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Frank Mobilio

Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter co-direct the intimate, docu-style promo for Miley's latest release, Jaded.&nbsp;The video continues in the same vein as the other releases from Miley's latest album - <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/18/miley-cyrus-flowers-jacob-bixenman/79995">Flowers</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/03/29/miley-cyrus-river-jacob-bixenman/80959">River</a> - by placing the artist in simple, clean vignettes and allowing her personality and star power to shine through.&nbsp;Whether at home, in the pool or rolling around in bed - with scenes reminscent of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tzURKYFNs">2013's Adore You</a> - Miley is front and centre,&nbsp;showcasing a newfound confidence and sense of peace, and the filmmakers use this as the focus of the video, without any the need for any extraneous scenes or narrative.&nbsp;

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Jacob Bixenman

Brendan Walter

Jesy Odio

Dorian Thomas

Seth Lawrence

Nick Menio

Kevin Kim

Noah Shettel

Edgar Machuca

Gina Canavan

Bryan Younce

Miley Cyrus 'Jaded' by Jacob Bixenman & Brendan Walter

Miley Cyrus - Jaded (Official Video)

Ryan Beatty and fellow musicians&nbsp;perform a haunting rendition of new song Ribbons,&nbsp;in&nbsp;a breathtaking return to the live music video format by Colin Solal Cardo.&nbsp; &nbsp;The promo is an intimate study of&nbsp;sound and space, shot in a gentle, mindful fashion in a recording studio. And it's orchestrated beautifully by&nbsp;Solal Cardo, returning to his roots as the creator of groundbreaking live music videos&nbsp;a few years ago in the influential series by La Blogothèque.Through careful direction and thoughtful cinematography, the video feels truly cinematic and atmospheric, turning what could be a simple studio video into something more artistic and transcendent.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Colin Solal Cardo

Danny Herman

Anna Heinrich

John Curtis

Obsidian

David Checel

Kaitlyn Battistelli

Nick Lindell-Wright

Ethos Studio

Kim Jarrett

Atlantic Records Uk

Elektra

Ryan Beatty 'Ribbons (Live Performance)' by Colin Solal Cardo

Ryan Beatty – Ribbons (Live Performance)

Quentin Deronzier directs an extraordinary promo for The Weeknd, to tie-in with his official track for Avatar: The Way of Water.&nbsp;The cinematic visual was completely shot and post-produced between Thailand and LA, using no footage at all from the James Cameron's record-breaking movie&nbsp;- which makes this even more of an impressive feat.&nbsp;The world of Avatar is brought to life through fascinating&nbsp;cinematography, action-packed vignettes and stunning, effervescent lighting, resulting in&nbsp;environments as otherworldly as those in the film.&nbsp;Completely breathtaking and trippy throughout, it's a beautiful complement to the music.&nbsp;

Françoise Hernandez

Katae Boonkhao

Quentin Deronzier

Anna Roudaut

La Pac

Ta Prod (Thailand)

Service Production Los Angeles : Sarah Lee

Lark Creative

Erik Henriksson

Charles Ramaré

Bastien Lienardy

Hugo Beron

Arthur Paux

Malanie Teixeira

Firm Studio

Anthony Lestremeau

Jérémy Laidi

Anthony Lestremau

Alternative Pop

The Weeknd 'Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)' by Quentin Deronzier

Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength) (From "Avatar: The Way of Water"/Soundtrack Vers...

Following frontman Alex Turner's video for There Ought To Be A Mirrorball, Brook Linder picks up the baton to create a&nbsp;breathtaking video, again glorying in the beauty of the moving image of its own sake, for Arctic Monkeys.&nbsp;Linder's video for Body Paint is&nbsp;a montage of abstract vignettes, each carefully considered and filmed, building a sense of mystery through the placement and contrast of different visuals and iconography.[imgtoken data:1]It's imbued with themes of vintage cinema and moving image (with the large-scale zoetrope as the most notable example), and peppered with throwbacks to famous paintings and artworks.&nbsp;Most importantly, this works brilliantly as a visual accompaniment to the new sonic direction of the band for their forthcoming album The Car, and is all of a piece with Turner's video. It's a homage to the sort of filmmaking by Jean-Luc Godard, the great disruptor of cinema, and others from the classic age of 'arthouse cinema' - but it also feels crisply contemporary. Great work.&nbsp;

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Us Unit: Nikki Simmons

Brook Linder

Ali Khalil

RadicalMedia

Johnny Bradshaw

Danny Hayward

Us Unit: Joe Ramos

Natasha Duursma

Ben Schneider

Jodie Brooks

Billie Hallows

Mark Bull

Charlotte Croft

James Soldan

Kaitlyn Barristelli

Matt Lathrom

Domino Record Co.

Ben Chappell

Rock

Arctic Monkeys 'Body Paint' by Brook Linder

Arctic-Monkeys-'Body-Paint'-by-Brook-Linder

Sasha Lane plays a sensitive free spirit, bolstered by a loving boyfriend and family, in Kyle Thrash’s deeply affecting video for Lewis Capaldi’s Before You Go.&nbsp;Thrash has built a reputation with some remarkable documentary music videos, characterised by the raw and fluid approach to his subject matter. He employs the same techniques here, this time for a fictional narrative.&nbsp;In fact the films shows Lane's character at her happiest. But&nbsp;the world that Thrash creates through the setting and camera style&nbsp;works with her and the other actors to suggest something deeper and darker. That, and Capaldi's heartfelt vocal of this poignant song, prepares us for tragedy.Lewis Capaldi drew on childhood memories of his aunt, who committed suicide when he was young, in writing Before You Go, about the complex emotions felt by the people who were left behind. Thrash's video captures something of that complexity.It is also the first video directed by Thrash since he joined&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mouthpiecerep.me/">Mouthpiece</a> for UK director's representation - a new independent director's representation agency, launched by Claire Stubbs, former executive producer and director's rep at Partizan and Darkroom.Stubbs'&nbsp;roster at Mouthpiece&nbsp;includes directors from Academy, Partizan, Darkroom, Neighborhood Watch and Spindle. "I’m very excited about the move into repping," she says. "And I’m honoured to be working&nbsp;with such talented directors and E.P.’s."&nbsp;

Kyle Thrash

Krista Worby

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Stephen Buchanan

Cat McCabe

Nelson Quinones

Steven Mccrary

Evan Mcintosh

Jafari Barnard

Michelle Li

Aaron Crosby

Lisa Pope

Matt Schaff

Samuel Gursky

Irving Harvey

Sasha Lane

Claire Stubbs @ Mouthpiece

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Singer-songwriter

Lewis Capaldi 'Before You Go' by Kyle Thrash 

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A great, slowburning performance video for Foals by Aaron Brown, aka Focus Creeps.Shot in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brown&nbsp;keep things simple to begin with. But then the performance of In Degrees&nbsp;begins to switch seamlessly between daytime, and the band playing on a deserted modernist stage in the jungle, and then the nighttime equivalent, heaving with a dancing audience.Foals frontman Yannis&nbsp;Philippakis is the focal point throughout, but the beautifully crafted approach allows the viewer to gradually get inside the performance and the song.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Focus Creeps

Taylor Vandegrift

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Cris Silva

Mariana Zdravca

Walerio Rosa

Gui Marini

Ana Wainer

Mari Kato

Chris Roebuck

TenThree

James Drew

Jen Ivory

Warner Bros

Ocean Films

Foals 'In Degrees' by Focus Creeps

Foals-'In-Degrees'-by-Focus-Creeps

Emil Nava&#39;s video for Calvin Haris and Sam Smith&#39;s collaboration&nbsp;is a love letter to the drag scene, and a tribute to the world immortalised by Paris Is Burning and Madonna&#39;s Vogue video in the late Eighties.It&#39;s also&nbsp;a lot grittier than Vogue, but there&#39;s&nbsp;also a real joie de vivre and geniune spirit that makes this a great video for Promises. It&#39;s got authenticity, and there is a broad church of glamour on show: from the drag queens and voguers, to models including Winnie Harlow (who has the skin condition vitilago). And&nbsp;Sam Smith&#39;s pleasure in the whole situation is obvious, which takes things to another level.From the drag queens and voguers personal stories at the beginning, the message of personal freedom of expression&nbsp;mixes with an array of dazzling images&nbsp;- crafted by three editors, no less - and there is certainly something of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2DVwSVIIo" target="_blank">George Michael video for Too Funky</a> about the climactic catwalk set-up. George surely would have&nbsp;loved this.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Emil Nava

Maryann Tanedo

Ammolite Inc

Amy James

Rose Krane

Everard Salomon

Grace Pickering

Steve Doyle

Shane Richardson

Krissie Torgerson

Marc Mapile

Jennifer Hanching

JaQuel Knight

Aubrey Woodiwiss

OB Management

Mike O’Keefe

Sony Music

Dance

Calvin Harris, Sam Smith 'Promises' by Emil Nava

Calvin Harris, Sam Smith - Promises (Official Video)

While Alex Turner is back in harness with the Arctic Monkeys, his old Last Shadow Puppets pal Miles Kane also returns in his role as a solo performer.In Brook Linder&#39;s video for Loaded (a collab&nbsp;with Jamie T and Lana Del Rey apparently, but sounding like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers)&nbsp;Miles is stylishly battering himself into submission all over strangely deserted LA. It&#39;s nearly as enigmatic as the Monkeys&#39; video for Four Out Of Five...

Radical Media

Jennifer Heath

Marisa Garner Associates

Miles Kane 'Loaded' by Brook Linder

Miles Kane - Loaded

The famous puppet version of Ed who made his debut in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlYcUqEPN58">Sing</a> makes a poignant return in the latest Sheeran video directed by Emil Nava.In the heartrending but sweet&nbsp;video for Happier, Puppet Ed is doing his level best to cope with his pain as he watches his past love move on without him...

Chloe Hughes

Marc Kelly

Matt Sanderson

Tucker Tripp

Noah Duran

Mark G Wilenken

Casey Merritt

Marc Polanski

John Richoux

BJ Guyer

Cristina Squyres

Richard Alarcon

Sunset Edit

Dan Curwin

Nicola Sheppard

Ed Sheeran 'Happier' by Emil Nava

Ed Sheeran - Happier (Official Video)

Filled with intense highs and lows, Emil Nava captures the honest, intimate confessions of love from Eminem and Ed Sheeran in the compelling new video River.

Evrard Salomon

Dawn Boonyachalito (la)

Jenn Hanchin (la)

Sean Fazende

JC Molina

Cut+Run

Carbon Vfx

Mark Connell

Tommy Labuda

Kathy Angstadt

Aftermath / Interscope Records

Seth Levin

Patrick Meller

Rebecca Mason

Hip Hop

Eminem 'River' by Emil Nava

Eminem-'River'-by-Emil-Nava

Artists are directing their own videos with increasing regularity, with mixed results. But when Charlotte Gainsbourg, both serious actress and pop singer, decides to do this, there&#39;s a sense that the outcome might be something special. And so it proves.Creative-directed by Nathalie Canguilhem - who has now joined <a href="http://forever-pictures.com/nathaliecanguillem/" target="_blank">Forever for UK representation</a> &ndash; the La Pac-produced video for Deadly Valentine is the story of a love affair across the&nbsp;generations, told in a dreamstate where reality, fantasy and dance intersect. It starts in childhood, continues through adolescence to adulthood and on&nbsp;into old age.With the couple always in white, the generations start to cross over, and the couple&#39;s bond just gets stronger. What&#39;s interesting that the uplifting nature of the video is counterpointed by the song&nbsp;which not so much romantic as dramatic. It&#39;s also brilliant.&nbsp;Featuring Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and Gainsbourg&#39;s daughters, this is unquestionably&nbsp;a great debut. Charlotte Gainsbourg can also direct.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg

Marieta Blaskova

Gaetan Rousseau

Paradoxal Inc

Jerome Denis

Because Music

Nathalie Canguilhem

Alternative

Charlotte Gainsbourg 'Deadly Valentine' by Charlotte Gainsbourg 

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That Go brings an absolute head-spinner to the table with their video for Dirty Projectors.Proving that even getting out of a car and walking down a road at night can be captivating if you know how to do it right, look on in awe as linear time gets thrown out of the window but lip-syncing somehow remains consistent. Temporal physics be damned, you don&#39;t need it to look this damn cool.

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