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Ed Cheeseman

DOM&amp;NIC have been directing music videos for The Chemical Brothers since the mid-Nineties and have now reached a landmark, with Live Again: it's their tenth video for the ageless pioneers of electronic dance music. And following a running theme of previous works, the directing duo are once again pushing the boundaries of state-of-the art technology, this time in the frontier of virtual production and real time VFX.The video for Live Again is superb visual entertainment of the kind that DOM&amp;NIC have been creating for Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers ever since they started with Setting Sun over 25 years ago. It's a&nbsp;trippy Groundhog-Day-esque&nbsp;adventure story through multiple environments in a continuous dance performance by the captivating and seemingly elastic dancer, Josipa Kukor.&nbsp;In her crowded trailer Kukor wakes from a nap at the table and emerges into the setting that surrounds it - a desert - stretching and moving and returning to nap at the table of the trailer - and wakes again, emerging to a different environment, a forest. And so this goes on. Once the structure has been established, it becomes a realm of endless possibilities, in terms of both Kukor's performance and the backgrounds.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp; &nbsp;It was achieved by shooting on a virtual stage, hosted&nbsp;and powered by ARRI Stage London, the creative and technical expertise of Untold Studios, together with virtual production specialists from ARRI Solutions, Creative Technology and Lux Machina. It was a new experience of filming for various members of DOM&amp;NIC's highly experienced crew, including longtime collaborator, production designer Chris Oddy, and DoP Stephen Keith-Roach.But as the directors say here,&nbsp;the journey of making it pushed the technology beyond its known limits, breaking new ground, and adding weight to the proposition of embracing virtual production as a creative choice first and foremost.<blockquote>We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes,&nbsp;without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character.</blockquote>"Working with The Chemical Brothers is a dream for any music video director and we’re really lucky to be still making films together after quite a few (ahem) years," say DOM&amp;NIC.&nbsp;"The Chems just keep smashing it with great tracks that demand videos that live up to the music and hopefully add something extra to the whole experience."Live Again is our tenth collaboration and the track’s title inspired the idea of an another dance piece with a twist. The woozy, wonky analog sounds and the dream like lyric&nbsp; suggested a hallucinogenic visual journey following a character caught in a loop of death and rebirth. The hero woman in the film wakes or is reborn in a different environments ranging from deserts to nighttime neon city streets and cave raves to Martian worlds.[imgtoken data:2]"The idea inspired us to use the new Arri XR virtual production stage and its cutting edge technology in a way that had never previously been done. This is an idea that could not really have been achieved with traditional filmmaking techniques. We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes,&nbsp;without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character. "Tom and Ed encouraged us to really capture the feel of the track in the cinematic texture and look of the film. We were given the challenge to give it the visual equivalent of putting a clean sound through a broken guitar pedal to transform and degrade it into something unique. We love the way the film has an analog and messed up film look to it, it really adds to the visual trippy experience. "We were showered with the generosity of such a strong and huge team of immensely talented companies and individuals that helped us to make this film happen because they love working with The Chemical Brothers. Many of them&nbsp; also worked with us on past Chemical Brother’s videos it’s become a creative family!&nbsp; Without their time, talents and generosity a film like this could never make it out of heads and onto a screen."[imgtoken data:3]Untold Studios Real-time Supervisor Simon Legrand confirms that the project&nbsp;pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in virtual production, breaking ground as they went. &nbsp;"This project was a perfect storm, with our team at Untold working with Outsider and the ARRI Stage London team to pull out all of the stops to bring DOM&amp;NIC's bold and innovative concept to life," says Legrand.&nbsp;"After designing seven bespoke virtual worlds in pre-production, we were then able to tweak elements on set, on the fly, giving the directors the freedom to play and experiment.&nbsp; This is the first time that virtual environments have been switched live on set in this way and we're really proud to have been trusted to help make it a reality."Live Again&nbsp;features vocals from Halo Maud (Heavenly Recordings) and follows on the heels of the recently released single No Reason and is taken from the tenth Chemical Brothers album that’s due later this year.“Working with the production on this project represented many creative and technical challenges,"&nbsp;says&nbsp;David Levy, Business Development Director at&nbsp;ARRI Solutions.&nbsp;"It was a unique opportunity for all of us involved to really see how hard we could push the boundaries. Technically, this required a huge collaborative effort between camera, lighting, VFX and virtual production supervision to ensure seamless integration. This promo brought the best of the best together across all these disciplines to bring the creative team’s vision to life and deliver an incredibly special end result.”&nbsp;

United Kingdom

DOM&NIC

John Madsen

Outsider

Simon Elborne

Tom Benkins

Stephen Keith-Roach

Rick Woollard

Supple Nam

James Sharpe

Chris Oddy

Tara Stift

Josipa Kukor

Final Cut

Untold Studios

Ian Berry

George Reid

Simon Downie

Matt Kavanagh

OB Management

Ailsa Robertson

EMI Records/Universal Music

Dance

Electronic

The Chemical Brothers 'Live Again' by DOM&NIC

The Chemical Brothers - Live Again ft. Halo Maud

D Double E goes head-to-head with a dodgy estate agent (played by Steve Oram) in this very enjoyable video for Fresh N Clean by directing duo Humans.Oram attempts to talk D Double E's mates Denz and Renz into renting a terrible broken-down wreck of a house - but luckily D Double E is around to tell it straight. He is pithy, direct and very funny, with lines like:&nbsp;"If you're house was a car it would get pulled over."&nbsp;It's a brilliant&nbsp;antitode to all the spiel on those 'property porn' TV shows clogging up daytime TV (and Channel 4 most of the time).&nbsp;The concept is a straightforward response to the track but the execution by Thom and Danielle of Humans and their team&nbsp;really elevates it. Great.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Humans

Kate Brady

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Dan Gibling

Stefan Yap

Joshua Dadson

Damon Sewell

Darren Pearson

Theo Boswell

Sian O

#039;donnell

Phoebe Llewellyn

Colourist - Conor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Star.one

Amp; Renz

D Double E, Steve Oram, Denz

In Association With: Mother London

Marriage

Bluku Music

Hip Hop

D Double E 'Fresh N Clean (Silence The Critics)' by Humans

Dom Hawley and Nic Goffey&nbsp;have made some great videos for&nbsp;The Chemical Brothers. Now they&#39;ve made another one.Featuring Sonoya&nbsp;Mizuno, with choreography by Wayne McGregor, this stands up there with Setting Sun, Hey Boy Hey Girl and Believe. It&#39;s a beautiful thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Wayne McGregor

Sonoya Mizuno

The Mill

Steve Chivers

Tony Rapacciou

Fiona Fellows

Steve Elgar

Ben Gill

Dance, Alternative, Electronica

The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck 'Wide Open' by Dom & Nic

The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open (feat. Beck)

Can it be? A music video by Dougal Wilson? It is, and a delightful&nbsp;one at that.The video is for&nbsp;Liverpudlian&nbsp;electronic-pop&nbsp;trio Stealing Sheep&#39;s track Apparition,&nbsp;and sees the artists themselves performing&nbsp;a choreography amongst a troupe of Morris dancers, handkerchief in hand.Dougal tells&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/07/stealing-sheep-watch-their-new-video-for-apparation" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, &ldquo;The idea for Apparition came from the fact that the song had a mysterious, hypnotic feeling, and the fact that I&rsquo;ve always found Morris dancing slightly strange and psychedelic.&rdquo;&nbsp;Wilson had&nbsp;been wanting to revisit the English folk dance since his video for&nbsp;Four Tet&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwbn_sKCVRo" target="_blank">As Serious As Your Life</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;a mashup of Morris dance clips set to the rythm of the music -&nbsp;done in&nbsp;2003.&nbsp;He goes on to explain, &quot;Since then, I&rsquo;d always wanted to take the idea further by actually having a band learn Morris dancing themselves, and this seemed like an appropriate opportunity given the unexpected contrast of the girls&rsquo; personalities with the characters in a genuine Morris side.&quot;

Dougal Wilson

Colonel Blimp

Blink

Paul Weston

James Studholme

Nathan James Tettey

Corin Taylor

Beatrice Warren

Jack Bingham

Ross Kirkman

Marc Gomez de Moral

Thomas English

Matt Clyde

Andy Kelly

Natalie Willis

Jean-Clement Soret

Tom Harding

Jonathan Box

Hannah Ruddleston

Kristen McNally

Rachel Yates

Psychedelic

Stealing Sheep 'Apparition' by Dougal Wilson

Some lovely artistic touches power Chris Sweeney&#39;s good-looking promo for Jesse Ware&#39;s Champagne Kisses which sees the singer shot&nbsp;in a variety of oddball set pieces - her neck&nbsp;sticking up from a hole in the floor and her body partially made from balsa wood...

Chris Sweeney

John Hassay

Jessica Wylie

India Bradshaw

Chris Kelly

Patrick Meller

Mikey Hollywood

Creep Post

Burning Reel

Chloe Hayward

Island Records

Marisa Garner Associates

Jessie Ware 'Champagne Kisses' by Chris Sweeney

Lily Allen and director Chris Sweeney celebrate the singer&#39;s life spent attending the Glastonbury Festival in a nostalgic look back in Chris&#39; video for As Long As I&#39;ve Got You.Intercutting old photographs of the singer with friends and family and&nbsp;new footage&nbsp;filmed this year, Chris draws on Lily&#39;s playful side as we see her singing and dancing around the mammoth campsite...

Good Egg

Josh Smith

Murren Tullett

Carl Rock

Kit Wells

James Bamford

Parlophone

Sam Seager

Lily Allen 'As Long As I've Got You' by Chris Sweeney

Lily Allen - As Long As I Got You (Official Video)

Lily Allen enjoys a night up west with her gal pals in Chris Sweeney&#39;s promo for her next single Our Time.&nbsp;Powered by some fabulous timelapse shots of night-time London, we follow Lily (and 2&nbsp;friends played by Ms Allen)&nbsp;as she heads into town in the back of a cab, ending up in a ruck on the Essex Road...

Amalia Rosen-Rawlings

Tony C Miller

Gary Brown

Munky

Ed Downham

Lily Allen 'Our Time' by Chris Sweeney

Lily Allen - Our Time (Official Video)

Showcasing the acting talents of young Joe Evans, Lewis Arnold - now signed to Rokkit -&nbsp;delivers this charming seaside caper to partner for Scouting For Girls&#39; next single Millionaire.An adolescent boy does some&nbsp;manning-up, in order to attract the attention of an older&nbsp;girl.&nbsp;But to no avail - until he unveils his body-popping skills...

Lewis Arnold

Sonya Sier

Mary Calderwood

Tom Knight

Rokkit

Cara Hickson

Holly Harding

Jake Scott

Martin Kelly

Ahmet Husseyin

Erin Currie

Tristan Hefele

Sandra Cormack

James Stones

Matt Osborne

Joe Evans

Robyn Ferguson

Christina Anderson

Ross Laird

Ben Nugent

Scouting For Girls 'Millionaire' by Lewis Arnold

Scouting For Girls – Millionaire

As the cool Camden rockers deliver an enigmatic performance within a 'TV studio' set-up, Beard overlays graphics (helped out by Hayden Keys), text and lo-fi grunge imagery to excellent effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=z7CAMTmyf9w

Tom Beard

Partizan

Adam Grunfeld

Kerry Green

Dan Bronks

Ciaran Beale

Naomi Parry

Bunny Clark

Vic Parker

Tribes 'How The Other Half Live' by Tom Beard

Tribes-'How-The-Other-Half-Live'-by-Tom-Beard

&nbsp;Taking the title of Foals&#39; My Number as their inspiration, Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor - aka Us - have created an extraordinary dot-to-dot world entirely in post - thanks to motion capture data collected at Andy Serkis&#39; Imaginarium studios, and also with a huge amount of love and devotion from the guys at the Electric Theatre Collective, for their video that was originally premiered as a hidden video on Foals&#39; website.From Us: &quot;We had always loved the idea of making a moving dot-to-dot. The problem was how could we apply dot-to-dot to a moving image. We knew that standard animation techniques were out of reach. We spoke with Electric Theatre Collective and they said the most sensible way would be to have motion capture of the band. We had been to The Imaginarium for an open day but only really thought motion capture was for Hollywood movies...&quot;Once we had all the data from the band captured, we then had to re-create all the band members and their instruments. And we then converted this into dot-to-dot. The process was massively time-consuming with gargantuan renders, but the guys at ETC really pulled out all the stops.&quot;

Medb Riordan

Liz Kessler

Academy Films

Jennifer Ivory

Foals 'My Number' by Us

Foals-'My-Number'-by-Us

They're known for their brilliant visual concepts, but Us - that's Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor - have now made a confident move into narrative filmmaking, with their video for Feed Me's Love Is All I Got, featuring the Crystal Fighters on vocals. 
It's a twist on the teen superhero sagas, from Amazing Spider-Man to Kiss Ass, where a young chap is creating his superhero persona against a realistic backdrop. But not is all it seems... 
Featuring performances from Christian Kinde as the putative hero and Alexandra Dowling as love interest Chloe, Chris and Luke's brief was that they had to include the Feed Me character in some way. Needless to say they have done a smart job in creating a whole new superhero character, which has got them started on a whole cinematic direction in their work...

Stu Bentley

George Nelson

Lucy Sanderson

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Feed Me and Crystal Fighters 'Love Is All I Got' by Us

Chris &amp; Luke have created a full-on work-out video, albeit with something missing. "We wanted to remove the context of a gym and all its equipment, to leave just the people interacting with 'nothingness'. There's something very interesting in watching people battle with exercise machines to try and transform themselves. They look weird enough with the equipment; imagine what they would look like without anything at all." 
With a healthy amount of help from the guys over at Finish post, gym equipment was painted chroma-key green and painstakingly removed, making it a bit harder to witness the fitness...

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=SGxBOqUTFIQ

Finish

Ned Al-Astrabadi

Jamie Collinson

Wiley 'Boom Blast' by Us

Wiley-'Boom-Blast'-by-Us

Wiley makes up for all the times he didn&#39;t appear in his other videos, by appearing numerous times in this one for Numbers In Action by Us (Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor) - a meticulously designed performance piece that deconstructs the music video-making process.There are estimated to be 34 Wileys in the vid - including Lipsync Wiley and Clapperboard Wiley - and it&#39;s a fine addition to Chris and Luke&#39;s already impressive reel (which includes a trio of vids for Wiley&#39;s stablemate DELS). The unpredictable grime-don and recent <a href="http://w9.ustream.tv/wiley" target="_blank">Ustream</a> celebrity has described it as &quot;the best video I ever done&quot; (sic). It&#39;s certainly the best Wiley video in which Wiley appears.

Kerry Smart

Marcus Domleo

James Dyer

Stephany Pollard, Jason Devine

Jan Meyer

Wiley’s Numbers In Action by Us 

Wiley’s-Numbers-In-Action-by-Us-

Mr G delivers a well-shot monochrome to colour promo for Island's up and coming R&amp;B trio Encore for new single Cold/Pretender.
Shot on RED in two halves, the first part on an estate in Elephant and Castle with the second filmed in a Peckham Car Park with London glittering away in the background.

Mr G

Rob Mercer

Stephen Price

Francis Wallis

Smoke &amp; Mirrors

Smoke & Mirrors

Encore's Cold/Pretender by Mr G

Encore's-Cold/Pretender-by-Mr-G

"Scratcha approached me to make a video for a single from his new conceptual album," explains Mr G - whose day job is working at Black Dog. "Wake Up was his first choice, and admittedly I was a little stuck for a overall concept at first. But then it just came to me, and I wanted to reflect the intensity of the track visually. Hopefully that's portrayed with the final product, which I am pleased with. It was a good team effort, and my best filming experience to date."

Luke Morrison

Scratcha DVA’s Wake Up feat. Black Da Ripper by Mr G

Scratcha-DVA’s-Wake-Up-feat.-Black-Da-Ripper-by-Mr-G

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