Director

Ewan Jones Morris

The first release from the collaboration between Ligeti Quartet, a contemporary/new music&nbsp;string quartet, and composer/producer Anna Meredith, on upcoming album Nuc, comes with a hypnotic animated visual from Ewan Jones Morris, offering a stylised vision of the natural world.The music is a fresh arrangement of Meredith's composition Tuggemo - an old word for a swarm of insects. And Jones Morris creates an evolving animation around that - growth,&nbsp;insects, disco bugs, spores...There are certainly lots of creepy&nbsp;crawlies - and like his recent video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/13/hotel-lux-points-view-ewan-jones-morris/79860" target="_blank">Hotel Lux</a>, Jones Morris used AI to augment his own work."I created images then fed them into AI which gave me variations and then used those images to animate," he says.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith 'Tuggemo' by Ewan Jones Morris

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith - Tuggemo

Ewan Jones Morris takes us back into the marvellous world of cut-up montage animation - and then adds a modern tech spin for good measure - for South London indie band Hotel Lux.The video for the rather excellent Points Of View is a surreal mash of performance and textures, with a nostalgic zine aesthetic, courtesy of the technique of mixing&nbsp;cut-out stills with lo-fi video of the band performing, and other paper elements, that Jones Morris executed with the help of&nbsp;Louise Mason and William Reid.&nbsp;Together the three of them run a 'collage club'&nbsp;at State51, Hotel Lux's label, called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stickypleasure/" target="_blank">Sticky Pleasure</a>, where&nbsp;people hang out and make collages. So the video became a logical extension of that project.[imgtoken data:1]But as well as creating animating&nbsp;in the old-fashioned stop-frame way, Jones Morris also employed some AI to extend the capacity of the form. The effect is to super-charge the animation without disrupting its essential character.So body parts and landscapes entangle, faces crumple and eyeballs appear at every corner, in this wonderful, whimsical piece of work.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;"The video is pretty straightforward,&nbsp;low budget fare: lads, guitars and paper collage," explains Jones Morris. "But despite it's lo-fi DIY aesthetic some of the imagery is created by feeding collages into AI algorithms&nbsp;and seeing how the images are reinterpreted."I guess it's partly an attempt to utilise some of these already ubiquitous AI image generators in a very handmade, lo-fi way."

United Kingdom

William Reid

Louise Mason

Sticky Pleasure Productions

The State51 Conspiracy

Ewan Jone Morris

Beatriz Sá

Alternative

Indie

Rock

Hotel Lux 'Points Of View' by Ewan Jones Morris

Hotel Lux - Points of View (Official Video)

Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond have been making videos for John Grant since his first solo album&nbsp;Queen Of Denmark&nbsp;came out more than a decade ago. It's been a remarkable collaboration, resulting in some of the weirdest, wackiest and darkly humourous&nbsp;videos ever made by a sensitive singer-songwriter from North America.Something about Grant's deeply personal lyrics and mordant sense of humour brings out the best of a couple of Welshmen with a taste for the iconoclastic, irreverent and deeply absurd. Their latest, for the&nbsp;title track from his latest album Boy From Michigan, is fully in the tradition of the likes of Marz, Global Warming, and particularly, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/10/17/john-grant-hes-got-his-mothers-hips-ewan-jones-morris-casey-raymond/55552" target="_blank">He's Got Your Mothers Hips</a>, where Casey &amp; Ewan recruited a small army of leftfield animation talent from across the globe to reinterpret John's performance in a variety of ways.As with Mother's Hips,&nbsp;there are a variety of animation styles here, but more focussed on illustrating the coming-of-age tale in Grant's lyrics, about the boy living a sheltered suburban life, about to set out into the big, bad world.It includes some wonderful graphic elements - from the Robert Williams's drag-racer-style opening animation, to nightmarish morphing, Punch &amp; Judy-style puppetry, painted stock footage, animated paintings and more&nbsp;- created by Jones Morris and Raymond themselves, with&nbsp;Jenny Jokela, Marcos Sánchez and Peter Raymond.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3][imgtoken data:4]&nbsp;

Casey & Ewan

Casey Raymond

Jenny Jokela

Marcos Sánchez

Peter Raymond

Bella Union

Singer-songwriter

John Grant 'Boy From Michigan' by Casey & Ewan

John Grant - Boy from Michigan

Ewan Jones Morris's new video for Anna Meredith follows on from their previous collaboration for Paramour, finding interesting ways to use tiny cameras.For <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/07/15/anna-meredith-paramour-ewan-jones-morris/59752" target="_blank">Paramour</a>, there was one GoPro, attached to a very small train, made of Lego, capturing a musical performance. For Killjoy, there are lots of GoPro, to capture Meredith and her band's&nbsp;enterprising move into the world of dance.The band perform movement choreographed by David Ogle, reaching fairly complex physical interconnections (for non-dance professionals) to reflect Meredith's complex music. Jones Morris contribution is to add a further dimension, and give the performance more dynamism: the numerous GoPros are arranged in a circle; they record the action, from every angle; and&nbsp;they are also part of the video, creating a context for the performance.&nbsp;Again, it's a&nbsp;one-take deal, but editor Florence Kennard cuts between the cameras around the band to make the video&nbsp;as kinetic as the track. A mathematical approach to the modern classical-meets-math rock - math classical? -&nbsp;of Meredith's Killjoy, from the Mercury Prize-nominated&nbsp;Fibs. &nbsp;

Rachel McWhinney

Friends Electric

David Ogle

Florence Kennard

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Modern Composition

Anna Meredith 'Killjoy' by Ewan Jones Morris

ANNA MEREDITH - Killjoy

Ewan Jones Morris follows up his excellent new video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/07/15/anna-meredith-paramour-ewan-jones-morris/59752" target="_blank">Anna Meredith</a> with another distinctive tour de force for One True Pairing, the new project from former&nbsp;former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Tom Fleming.Fleming performs I'm Not Afraid while also dancing with&nbsp;unselfconscious abandon in a neutral space. It's a performance created from stills, and this&nbsp;becomes the canvas for the next layer of craft, a collage of&nbsp;images to match his face, hands, feet and the remainder of his dancing self.Then the collage technique switches to the&nbsp;background behind&nbsp;Fleming, and we see beautiful landscapes, textures and patterns cut through the silhouette of his body. It's a trademark example of Jones Morris's brand of creativity: eclectic, imaginative visual ideas bursting from simple foundations."Tom was keen to throw some shapes and I was keen to throw some pictures on those shapes," he says.&nbsp;"It was a bit of an experiment, but it seems to have worked." &nbsp;

Xavier Questel

Giles Nathan

Harry Barber

Simon Donnellon

Cynthia Lawrence-John

Tate Abbott

Angie Broomfield

Domino Records

One True Pairing 'I'm Not Afraid' by Ewan Jones Morris

One True Pairing - I'm Not Afraid (Official Video)

Ewan Jones Morris's marvellous single-shot video for Anna Meredith, uses an unorthodox method to shoot her band performing new song Paramour. It's from a moving train - a&nbsp;Lego train, that is.Jones Morris worked with 'Lego Master Builder' Gary Davis, to create an extensive indoor track that travels through a series of sunlight rooms, and encountering musicians and their remarkable range of instruments - cello, tuba, oboe and xylophone, as well as electric guitar and various forms of percussion - along the way.Paramour is the first release from Anna Meredith's second album, FIBS, out in October.

Chloe Lamford

Anna Meredith 'Paramour' by Ewan Jones Morris

ANNA MEREDITH - Paramour

For their latest video for John Grant, Casey + Ewan (aka&nbsp;Ewan Jones Morris &amp; Casey Raymond) have called in some help -&nbsp;eleven super-talented cutting edge animators. Some with great names like Jimmy&nbsp;Screamerclauz and Kokofreakbean.&nbsp;Together with Jones Morris and Raymond, each animator has given Grant&#39;s performance of the&nbsp;characteristically snarky He&#39;s Got His Mother&#39;s Hips their own distinctive graphic stamp. The result is an cutting-edge&nbsp;mosaic of visual styles and different animation techniques, all connected by&nbsp;Grant&#39;s unmistakeable bearded visage (unmistakeable, that is, unless you think he&#39;s Father John Misty).It&#39;s a similarly diverse&nbsp;approach to the one that&nbsp;Casey + Ewan employed with their MVA-winning video for&nbsp;Leftfield &amp; Sleaford Mods&nbsp;a couple of years ago - but even more diverse. Once again, their own dark humour pops shines through parade of the sublime visuals.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Angela Stempel

Anna Mantzaris

Benjamin Portas

Cheng-Hsu Chung

Cossa

Gabriel Mangold

Gyuri Cloe Lee

Jimmy Screamerclauz

Kokofreakbean

Linyou Xie

Thu Tran

John Grant 'He's Got His Mother's Hips' by Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond

John Grant - He’s Got His Mother’s Hips

John Grant "He's Got His Mother's Hips"

In Ewan Jones Morris&#39;s last&nbsp;video for&nbsp;Anna Meredith the frame&nbsp;is filled with rows of smaller images showing variations of everyday things -&nbsp;an excellent way to express the complex&nbsp;layers of her music. Now he&#39;s gone much further.For Dowager, this mosaic becomes&nbsp;a mad scramble&nbsp;of vintage art books, notebooks, photos and charging phones&nbsp;where each element is animated or contains live performance by members of Meredith&#39;s band.Then the imagery migrates to a flow of digital windows on a computer screen, where the performers vie with constantly changing clip art. Again&nbsp;each element is individually animated. A near-insane task brilliantly achieved by Jones Morris to reflect the sophistication of Meredith&#39;s music.

Nev Pecotic

Ben Reed

Riff Raff Films

Anna Meredith 'Dowager' by Ewan Jones Morris

"Dowager" Anna Meredith

Ewan Jones Morris gives rural Wales its moment in the spotlight in this panoramic video for Islet.There&#39;s no escaping it: drones are everywhere. Now that it&#39;s cheap enough for a teenager to fly a camera around, sweeping aerial shots that once marked a video with some high-budget prestige are now all but commonplace. Ewan Jones Morris knows this, but he also knows that there&#39;s a lot of untapped creative potential in the humble drone. Cue &#39;Final Drive&#39;.Part-panoramic experiment, part-poetic ode to his roots, the video celebrates Islet&#39;s move to a rural part of Wales by making them part of the landscape. Stitching drone footage together and adding layers of surreal giant versions of the band makes for a charming rural jigsaw.

Folk, Indie, Alternative

Islet 'Final Drive' by Ewan Jones Morris

Islet "Final Drive"

We&#39;ve all been there - concentrating and investing so hard in something only to have it ripped out from under us by a cruel twist of fate. Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond&#39;s video for Lemaitre&#39;s&nbsp;Closer - their first together since their MVA-winning video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/08/11/leftfield-sleaford-mods-head-and-shoulders-ewan-casey" target="_blank">Leftfield &amp; Sleaford Mods&#39; Head &amp; Shoulders</a>&nbsp;last year &ndash; displays the hilarious catharsis of acting on those impulses.Even when you know exactly what&#39;s coming, this setup and punchline-style video is still be a fun and rewarding watch. Frankly, any video that manages to mix beautiful visuals with the cartoonish scenario of a strongman throwing a hapless, trumpet-playing schoolboy across a room is a huge, hilarious win.

Katie Lambert

Natalie Arnett

Kerry Green

Charlotte Miller

Romain Richard

Ben Pengilly

Anna Lumsden

Marc Gómez del Moral

Ben Plant

Clara Pozas

Korsshan Schlauer

Richard Burnell

Ruth Crawford

Sophie Ansell

Helen Sirdall

James Soldan

Holly McDonald

Jessica Summer

James Rose

Cut+Run

Richard Fearon

John Moule

Dance

Lemaitre 'Closer' by Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond

Lemaitre "Closer"

The intriguing&nbsp;combination of voices and drums that is&nbsp;Scottish composer Anna Meredith&#39;s Taken gets a characteristically creative treatment from Ewan Jones Morris, who&nbsp;builds a mosaic of&nbsp;everyday things - lampshades, feet, cubes, jets, ketchup, etc - through&nbsp;multiple images and repetition to match the music&#39;s grand ambition. And it cost at least the price of a couple of dozen eggs...&nbsp;

Moshi Moshi

Anna Meredith 'Taken' by Ewan Jones Morris

"Taken" Anna Meredith

Ewan Jones Morris applies his lovely brand of lo-fi surrealism to the&nbsp;video for&nbsp;Stealing Sheep&#39;s Deadlock &ndash;&nbsp;a situation that has exactly&nbsp;not happened the day after the election, despite all the predictions (should we ever believe another poll again?)Continuing some visual themes from their previous vid for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/23/stealing-sheep-not-real-james-slater" target="_blank">Not Real</a> - including sculpture by Natasha Lawes &ndash; Ewan&nbsp;dissembles the Liverpool band into sets of heads and limbs in&nbsp;a vaguely mathematical surrealist universe.&nbsp;Which always gets our vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Natasha Lawes

Ben Morgan

Lee Isserow

Stealing Sheep 'Deadlock' by Ewan Jones Morris

"Deadlock" Stealing Sheep

Keith Schofield used the morphing effects for his recent video for Bastille, and now Ewan Jones Morris&nbsp;has done something similar, and just as effective, for&nbsp;Vancouver outfit Dralms&#39; first release Crushed Pleats - with more emphasis&nbsp;on the sheer wonder (and creepiness)&nbsp;of the transformations.This starts with changing between a young man and woman, moving on to objects and mixing and matching body parts. Ewan says it was all achieved with &quot;really good acting and reanimated olives&quot;, and he&#39;s currently working on a new film with regular partner Casey Raymond for Welsh artist&nbsp;Bedwyr Williams.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

April Dalton

Rhodri Brooks

Lowri Palfrey

Mark Newsome

Full Time Hobby

Nigel Adams

Dralms 'Crushed Pleats' by Ewan Jones Morris

"Crushed Pleats" by Dralms

Monochromatic, champagne-quaffing Cate Le Bon, charismatic magic from H Hawkline, inventive cross-dressing from Sweet Baboo, and one of the other guys in the band&nbsp;getting horribly bullied... It&#39;s all happening on&nbsp;the latest Cate tour, as chronicled by Casey Raymond and Ewan Jones Morris. Which as it happens, pitches up in London tonight (Sept 11) at Koko.&nbsp;Cate has calls this &#39;Lord of the Flies in a Travelodge&#39;. Not entirely accurate - their &#39;Piggy&#39; gets his revenge in the end...&nbsp;

Colonel Blimp

Cate Le Bon 'Duke' by Casey & Ewan

Cate Le Bon - Duke (Official Video)

Using images from vintage science journals, encyclopedias and magazines, Ewan Jones Morris has created an delightful&nbsp;video for Fanfarlo&#39;s Cell Song (from the band&#39;s Let&#39;s Go Extinct album)&nbsp;in what is becoming a signature animation style.&quot;Fanfarlo saw the last paper collage vid I did for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/04/22/pinkunoizu-%E2%80%98i-chi%E2%80%99-ewan-jones-morris" target="_blank">Pinkunoizu&#39;s I Chi</a> and asked if they could have something similar, and&nbsp;I obliged,&quot; says Ewan, who is currently embroiled in finishing a new art film with regular directing partner Casey Raymond.Unlike in his I Chi video, Ewan incorporated band performance elements in the animation.&nbsp;Everything was printed out on paper &quot;to make it look cool.&quot; It&#39;s excellent - and hats off to Ben Ewart-Dean to manfully printing of every frame and book illustration...

Fanfarlo 'Cell Song' by Ewan Jones Morris

Fanfarlo "Cell Song"

Ewan Jones Morris, recent guest at BUG with directing partner Casey Raymond,&nbsp;has followed up his excellent Pinkunoizu video for Moped, with this straightforward&nbsp;performance vid for his pals Islet, made much punchier by adding GoPro cameras to the band&#39;s instruments, and on a backpack worn by the bandmembers. The effect is rather like Radiohead&#39;s Jigsaw Falling Into Place video (by BUG host Adam Buxton) without the helmet-cams...&nbsp;

Islet 'Carlos' by Ewan Jones Morris

Islet "Carlos"

This video for Pinkunoizu&#39;s Moped by Ewan Jones Morris is about stuff. Lots of stuff. With people doing lots of different&nbsp;stuff to that stuff. And they&#39;re doing it&nbsp;in a completely random yet strangely ordered way.The result is a hypnotic exercise of&nbsp;inventive play with household objects, and particularly good use of a watermelon and plunger. As Ewan explains below, it was inspired by the work of Japanese artist Koki Tanaka, and it&#39;s&nbsp;very enjoyable indeed. And he made his local hardware store owner very happy.&nbsp;It also follows his splendid cookery-themed<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6IwOuCmLA&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">&nbsp;video-trailer for the new Pinkunoizu album The Drop</a>. &nbsp;As usual the South Wales-based director has been&nbsp;busy.&nbsp;He and regular directing partner Casey Raymond have also&nbsp;been busy recently making a film&nbsp;with artist&nbsp;Bedwyr Williams, which is now rocking the Wales Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. Check out <a href="https://vimeo.com/67142851" target="_blank">two minutes of their 18 minute film here</a>.&nbsp;

Pinkunoizu 'Moped' by Ewan Jones Morris

Pinkunoizu - Moped

Taken from their Second Amendment EP, alt Danish fourpiece Pinkunoizu enlist Ewan Jones Morris for the promo to lead track I Chi.
A little on the bizarre side, Ewan delivers a beautiful, ever-evolving animated collage of galaxies &ndash; including a brief homage to The Dark Side Of The Moon album cover, by the late great Storm Thorgeson &ndash; growing in intensity before coming to an abrupt halt.
&ldquo;For reasons best known to myself I printed every frame out on paper,&rdquo; says Ewan. The reason being, of course, is that it ends up looking really cool.

Yi London

Pinkunoizu ‘I Chi’ by Ewan Jones Morris

"I Chi" Pinkunoizu

It's lo-fi abstract eye thrills all the way from Ewan Jones Morris for Islet's A Bear On His Own (from the just released album Illuminated). Including an animation sequence with red cabbage strikingly (and no doubt coincidentally) similar to the one in Dougal Wilson's new Lurpak ad...
Ewan's got a new Turbowolf video coming next...

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