson" target="_blank">We Exist</a> featuring Andrew Garfield as a gender questioning transwoman.&nbsp;And now his latest&nbsp;is a wildly entertaining short&nbsp;featuring Metronomy track Boy Racers &ndash; and starring Daniel Schienert of directing duo DANIELS. Just like his partner Dan Kwan&#39;s inability to resist the beat&nbsp;in DJ Snake &amp; Lil Jon&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/14/dj-snake-lil-jon-turn-down-what-daniels" target="_blank">Turn Down For What</a>, Daniel S cannot stop vibing off the beat and bassline of Metronomy&#39;s mini-instrumental. He just happens to be driving at the time. We&#39;ve all been there, driving along and loving a song.&nbsp;But not quite like this...&nbsp;

Ben Gilovitz

Pat Scola

Adam Rudd

Chad Nicholson

Elizabeth Minzes

Rachel Nederveld

Jack Bianco

Alver Hernandez

Josh Miller

Dan Prostak

Ryan Hueter

Eddie Apodaca

Jose Henry Gonzalez

Ben Sherman

Victoria Aronson

Brandon Barter

Jonathan Artis

Nick Neary

Jake Turrentine

Kevin Dewtit

Neil Johnson

Ricky Gausis

Brandon Hirzel

Laura Francis

Emilie Pereira

Rene Mousseux

Metronomy 'Boy Racers' by David Wilson

Boy Racers

He&#39;s done animation and he&#39;s done live action. He&#39;s even combined the two. But now David Wilson joins up with animator Christy Karacas (of Superjail! fame) to mix-and-mash the two media in an outstandingly effective and upfront way for Royal Blood&#39;s Out Of The Black.It&#39;s simply the best way to tell this full-throttle super-violent comedy&nbsp;action-horror - involving a gas station heist by psychotic alien inside a giant Easter bunny suit - and his buddies:&nbsp;a snowman, pumpkin, ice cream cone and walking heart. After the animated TV titles intro, the live action centring around a Doofus-like clerk sets the scene, before Karacas&#39;s extravagantly gory alien-revealing animation takes over...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;I became a fan of Christy&rsquo;s show&nbsp;Superjail! a few years ago,&quot; says David. &quot;It was Christy&rsquo;s incredibly inventive fight sequences and love of hand drawn animation that made me obsess over his work. I love hand drawn animation. It&rsquo;s where my&nbsp;directing career began, and I still fill my free time over a light box, drawing away.&ldquo;I wanted to give Christy as much creative freedom as possible whilst making sure&nbsp;the animation and the live action would still sync together. I would give Christy the starting point of which characters were fighting, where their geographical placing was on the set, and which characters&nbsp;would die. It was then up to Christy to create fight sequence, knowing the in-and-out points.&rdquo;Post-production was carried out at Finish, who provided the colour grade and extensive visual effects work to knit the promo together. &quot;&ldquo;One of our key jobs was to create several big matte paintings, the main one being the backdrop for a scene where the service station employee confronts the aliens in costumes,&quot; explains Flame artist Judy Roberts.&nbsp;&quot;A smashed up helicopter, cars and a dead body, were all added to the clean plate using hand textured CGI renders, and various supplied photographic elements.Colourist Julien Biard adds: &ldquo;David is based in LA and he couldn&rsquo;t be in the grading suite with me so we used a remote grading system, where I&rsquo;m grading in London and David is at another facility in LA. It&rsquo;s great because both suites are linked up by an almost instantaneous feed so he could see every adjustment of the grade in real time.&quot;&ldquo;They worked tirelessly to elevate the piece,&quot; says David of FInish&#39;s input.&nbsp;&quot;Like with the majority of Post Production this is done in ways that are often very difficult to spot, but that&rsquo;s only because they did an incredible job. The result lived up to my dreams. I dreamed BIG on this one!&rdquo;&nbsp;

David Wilson

Director

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