Focus Puller

Erick Aguilar

Andrew Litten's thought-provoking video for Belle &amp; Sebastian features&nbsp;Olympic figure skater&nbsp;Jonathan Cassar, who uses his time on the ice&nbsp;to&nbsp;escape from the demons of his&nbsp;past.Litten's approach to&nbsp;I Don't Know What You See In Me - a song from the new Belle &amp; Sebastian album Late Developers - is to create a starkly cold aesthetic and faintly disturbing atmosphere at a vintage ice rink, which is deserted apart from the presence of Cassar.&nbsp;This is&nbsp;a real counterpoint to the familiar lightness of B&amp;S frontman Stuart Murchoch's voice, and then the champion skater begins a&nbsp;graceful routine on the ice with plastic bag taped around his&nbsp;head. This powerful symbol of suffocation remains until the final moments of the video. &nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]"The band was passionate about this being a character study of a figure skater,&nbsp;and referenced one of my favourite noirs, The Swimmer," Litten explains. "I wanted to juxtapose the sensitivity of the song - which speaks to depression, self image and acceptance -&nbsp;with a narrative that confronts these feelings head on."The bag and the pulses of suffocation serve as a reminder of the baggage we carry throughout our lives, and how we cannot truly see ourselves until we have done the work to do so.&nbsp;I have endless gratitude to Stuart and the band for allowing us to create something so bold and unnerving with a hint of catharsis."It's a touching and powerful exploration of self acceptance, with plenty of engaging visuals to keep viewers hooked.

United States

Evaline Wu Huang

Claudia Guevara

Andrew Litten

Sara Clausen

Hands London

Stink Films

Gabe Spierer

Sam Wilkerson

Trevor Wineman

Ryland Burns

Drew Weaver

Corey Brown

Ali Arminio

David Arteaga

Randy Gardner

Mike Howell

Color Collective

Jonathan Cassar

Matador Records

Indie

Belle & Sebastian 'I Don't Know What You See In Me' by Andrew Litten

Belle-&-Sebastian-'I-Don't-Know-What-You-See-In-Me'-by-Andrew-Litten

The Weeknd heralds his new album Dawn FM with a spectacular and nightmarish promo from Matilda Finn.&nbsp;The video for Gasoline is dripping in Finn's harrowing, hyperreal aesthetic, and follows an elderly version of the artist, who crashes his car into a stop sign and descends into a Hellish realm.&nbsp;He regains consciousness in a crowded room, where sinful beings are grappling for whatever physical pleasures they can acquire -&nbsp;sex, drugs, violence... it's all on the cards in this place.&nbsp;The crowd begin to show their true colours, as their faces distort into monstrous forms, and The Weeknd has a face-off with a younger version of himself, ending in another death.&nbsp;This is an enigmatic expression of existential despair in Matilda Finn's signature style, and it's&nbsp;outstanding work. The video touches upon life, death and addiction, and does so with sublime style - and lots of creepy crawlies.&nbsp;

Matilda Finn

Cole Santiago

Eli Raskin

Ari Schneiderman

Jon Chema

John Richoux

Armen Harootun

Black Kite Studios

Simone Grattarola

Mayte Avina

Jesse Hays

MrMr

Nomad Art + Design

TJ White

C Prinz

Mike Marino, Prosthetic Renaissance

Malina Stearns

Chelsea Delfino

Esprit Casting

Hugo Saunders

Time Based Arts

Kyle Bryson

Charles Tae

Matthew Henson

Christine Nelli

Marcela Osegueda

Sharif Poston

Ntombi Moyo

Mark Hills

James Teninty

Benjamin Verhulst

Nick Decell

Factory

Alternative

The Weeknd 'Gasoline' by Matilda Finn

The Weeknd - Gasoline (Official Music Video)

Young Replicant rounds off his visual trilogy for Sam Dew, with the intriguing promo for DJ.This is the third video for Dew by Alex Takacs aka Young Replicant, in a series for the singer's debut album Moonlit Fools, which&nbsp;follows a network of mysterious workers, unseen by anyone, who deliver bubblegum card-like messages in the middle of the night. These then act as catalysts for emotion, stirring up heartache or desire in the recipients.The delightful first video for NTWFL sets the scene for this enigmatic scenario.[vidtoken data:0]&nbsp;Then in Gone, we begin to see the same action from a different perspective, adding characters and deepening the mystery in a classic noir style.[vidtoken data:1]The video for DJ brings Sam Dew more to the forefront in a performance setting without compromising the overall dreamlike quality. A woman is drawn by the card of Dew to a screen in a carpark where she finds him and is then transported to a deserted beach, where another&nbsp;screen blots out the night sky.Posing abstract questions about our purpose on Earth in the age of technology, and what might be stopping us from becoming our best selves, the video is painted with a melancholic aesthetic, mixing intimate, slice-of-life vignettes with jarring reminders of technological influence, in the form of these omnipresent screens and displays.&nbsp;Young Replicant has long been able to establishing a visual universe and internal logic to his work that is entirely unique, and he has refined that further in this trilogy. It's a lovely thing - while also being a terrific&nbsp;showcase for Sam Dew's talent as a vocalist.

Young Replicant

Jordan Harkins

Wolf Fleetwood Ross

Pulse Films

Holly Harding

Rik Green

Steve C. Wood

Dustin Lane

Leigh Stiepel

Brice Bradley

Melanie Cyze 

Mad Ruffian

Doug Klinger

Danna Takako

Sam Dew 'DJ' by Young Replicant

Sam Dew - NTWFL (Official Video)

Sam Dew - GONE (Official Video) ft. KIRBY

Sam-Dew-'Dj'-by-Young-Replicant

Colin Read mixes past and present, toying&nbsp;with our perception of the digital world, in his video for indie-rock legends Weezer.Read affectionately draws upon the the band's roots in the 1990s, dovetailed with their selves in the here and now, to create&nbsp;a sort of anachronistic hybrid reality, with a different kind of internet: the optimism and sociability of early web days are back - courtesy of a young man with a magic chatroom portal. But then, everyone also has smartphones.Our hero connects with a female chatroom pal - and then they join up in reality. The magic portal then takes them elsewhere, and finally to Weezer in the studio. And these transitions are achieved by 90s-tastic in-camera trickery rather than post VFX. But can 90s tech really triumph over the modern variety?It's an ambitious, constantly imaginative way to show how the more interconnected we are through the internet and social media, the less connected we are as human beings. And nothing makes that point clearer than the video's downbeat ending.[imgtoken data:1]

Colin Read

Johnny Hernandez

Joseph Barbalaco

Obra House

Bryam Aguilar

Matt Sokoler

Spencer Gongwer

JP Sweeney

Tony Pettibone

Skott Khuu

Grant Gilligan

Charneice Edwards

Diana Escamilla

Samuel Gursky

Irving Harvey

Reprobates

Weezer 'All My Favorite Songs' by Colin Read

Weezer - All My Favorite Songs (Official Video)

As well recently directing the video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/10/30/beck-hyperlifeuneventful-days-dev-hynes/61594" target="_blank">Beck's Hyperlife/Uneventful Days</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;featuring Tessa Thompson and Evan Rachel Wood -&nbsp;Dev Hynes has also self-directed the video for Dark &amp; Handsome, a track from his own&nbsp;recent mixtape Angel's Pulse, in his musical guise as&nbsp;Blood Orange.This is a minimal but effective affair featuring Hynes's&nbsp;own performance intercut with a tracking shot of a group of African-American&nbsp;schoolkids running happily along a beach, and other well composed vignettes, delightfully shot by DoP Ben Carey.There's also an appearance&nbsp;from guest star Toro y Moi - making a cameo appearance&nbsp;as a video within the video, on an iPhone. But the overall effect is one of poignant nostalgia - exactly the feeling evoked by this&nbsp;sweetly soulful&nbsp;track.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Dev Hynes

Jeff Kopchia

Somesuch

Sarah Pearson

Erica Pribble

Ben Carey

Brian Austin

Kendra Brandanini

Kath Raisch

Johanna Mcmanus

McCray Sutherlin

Saskia Whinney

Alt-soul

Blood Orange ft Toro y Moi 'Dark And Handsome' by Dev Hynes 

Blood Orange - Dark & Handsome (feat. Toro y Moi) (Official Video)

We've been here before, most memorably with Beastie Boys' Intergalactic. But Eoin Glaister puts a whole new spin on a classic Japanese monster&nbsp;movie trope for Joji and Jackson Wang.So&nbsp;Giant Lobster (or Crayfish?) - played by Joji -&nbsp;is causing terror by smashing through&nbsp;the city. It&nbsp;must be saved by Jackson,&nbsp;stoically operating his Giant Robot. Battle ensues amid the cardboard skyscrapers, to the unseemly delight of Jackson's girlfriend.But just when we think that Giant Lobster is vanquished, having been summarily poleaxed by Robot, there's a twist in the tale. It's very sweet - a kind of 'snowflake' revisionism that will enrage&nbsp;neo-conservative lovers of Godzilla films. So that makes it great.What's more, there's also room for an enjoyable epilogue of Joji and Jackson having great fun, mock-fighting on set - until Joji's magnificent lobster/crayfish outfit starts falling apart...

Eoin Glaister

Katie Lambert

Tasha Petty

Isaac Bauman

Ryan Oppedisano

Miranda Lorenz

Heather Galipo,michelle Sfarzo

Charlie Rotberg

Jacob Mckee

Alt Pop

Joji & Jackson Wang ft. Swae Lee & Major Lazer 'Walking' by Eoin Glaister

Joji & Jackson Wang - Walking ft. Swae Lee & Major Lazer (Official Video)

Emil Nava gets back together with Ed Sheeran to deconstruct the absolute hell out of the music video universe. And if doesn&#39;t look very slick, and you can tell it&#39;s really bad greenscreen.... well, they don&#39;t care.So we get Ed in a Panda bear suit,&nbsp;jet skiing bananas, ice creams and a Pegasus, and much more. And Bieber, of course...

Emil Nava

Seth Levin

Ammolite Inc

Amy James

Matt Zaal

Evrard Salomon

Sean Ginn

Jason Chadwick

Catherine Hahn, Melanie Beckett, Ohashi

Jenn Hanching,

Marc Maple

Sean Fazende

Cut+Run

Spencer Graves

Dina Ciccotello

OB Management

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Masato Yamada

Seiji Nakane

Shen Lin

Ed Sheeran + Justin Bieber 'I Don't Care' by Emil Nava 

Ed-Sheeran-+-Justin-Bieber--'I-Don't-Care'-by-Emil-Nava-

The latest masked EDM enigma Marshmello has a really lovely time in his &#39;Ritual&#39; video by Andrew Donoho.Making full use of Marshmello as a recognisable, visually interesting presence in just about any room (save for maybe an elevator shared with Daft Punk, Deadmau5, MF Doom and Slipknot) the video sees him travel to all manner of interesting places with golden sunlight and anamorphic lens flare washing over everything. He&#39;s either running, jumping or skateboarding his way into and out of party scenarios. It&#39;s hard not to feel good when watching a man in an expensive light-up marshmallow&nbsp;helmet live life to the fullest.

Andrew Donoho

Wojtek Stypko

Rich Salamone

Diktator

Kimberly Stuckwisch

Ian Blair

Dylan Griffith

Nate Hurtsellers

Karla Wilson

Joe Schmitz

Tommy Haynes

Tristan Scott

Devin Bianchini

Ricky Gausis

OWSLA

Marshmello Ft. Wrabel 'Ritual' by Andrew Donoho

Marshmello-Ft.-Wrabel-'Ritual'-by-Andrew-Donoho

Samy Mosher&#39;s False Alarm video for Matoma &amp; Becky Hill is all about the fiery passions of love.The X-Men-esque storyline uses fire as a very literal visual here lifted straight from the lyrics of the chorus. It&#39;s implemented with great effect - for the first half of the video you&#39;ve no real idea that anything out of the ordinary is taking place. It&#39;s a gorgeous looking video, full of magic hour shots in the desert, and fairground fun.It all feels like familiar territory until we sit down in what looks like an interrogation room with a doctor, and that&#39;s when the fire starts.I&#39;m a big fan of a bait-and-switch narrative and Samy Mosher implements it here brilliantly.Although there seems to be a very quick scene where a man who can burst into flames seemingly uncontrollably is at a petrol station and that just seems like it wouldn&#39;t end well.

Samy Mosher

Stadium

Steven Tralongo

Eric Maldin

Sarah Horton

Niles Howard

Taylor Black

Framestore

Sam Seager

Matoma & Becky Hill 'False Alarm ' by Samy Mosher

Matoma--'False-Alarm-'-by-Samy-Mosher

Andrew Donoho does an excellent job with this tie-in with the upcoming Suicide Squad, cleverly integrating the movie into duo Twenty One Pilots&#39; own strange adventures in the slammer.And Heathens is insanely catchy, appropriately enough. If this is anything to go by, it actually&nbsp;may be a DC superhero movie that doesn&#39;t disappoint.&nbsp;

Kourtney Gleason

Justin Kappenstein

Chad Nicholson

Seaton Trotter

Stacey Kalchman

Mike Smith, Andrew Donoho

Donoho Productions Llc

Andrew Donoho, Jordan Allen, Andres Jaramillo

Alex Bittan

Atlantic

Alex Kornreich

Twenty One Pilots 'Heathens' by Andrew Donoho

Twenty-One-Pilots-'Heathens'-by-Andrew-Donoho

With friends like these... dark undertones simmer throughout Alex Hulsey&#39;s absorbing promo for Wilkinson&#39;s Hopelessly Coping, as an ordinary girl goes through her day, from working at the local racetrack, to hanging out with friends.&nbsp;It&#39;s an unfussily believeable scenario, as she is forced to question&nbsp;her unsatisfying existence - hopelessly coping with her surroundings &ndash; with&nbsp;Alex Hulsey&nbsp;coaxing natural performances from a collection of local non-actors from Tucson, Arizona...

Alex Hulsey

Wilkinson 'Hopelessly Coping' by Alex Hulsey

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