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Gabriel Moses directs a powerful short film for Little Simz.&nbsp;The promo for No Thank You feature segments from five songs from the new album, and presents a powerful sequence of emotional vignettes, each tied to the lyrics of the track in an inventive, elevated way.&nbsp;The thematic landscape of the album centres on distrust in record labels, mental health and generational trauma, and these themes are weaved into the spectacular imagery across this ten-minute film.&nbsp;Switching between a heavily&nbsp;abstract, sometimes surreal style, and stripped back performance to camera, Simz is here to get her message across in a bold, unabashed way, and this surprise release is another example of her unmistakeable talent across music, visuals and music culture as a whole.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Gabriel Moses

Jake Gabbay

Jules de Chateleux

Alice Wills

Lola Burelle

Clara Avazeri

Hugo Lebaillif

Kamil Tahiri

Anastasia Matouskoff

Thurot Frederic

Jerome Daudel

Lucie Ellis

Nibras

Amirah Haliyah

Joseph Taylor

The Assembly Rooms

John Lowe

Studio Private

Hip Hop

Little Simz 'No Thank You' by Gabriel Moses

NO THANK YOU

M.I.A. goofs around with M.A.I. - the robot version of herself -&nbsp;in Arnaud Bresson's video for Popular, and dissects the meaning of popularity in the social media age.Thanks to some excellent VFX work, and the lo-fi casting tape aesthetic,&nbsp;it's also&nbsp;shudderingly&nbsp;creepy.&nbsp;

Arnaud Bresson

Laure Salgon

Dytto

William Town

Modern Post

The Mill

Matisse Gaillard

Jey Wada

Evan Prosofsky

Brielle Hubert

Arthur Paux

Fabrice Damolin

Franck Lambertz

M.I.A. 'Popular' by Arnaud Bresson

M.I.A. - Popular (Official Video)

Francois Rousselet and the VFX/animation team at Electric Theatre Collective set the creative benchmark for the year with the brilliant video for Pharrell's team-up with 21 Savage and Tyler the Creator.It's a technically state-of-the-art take on one of the earliest cinematic devices - the zeotrope. And Rousselet has devised his promo as a similar type of machine - endlessly rotating, revealing delights within -&nbsp;but with endless possibilities.This is due to the remarkable way its been made,&nbsp;the incredible attention&nbsp;to detail: endless layers and stories appear within this magnificent rotating construction, and breaking all rules of physicality as its been created in CG.A magnificent conjuntion of imagination and execution, by Rouseelt, the team at ETC, led by CDs and VFX supervisors Greg McKneally and Iain Murray. And on top of that - a terrific performance video by the artists. Tyler is larger than life than ever...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Francois Rousselet

Electric Theatre Collective

Jon Purton

Greg McKneally

Iain Murray

Nicolas Larrouquere

Connor Coolbear

Pharrell ft 21 Savage & Tyler the Creator 'Cash In Cash Out' by Francois Rousselet

Pharrell Williams - Cash In Cash Out (Official Video) ft. 21 Savage, Tyler, The Creator

Rosalía and her motorcycle girl gang run riot in Valentin Petit's brilliant video for Saoko, the first track from the Spanish superstar's latest album Motomami.

Spain

Valentin Petit

Rosalía 'Saoko' by Valentin Petit

ROSALÍA - SAOKO (Official Video)

Sasha Barbin and Ryan Doubiago's new video for M83 is a spectacular sequel to the acclaimed videos that the French producer released a decade ago.&nbsp;In 2011, M83 released a trilogy of videos for the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming&nbsp;- directed by Fleur&amp;Manu. These films, produced by Division, told the story of a community of children gifted with supernatural powers who escaped from a school where a covert government force kept them locked up."To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the album, M83 wanted to illustrate a fourth piece, a fourth chapter that would take place in the same universe. But rather than setting it ten&nbsp;years later, we wanted to go back to the origins," explain the directors, Barbin and Doubiago.&nbsp;"That's why this story acts as a prequel to the trilogy - taking place ten years earlier in order to highlight the first moment one of these children uses their supernatural gifts."On the way to the hospital and moments before his birth, the child’s parents are victims of a horrible car accident. The unborn child is forced to use his powers to save them from within the womb. The idea was to show the literal birth of a superhero."The cinematic, stylised aesthetic encapsulates an emotional narrative and high-stakes drama scenes, whilst the use of slow-motion&nbsp;helps elevate the emotional pull of the concept. The visual effects also play a key role in both the narrative and the overall concept, and&nbsp;Mathieu Jussreandot does a brilliant job in this role.&nbsp;

France

Ryan Doubiago

Sacha Barbin

Nikita Bukowski

Vadim Yuzba

Olivier Gossot

Maxime Caro

Monumental

Laïla Hamdaoui

Mathieu Jussreandot

Colin Journée

OB Management

John Moule

M83 Recording

Alternative

M83 'My Tears Are Becoming A Sea' by Sacha Barbin & Ryan Doubiago

M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea (Official Video)

Valentin Petit directs ‘Green Juice’ for A$AP Ferg ft. Pharrell Williams, The Neptunes.

Théo Gall

Jeff Bierman

Machine Molle

A$AP Ferg & Pharrell Williams 'Green Juice' by Valentin Petit

A$AP Ferg - Green Juice (Official Video) ft. Pharrell Williams, The Neptunes

Camille Summers-Valli introduces a world of captivating characters and an&nbsp;otherwordly&nbsp;equestrian theme, for BadBadNotGood.The track Beside April was&nbsp;written with legendary Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai and features drummer/producer Karriem Riggins, and Summers-Valli video - filmed in Georgia - was inspired in part by photographic pioneer&nbsp;Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 Horse In Motion&nbsp;series.[imgtoken data:1]

Camille Summers-Valli

Maddy Perkins

Somesuch

Emory Ruegg

Max Pittner

Tati Cotliar

Antonin Bronès

Nicke Cantarelli

Germain Robin

SQUARE

André Reid-McKinley

BadBadNotGood 'Beside April' by Camille Summers-Valli

Badbadnotgood-'Beside-April'-by-Camille-Summers-valli

Dirty Hit

Rock

Beabadoobee 'Last Day On Earth' by Arnaud Bresson

beabadoobee - Last Day On Earth (Official Video)

Two families come together to celebrate the christening of its newest member, in&nbsp;Hannah Rosselin's brilliant promo for Mykki Blanco.&nbsp;Representing an amalgamation of Blanco's dreams of a successful personal and professional life, the video celebrates the idea of family and togetherness - an increasingly poignant theme given our last year of isolation.&nbsp;Sometimes hectic, at times completely absurd&nbsp;- with a matriarchal figure emptying her bladder on the street as the opening image - the video's main focus is on the freedom to be unabashedly ourselves.&nbsp;Shot in Paris, DoP&nbsp;Cesar Decharme leans in to the concept's celebratory energy, using handheld camerawork and clever transitions to match the magical vibes.&nbsp;

Hannah Rosselin

Cesar Decharme

Tianès Montasser

Matt Lambert

Transgressive

Mykki Blanco  'Free Ride' by Hannah Rosselin

Mykki-Blanco--'Free-Ride'-by-Hannah-Rosselin

The times when a music video really astonishes are rare nowadays -&nbsp;but this is one of those occasions. Arnaud Bresson's remarkable video for Flatbush Zombies' James Blake-produced Afterlife creates something&nbsp;impossible, but in such a way that it is, for all intents and purposes, the real thing:&nbsp;an X-Ray version of a hardcore hip-hop video.&nbsp;From the first shot, of a gang carrying the coffin of a friend, to the last, everything is seen through the prism of X-Ray photography... or so you will believe. This is a situation of&nbsp;an essentially straightforward idea that lives or dies by dint of the execution - and the execution is completely flawless. So while your mind will tell you that this&nbsp;just cannot be done - X-ray machines are not safe to use on a film set or location - your eye tells you otherwise.[imgtoken data:1]This was the result of a combination of&nbsp;brilliant vision, skill and that luxury rarely afforded music video production - time. The effect of X-ray photography wa achieved through 3D animation and VFX work that took place via Machine Molle in Paris over a period of months - the initial foortage of the band and cast was shot before lockdown began.&nbsp;As Bresson has explained in a press release: “Today, there is no technology that X-ray films a living being without endangering it, so we worked hand in hand with a post-production company to develop a technical device that would allow us to achieve a similar effect. We used multi-camera tracking, recorded the positions and movements of our characters to extract and apply to our 3D compositions. It took four months of work to find the perfect style.”The result is transparent - one of the music videos of the year so far.

United States

Léa Villain Barachet

Mark Zarka

Teva Vasseur

Clemence Janesky

marion brillouet

JF Fontaine

Selim Mondzie

Flatbush Zombies 'Afterlife' by Arnaud Bresson

Flatbush ZOMBiES - "Afterlife" (Produced by James Blake) [Official Music Video]

A young man, who is being transported on a gurney to the emergency room, finds himself taking a very different journey, in Simon Cahn's hilarious and sometimes excruciating video for Disclosure.Filmed in Mexico City, and starring Marco Escabar as the unfortunate accident victim, Cahn provides a spectacle of relentless, cartoonish violence in the video for My High. Among a number of tortuous episodes,&nbsp;guest vocalists Amine and Slowthai also get to have their fun with the hapless guy.And even at the best of times, you really don't want&nbsp;Slowthai sitting on your chest...

Simon Cahn

Clémence Cuvelier

Marco Escobar

CineBuró

Gabriel Stavenhagen

Julian Torregorsa

Juanelo Hernández

Karla Desubi

PJ Sodaski

Osvaldo Montaño

Pat Scola

Ricardo Zamora

Luis Luino

Ximena Barbachano

Gloria Serrano

Evelyn Leo

Maria Osado

Yorgos Lamprinos

Mikey Pehanich

Vincent Heine

Kevin Kloecker

Dance

Disclosure ft Slowthai, Amine 'My High' by Simon Cahn

Disclosure, Aminé, slowthai - My High

Arnaud Bresson's video for Headie One x Fred again.. takes elements that we see repeatedly in grime and other urban videos - in particular the people - and puts them in another, more abstract&nbsp;environment. And it makes their presence all the powerful as a result.&nbsp;&nbsp;Although its&nbsp;for a video called GANG, the video shakes up that usual definition. The people featured here are from all generations, but their connection to Headie One seems palpable. This is about community - which actually extends way beyond his particular London postcode.&nbsp;There's a real spirit coming&nbsp;through in Arnaud Bresson's impressive video - expertly shot by DoP&nbsp;Paul Guilhaume - and it certainly shows a different side to Headie One.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Voodoo Pictures

Alex Jefferson

Jerome Franc

Paul Guilhaume

Road Casting

Kiera Liberati

Jade Farmiloe

Basile Belkhiri

Camille Jamart

Mike O'Keefe

Elena Argiros

Sony Music

Grime

Headie One x Fred again.. 'GANG' by Arnaud Bresson

Headie One x Fred again.. - GANG

Created for Nowness's&nbsp;Thanks For The Dance series honouring the work of Leonard Cohen, featuring the French actor&nbsp;Isaach De Bankolé.Filmed in Texas, Haycock told Nowness (who presented the project in collaboration with Sony Music Canada and the Leonard Cohen estate):&nbsp;“My initial thoughts of the song was that Leonard was singing about dying but then I realized he had written this poem well before his death. The chair symbolizes a final resting place, but there is also an idea of accepting what is coming and enjoying it.“The song is already pretty heavy and I was worried I couldn’t do it justice. So I meditated on his legacy, thought of a character that might have some of the traits Leonard told stories about and focused that energy and angst into this film.”• Full story and other Thanks For The Dance films at <a href="https://www.nowness.com/series/thanks-for-the-dance-leonard-cohen/the-hills-vincent-haycock-issach-de-bankole" target="_blank">Nowness</a>

Vincent Haycock

Nicolai Niermann

Leonard Cohen 'The Hills' by Vincent Haycock

Leonard Cohen - The Hills (Official Video)

French actor Felix Maritaud plays a man attempting&nbsp;to maintain his self-control in a succession of extraordinary situations, in Nathalie Canguilhem's extravagantly imaginative video for French producer SebastiAn.From a village composed entirely of tiny castles, or churches, populated by hooded monks, and an endless Seuss-like keyboard - played by&nbsp;SebastiAn himself - to a successsion of ever-smaller doorways and a platoon of girl dancers on crucifixes on a beach, Maritaud's epic journey is a series of challenges. Whatever the distraction, temptation, or threat to his physical wellbeing, he is trying to keep an even keel - reflecting the lyrics sung by Bakar on SebastiAn's track Sober.&nbsp;Ultimately Maritaud is surrounded by his challenges and choices - encircled by the monks in a colliseum-like exterior; confronted by numerous doorways within a building.&nbsp;Canguilhem turns&nbsp;these interlinking scenes into a cohesive whole - a surreal dreamscape that feels authentic. In this world, even the more extraordinary settings look defiantly real.[imgtoken data:1]In fact, much of it is real. The village of castles is situated in Turkey, where much of the exteriors for the&nbsp;video were shot. The rest was filmed in Kiev.Like her video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/02/15/travis-scott-x-saint-laurent-cant-say-nathalie-canguilhem/57327" target="_blank">Travis Scott's Can't Say</a> earlier this year, this is a collaboration with Saint Laurent, and&nbsp;the subdued tones of blue and grey that predominate throughout the piece are the unmistakeable colours of YSL's classic Rive Gauche perfume brand. In the video, no more obvious branding is required.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Nathalie Canguilhem

Saint Lauren

Family Productions

Paul Özgür

Marc Gurung

Anthony Lestremau

Alexis Baillia

Periferi Film

Electronica

SebastiAn ft Bakar 'Sober' by Nathalie Canguilhem

SebastiAn - Sober feat. Bakar (Official Music Video)

For his fourth collaboration with Sam Fender, Vincent Haycock has crafted a video out of the rich local street casting and locations in Marseille, in the south of France. Portraying couples in their most&nbsp;vulnerable, intimate moments, the visual is a slice of life, a collection of raw universal moments that mirror the themes of the track.&nbsp;Shot on an Arri SR3 16mm camera with a minimal documentary crew, the choice to keep things smaller in scale pays off, with incredibly poignant imagery&nbsp;and a cast who were encouraged to really let go and be&nbsp;present in the moment. This is very evident in the final project, and is a testament to Haycock's skill as a director. &nbsp;

Sepehr Azadi

Frederic Saj

Emilie Palet

Maxime Lebas

Marine Lebon

Vincent Grenouillat

Tommy Kern

Thomas Philip

Nayara Barros

Chakib Aiffa

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Semera Khan

Polydor

Sam Fender 'Will We Talk' by Vincent Haycock

Sam-Fender-'Will-We-Talk'-by-Vincent-Haycock

The video for Octavian's No Weakness&nbsp;sees him take a psychedelic helicopter ride over Paris, joined by his personal angels and demons.Directed by Sacha Barbin, the performance setups are layered with surreal and offbeat effects, pulling the image apart into neon streaks, grain and pulsating colours.Luminescent drug-taking and hectic cutaways add to the hallucinatory vibe, and though the video is light on narrative, it amps up the style to 11.

Deepa Keeshvala

Jill Gattegno

Ivan Rocher

Golghota

Mathematic

Octavian 'No Weakness' by Sacha Barbin

Octavian-'No-Weakness'-by-Sacha-Barbin

A$AP Ferg does bike riding on the streets of NYC with his bike buddies, and partying hard too, in Valentin Petit's mesmerising, supercool video.The video for Floor Seats is superbly photographed by Hunter Daly, making tremendous use of a rotating camera head and intimate party shots to create an ideal sense of disorientation and excitement.

Hunter Daly

A$AP Ferg 'Floor Seats' by Valentin Petit

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