Commissioner

Dilly Gent

Picking up where the video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/09/christian-lee-hutson-strawberry-lemonade-waley-wang/79881" target="_blank">Strawberry Lemonade</a> left off,&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson&nbsp;hitchhikes back to LA, in Waley Wang's quirky road trip performance video for State Bird.&nbsp;We see Hutson don a disguise and hop into the back of a U-Haul, sharing the ride with a couple of enamoured hitchikers, who passionately kiss as he delivers his deadpan performance without a care in the world.&nbsp;From the grey, desaturated streets of New York to the warm glow of LA, the video is anchored by a sense of transition in both location and mindset, perfectly visualised through the attentive&nbsp;colour grade and gentle cinematography.Great work again from Waley Wang and team, which when paired with the first video, encapsulates a poignant and unusual emotional journey.&nbsp;

United States

Waley Wang

Amanda Austin

Son & Heir

Mayur Patankar

Amaal Mustafa

Alexey Kosorukov

Sashank Sana

Zoe Donahoe

Anti- Records

Musician

Christian Lee Hutson 'State Bird' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "State Bird"

Waley Wang's tender promo for&nbsp;Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts' Dream Like Me is a split-screen&nbsp;romantic drama about two recent exes who are heartbreakingly likeminded.In the side-by-side narrative, we see the boy and girl separately wandering a supermarket at night, followed by docu-camcorder montages of them cooking for themselves. Poignantly, each time they&nbsp;are creating their own versions of the same recipe.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Blurring the lines between past and present, the video has a deeply melancholic style, which is contrasted by the textural&nbsp;Hi-8 aesthetic.&nbsp;Culminating in a dreamy resolution - where the couple&nbsp;reunite in a blend of nostalgia and fantasy - the video feels both original and timeless, and the use of clever graphics throughout -&nbsp;including&nbsp;the recipe cards for each meal -&nbsp;gives extra context to the story.&nbsp;Delicious work from the up-and-coming Waley Wang.&nbsp;

Prisca Choe

Jia-an Liu

Denisse Jimenez

Wen Gu

Zhong Jei Lau

James Qiu

Sam Schrag

Olaf Woldan

Lindsey Mazur

Forager.tv

Quintana Hoyne

Carty Caruso

Indie

Alternative

Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts 'Dream Like Me' by Waley Wang

[M/V] 'DREAM LIKE ME' - Crowd Lu X The Black Skirts (盧廣仲 X 趙休日) (루광중 X 검정치마)

Waley Wang directs a stirring promo for&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson, which sees the singer-songwriter and bandmates&nbsp;perform on a 360 degree rotating platform, in the centre of Washington Square Park in New York.&nbsp;The elevated&nbsp;live performance of Strawberry Lemonade subtly transforms into a melancholy of recalled memories and mourned connections, with the location of the rotating platform moving uptown to Central Park, and&nbsp;leading into the guitar solo section.&nbsp;Balancing a clever central concept with an unexpected flourish of abstract narrative, the video emanates a bittersweet vibe, which runs straight through the track - which was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst&nbsp;- and the visuals.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Daisy Wang

Aileen Wu

Ben Goelz

Jo Gennett

Rahul Sharma

Peter Harrison

Maria Matarrese

Maria Carretero

NiceShoes

Christian Lee Hutson 'Strawberry Lemonade' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "Strawberry Lemonade"

Sophie Muller directs an effervescent and emotional video&nbsp;for Zella Day, introducing the Arizona-born singer to the wonders and weirdness of the&nbsp;English countryside with typical panache.&nbsp;Shot over two days at Puzzlewood in the Forest Of Dean and&nbsp;Pen Moel Estate, the video for Mushroom Punch weaves together several creative vignettes, featuring Day running through landscapes and clawing her way through a luxurious&nbsp;Victorian manor house.[imgtoken data:1]Muller teams up again with DoP Robbie Ryan for this characteristically stylish showcase for the artist, confidently introducing experimental ideas in the cinematography and editing.It captures the intimate vibes of the track whilst keeping viewers on their toes with perpetually shifting imagery - and above all giving scope for a committedly intense performance from the compelling Zella Day.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Tiffani Rae

Sophie Muller

Chris Murdoch

Prettybird

Robbie Ryan

Juliette Larthe

Sam Page-Jones

Rory Power

Margherita Fabbro

Concord Records

Zella Day 'Mushroom Punch' by Sophie Muller

Zella-Day-'Mushroom-Punch'-by-Sophie-Muller

It's the meeting of the Phoebes - Bridgers and Waller-Bridge - and the result is this surreal dark comedy featuring Normal People's Paul Mescal for Savior Complex.But&nbsp;it's the dog&nbsp;- a chihahua named Charlotte -&nbsp;who&nbsp;steals the show...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Jenny Robins

Jacob Swan Hyam

Zoe Liang

Rina Yang

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Paula Rebanks

Kat Morgan

Gary Dollner

Joseph Bicknell

Company 3

Nineteen Twenty

Paul Mescal

Singer-songwriter

Phoebe Bridgers 'Savior Complex' by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex (Official Video)

'Fitz'&nbsp;dances through downtown Los Angeles - sending shockwaves of brightly-coloured energy through a group of BMX bikers, bandmate Noelle Scaggs and other dancing passersby - in Jamie Thraves scintillating video for 123456.Ofir Shoman - aka Blottermedia - created the 'energy' animation that passes like a bodypopping-inducing&nbsp;energy current through the cast.

Jamie Thraves

Ofir Shoham

Jennifer Goodridge

Yusef Chabayta

Eli Born

Vern Moen

Long Beach Film Co.

Bryan Smaller

Dilly Gent at Son & Heir

Mandee Mallonee

Elektra

Fitz & the Tantrums '123456' by Jamie Thraves & Ofir Shoham

Fitz-&the-Tantrums-'123456'-by-Jamie-Thraves-&-Ofir-Shoham

Denim blue is the new black in Ben Strebel&#39;s new video for The Kills.Strebel presents an impressionistic take on mass incarceration with Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince as the handcuffed, still bolshy leaders of a gang of choreographed convicts.It&#39;s a new,&nbsp;more sinister take on that classic stylised take on prison life,&nbsp;Jailhouse Rock.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Ben Strebel

Ava Yazdani

Wondros

Lucas Strebel

The Kills 'List Of Demands (Reparations)' by Ben Strebel

The Kills - List of Demands (Reparations) (Official Video)

Jamie Thraves delivers a compelling double-feature for The All-American Rejects.After proving his acting chops in Amazon&#39;s hit show&nbsp;Preacher,&nbsp;this complex story of a double life comes as no problem to the band&#39;s frontman Tyson Ritter. We first meet Ritter as Betsy - a sex worker on the streets. She gets arrested and escapes via a wonderfully choreographed street dance - with choreography by Michael Rooney. At this point Betsy becomes Robert - a wealthy man who seems to have it all, or at least makes it his business to appear as if he does.Robert&#39;s surprise party becomes a melancholy affair in which he seems completely out of his comfort zone, and the two halves of the video become a study in identity and loneliness. Can Robert stand to spend time with anybody if money isn&#39;t being exchanged? Is it really all in his head? Thraves lets the work say whatever it likes to you and makes you sit there and contemplate it.

Paulette Agnes Ang

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Candice Perkins

Kenneth Taylor

Matthew Chuang

Tom Arsenault

Paulina Bryant

Victoria Chenoweth

Sid Nicholson

Elise Velasco

Rachael Benson

Atlas Ferrera

Tyson Ritter

Carrie Sutton

The All-American Rejects 'Sweat' and 'Close Your Eyes' by Jamie Thraves

The-All-american-Rejects-'Sweat'-by-Jamie-Thraves

Actor Giovanni Ribisi&nbsp;has been developing a sideline as a cameraman&nbsp;and shot Sophie Muller&#39;s recent video&nbsp;for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/04/20/kills-heart-dog-sophie-muller" target="_blank">The Kills&#39; Heart Of A Dog</a>. Now Ribisi&nbsp;finds himself working with The Kills again - but&nbsp;this time as director rather than DoP.The video for Siberian Nights features some striking nighttime imagery of wolves, horses and a ritualistic gathering of humans in animal pelts. The storyline&nbsp;within this video is sparse and abstract, leaving the viewer to ponder whether the images are connected. Or perhaps&nbsp;this is just another one of those typical Siberian nights.&quot;I&#39;ve always looked at videos from a cultural perspective - whether it&#39;s about a single,&nbsp;cultural event or some facet of the band,&quot; Ribisi told <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/65687-watch-the-kills-siberian-nights-video/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a>. &quot;Over the course of making this video, what&nbsp;was&nbsp;there evolved into being something more abstract. However, during its early&nbsp;conception, I was enamored with a John Huston film called&nbsp;The Misfits. Ernst Haas&nbsp;was there&nbsp;during the making of it, taking photographs. His pictures were some of the&nbsp;many references for the video.&nbsp;The Kills have always been one of my favourite bands. Their music is undeniable. It was a pleasure and a privilege for me to work on this.&quot;

Giovanni Ribisi

Cody Moore

Michael Burgess

The Kills 'Siberian Nights' by Giovanni Ribisi

The Kills - Siberian Nights (Official Video)

It&#39;s been eight years since Sophie Muller and The Kills&#39;&nbsp;collaboration&nbsp;for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2008/06/19/kills%E2%80%99-last-day-magic-sophie-muller" target="_blank">Last Day of Magic</a>&nbsp;back when bandmates&nbsp;Alison Mosshart and&nbsp;Jamie Hincehave where beating the living daylights out of each other in hotels and back&nbsp;alleys.Seems like they&#39;re getting along just fine&nbsp;now in Sophie&#39;s playful fourth video for the duo,&nbsp;Heart Of A Dog, which gives us a glimpse into their shared&nbsp;creative&nbsp;lives, made up of a dynamic&nbsp;patchwork of&nbsp;images.&nbsp;Captured&nbsp;across a day in Los Angeles, it&#39;s a really quite lovely piece of work, and seems to get at the&nbsp;heart of their dynamic - one of writing, travelling, taking in the sun,&nbsp;making music,&nbsp;playing around with each other... with a few&nbsp;backflips thrown in.

Grant Jue

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Tommy Labuda

Sean Horvath

The Kills 'Heart Of A Dog' by Sophie Muller

The-Kills-'Heart-Of-A-Dog'-by-Sophie-Muller

Wendy Morgan delivers a deceptively simple, yet&nbsp;fiendlishly cool video for The Kills: a stylish, heavily-choreographed funeral procession with a saturated colourscape.The video oozes with a cool and confident surrealist bent that only a group of headless mourners marching in unison on a seemingly-endless&nbsp;cemetery backdrop littered with palm trees&nbsp;could provide.[imgtoken data:1]

Wendy Morgan

Jannie McInnes

Mark McCune

David Lanzenberg

Domino Records

BELIEVE MEDIA

Wynn Holmes

Young-Ah Kim

Daniel Bochenski

Fort York

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

The Kills 'Doing It To Death' by Wendy Morgan

The Kills - Doing It To Death (Official Video)

Ross McDowell of directing duo&nbsp;Ben &amp; Ross&nbsp;has teamed up with pop video heavyweight&nbsp;Sophie Muller, to create this awesomely eerie video for Impossible Winner,&nbsp;in which rock supergroup The Dead Weather play freakshow captives, jailed&nbsp;in a travelling boxcar.Book-ended by the same shot of their&nbsp;thuggish captors, the scene depicts the bandmates in a state of nervous despair. Featuring&nbsp;bassist&nbsp;Jack Lawrence (of&nbsp;The Raconteurs) with six fingers, Jack White with three legs and three&nbsp;arms, Dean Fertita (of&nbsp;Queens of the Stone Age) with elongated fingers and&nbsp;vocalist&nbsp;Alison Mosshart (of&nbsp;The Kills) looking into a mirror which reflects the back of her head.Captured at&nbsp;odd angles by DoP&nbsp;Roger Pistole, the remaining jail cells are filled with other troubling characters, such as a man&nbsp;weeping over his dead bride&nbsp;and young girl with rag doll scars taking it all in. Not to mention the dreadful sight&nbsp;of their raging captors, whose mouths take over their&nbsp;entire face...

Ross McDowell

Bethany Gould

Roger Pistole

Joni Wheeler

Tom Russell

Preditors

The Dead Weather 'Impossible Winner' by Sophie Muller & Ross McDowell

The-Dead-Weather-'Impossible-Winner'-by-Sophie-Muller-&-Ross-Mcdowell

Alison Mosshart walks down the barrel of&nbsp;a Big Wind in the&nbsp;video for I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) directed by Ian &amp; Cooper, marking the return of The Dead Weather, Mosshart&#39;s project with Jack White.Just when she&#39;s making some progress - and the visuals change from&nbsp;black and white to colour &ndash; she&#39;s&nbsp;thrown back to where she started,&nbsp;and back to monochrome.&nbsp;A not-too-subtle metaphor, but Mosshart is marvellous in this, from start to finish, the embodiment of the battered but unbowed&nbsp;rock &#39;n roll heroine.&nbsp;Certainly no need&nbsp;for&nbsp;Jack to appear&nbsp;- apart from the whirlwind blues of his guitar on the soundtrack, of course. &nbsp;

Ian & Cooper

Nathan Scherrer

Candice Dragonas

Alexis Zabe

Cooper Roberts

The Dead Weather 'I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)' by Ian & Cooper 

The Dead Weather - I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)

Here&#39;s something a bit different from Ian &amp; Cooper: a&nbsp;late-night truck stop drama, featuring a grizzled truck driver and his &#39;lot lizards&#39;,&nbsp;transformed into a mercurial musical by the music of&nbsp;Mr Little Jeans - the young lady&nbsp;who occupies the truck stop phone booth...Shot on location in Victorville California, it&#39;s&nbsp;another work to show that Ian &amp; Cooper are one of the most exciting directing teams working in videos right now.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Candice Ouaknine

Kenny Taylor

Pat Scola

Jake Bianco

Alex Kornreich

Tyler Jensen

Melinda Dean

CJ Neal

Candice Brittain

Nina McNeely

Zak Stoltz

Derek Hansen

freenjoy

Mr Little Jeans 'Good Mistake' by Ian & Cooper

Mr. Little Jeans "Good Mistake"

Interpretative dance takes centre stage in Daniel Cloud Campos and Tamara Levinson-Campos beautiful promo for Laura Welsh&#39;s Cold Front.&nbsp;Commissioned by Dilly Gent, the video focuses on director Tamara Levinson-Campos&#39; own brilliant performance acting out the song&rsquo;s theme of losing control of one&#39;s emotions - as we see her being toyed with by shadowy hands. Tamara is then placed in black sheets, having sand and paint thrown at her, and finally immersed in a pool of cleansing water...&nbsp;

Daniel Cloud Campos

Tamara Levinson-Campos

Doomsday Entertainment

Zach Wechter

Ian Blair

Morgan Susser

Trevor Durtschi

Outsiders

Laura Welsh 'Cold Front' by Daniel Cloud Campos & Tamara Levinson-Campos

Laura Welsh - Cold Front

Rising young British hiphop soul star Joel Compass&rsquo;s tale of betrayal in Fucked Up is compellingly realised in this fine video by Ryan Patrick, via Doomsday Entertainment.Joel&rsquo;s mental body leaves his real one to satisfy his libidinous thoughts for an available female at a party who&rsquo;s not his girlfriend. It&rsquo;s delivered in cut-glass clarity, with a hyperreal quality influenced by the photography of Gregory Crewdson. And Ryan was also aware that, after the successful first video for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2013/04/11/joel-compass-back-to-me-by-ian-cooper/">Back To Me by Ian &amp; Cooper</a>, in which he was absent, this was Joel&rsquo;s debut appearance in a music video.&ldquo;Joel is a brand new artist, but the tone of his music feels like he&rsquo;s developed it over many years. We had to bring him into that world visually. So for his video debut, we wanted to put him in an environment where something supernatural could happen.&ldquo;I always thought how weird it would be to be able to watch yourself go about your day. It&rsquo;s like hearing your voice played back on a recording &ndash; very unnerving. The narrative of the video brings that to life. Joel is forced to watch both his past and present play out before him until he realizes what he&rsquo;s done.&ldquo;For the effects shots that open the video, we shot one take, doubled it up on a timeline and reversed one while superimposing it over the other. There was a lot of careful planning on set to make sure we were keeping our roto work at a manageable level. But in the end, I think doing it in a single take without a green screen makes it feel that much more in the moment.&ldquo;We wanted it to be very theatrical and used the photography of Gregory Crewdson as our source of inspiration. Tom Banks, the DP, used heavily colored gels on the windows and bounced a lot of our sources inside the house off white cards taped to the ceiling. We wanted it to be surreal.&rdquo;

Ryan Patrick

Danielle Hinde

Tom Banks

Chris Amos

Hunter Schmidt

Black Butter Records

Polydor

Urban

Hip-Hop

Joel Compass ‘Fucked Up’ by Ryan Patrick

Joel Compass - Fucked Up

London-born R&amp;B newcomer Joel Compass joins forces with directing duo (and cousins) Ian &amp; Cooper for this magnificent, tense monochrome beauty to his debut single Back To Me.
The video incorporates a glitchy movement in the background of otherwise inanimate frames creating an eerie feeling &ndash; perfectly echoing the haunting soundtrack. Shot on RED Epic, the innovative promo was constructed with still images using the cinemagraph technique &ndash; where one motion is isolated and the rest of the frame remains still.
&ldquo;The initial spark for the technique came from the lovely video commissioner Dilly Gent, who referenced La Jet&eacute;e (a 1962 short film by Chris Marker composed from a series of still images )in her brief&rdquo; says Ian Schwartz. &ldquo;Cooper Roberts and I did a ton of research on cinemagraphs; what effects were possible, what kind of movement was most striking, etc.
&ldquo;We shot-listed everything and specifically mapped out what parts of the frame would be in motion so that we could shoot it correctly. We knew it&rsquo;d be a challenge to communicate story using only still images without the help of a narrator, so we also made a really rough animatic of the whole video, so we could test how it paced to the music and came together narratively.&rdquo;
&ldquo;The shoot itself felt like part photo shoot and part cinema,&rdquo; continues Ian. &ldquo;In each set-up, we&rsquo;d have our actors pose, holding still in a certain position while we shot about 10 seconds of footage. Different shots required different post techniques, but in general the cinemagraphs came together in After Effects by layering a still frame over the moving footage and through masking, rotoscoping and stabilization.&rdquo;

Patrick Scola

Ali Rubinfeld

Joel Compass ‘Back To Me’ by Ian & Cooper

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