Director of Photography

Fabien Benzaquen

Supercool French music strand La Blogothèque presents a live music video for&nbsp;Metronomy&#39;s 16 Beat&nbsp;&ndash; featuring mainman and Paris resident&nbsp;Joseph&nbsp;Mount&nbsp;and drummer Anna Prior, plus an troupe&nbsp;of four well turned out&nbsp;dancers - in the unlikely setting of Charles de Gaulle airport.Directed by Colin Solal Cardo in one sustained take, this radiates a sense of cool glamour you rarely get these days in airport baggage halls. But then Solal Cardo and&nbsp;La Blogothèque have a thing about airports - they shot a&nbsp;deeply enigmatic video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/12/03/nicolas-godin-bach-colin-solal-cardo" target="_blank">Nicolas Godin&#39;s Bach Off</a> last year at Orly.&nbsp;

France

Colin Solal Cardo

Iris Gonzales

Mélanie Rouget

Vincent Amor

Royal Post

Because Music

Electronica

Metronomy '16 Beat' by Colin Solal Cardo

Metronomy-'16-Beat'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

The song may be called London, Benjamin Clementine&#39;s native city, but this is a lovely cinematic video by Colin Solal Cardo which places the singer-songwriter in a situation that&#39;s wonderfully suited to his&nbsp;creative persona - on the rooftops of Paris.Solal Cardo uses important elements of Clementine&#39;s biography and artistic progress &ndash;&nbsp;which involved him busking on the streets of Paris before being discovered&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;to create this romanticised vision of the artist, reeling lyrics from an old typewriter, playing an invisible piano, and flinging messages from his own Parisian rooftop tower.

La Blogothèque

Anna Lequoy

David Poucet

Matthieu Toullet

MPC London

Mpc Paris

Quentin Martin

Universal / Barclay

Benjamin Clementine 'London' by Colin Solal Cardo

Benjamin-Clementine-'London'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic&rsquo;s Fade Away &ndash; a blackly comic procession of hit-man killings in order to take hold of a briefcase and its mysterious contents, and a true cycle of violence&hellip;Romain&rsquo;s choice of locations is perfect from the outset as we follow a chain of hired killers taking each other out blow by blow &ndash; each differently from the last and each paying homage to a different seminal crime film. Beginning in a rusting ship, we travel from horse-racing to hotel rooms, and out to the open countryside, with fantastic work from DoP Fabien Benzaquen.As well as the serial violence, Romain manages to incorporate some great tongue-in-cheek moments. One hit-man even aims up a drain-pipe to take his opponent unawares whilst shaving. All good, clean fun.&ldquo;The idea was to play with hit-men and gangster movies,&rdquo; says Romain. &ldquo;Killers settling scores, like in classic movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, that we watch over and over again with the same pleasure.&ldquo;Shooting this music video was like a game. We had a lot of fun reproducing, modestly, some famous movies scenes and creating new ones.&rdquo;

Romain Chassaing

SOLAB

Excuse My French

Edouard Chassaing

Constance Guillou

Nicolas Tiry

Antoine Ricard

Clementine Nithart

Agathe Wesolek

Rémi Veyrié

Marie-Claire Neveu

Grégory Moro

Emilie Orsini

Loïc Andrieu

Nourédyne Amroun

Bertrand Val

Clément Melot

Arnaud Marten

Mathieu Baptista

Laetita Quillery

Frédéric Alhinho

Muriel Archambaud

Dance

Electronic

Electro-pop

Vitalic ‘Fade Away’ by Romain Chassaing

Vitalic - Fade Away (Official Video)

"I've been collaborating with Lianne for more than a year now, but working on this project felt like something completely new," says Colin. "Lianne's a brilliant storyteller, there's a true cinematic quality to her songs. When you listen to them, you go through all these emotions and narratives, like a collection of short movies. 

These videos are interestingly produced by La Blogothéque, the legendary French website that never fails to impress with its 'Concert à Emporter' (Take Away Shows) series.

Eugene Davis

Lianne La Havas 'Elusive' and 'Gone' by Colin Solal Cardo

Lianne-La-Havas-'Elusive'-and-'Gone'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

Having recently directed the remarkable video for Metronomy's She Wants (above), Paris-based duo Julien Lassort and Mattieu Burlot - better known as Jul &amp; Mat - have joined Colonel Blimp for music video representation in London.
Over the last two and a half years, Jul &amp; Mat have directed videos for Ratatat, We Have Band, Howls - and most recently Metronomy's She Wants, a brilliantly-executed reverse one-shot where a girl, Hannah Novak, wakes into a dream, and attends a deeply surreal party. Jul &amp; Mat are with Solab in their native France. 
Showreel: <a href="http://www.colonelblimp.com/music/view-work/item5212/Jul-&amp;-Mat/" target="_blank">here</a>

Fabien Benzaquen

Director of Photography

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