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Fouad Gaber

Benjamin Earl Turner's first release in two years comes with a brilliant comedy-thriller fantasy directed by Abteen Bagheri.Might just be a masterpiece.

Andrew Clark

Abteen Bagheri

Joon Projects

Paige Kauffman

Ryan Schemmel

Jake Lyon

Kate Arizmendi

Elise Tyler

Daniel Wolfe

Steve Forbes

Riley Keeton

Michael Enos

Kyle Petijean

Chris Steidel

Benjamin Earl Turner 'Headspace/Bent' by Abteen Bagheri

Benjamin-Earl-Turner-'Headspace/bent'-by-Abteen-Bagheri

James Blake's surprising switch back to his dance music roots&nbsp;heralds the very welcome return to music videos by Oscar Hudson, fully exploiting&nbsp;Blake's new direction with a brilliantly nihilistic, sexy, beautifully made live action cartoon for Big Hammer.Hudson's video follows the exploits of a stylish, devil-may-care criminal gang, as they crash their car into various buildings during an ongoing crime spree - or simply to have a spot of lunch - mainly from the perspective of the dash-cam, which eventually assumes a life of its own.As with quite a few of the standout videos this year, it comes with a vague aura of nostalgia attached. it would certainly have been a great watch on old school MTV. And definitely to be enjoyed, for full explosive and comic effect,&nbsp;on the biggest screen you can find.As becoming a former Best Director winner at the UKMVAs (twice), it's probably one of the videos of the year so far.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Oscar Hudson

Rik Green

Archie Johnston Stewart

Pulse Films

Crowns & Owls

Nnena Nwakodo

Davud Karbassioun

James Sorton

Icon Films

Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Maria Vassileva

Philip Penev

Silviya Markova

Trim Editing

Alex Gregory

Jim Allen

No.8

Georgi Dimitrov

750MPH

Jake Ashwell

Dance

James Blake 'Big Hammer' by Oscar Hudson

James Blake - Big Hammer (Official Video)

The Director's Cut of Marc Oller's video for Arlo Parks' Weightless arrives, and adds weight to the symbolism around a story of a&nbsp;couple falling out of love.Oller employs powerful visual metaphors to tell the tale, which are given free rein in this version: Arlo in a car with no driver, a house breaking apart, cars crashing, and perhaps most powerfully of all,&nbsp;a wild horse having escaped from its captor, running free&nbsp;in the city.Within these scenes, Parks herself comes across strongly, performing the song which is the first release from her forthcoming album, My Soft Machine - the anticipated follow-up to her Brit and Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed In Sunbeams.[imgtoken data:1]Shot in Serbia last December, Oller says that ‘’we followed the brief of how a lover gets tethered to the idea of someone, either to how good it felt at the beginning or how close things are to looking up, whilst also wanting to present Arlo in a way that her fans had not seen before." He adds that this presented various challenges on the shoot, particularly due to bad weather affecting the production."We had to recreate the exact same room we were shooting in an apartment, then wreck it with a bulldozer," he says. "The construction team was outstanding."[imgtoken data:2]So was the horse, called Asa - who is a magnificent presence in the video, captured wonderfully by DoP Zach Spiger and his team. "Asa was a great actress - we all fell in love with her and she actually made our lives easy," says Oller. "Unfortunately, it was raining heavily and the shoot was constantly interrupted by the storm. This tightened our schedule and we had to sacrifice many shots that we had planned on shooting."&nbsp;Shot on film, which also presented challenges in terms of finding the right kit for "an old school kind of shoot", Oller adds that he was supported by both familiar and new collaborators to achieve his goals.[imgtoken data:3]"They were all amazingly talented and invested in the project," he declares. "Zack Spiger is an old collaborator - we shot a short film back in the day when I lived in Tokyo; Vicki Viñas is one of my longest time collaborators and she’s an outstanding art director and has the best taste; Alberto Ojeda is one of the best steadicam operators in Spain; and Ana Cano is my oldest collaborator and my ‘go-to’ for hair and makeup."And I loved working with our new Head of Music Videos at CANADA, Callum Harrison, who always challenged me to keep pushing the boundaries of creativity and was a great support."[imgtoken data:4]

Serbia

Marc Oller

CANADA

Callum Harrison

Sara Renteria

Anna Bacardit

Débora Zhang

Zack Spiger

Vicki Viñas

Lane Casting

William Kjarval

Cyber Few Good Men

Vuk Marjanovic

Lewis Munday

Emilie Louizides

Natalia Vega

Ana Cano

Alberto Ojeda

Arlo Parks 'Weightless' (Director's Cut) by Marc Oller

Arlo Parks - Weightless (DC)

Rollo Jackson directs a mesmerising performance visual for newcomer Pa Salieu's Betty.&nbsp;Opening in an exterior location under a strangely-hued pink sky, the video&nbsp;is formed of dynamic performance setups, spectacular VFX work -including the artist atop several 3D body parts- and&nbsp;a lo-fi performance captured on an infrared camera.The lyrical content and visual concept are very much open to interpretation and deeper insight. Salieu wrote the track to explore both the vibrance and difficulty of black life, against the backdrop of perpetual violence and grief in his lived experiences, and these themes punctuate the video throughout.

Rollo Jackson

Somesuch

Elly Camisa

Tom Gardner

Saskia Whinney

Deepa Keshvala

Chloe Slattery

Elliott Power

Tatyana Alexandra

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Luke Morrison

Hip Hop

Pa Salieu 'Betty' by Rollo Jackson

Pa Salieu - Betty (Official Music Video)

Yoni Lappin puts guest vocalist Slowthai front and centre in a mesmerizing near-one shot&nbsp;for&nbsp;his latest video for Mura Masa.The focus of their track Deal Wiv It is gentrification - Slowthai raps about waking up, arguing with his sisters and going to the pub to buy a pint, only to find out gentrification has doubled the price. He's referring to&nbsp;life in Britain, of course, but visually, it's a bit different. This is the second of two Lappin-directed videos for Mura Masa shot in Belgrade, and there is a subtle juxtaposition of the location in the song and the clarly non-British location in the video.But fundamentally, this is all about the livewire energy and sheer charisma of Slowthai&nbsp;captured in a brilliant long take, on 35mm at a much higher than normal frame rate.&nbsp;He tears through a street scene, unabashedly the centre of attention with acrobatic kicks, dancing&nbsp;and jumping&nbsp;around. Slowthai's manic persona is a genuine marvel, his&nbsp;style and attitude are infectious and unforgettable. And filming him in slow motion just makes him more fascinating.&nbsp;Shot by Jake Scott,&nbsp;the raw,&nbsp;almost dirty aesthetic matches the track and concept perfectly, and the autumnal colour scheme brings out the subdued colours of the Belgrade estates and surrounding areas. And a sort of meta-awareness of the camera develops into part of the concept: Slowthai ends up leaping into the camera car - and onto his mate&nbsp;Alex Crossan, aka Mura Masa.&nbsp;

Yoni Lappin

Karen Saurí

Oscar Romagosa

Dusan Popovic

Jake Scott

Nikola Ristić

Nikola Nikolic

Jovana Vukosavljevic

Dejan Mladenovic

Jason Wallis

Álvaro Posadas

Richard Grewe

Davey Ahern

Marta Bobić

Alba Barneda

Julia Carrasco

Teresa Montanuy

Sophie Williams

Ahida Agirre

Nemanja Stojanovic

Marina M. Campomanes

Polydor

Mura Masa ft. Slowthai 'Deal Wiv It' by Yoni Lappin

Mura-Masa-&amp;-Slowthai-'Deal-Wiv-It'-by-Yoni-Lappin

Mura Masa explores the state of our youth in No Hope Generation, directed by Yoni Lappin.&nbsp;Shot in Belgrade, Serbia, the striking visual explores society's obsession with nostalgia, and its abilities (and limits) in helping us frame our emotions and memories. Focusing on a series of different characters, the video opens with two girls on a bed talking to each other. One girl shares her fear of getting old and dying, pouring her heart out, followed by the other asking "Can I post that?".&nbsp;This reflection on the lack of empathy and complete chaos that the digital age has ushered in is represented through various vignettes. In another scene, an older woman is bringing tea and biscuits to her family, a traditional memory for many of us. However, the family in this household are completely ignorant to each other's presence, some of them playing with VR headsets, other glued to the desktop computer.Beautifully shot by Jake Scott, the emphasis on raw, daylit footage creates a dreamlike vibe, the overblown highlights in many scenes contributing to the washed out, hyperreal footage. In comparison to many dystopic concepts, which utilise dark, dreary cinematography, this project is much more natural. This helps create a feeling that this reality isn't far off at all, and if we were to blink we could miss its inception. There isn't a huge leap between our lives now and the scenarios on screen, and Lappin's emphasis on this fact makes it truly disturbing.&nbsp;

Keron Sirproverbs

Cyber: Few Good Men

Richard J Lewis

Nikola Jovanovic

Milos Marjanovic

Marija Popovic

Mura Masa 'No Hope Generation' by Yoni Lappin

Mura-Masa--'No-Hope-Generation'-by-Yoni-Lappin

David Wilson returns to music videos with this delightful work for Christine and the Queens: a Hamlet-inspired homage to the scorned Ophelia, for Comme si.&nbsp;Shot in the flower-strewn streams of Thailand, the artist picks up where Ophelia’s tragic tale ends, reinterpreting the play’s pivotal moment with solo interpretive dance and krumping.

France

David Wilson

Anna Roudaut

La Pac

Loubna Khenissa

Matthieu Toullet

Because Music

Alex Lamarque

marion brillouet

Sylvian Fabre

Louis Ditapichai

Christine And The Queens 'Comme Si' by David Wilson

Christine-And-The-Queens-'Comme-Si'-by-David-Wilson

Olivia Rose, nominated at the UKMVAs 2018 for her video for Jorja Smith&#39;s Blue Lights, has directed a video dripping with atmosphere and poignant meanings for 6LACK&#39;s East Atlanta Love Letter - featuring Future.At it&#39;s heart there&#39;s a sense of human loss, with images of a crying bride and candlelight vigil, in front of an old home of the American South. Electric Theatre Collective colourist Jason Wallis strove to mirror the authenticity of the genre captured by Rose while simultaneously accentuating the romance of the narrative.

United States

Olivia Rose

Sara Gbadamosi

Hands London

6LACK ft. Future 'East Atlanta Love Letter' by Olivia Rose

6lack-Ft.-Feature-'East-Atlanta-Love-Letter'-by-Olivia-Rose

Chaka Khan is back! The Queen of Funk and multiple Grammy winner returns with Like Sugar, a complete funk sugar-rush of a track produced by Switch. And as a result, top commercials director Kim Gehrig has been lured back to music, for this brilliant,&nbsp;gif or loop-inspired video.Like the great dance videos of the late &lsquo;90s and early 2000s, Gehrig&rsquo;s video is a simple but deceptively clever idea that&rsquo;s been expertly executed with the help of the Parisian choreography duo I Could Never Be A Dancer and superstar stylist Vanessa Coyle.In a contemporary twist, however, it depicts a succession of characters whose dance moves are looped - reflecting the rhythm track but with a visual glitch-in-the-matrix. They&rsquo;re gradually layered together into an increasingly surreal mix of manic energy, gif-like dance moves and vibrant colours. &nbsp;

Kim Gehrig

James Waters

Maddy Perkins

Liz Rufai

Olivier Casamayou

Francesca Di Mottola

Vanessa Coyle

Josh King

Framestore

Simon Bourne

Kim Fenton

Ailsa Robertson

Island Records

Funk

Soul

Chaka Khan 'Like Sugar' by Kim Gehrig

Chaka Khan - Like Sugar (Official Video)

Dear Mr Quistgaard&rsquo;s new music video for XL boss Richard Russell&#39;s project Everything Is Recorded features vocalist&nbsp;Obongjayar being well and truly duffed up by female members of the British Olympic Judo team - but he still manages to continue to lipsync the track.It&#39;s part of a broader Japanese theme in Dear Mr Quistgaard&#39;s video for She Said - that was shot by DoP Tom&nbsp;Townend, making a fairly rare return to music videos. Russell and fellow featured artist Kamasi Washington also cameo in the video, but the star of show is definitely Obongjayar (aka Steven Omoh) and the judo women.&nbsp;&quot;Obongjayar is just such a positive force,&quot; Russell has said.&nbsp;&quot;At the point we recorded the song he had no studio experience but he had great energy and instincts, the song was written and recorded spontaneously, then and there. Making the video was a blast, Steven (Obongjayar) got beaten up by some badass female martial artists, and I got to use my bonsai skills.&rdquo;

Tom Hardiman

Lee Groombridge

Tom Townend

Shaun Fenn

Andy Duncan

Darrel McGuian

Verity May Lane

Jess Summer

XL Recordings

Everything Is Recorded 'She Said' by Dear Mr Quistgaard

Jorja Smith&#39;s haunting song&nbsp;Blue Lights has inspired a memorable visual piece by Olivia Rose. It&#39;s a series of portraits of real Londoners who, arguably, the singer could be addressing in the song&#39;s message. These portraits, are intercut with a figure who slowly revealed his purpose - a dancer to physically express the emotion in the music.

The Mill

FAMM

Jorja Smith 'Blue Lights' by Olivia Rose

Jorja Smith - Blue Lights (Official Video)

Tune-Yards are renowned for their zany and colourful videos that often feel they could sit comfortably within an episode of Sesame Street. In Brit director Dear Mr Quistgard&#39;s video for ABC 123, overall-clad Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner&nbsp;have swapped the playpen for the woodwork shop. But apart from that, this is wacky-business-as-usual.It starts with Garbus&#39;s head popping from a tabletop within a miniature electric train track - which becomes one of the running themes in a video. Visual trickery enlivens the unglamourous workspace at every turn, with Garbus omnipresent, often multiplied, and sometimes&nbsp;cut in half, while Brenner does the more mundane stuff.It could be described as &#39;disorientating and chaotic&#39; (Paste Magazine), and if so that reflects the bleak lyrics as well as the typically bouncy tune, which includes the line &quot;California&#39;s burning down/living in the middle of the sixth extinction&quot;. Fun times.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Abi Atkinson

Jagoda Litkowiec

Dominic Threlfall

Ben Oliver

Owen Cant

Craig Hudson

Stuart Hudson

Chelsea Graziano

Gabe Spierer

4AD Records

Alternative

Tune-Yards 'ABC 123' by Dear Mr Quistgaard

Tune-yards-'Abc-123'-by-Dear-Mr-Quistgaard

Yoni Lappin delivers a cool coastal one-shot video for DJ/producer Alex Crossan aka&nbsp;Mura Masa&#39;s All Around The World.&nbsp;A scene at dusk somewhere along the West Coast sees guest vocalist Desiigner&nbsp;celebrate in a carefree performance video. Cheerleaders cheer, a few friends play basketball, a kid rides his bike and a car does donuts before the police show up. It&#39;s a jovial summer evening vibe and it&#39;s all done in one seamless, free-flowing, breezy take. The camera wanders curiously around the open stretch of tarmac before craning up for a wide overview at the end.A perfect, carefree summertime video that brilliantly&nbsp;captures the feeling of a long summer night &ndash; and a&nbsp;real departure from Lappin&#39;s&nbsp;two previous London-set Mura Masa videos.&nbsp;

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