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Duncan Russell

Thomas James directs a dark and twisted tale of a serial killer cab driver, in his promo for Lucy Blue’s Taxi Driver.&nbsp;Oozing a sense of nostalgia in the styling and look across the anachronistic set pieces - with definite&nbsp;nods to Scorsese's masterpiece of the same name -&nbsp;the visual doesn't cross the line into true horror, yet manages to create an uncomfortable, overarching sense of dread in every frame.&nbsp;Thomas James brings his customary verve&nbsp;to this story of a disturbed young woman - and Lucy Blue is brilliant in her&nbsp;role as a stalker, and the blurred boundary between infatuation and insanity is masterfully conceptualised.

United Kingdom

Thomas James

Oli Falcon

OB Management

Sam Holmes

Luka Glisovic

Adam Barnett

Chris Nguyen

Patrycja Cygan

Benjamin Law

Ash Halliburton

Ellie Walker

Sophie Gouk

Jack Williams

The Assembly Rooms

Halo Post

Lea Ogunlami

Alternative

Lucy Blue 'Taxi Driver’ (Director’s Cut) by Thomas James

Lucy Blue 'Taxi Driver’ (Director's Cut) by Thomas James

French metal gods Gojira spend a night at&nbsp;the museum with mind-bending results, in Charles De Meyer's promo for Born For One Thing.&nbsp;The video follows a security guard who chases a shapeshifter through the winding corridors of the sprawling museum, after the character takes a weird little pill.&nbsp;The hallucinatory aesthetic bleeds into the cinematography, as DoP&nbsp;Maximiliaan Dierickx focuses on rotating camera moves and abstract transitions, building an abstract maze with no way out.&nbsp;It's an explosive return for the group, who release their first album in five years in April.&nbsp;

France

Charles De Meyer

Joao Vinhas

Octopods

Sébastien Vrydaghs

Maximiliaan Dierickx

Daniel Foeldes

Florent Bagard

Andrea De Keyzer

Daphné Durieux

Benjamin Honoré

Las Bandas Be Brave

Metal

Gojira 'Born For One Thing' by Charles De Meyer

Gojira-'Born-For-One-Thing'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Electronic music legend Amon Tobin and Belgian director&nbsp;Charles De Meyer go back a long way - since the video for Esther's in 2009. And their latest collaboration, for&nbsp;Vipers Follow You, is as distinctive as their previous work.It's a&nbsp;surreal and atmospheric road-trip, by a father and his young, Rubik cube-playing son, who discover the countryside around them acquiring a strange and ominous nature. With expert pacing De Meyer creates a creeping sense of disconnect with reality, with surreal creations revealing themselves across the Flemish countryside.&nbsp;

Belgium

Chuck Eklectric

Patricia Motte

Hanse Cora

Alex Beyne

Antoine Gilleman

Amon Tobin

Nomark

Electronica

Amon Tobin 'Vipers Follow You' by Charles De Meyer

Amon-Tobin-'Vipers-Follow-You'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Identical twins choose similar paths towards oblivion, in this Shakespearean family drama for British DJ-producer duo&nbsp;Camelphat.After saying goodbye to one another at a funeral, the brothers look for adoration in different places: one becomes a rockstar, the other becomes the leader of a cult. Through their search for control, they both spiral into self-destruction. They meet twice again. The first time, at the top of their game, they argue. But the second time, they meet under much graver&nbsp;circumstances.&nbsp;Charley Palmer Roe - who you may recognise as the spooky supporting character in absolutely everything - gives an alarming performance as both twins. The similarities between their separate lives are impressively realised with analogous compositions and match-cutting. The visual conceit drives the narrative, and there is exceptional work here by DoP Dustin Lane - shooting monochrome, as he did to award-winning effect for&nbsp;Alt-J’s Mexican epic <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/18/alt-j-3ww-young-replicant/47388">3WW</a>&nbsp;- and the director's regular editing collaborator Sam Bould.&nbsp;The Sacred Egg are still fairly fresh from their roles as second unit directors for Bohemian Rhapsody, and you can draw certain parallels between the Mercury biopic and this more insidious story. The duo are savvy enough to show us only a glimpse of this world before the video ends, leaving you curious. Who was the father of these men? Why were they drawn to take these paths and do the things they did?

The Sacred Egg

Jess Bell

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Brett Hodgkinson

Dustin Lane

Mike Berg

Sophie Fraser

Sam Bould

Cut+Run

Ryan Hancocks

Charlie Palmer-rothwell

Kat Cattaneo

Dan Millar

Sony Music

Orange Films

Richard Moerdyk

Dance

CamelPhat ft Jake Bugg 'Be Someone' by The Sacred Egg

A motion-capture performer strays too far from the axis of reality, in this visceral mind-bender for Ed Sheehan by Ryan Staake.Dancer Courtney Scarr treats us to a show-stopping routine in a MoCap studio, and on screen, her movements carry through to a shimmering, shifting CG universe. Travelling between these fantasies and the reality of the studio, Scarr assumes different identities -&nbsp;including 3D avatars of Ed Sheeran and Chance the Rapper. But when it’s time for her to hang up her bodysuit and call it a day, she finds it hard to leave this oscillating fantasy behind…The video is a remarkable achievement for Moving Picture Company, who were tasked with turning round the entire project in just three and a half weeks. MPC is obviously a global leader in VFX, but this required all kinds of&nbsp;ingenious improvisation to make it happen. For example, when Sheeran was not available for a photogrammetry, Dominic Alderson created&nbsp;his 3D avatar from his Madame Tussauds waxwork. More of this iintricate process is revealed in a <a href="https://vimeo.com/344754319">Behind the Scenes</a> video.&nbsp;While this is a masterclass in visual effects, a mention should go&nbsp;to Scarr and her choreographer&nbsp;Erin Murray. The confident swagger of their dance routine anchors this video in&nbsp;reality, and holds the audience's hand through the rapid&nbsp;shifts and glitches&nbsp;of this digital fantasia.[imgtoken data:1]

Ryan Staake

Tom Knight

Kristian Zuniga

Courtney Scarr

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Erin S Murray

Michael Klein

Hip-Hop

Indie, singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran ft Chance The Rapper 'Cross Me' by Ryan Staake

Ed Sheeran ft. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock - Cross Me

Max Luz and co-director George Barnett has created an impressionistic performance video for These New Puritans&#39; haunting Where The Trees Are&nbsp;On Fire.With the focus entirely upon TNP&#39;s Jack Barnett, the piece moves through three distinct phases: painterly reality turns into fractured reality, and then&nbsp;into full transcendence. It&#39;s beautifully shot throughout by Molly Manning Walker.

Max Luz

Aws Al-jezairy

Object & Animal

Dom Thomas

Molly Manning Walker

James Wicks

Mark Kozlowski

Ramsey Sabbagh

George Barnett

Ellie Grace Cumming

Anete Salinieka

Rebecca Luff

TenThree

Freefolk

Infectious Music

Max Alsop

These New Puritans 'Where The Trees Are On Fire' by Max Luz with George Barnett

These New Puritans - Where The Trees Are On Fire (Official Video)

Actor Lena Headey makes her music video directing debut with this&nbsp;video for Freya Ridings -&nbsp;a story of strained family dynamics and personal resilience, featuring Headey's Game Of Thrones co-star Maisie Williams.&nbsp;We follow Maisie on her emotional journey within a troubled family situation, complimented by Freya Ridings' performance of You Mean The World To Me.“I had such an emotional response to Freya’s voice and the song," says Lena Headey.&nbsp;"We had a few versions of this video, some were considered too dark. I think we achieved a version that allows us to see Freya in a raw, emotional performance. And the family element is what the song is all about.”

Lena Headey

Anthony Fitzgerald

Rankin Creative

Nicola Kenney

Poppy Davies

Elaine Mackenzie

Tim Maurice Jones

Mark Anthony Bradley

Nik Buck

Maisie Williams

John Hassay

Good Soldier

Felix Elisabetta Forma

Rob Jelley

Ugne Ciesiunaite

Ruth Crawford

Claire McGonigal

Final Cut

Paul Gill

No.8

Freya Ridings 'You Mean The World To Me' by Lena Headey

Freya-Ridings-'You-Mean-The-World-To-Me'-by-Lena-Headey

With the return of Tunng after a five year break with new album Songs You Make At Night&nbsp;- and back together in their original line-up - longtime collaborator&nbsp;James Moore revisits the story world of their 2006 single Jenny Again to create an absorbing nocturnal folktale for the song Sleepwalking.We rejoin reclusive Jenny (played by Louise Stewart) living beside the sea, plagued by troubling visions and unwanted sleepwalking. She has taken to boobytrapping her home in a desperate bid to avoid unintentionally leaving the house.But as her guilt grows, her inner demons manifest, calling Jenny down to the beach and a battle that she can no longer ignore...

James Moore

Ersan Beskardes

Jon Stanford

Make Films

Dave Miller

Nela Resler

Poppy Walton

Charlotte Ambrose

Pebble Studios

Louise Stewart

Full Time Hobby

Tunng 'Sleepwalking' by James Moore

Tunng-'Sleepwalking'-by-James-Moore

Rising star Sigrid&#39;s irrepressible charisma is given&nbsp;full rein in Ivana Bobic&#39;s stylish video for Strangers. It showcases&nbsp;the Norwegian singer&#39;s amazing performance within&nbsp;scenarios that are not quite what they first appear.

Ivana Bobic

Dobi Manolova

Ghandi El-Chamaa

James Dyer

Tim Sidell

Doug Walshe

Rami Bartholdy

Melanie Jansen

Sarah Jenesson

Sadie Hewlett

Sara Gilmour

Jake Armstrong

Marshall Street Editors

David Knight

Island Records

Billy Rae Smith

Tom Newman

Dimitar Itskov

Nelson Oliver

Sigrid 'Strangers' by Ivana Bobic 

Sigrid - Strangers (Official Video)

J.A.C.K have made a very enigmatic video for MØ&#39;s&nbsp;When I Was Young. In so doing, the French directing duo have captured&nbsp;the Danish popster&#39;s&nbsp;distinctive charisma in a way not previously achieved in her videos.In a deserted village, a solitary MØ is joined by two other versions of herself, one in white the other in black&nbsp;- the latter accompanied by a group of skeleton-clad ghouls. With a combination of artful choreography and visual effects, the original&nbsp;MØ allies with one of her duplicates to battle the other, and her ghouls.&nbsp;MØ has revealed that the inspiration for the video came from Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist best known for The Scream.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m so happy to present this video because it feels very true to the song and to who I am,&rdquo; she says. &quot;It was inspired by a painting called The Dance Of Life [by Munch]...&nbsp;It&rsquo;s an illustration of three women &ndash; one in white, one in red and one in black &ndash; and tells a story about three stages of human life: youth, maturity, and old age.&quot;I was always drawn to this image as a kid due to its simple symbolism and emotion and have been dying to do a video that could reflect on it. Since When I Was Young is all about nostalgia and reflecting on life &ndash;especially the past, but also the now and the future &ndash; it just seemed like the perfect time to do it. J.A.C.K came up with the idea of me playing all three women at the same time, dancing the dance of life, seduced, intrigued and fooled by each other, and they took this whole idea to levels I couldn&rsquo;t even have dreamed of.&rdquo;[imgtoken data:1]&ldquo;With this video we wanted to speak about youth, and picture metaphorically how a girl becomes a woman,&rdquo; say Camille &amp; Julien from J.A.C.K, &ldquo;Karen [MØ] is such a talented artist, it has been a pleasure to develop this concept together with her: an everlasting circle of life choreography, with life and death dancing hand in hand.&rdquo;

J.A.C.K.

Benjamin Zorrilla

Caviar

Katie Dolan

Benedict Turnbull

Kristof Brandl

Christi Ciurea

Remi Quilichini

Holly Blakey

Aldene Johnson

Oana Draghic

Nicole Kahlani

Danielle Kahlani

FIRM

Manuel Coutant

Elizabeth Doonan

MØ 'When I Was Young' by J.A.C.K.

MØ - When I Was Young (Official Video)

Anton Tammi goes the full peyote with a video for Somewhere Else&nbsp;that gives full rein to the director&#39;s visionary and hallucinatory&nbsp;gifts. It&#39;s probably the most psychedelic, spaced-out Western since Dennis Hopper made The Last Movie.&nbsp;Shot in Mexico, Tammi taps a mystic vision of comradely&nbsp;cowboys (and cowgirls; all African-American) under blood-orange skies, with symbols of the old West, including mustangs and scorpions, shape-shfiting into other objects.It climaxes at the invisible saloon, and magically&nbsp;firing up the jukebox for a spot of dancing. And frankly, line dancing has never been so cool.

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