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Emily Tedrake

Mae Muller takes centre-stage in Tom Dream's '70's throwback promo for Swedish producer NEIKED's Better Days.&nbsp;Complementing the dreamy, upbeat production of the new single,&nbsp;we see Muller in a world of soft pastel colour schemes, whilst simultaneously embodying various characters on TV.&nbsp;From weather girl through to music presenter, Muller shows off her talents as both a performer and an actor, whilst cameos from fellow performers NEIKED and Polo G round off the concept with a glossy polish.[imgtoken data:1]“When I met with Tom Dream I knew he’d be able to make something great - and this is really what that is, something great," says&nbsp;NEIKED.&nbsp;"A big shout-out to Mae and Polo G for putting on a sick performance too. I have been working hard on my upcoming music this year and now is a perfect time to finally share the first piece of the puzzle."Mae Muller adds: “This is my favourite video I’ve done so far!! The pastel colours, to the set design, to the hair and make-up, I am literally quite obsessed with it.”

United Kingdom

Tom Dream

Ghandi El-Chamaa

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Jack Meredith

Stefan Yap

Benny Casey

Natalie Young

Anna Thompson

Gary Coogan

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Jenn Saunders

Chris Steel

Ella Crawford

Chris Hutchings

Steve Cameron

NEIKED, Mae Muller, Polo G 'Better Days' by Tom Dream

Mae-Muller-'Better-Days'-by-Tom-Dream

Max Siedentopf directs a brilliantly absurd promo for Glass Animals - and another&nbsp;Glass Animals lockdown video classic.&nbsp;Shot during the first lockdown of 2020, the concept cleverly uses a single vantage point and a super long zoom lens to uncover a world full of distorted clones and softcore body horror.&nbsp;The band's frontman Dave Bayley is rendered in 3D form&nbsp;and then stripped nude, bloated, twisted and rolled up to create a hallucinatory vision straight out of a Junji Ito novel.The clones are then shown taking&nbsp;over various Haggerston landmarks, congregating and interacting in an increasingly surreal fashion.&nbsp;It's typically weird and wonderful&nbsp;work from Siedentopf - and a&nbsp;timely dive into the uncanny valley.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Max Siedentopf

Kate Brady

Riff Raff Films

Tristan Chenais

Gabriel Stanger

Richard Fearon

Salem-x

Polydor Records

Hands London

Indie

Alternative

Glass Animals 'Space Ghost Coast' by Max Siedentopf

Glass Animals - Space Ghost Coast To Coast (Official Video)

David Wilson explores the breakdown of a nuclear family in his oddball promo for Glass Animals' Tangerine.&nbsp;Taking place on a surreal car journey - with vocalist Dave Bayley playing a Mother, Father and child at various ages - the story follows a typical modern day life-cycle... Boy meets girl, they have a&nbsp;kid, get annoyed with each other and end up splitting, just for the process to repeat when the kid reaches adolescence.The poignant message is wrapped in a layer of quirky imagery, with subtle visual effects allowing the three characters in tandem.The execution is top-notch, and a clever way to get around social distancing and the various challenges that have carried over from the year so far.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

David Wilson

Matthew Clyde

Natalie Arnett

Ugne Ciesiunaite

James Dyer

Ruben Dechamps

Eve Carreno

James Groves

Paul Molloy

Stephanie Williams

Scarlett Wallis

Louise Hinton

Lucy Berry

Final Cut

Black Kite Studios

Polly Durrance

Ronan Fourreau

Polydor

art pop

Indie pop

Glass Animals 'Tangerine' by David Wilson

Glass Animals - Tangerine (Official Video)

Mae Muller struggles to make the choice between falling in love and keeping her independence, in Sophia Ray's ambitious promo for Dependent.&nbsp;Taking a deep dive into the artist's mind, we see a variety of scenarios exaggerating the crossroads she finds herself at, including a bathroom talk with the&nbsp;girls, and a dinner date with her love interest.&nbsp;Experimenting with POV shots and visual trickery in the art department, the video is a polished and playful visualisation of the track.&nbsp;

Sophia Ray

Mayling Wong

Partizan

Charlie Scannell

Nick Morris

Emmy Robinson

Max Openshaw

Helio Ribeiro 

Thomas Bird

Adele Cany

Lisa Laudat

Zara Ali

Sam Allen

Home Spun

Jonny Thorpe

Glasssworks

Digital Axis

Mouthpiece

Mae Muller 'Dependent' by Sophia Ray

Mae-Muller-'Dependent'-by-Sophia-Ray

Gracey and Alexander 23 confront the ubiquitous aspects of our screen-dominated culture in Fiona Jane Burgess's snappy, VFX-fired video for Like That.Switching between the real world and cyber space, courtesy of location, studio and greeenscreen shoots, the serious theme&nbsp;is wrapped within the conventional framework of a slick, upbeat pop video, powered by Gracey's winning presence.&nbsp;&nbsp;"We live in a world where we are constantly being watched and observed," comments Burgess.&nbsp;"We are monitored and analysed with the increasing threat of 'cancel culture'&nbsp;if we make one wrong comment. Whether it’s via digital surveillance cameras or our online interactions, it has become impossible to avoid being observed."This music video comments on the voyeuristic nature of the world we inhabit, and enters a virtual reality that sees Gracey and Alexander 23 stuck in cyber space. In this futuristic sci-fi world, we can change where we are just 'like that'..."

Fiona Jane Burgess

Frankie Willcock

LEZ Creative

Mary Calderwood

Eoin McLoughlin

James Wicks

Jomar O'Meally

Leon Pyszora

Meryn Cobbin

Cora Delaney

Abbie May

Rich Woolway

Homespun

Rich Fearon

Felix Geen

Maxi Galagenmaier

Marisa Garner Associates

Gracey, Alexander 23 'Like That' by Fiona Jane Burgess

GRACEY, Alexander 23 - Like That (Official Video)

Mae Muller laments her 'issues' with a jerk of a boyfriend in this marvellous video for So Annoying, directed by Sophie Muller...&nbsp;no relation!Flipping between vignettes of Mae in performance-based setups at several locations across town with a flashback&nbsp;of her breaking down over her ex at a club, the breezy video is charming and funny, and a killer match to the lilting track.&nbsp;And even if there is no prior&nbsp;family connection between Mae and Sophie, the chemistry between the artist and the director is palpable. Under Sophie's direction, Mae comes of age on-camera, and it's a joy to behold.

Sophie Muller

Chris Murdoch

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Chris Kelly

Thomas English

Ben Oliver

Tom Carpenter

Ryan Delahunty

Fred Allsop

Mae Muller 'So Annoying' by Sophie Muller

Mae-Muller-'So-Annoying'-by-Sophie-Muller

Ever since his marvellous video for Metronomy's The Bay, David Wilson has been able to make magic happen by the pool. And that's what happens in his video for Glass Animals' It's All So Incredibly Loud.GA's frontman Dave Bayley emerges through wisps of smoke to&nbsp;negotiate&nbsp;the diving board of a&nbsp;swimming pool in a suburban home at night. Yes, once again Wilson is making an English summer appear impossibly glamourous. He also&nbsp;brings us a heightened reality which&nbsp;almost seems nostalgic in its visual crispness.The intention&nbsp;is to capture a moment, and explore it's metaphorical meaning. Shot on both a Phantom and an Alexa, the time when Bayley inevitably enters the pool's water is stretched out to last as long as possible. Time is slowed, just as seems to happen&nbsp;when you dive into cold water - and also when you are faced with the emotional issues discussed in the song.Suitably Bayley also delivers a heartfelt performance to camera in this video that marks a triumphant return by David Wilson to the music video mainstream. A nod too to marvellous camerawork, supervised by DoP&nbsp;David Foulkes.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Natalie Steiner

Luke Goodrich

Alice Hayes

David Foulkes

Luke Jefferson

Jonathan Treherne

Steve Wells

Danny Hayward

Scarlet Wallis

Lucy Upton-Prowse

Ross Hallard

Trim Editing

Tatyana Alexandra

Tamara Mennell

Glass Animals 'It's All So Incredibly Loud' by David Wilson

Glass Animals | It's All So Incredibly Loud

What starts as a study of lockdown boredom, via pop singer-songwriter&nbsp;Gracey's laptop,&nbsp;becomes something stranger&nbsp;and more significant in Aidan Zamiri's mesmerizing video for Empty Love.Shot over three days, between Gracey's bedroom in Brighton, and her guest vocalist Ruel's pad in Sydney, layers of visuals&nbsp;build within the familiar iconography&nbsp;of the Macbook screen. But a different cyber dimension begins to become apparent, where incomplete&nbsp;avatars&nbsp;of Gracey and Ruel exist.&nbsp;These clever VR and face filter FX are courtesy of VFX artist Dan Moller, and to find out more how the project came together, <a href="https://vimeo.com/430334652" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', 'resizable=no,status=no,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,fullscreen=no,scrollbars=no,dependent=no'); return false;">the BTS film</a> edited by Ali Gill, explains more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Aidan Zamiri

Millie Yoxen

Object & Animal

Morgan Clement

Rich Fearnon

Dan Moller

Gracey ft Ruel 'Empty Love' by Aidan Zamiri

Gracey-''empty-Love'-Gracey-Ft-Ruel'-by-Aidan-Zamiri

Colin Read marks the transition between lockdown and a more open world, in the ambitious video for Heat Waves.&nbsp;Starting out as a multi-camera perspective of vocalist&nbsp;Dave Bayley - as he drags a bunch of TV's down a London street -&nbsp;the visual ends with a bittersweet performance, with the other band members trapped in the monitors.&nbsp;Interweaving mobile phone footage&nbsp;- the production enlisted the involvement of the residents of a street in Hackney to make the video - and&nbsp;broadcast-quality cameras, this&nbsp;is a comment on an extraordinary time, and takes a hesitant step&nbsp;towards a "new normal", shaking off the lockdown aesthetic and building towards a multi-format style visual.&nbsp;

Colin Read

Erin Sayder

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Rachel Bashford

Chris Malin

Sam Meyer

William Pope

Bon Walshe

Sam Gursky

Irving Harvy

Louis Vella

psychedelic pop

Rock

Glass Animals 'Heat Waves' by Colin Read

Glass-Animals-'Heat-Waves-'-by-Colin-Read

Colin Read celebrates joining Pulse Films' music video roster with one of the most inventive and resourceful products of the Covid-19 crisis&nbsp;for Glass Animals.Although Read was frustrated in his ability to achieve his original idea for the band's track Dreamland, he successfully overcame the problem, days after lockdown came into force in the UK, with his ingenious 'flat-pack music video'.The result is a video of two halves - a suitably dreamlike start, with Glass Animals' frontman Dave&nbsp;Bayley moving through a room of floating objects, is succeeded in the second half, which reveals the making of the video, and in doing so, the underlying 'flatpack video'&nbsp;concept.&nbsp;We discover&nbsp;that the elements required to make a video&nbsp;- including camera, lighting, props, and dolly rig - were delivered to Bayley's home. Via&nbsp;a detailed 40-page master instruction book and accompanying photo glossary provided by Read,&nbsp;he was talked through the process of making his own video by Read, DoP Ruben Woodin Deschamps, and other heads of production. Bayley is duly&nbsp;able to build and dress the set, lay a dolly track, as well as set-up the cameras (including an Alexa Mini), rig the lighting - and make his own video.Colin Read makes a virtue from the restrictions imposed on shooting videos, with an idea that is&nbsp;potentially transferable to other artists - although he will no doubt to prefer to make videos in the normal way, just as soon as its safe to do so.&nbsp;

Ruben Woodin Deschamps

Bon Walsh

Glass Animals 'Dreamland' by Colin Read

Glass Animals - Dreamland (Official Video)

Gracey searches for meaning in a hypnotic club setting, in Aidan Zamiri's video for Gone.Under the pulsating lights, we are introduced to the artist as she stalks the space, looking for someone or something amongst a sea of revellers. Contrasting frenetic high energy setups and shots of Gracey alone in the club, there is a surreal undertone to the visual, which gets stronger as the concept progresses.DoP Diana Olifirova&nbsp;utilises shadow and backlighting to build upon the enigmatic aesthetic, whilst using slow, fluid camera movement to focus on Gracey's emotional performance.

Tom O'Driscoll

Afzal Robbani

Diana Olifirova

Lee Trigg

Abbey May

Flaura Atkinson

Gracey 'Gone' by Aidan Zamiri

Gracey-'Gone'-by-Aidan-Zamiri

The emotional pain of a break-up&nbsp;is studied through a series of&nbsp;long takes in&nbsp;Mike Baldwin's video for Rhys Lewis.&nbsp;The video for When Was The Last Time starts by introducing the main characters in closeup shots, each in different settings&nbsp;but all connected by the tumultuous emotions that come with ending a relationship. Through slow, revealing zooms, each vignette unfolds to reveal their partner, and we realise we are witnessing the crucial moment of a break-up in each case.Intimate and heartwrenching performances capture the mood of the track without revealing too much information. We never find out any backstory to these scenarios&nbsp;- we don't have to. DoP&nbsp;Benedict Spence utilises simple composition and camera movement to keep the focus on the heart of the concept, and the leisurely pace of the edit allows viewers to linger on each moment.In each case its clear that the person we initially focus on is digesting the news that they are no longer loved. But in Rhys Lewis's own situation, Baldwin adds another twist. This is an emotional and very satisfying video for a sad song.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Mike Baldwin

Jamie Whymark

Blindeye Films

Jack Lightfoot

Emily Vincent

Ty Hack

Benedict Spence

Dan Villanueva

Adam Farquharson

Sonny Horweol

Jess Morgan

Abena Ofei

Elaine Lynskey

Naomi Lake

Stefan Perry

Framestore 

Mia Tomlinson, Felicity Hobson, Marianne Tambini, Emmanuel Berthelot, Lana Maciver, Max Muir, Otilia De Royer Dupre

Lock It In

Decca Records

Rhys Lewis 'When Was The Last Time' by Mike Baldwin

Rhys-Lewis-'When-Was-The-Last-Time'-by-Mike-Baldwin

L Devine bemoans the monotony of day-to-day life in Anna Radchenko's video for Boring People.&nbsp;Going through the motions of a typical pop-star, Devine seems to have a packed schedule full of exciting moments- attending house parties, participating in photo shoots, eating ice cream whenever she likes. But as the camera pulls back in each setting, it reveals how truly bored she is beneath the Instagram pictures and jetset lifestyle. Everything is a 'show' in showbusiness, and the lyrics "my dreams are the same as my problems" ring very true indeed.Mirroring the slightly depressed and deflated vibes of the track, the cinematography switches from&nbsp;beauty lighting and flattering composition to moody, dimly-lit scenes, unearthing the brutal reality of a life that isn't quite what it seems.&nbsp;

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