Commissioner

Devin Sarno

In one of the most enthralling examples of AI-fired creativity to be seen in music videos towards the end of last year,&nbsp;Tristan Holmes animated more than&nbsp;10,000 frames generated on AI program Midjourney to create a stunning visceral experience for the Chicago-based heavy metal band Disturbed.Crucially, Holmes successfully manages to harness the possibilities of the technology to work with his own purpose and vision for the epic track Bad Man - the band's protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.&nbsp;The video is an assault on the senses, but the director's own painterly visual aesthetic shines through.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]The process took Holmes over a month of intense work, but the results are stupendous.&nbsp;“This video has been a labor of love and I am super proud to share it," Holmes has said."Inspired by the plight of the Ukrainian people it is a poignant and powerful comment on the world today and the rise of autocracy not only in Eastern Europe but in other parts of the world."<div>&nbsp;</div>

United States

Tristan Holmes

Jason Cole

Doomsday Entertainment

Arianna Tomasettig

Terry Simpson

Rock

Heavy Metal

Disturbed 'Bad Man' by Tristan Holmes

Disturbed - Bad Man

Tess Lafia visualises&nbsp;singer-songwriter Madeline The Person's song about being fed up with her stoner boyfriend in a charming mix of&nbsp;animation with live action.&nbsp;The video for Why I Broke Up With You interweaves a stop-motion narrative featuring the strained relationship and broken promises within the setting of a doll's house,&nbsp;with Madeline's deadpan performance.[imgtoken data:1]This is a beautifully realised piece of work, which balances glossy beauty shots with quite a raw, grimy aesthetic in the narrative, and perfectly realises the themes in the track.&nbsp;At the end of the concept, Madeline celebrates her freedom and the next stage of her life, having chucked out her weed-obsessed&nbsp;boyfriend. He is just too wasted to protest...

Cleo Camp

Tess Lafia

Kane Lafia

Taytum Blake

Noah Deats

Randi Wilens

Mirror Films

Bamba Kimball

Eric Barrett

Beau Lyon @ Company 3

Warner Music Group

OB Management

Madeline The Person 'Why I Broke Up With You' by Tess Lafia

Madeline-The-Person-'Why-I-Broke-Up-With-You'-by-Tess-Lafia

Chris Fowles directs a poignant promo for Cavetown's Fall In Love With A Girl, featuring&nbsp;Beabadoobee.The video sees the artist - real name Robin Skinner - create a series of narrative setups in a dollhouse, using small figurines and a selection of to-scale props. One of those small figurines follows the song's lead - they are placed in a conventional&nbsp;heterosexual relationship; but each time Cavetown's character returns to the doll's house, they have mysteriously turned away from this stereotypical set-up.&nbsp;Then a turning point changes the course of the narrative - triggered by the arrival of Bea, when Robin is absent. The figurine can then embrace the&nbsp;same-sex relationship they dream&nbsp;of.[imgtoken data:1]Fowles shows impressive storytelling craft in making this all work. He approaches it in an&nbsp;an accessible, artistic way,&nbsp;and DoP Terrence Wilkins' superb cinematography - both in and out of the dollhouse - elevates the entire project. The performances of the artists also strike&nbsp;the right note.&nbsp;&nbsp;"I was so excited when this brief came in,"&nbsp;says Fowles. "The track was such an earworm and an incredible chance to work with artists like Robin and Bea, who I’ve been a fan of for a while."The video is a playful lesson in not being able to control who you fall in love with. An attempt to control your destiny and finding (or in this case, creating) the perfect person."[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

Kamran Rajput

Chris Fowles

Alex White

Las Bandas Be Brave

Jealous Films

Charlie Relph

Terrence Wilkins

Kris Declan

Sam Barnham

Chris Cox

Gino Fernandez

Warner

Luke John

Anthony Hensman

Cavetown ft Beabadoobee 'Fall In Love With A Girl' by Chris Fowles

Cavetown-Ft.-Beabadoobee-'Fall-In-Love-With-A-Girl'-by-Chris-Fowles

When small pets start going missing from the neighbourhood, Cavetown (aka Robin Skinner) plays amateur sleuth - and gets caught up in an unfolding injustice - in Lewis Cater’s riveting video for Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me.Switching between a courtroom scene - where Cavetown&nbsp;is the defendant - and the events that preceded it, Cater makes an utterly absorbing drama from this small yet timely story. Cavetown pleads his case to the stern magistrate on the bench by performing the song, and the prosecutor and shifty pet shop owner - claiming ownership of the pets - invert the truth and falsely accuse him&nbsp;of theft.With taught directing and editing, Lewis Cater creates a new&nbsp;take on the classic scenario of the individual unjustly caught on the grinding wheels of justice and establishment power. It’s also a great showcase for an intriguing artist and their song, reminiscent of another much-missed underdog, Elliott Smith. A terrific video.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Lewis Cater

James Dearden

Tuff Contender

Jack Lightfoot

Aaron Rogers

Anil Duru

Jenna Wörlin

Richard Scott

Zenon Clements

Sinead Mcgowan

Vlad Barin

CHEAT

Warner Records

Blindeye Films

Djay Brawner

Max Rose

Singer-songwriter

Alternative

Cavetown 'Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me' by Lewis Cater

Cavetown - Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me

Drawing inspiration from 90s nostalgia, Audrey Ellis Fox's video for ONR and Phantogram's Sarah Barthel is a cinematic portrayal of sunken romances, for the naggingly catchy Must Stop.&nbsp;With ONR (aka Scottish singer-songwriter Robert David Shields) in Manchester and Barthel in LA, Fox adopts a nouvelle vague aesthetic to tie their performances together,&nbsp;intercut with deeply contrasting, colour-saturated footage of the sometime objects of their affections. We get hints of storylines as we glimpse at these glamourous but dangerous exes, on a particular Saturday night.Ultimately the video becomes a collage of vignettes juxtaposed with the increasingly emotional turns by the performers. Nice work.

Audrey Ellis Fox

Jen Sall

Treat

Aiden Ulrich

Isaac Eastgate

Richard Clitheroe

Matthew Borek

Al Webster

Juan Sebastian Baron

Alexandra Jackson

Olivia Vandermillen

Cal Laird

Hatch

Asa Fox

Agency Arts

ONR ft Sarah Barthel of Phantogram 'Must Stop' by Audrey Ellis Fox

Onr-(feat.-Sarah-Barthel-Of-Phantogram)-'Must-Stop'-by-Audrey-Ellis-Fox

Cavetown gets stuck in his own head in Telescope, directed by Moon.&nbsp;Telling the story of the singer&nbsp;songwriter’s ongoing conflict with depression, and the constant battles faced with being stuck inside your own mind, the minimalist visuals are surreal and off balance, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. Understated but powerful, Cavetown's solo appearance in the video is poignant, and represents how the underlying themes are both personal and universal.&nbsp;Superbly shot by&nbsp;Francis Lane, the balance of dark and light helps represent the duality of the project, and the spinning camera movements and striking art direction ensure our attention is kept throughout.&nbsp;

Moon

Andrei Croitor

Hi Mom Im On Tv

Stuart Hall

Charlotte Henwood

Werner Van Peppen

Francis Lane

Jp Hung

Asia Rose Kilgallon

Sonny Horweol

Adam Mcgee Abe

Eleni Bantra

Leannah Carer

We Fix It In Post

Warner Music

Cavetown 'Telescope' by Moon 

Cave-Town--'Telescope-'-by-Moon-

Gallant's latest video has real legs. Bennett Johnson directs this clever piece of choreography, in which Gallant tries to escape a sharp-heeled femme fatale. The&nbsp;twist being that we only see either of them&nbsp;from the thigh down.Ever heard of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/sep/19/the-thatcher-illusion-are-faces-special">Thatcher Illusion</a>? Try staring into your friend's eyes, upside-down, for more than a minute. More likely than not, your brain will begin to compensate, and start seeing a horrifying inverted 'correct'&nbsp;face with a forehead for a chin. Well, there’s a moment as you’re watching Sharpest Edges where you stop seeing cropped humans. And you&nbsp;start seeing anthropomorphic pairs of legs with personalities, fears and dreams.&nbsp;The trick is pretty spectacular. A&nbsp;potent reminder that there is still room for experimentation in the most obvious of places.

Bennett Johnson

Jesy Odio

Dreambear

Evan Brown

Matthew Sanchez

Josh McKie

Jordan Sakai

Ant Boyd

Keyla Marquez

Mariah Johnson

Matt Carter

Final Cut

James Tillett

Rafatoon, Peter Olivier, Eduardo Rios, Kyle Zemborain

Nayilah Antoine

Reveur

DZ Maciel

Alex van Putten

Alternative R&B

R&B, Soul

Pop, Funk

Gallant 'Sharpest Edges' by Bennett Johnson

Gallant-'Sharpest-Edges'-by-Bennett-Johnson

Danilo Parra peels away the layers of a family relationship for Carlie Hanson - whose dad may be a bit of a rascal. But he&#39;s certainly not the only one involved in a criminal enterprise...

Danilo Parra

Miranda Kahn

Kate Brady

Riff Raff Films

Aaron Dean Eisenberg

Tess Raih

Sonja Tsypin

Derek Sexton Horani

Luke Carr

Sheyna Imm

Kate Daniliuk

Jaime Obradovich

Company 3

Warner Bros Records

Carlie Hanson 'Back In My Arms' by Danilo Parra

A young boy&#39;s journey through Deep South country becomes a gripping visual metaphor of African-American suffering in Savanah Leaf&#39;s dazzling video for Gary Clark Jr&#39;s This Land.Combined with Clark&#39;s&nbsp;ferociously passionate, almost Hendrix-like performance of the song, the boy joins with his schoolmates to walk across the land which has been synonymous with oppression, and make a symbolic stand of taking ownership of the land.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And then as Clark makes his guitar sings, Leaf continues to expand the visual universe of the video, into&nbsp;ever more impressionistic and surreal territory. In a dream sequence,&nbsp;there&#39;s a brilliantly startling&nbsp;image of a cosmos existing under the boy&#39;s shirt. This is a hugely ambitious, richly rewarding video for a very powerful song.

Savanah Leaf

Alicia Martinez

Danielle Hinde

Charles Mulford

Larkin Seiple

Mike Bayer

Jason Wallis

Warner Bros. Records

Gary Clark Jr. 'This Land' by Savanah Leaf

Gary-Clark-Jr.-'This-Land'-by-Savanah-Leaf

René Sascha Johannsen captures Lukas Graham&#39;s hurt and suffering through a&nbsp;moving visual ode to a&nbsp;lost friend. It&#39;s heartfelt and powerful.

René Sascha Johannsen

Sara Samsøe

new-land

Nadja Nørgaard Kristensen

Jacob Møller

Freja-ulla Krebs

Lukas Graham 'Not A Damn Thing Changed' by René Sascha Johannsen

Lukas-Graham-'Not-A-Damn-Thing-Changed'-by-René-Sascha-Johannsen

A mixed media&nbsp;animation for Mike Shinoda&#39;s Make It Up As I Go, featuring K Flay, becomes an innovative way to tell a poignant story of struggle, created by Spanish director Antoni Sendra Podenco.&nbsp;After recovering from a serious skate injury that leaves him out of the game, the&nbsp;main protagonist tries to return to his regular life. But things have changed, and he&#39;s trapped in the memories of a perfect day. Podenco&#39;s technique creates a scrapbook-like effect where past and present appear together.&nbsp;As the visuals mix and match,&nbsp;the faded paper strips and colourful paints could embody his past and his present as one.Podenco also incorporates a performance by Shinoda and K.Flay which provides a counterpoint to the story of the young man struggling with his rehabilitation, and the intense visual style does not obscure the moving twist in the tale of this beautifully executed video.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Antoni Sendra Podenco

Ilja Maran

Carlos Aparicio

Mike Shinoda (ft. K.Flay) 'Make It Up As I Go' by Antoni Sendra Podenco

Mike-Shinoda-(feat.-K.flay)-'Make-It-Up-As-I-Go'-by-Antoni-Sendra-Podenco

Director P. R. Brown and his small crew embarked on a journey throughout&nbsp;in the U.S.,&nbsp;documenting the diversity of love in all its shapes and forms for Lukas Graham&#39;s heartfelt song Love Someone.&nbsp;

P. R. Brown

Steve Lamar

Christopher Salzgeber

Scheme Engine

Sheira Rees-davies

Will Sampson

Erica Chan

Andrew Ibea

Lukas Graham 'Love Someone' by P. R. Brown

Lukas-Graham-'Love-Someone'-by-P.r.-Brown

George Lewis Jr. &ndash; aka Twin Shadow -&nbsp;takes a trip down a psychedelic and colourful memory lane as he reflects on the&nbsp;films and TV shows&nbsp;he&nbsp;grew up watching as a kid,&nbsp;which ultimately influenced his outlook on art and culture today.Numerous kids and teenage TV shows are referenced in the video that Twin Shadow co-directed with Aaron Hymes - including having guest artists Haim rendered as Japanese anime heroines.

Aaron Hymes

Twin Shadow

David Kemp

Nude Animal Cigars

Garret Curtis

Peter Parson

Sean Ginn

Kim Rees

Franck Chevalier

Marisa Ramirez

Twin Shadow ft Haim 'Saturdays' by Twin Shadow & Aaron Hymes

Twin-Shadow-'Saturdays-(feat.-Haim)'-by-Twin-Shadow-&-Aaron-Hymes

Beautiful stop motion/collage animation utilising mid-century&nbsp;sci-fi imagery is used to tell a classic story of technology gone mad in Ariel Costa&#39;s breathless, rip-roaring video for peerless heavy rockers Mastodon.Frankly, it&#39;s quite bonkers.

Ariel Costa/blinkmybrain

Reprise Records

Mastodon 'Clandestiny' by Ariel Costa/blinkmybrain

Mastodon-'Clandestiny'-by-Ariel-Costa/blinkmybrain

Double Ninja (aka Thomas Vernay) brings an appealing Metal Hurlant&nbsp;style&nbsp;to this cartoon adventure for Mystery Skulls.&nbsp;A retro-futurist city in the desert is the backdrop for this animated story of two hero fighters commanding giant robots who come together to destroy an enemy who ravages the city.

Double Ninja

Thomas Vernay

Mystery Skulls 'Endlessly' by Double Ninja

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