Director of Photography

Drew Bienemann

LANY reunite with Isaac Ravishankara - director of their memorable&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/02/14/lany-thick-and-thin-isaac-ravishankara/57315" target="_blank">'how did they do that?'&nbsp;video for Thick And Thin</a>&nbsp;- for Heart Won't Let Me. The result&nbsp;is poignant, and like their previous collaboration, contains an element of mystery.&nbsp;It's another one-shot, with frontman&nbsp;Paul Jason Klein walking towards a big inflated balloon - shaped like a heart of course. Ravishankara's concept is simple but powerful, with Klein drawn back repeatedly to grab the balloon, representing the push-pull dynamic of relationships and heartbreak, and the insurmountable effort it takes to wrestle against our own emotions. And is the balloon getting bigger? Soon he is being lifted slightly off the ground, and then some more...&nbsp;&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Drew Bienemann's sublime cinematography is both intimate and arresting, bathing the artist in a soft red glow and capturing the hypnotic while keeping things grounded. Well, until the end, that is.&nbsp;

United States

Isaac Ravishankara

Jason Baum

Scissor Films

Elizabeth Doonan

Mike Hart

Matt Ardine

Jake Sammis

Derek Hansen

OB Management

Mouthpiece

Polydor Records

Division 7

SMUGGLER

Alternative Rock

LANY 'Heart Won't Let Me' by Isaac Ravishankara

Lany--'Heart-Wont-Let-Me-'-by-Isaac-Ravishankara

Mum's the word in Dawit N.M.'s video for Charlie Puth's Mother.&nbsp;&nbsp;Focused&nbsp;on the formative years where love is an exciting new concept, and drinking and smoking with friends for hours&nbsp;is the best way to pass time, Mother is a fly-on-the-wall look at a group of teens having the time of their lives.Puth sings about the dangers of taking him home to meet your mother, but interestingly he stands out of a great deal of the action in this video. He is at the very same locations as the group in the narrative, but usually isolated or in a different timeline.&nbsp;It feels appropriate for someone who is growing up and reflecting on his career so far, but in a fun and nostalgic way, instead of a wistful yearning.&nbsp;DoP Drew Bienemann keeps the action flowing with varied camera movements and tricks, including a 360 degree rotating camera inside the car, which allows for a full view of the mayhem that ensues as they party down the road. Feel-good and light-hearted, this is Puth at his strongest and most confident - and a strong move into pop by Dawit N.M., who came to our attention earlier this year via his fine <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/04/02/mereba-jungle-only-way-out-dawit-nm/58049" target="_blank">'Visual EP' for Mareba's The Jungle Is The Only Way Out</a>.&nbsp;

Dawit N.M.

Ben Narich

Couscous

Jordan I. Cardoso

FRIEND

Salim El Arja

Charlie Puth 'Mother' by Dawit N.M.

Charlie-Puth-'Mother'-by-Dawit-N.m.

Kimberly Stuckwisch directs this breakneck video for Samm Henshaw, a criminal romance with a genre-bending twist.Two loved-up outlaws hit the road with a hostage, Samm Henshaw, in tow. Without sparing a thought for the performer bundled in the boot of their car, they conduct their spirited romance in hideouts along the open road. You know this story, but you’ve never seen it like this.&nbsp;Producer-turned-director Kimberly Stuckwisch plays a neat trick throughout the video. She gives you a scenario you understand, then pulls the rug out from under it. You think you’re watching a breezy roadside romance. Then, suddenly, you’re in the dark comedic mode of Tarantino. Just when you’ve accepted this new scenario, the fabric of this world begins to tear apart again and again.This puzzling Chinese box structure is even more impressive when you consider that these seemingly disparate scenarios all connect back to the conceit of Henshaw’s song "Set our eyes west /&nbsp;chase the sunset … You're the whole world and the world is mine.”The World is Mine picked up a Gold at Kinsale, and it’s easy to see why. Henshaw is a reliably magnetic performer. We last saw him <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/02/07/samm-henshaw-ft-earthgang-church-chris-muir-carlos-lopez-estrada/57242">skating down the road on a hovering cloud</a>, and it’s reassuring to know he can give an equally compelling performance handcuffed to a pipe in a cupboard. Drew Bienemann’s camera swoops and hovers loosely around the performers, and compounded by Nour Oubeid’s lightning speed edit, this gives the video the dangerous energy of a whirlwind romance. Finally, the VFX, by Vitaly Verlov, are a triumph.

Kimberly Stuckwisch

Ian Blair

Melora Donoghue

Jesse McClung

Tyler Jensen

Michael Coursey

Christina Flannery

Nour Oubeid

Naheem Adio

Vitaly Verlov

Kaityln Battistelli

Monika Felice Smith

Valeria Bush

Stephen Tyler

Kat Catteneo

Reprobates

J.J. Lua

Maddy Goyal

Alt Soul

Soul

Samm Henshaw 'The World is Mine' by Kimberly Stuckwisch

Samm Henshaw - The World Is Mine (Official Video)

In the video for Jessi&nbsp;Williams &amp; Coyote,&nbsp;co-directed by&nbsp;Kimberly Stuckwisch&nbsp;and&nbsp;Melora Donoghue, the dreamlike atmosphere is matched to the physical and metaphorical struggles&nbsp;of Jessi&rsquo;s past, present and future, embodied in the casting of her real-life mother and daughter in the film.&nbsp;The twangy guitar and lilting piano cast a beautiful spell over the visuals, elucidating the ideas of motherhood, aging and domesticity across three generations. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Little Ugly

Carlos Lopez Estrada, Neil Garvey

Joe Suarez

Kaitlyn Battistelli

Andres Jaramillo, Ryan Ross

Gia Rigoli

Jessi Williams & Coyote 'Roam, Little Gypsy, Roam' by Kimberly Stuckwisch & Melora Donoghue

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Lauv and Julia Michaels play out an ill-fated on-the-road romance in the Malia James-directed video for There&rsquo;s No Way.&nbsp;It centres around the&nbsp;scenario &ldquo;about wanting to be with someone, but sometimes the timing is wrong&quot;, with&nbsp;Lauv and Michaels playing bandmates on tour who share an array of intimate moments as they prepare for their show.

Malia James

Erick Varillas

Prettybird

Bubba Cody

Paul Rogers

Lauv ft. Julia Michaels 'There's No Way' by Malia James

Lauv-Ft.-Julia-Michaels--'There's-No-Way'-by-Malia-James

Writer/director Dugan O&rsquo;Neal also stars in his video&nbsp;for electronic dance duo Kunzite - a homage to vintage acting audition tapes.Evoking&nbsp;80s-90s era open casting calls &ndash; and&nbsp;no detail is spared with the authentic&nbsp;vintage attire, VHS film-graininess and retro office decor &ndash;&nbsp;O&rsquo;Neal plays the eager actor waiting his turn behind other hopefuls for a chance at his big break. While actors line up and perform for a disinterested crew, with&nbsp;interpretive dance moves and rocking out with air instruments, our nervous hero in the waiting room finds&nbsp;momentary solace, with the entrance of another hopeful&nbsp;(played by O&#39;Neal&#39;s wife, Bethany McCarty).And&nbsp;when it&#39;s his turn to showcase his talents for the stern producer and bemused musicians, he mentally transports himself to a woodsy ethereal realm, where he finds the freedom and confidence to let loose. It&#39;s a great, goofy, feegood climax to the story.Very entertaining, and as well as Dugan&#39;s star turn, the whole project was a family affair: the surly casting director in the video is played by Tom Gundelfinger O&#39;Neal, Dugan&#39;s father.

Dugan O'Neal

Benjamin Gilovitz

The Directors Bureau

Sue Yeon Ahn

Amina Zadeh

Ricky Gausis

Kunzite 'Vapors' by Dugan O'Neal

KUNZITE - VAPORS

Tomás Whitmore&rsquo;s latest for Rae Sremmurd is a mind-bending party that plays with our perception of everything.The use of intricate set designs and forced-perspective photography in Whitmore&#39;s video for Perplexing Pegasus add to the all-round trippy setting that we find ourselves in, creating a video that is, well, perplexing to watch.

Tomás Whitmore

Diktator

Nick Richardson

Paolo Arriola

Matt Vieira

Chris Tonkovich

Spencer Graves

Fatima B

Darine Sengseevong

Mel Daniel

Nick Sanders

Ntropic

Andres Jaramillo

Chimney

Mark Bridges

Interscope

Michelle Laine

Hip Hop

Rae Sremmurd 'Perplexing Pegasus' by Tomás Whitmore

Rae-Sremmurd-'Perplexing-Pegasus'-by-Tomás-Whitmore

Lush cinematography and inventive choreography intersect in this dreamlike video for Sleigh Bells&#39; And Saints - directed by Mimi Cave and Sleigh Bell&#39;s Derek Miller.&nbsp;With Sleigh Bells transformed - instead of a duo, it&#39;s&nbsp;singer Alexis Krauss with a metal-thrash&nbsp;backing band - a squad of cheerleaders march in to face-off the band, and dance. And they proceed to undergo a transformation themselves into something&nbsp;far more macabre.

Mimi Cave

Derek Miller

Heron Bourke

Doomsday Entertainment

Jason Cole

Danielle Hinde

Eric Fahy

Jordy Scheinberg

Erin Blinn

Lindsey Nadolski

Beast TV

Ayumi Ashley

Mission Film & Design

Moxie Pictures

Alternative Pop, Electronica

Sleigh Bells 'And Saints' by Mimi Cave & Derek Miller

Sleigh-Bells-'And-Saints'-by-Mimi-Cave-&-Derek-Miller

Daniel Henry explores the very strange, and heavily hallucinatory&nbsp;phenomenon of computer &#39;deep dreaming&#39;, in this&nbsp;video for Foster The People.It will probably take you a couple of reads of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream" target="_blank">the Wikipedia page on DeepDream</a> to figure out what we&#39;re actually watching in this video, where fleeting images of animals coellesce in the forms of the figures, clothing and objects. It&#39;s remarkable - or disturbing &ndash; and does have the distinct quality of images drawn out of dreams.In essence&nbsp;this is the by-product of face-recognition technology developed by boffins at Google and essentially thrown in reverse (we think, could be wrong). Whether this is the &#39;subconscious&#39; of the computer, as flagged at the top of the video for Doing It For The Money, is debatable. But it&#39;s&nbsp;certainly interpreting&nbsp;the real world in a way never previously known to man - unless they happened to be on seriously psychedelic drugs.

Daniel Henry

Molly Ortiz

Dreambear

Evan Brown

Kristy Baltezore

Carlos Flores

Rafatoon

Saul Levitz

Columbia Records

Foster The People 'Doing It For The Money' by Daniel Henry

Foster-The-People-'Doing-It-For-The-Money'-by-Daniel-Henry

A couple of undercover cops ruin a rave in Tomás Whitmore&#39;s clip for Dillon Francis.Starring Luke Hemsworth (!), as a take-no-shit undercover cop, a performance video within a&nbsp;rave becomes a cop brawl in the blink of an eye. With some great physical comedy, over the top fight scenes and a candid bit of dialogue to close out the video, Whitmore manages to make something that&#39;s as funny as it is cool.

Madia Hill Scott

Andrew Janes

Christina Ortiz

Tim Unger

John Carchietta

Michelle Thompson

Jenny Osborne

Dillon Francis ft. G-Eazy 'Say Less' by Tomás Whitmore

Dillon-Francis-Ft.-G-eazy-'Say-Less'-by-Tomás-Whitmore

Tomás Whitmore helms a creative tour de force in this timely video for The Hamilton Mixtape, featuring performances by K&#39;naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz Ahmed and&nbsp;Residente.Set entirely in train cars, this cinematic performance video uses the locations as a visual metaphor for the immigrant experience. Cramped living spaces, manual labour, border crossings and constant movement all factor heavily in this video. Traveling seamlessly through these socially conscious vignettes is akin to the dystopian futuristic film&nbsp;Snowpiercer&nbsp;except that this harrowing struggle is very much real and not just confined to the realms of Hollywood high concept.That may not be an accidental comparison either, being that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs (who makes an appearance at the end of this video) is slated to star in the TV adaptation of Snowpiercer. An incredible effort from a team that packs consistent punches both in front of and behind the camera.

Lin-manuel Miranda, Robert Rodriguez, Kimberly Stuckwisch, Ian Blair

Roland Berry

Kenneth Arnold Taylor

Geoff Taylor

Tomás Whitmore, Alexander Aquino

MPC LA

Meghan Lang Bice, Rebecca Sue Boorsma, Elyse Robinson

Giant Propeller

Phil Botti

Atlantic Records Usa

The Hamilton Mixtape 'Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)' by Tomás Whitmore 

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Aaron Beckum directs this heartbreaker for Grandaddy, starring Jonah Ray of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and an insistent office chair.The clip follows Jonah Ray&#39;s character at the end of a painful breakup, as he discards the things that remind him of his now-ex-girlfriend (office chair included) and wallows in a pit of despair. The office chair, however, has other ideas and takes Jonah on a journey to reconnect with his former love. Sadly, things don&#39;t quite go as planned.Sad and funny in equal measure, the video takes on an extra emotional weight with the recent passing of Grandaddy bassist Kevin Garcia - and a subtle but touching poster tribute to Garcia can be seen in the first half of this video. I&#39;m not crying, you&#39;re crying.

Aaron Beckum

Ange Beckum

Jill Kaplan

Grandaddy 'Brush With The Wild' by Aaron Beckum

Grandaddy - Brush with the Wild

Amber Bain &ndash; aka The Japanese House &ndash; takes&nbsp;a curious and colourful journey through an ever-evolving film set that&#39;s mind-bending and whimsical in equal measure, in Lucy Tcherniak&#39;s charmingly handmade video for I Saw You In A Dream.

Lucy Tcherniak

Radical Media

Jennifer Heath

Matt Ross

Corrin Hodgson

Elise Velasco

Cici Andersen

Edward Line

Cartel Editorial

Beau Leon

Framestore

Outpost Digital

Michael Perlo

Electric Theatre Collective

Jamie Donovan, Mckenzie Mcclure, Danny Axley, Zak Schlegel

Jared Shelton

Interscope Records

Rocket Entertainment

Gary Bryman

Alternative

The Japanese House 'I Saw You In A Dream' by Lucy Tcherniak

The Japanese House - Saw You In A Dream

Even the most evil people have to take out some time to blow off steam, surely? Well apparently they all get together in a swanky pad and invite Bishop Briggs along to sing.Several&nbsp;favourite villainous archetypes are accounted for in Ramón Ayala&#39;s clip for Wild Horses. It&#39;s full of cool, distorted wide shots, a woozy atmosphere,&nbsp;splashes of red light and, of course, a horse. And even if the characters are not in full Lynchian or Tarantinoesque baddie mode, the video still manages to pack some attitude.&nbsp;

Ramón Ayala

John Curtis

Lenny Fletcher

Estefanía García

Cody Fusina

Lisa Madonna

Marley Gonzales

Alexa Hernandez

Aitor Bigas

Lark Creative

Island Records

Yolande Geralds

Bishop Briggs 'Wild Horses' by Ramón Ayala

Bishop-Briggs-'Wild-Horses'-by-Ramon-Ayala

Eva Michon - who directed last years&#39; hilariously debauched Amish barn dance video for&nbsp;Death From Above 1979&#39;s track&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/05/05/death-above-1979-virgins-eva-michon" target="_blank">Virgins</a>&nbsp;- has delivered this funny retro pastiche&nbsp;for American rock duo&nbsp;Deap Vally.&nbsp;Embodying the song&#39;s insubordinate punk spirit is a&nbsp;crossdressing,&nbsp;pink-furred&nbsp;Neanderthal who&nbsp;rocks up to the beach and causes scandal with all his defiantly hairy&nbsp;splendour. Lashing out at the sneering crowd, the creature grabs beach balls and karate-chops books out of a woman&#39;s hands before dancing around like he owns the place.&nbsp;And that&#39;s when the girls of Deap Vally have seen quite enough, attacking the poor beast. But somewhere along the way.. they simply decide to have a little dance instead.&nbsp;

Eva Michon

Colin Bergh

Nick Sewell

Deap Vally 'GONNAWANNA' by Eva Michon

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