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Presented with a searingly powerful Foals song called Black Bull, Niall O'Brien does not shy away from keeping it uncomplicated - and taking this project by the horns.On the one hand&nbsp;there's a breathtakingly rampant&nbsp;band performance; on the other there is the breathtakingly fearsome bull.&nbsp;O'Brien devotes his energies to a wonderful execution of both elements.Foals' performance has layers of cinematic quality - and one 35mm&nbsp;performance, shot by Paul Özgür, dovetails with authentic&nbsp;concert footage - both shot at their recent show in Kingston.Meanwhile, the awesome black bull prowls a bullring, wearing a garland - never looking more than a few short steps from the camera, its black horns glistening under lights, its movement&nbsp;captured in slow motion. The contrast with the performance footage is intense, yet they complement each other so well - brought together in a&nbsp;consummate edit by&nbsp;Matt Berardi.Beautiful&nbsp;and thrilling, the video is an object lesson in keeping it straightforward, and knocking it out the park.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Niall O'Brien

Andrew Rawson

Olly Chapman

Paul Özgür

Simon Lakos

Krystal Donyes

Matt Berardi

Cartel Editorial

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Carbon

Untold Studios

OB Management

Jennifer Ivory

Warner

Rock

Foals 'Black Bull' by Niall O'Brien

Foals-'Black-Bull'-by-Niall-O'brien

Upcoming rapper *J* glows in this minimalist spookshow by Zak Razvi. For this shoestring budget visual, Razvi took *J* to the park at midnight with a torch, a handful of filters and a day-glow jacket. That’s it. The photography, by Narayan Van Maele, has a skittery, skeletal quality, and there’s a reliably vibrant grade by Jason Wallis.Keeping things as sparse and dark as possible, the video gives you the disorienting sensation of walking quickly through a forest in the dead of night. Luckily, according to Razvi, nobody was charged by a deer.

Zak Razvi

Narayan Van Maele

*J* 'fReEsTyLe' by Zak Razvi

After the epic, desert-set video for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLcqHtABxw" target="_blank">The Nature Of Things</a>,&nbsp;Björn Rühmann has released the second installment of his short film series for Los Angeles-based indie folk band The Herbert Bail Orchestra. This one, for the haunting The Future&rsquo;s In The Past is another slow-burner, and nailbiting. It also doesn&#39;t offer much in the way of a happy ending. Quite the contrary, with echoes, intended or otherwise, with the Oscar Pistorius murder case.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rühmann also abandons the traditional music video format, taking the time to explore the narrative before weaving in the music to amplify the emotional crescendo of the characters. It opens&nbsp;with band members discovering the wreckage of an abandoned car at night.&nbsp;But they miss the badly injured woman who limps away, with her baby, from the crash seeking help from a nearby home. When its evident she&#39;s been mistaken as an intruder by the house&#39;s paranoid resident, catastrophe&nbsp;beckons.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about how humanity has universally become more withdrawn and lonely,&rdquo; notes Rühmann. &ldquo;We wanted to explore the distinct tragedy of being left with yourself in the wake of avoidable trauma caused by a lack of genuine interpersonal connection.&rdquo;&nbsp;The music actually begins in the final section of the gripping film, and Herbert Bail Orchestra frontman Anthony Frattolillo says:&nbsp;&ldquo;We want to make cinema for the ears. Our idea is that every song is a journey and has a story behind it.&rdquo;

United States

Björn Rühmann

Diane McArter

The Herbert Bail Orchestra 'The Future's In The Past' by Björn Rühmann

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Nez has paired up with&nbsp;Rudimental once again to bring this ambitious video for Never Let You Go,&nbsp;magnificently shot around the globe, from expansive plains to winding mountain roads.&nbsp;The&nbsp;epic film conveys a message of unity across all of humanity, communicated by people of all creeds from all over the world covered in the same bright pigments. Scenes of heightened emotion&nbsp;as well as calm&nbsp;scenes&nbsp;expressing human experience are treated in the same way, unifying them as all part of a shared&nbsp;human condition.

Robert Herman

Lundi Shackleton

Stephan Vallé

Warner Brothers Records

Max Windows

Chris Catanach

Homespun

Radioaktive Film

Drum and Bass

Rudimental 'Never Let You Go' by Nez

Rudimental - Never Let You Go [Official Video]

Cloud Rider, the first video for Paul Kalkbrenner&#39;s forthcoming seventh album, suitably entitled 7, is the opening salvo&nbsp;of a music video trilogy directed by Björn Rühmann&nbsp;called FLORIAN, which focusses on the increasingly painful adventures of a true innocent abroad.Florian, with ill-advised open-heartedness,&nbsp;attempts to share the music he loves with strangers via his headphones, only to receive continual rejection, and increasingly, aggression.&nbsp;It is meant to parallel the peculiar outsider role of the electronic dance music genre in the US. Despite its origins in Chicago and Detroit, the electronic style to this day hasn&rsquo;t arrived in mainstream America and is paradoxically considered &lsquo;foreign.&rsquo;The trilogy was written by Alexander Nowak and Felix Richter,&nbsp;two creative directors at ad agency Droga5. It&#39;s the first time the agency has been involved in making a music video, and at the moment there is no visible involvement of another brand.And If this is being produced under a more advertising type of model, its a fascinating first step - both funny and harrowing - and shows that Björn Rühmann is a talent to be reckoned with.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Evan Urman

Jefferson Projects

Diane Mcarter, David Thorne, Ben Davies

Antoine Watkins

Giovanni Ortiz

Benjamin Kitchens

Leonard Walsh

Nicholas Bupp

Sean Costello

Gabriela Perez

Kerry Herta

Nick Rondeau

Arcade Edit

Ricky Gausis

Nicole Saccardi

Gizmo Rivera

Erik Gersovitz

Sony

Alexander Nowak

Felix Richter

Paul Kalkbrenner 'Cloud Rider' by Björn Rühmann

Paul-Kalkbrenner-'Florian---Cloud-Rider'-by-Björn-Rühmann

Director Björn Rühmann (formerly of directing team The Vikings), co-creator&nbsp;Kerstin Rühmann and songwriter/composer Anthony Frattolillo have created a trilogy of powerful short films that act as individual music videos for songs by&nbsp;American folk outfit the Herbert Bail Orchestra. And within each video, a series of broken characters face the drama of alienation and existential despair over the course of a single day.In the first part of the trilogy, The Nature of Things, the scene is set&nbsp;for the harrowing journey of a man (played by English actor Richie Coster) through the barren American desert, trying to save his only companion, his&nbsp;dog. His spirit and perseverance, beyond all hope, is the reason to keep watching this viscerally punishing film - and then be hooked by an ending that will make you want to watch the next one...

Kerstin Rühmann

Anthony Frattolillo

Ed Buhr

Charlotte Culina

Larkin Seiple

Andrew Katz

Marcia Rennert

Keston Ridley

AJ Murillo

Jay Liquori

Toby Tomkins

CHEAT

Mandy Brown

Matt Sanderson

Kenichiro Tanaka

Margaret Parus

Matt Ardine

Folk, Indie

The Herbert Bail Orchestra 'The Nature Of Things' by Björn Rühmann

Saam Farahmand ventures into short film territory with this elliptical narrative that has been &ldquo;inspired by the music and magic of Daughn Gibson&rdquo;.
Daughn is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania (he was previously the drummer of stoner metal outfit Pearls And Brass) who released his acclaimed debut album All Hell last year. His brooding, silent A-male presence dominates this film &ndash; he&rsquo;s a bit of an old-fashioned hunk for sure &ndash; as the outsider in a midwestern farm, and the hero who must hold the forces of doom at bay.
Several tracks from All Hell are featured in Another Hell &ndash; an occasion where Saam has gone for straight Mallick-style cinematic beauty.

Saam Farahmand

Nathan Atkinson

Tommy Cannon

Tom Lindsay

Martin Karlsson

Cynthia Leda

Angie Thomas

Phoebe Dawson

White Denim

‘Another Hell’ by Saam Farahmand

ANOTHER HELL

For Rudimental&rsquo;s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider who came back against all the odds to compete again after suffering a terrible injury.
Using numerous cameras &ndash; some fixed on BMX bikes &ndash; not only captures the full horror of riding your bike in front of a speeding truck (yikes) but also the redemptive thrill of the sport.
NEZ on making the video for Rudimental&rsquo;s Waiting All Night:
&ldquo;We came up with the idea and through our research found Kurt Yaeger who was a famed BMX rider that lost his leg in a tragic accident. After years of fighting and training Kurt beat the odds and got back on his bike and is once again competing in the X games.
&ldquo;We got in contact with him, and after lengthy Skype calls with Kurt we adjusted the original idea to keep it as close to his story as possible.
&ldquo;Then we cast Kurt&rsquo;s close friends in supporting roles and attempted to reconstruct the events through a BMX documentary style film &ndash; as if all this footage had been accumulated over time, and all we did was edit it together.
&ldquo;We shot over three days in LA, and everybody had a camera &ndash; from Kurt&rsquo;s friends to Dan Curwin the commissioner. And then we came back to London with 45 hours of footage for Max Windows.&rdquo;

Matt Fone

Joceline Gabriel

Elliott Tagg

Riff Raff Films

Desiree Lauro

Andrew Whitaker

Quinn Feldman

Aaron Nardi

Stitch Editing

The Mill

Houmam Abdallah

Electric Theatre Collective

Kurt Yaeger

Gemma Humphries @ The Mill

Dan Curwin

Dance

Rudimental ‘Waiting All Night’ by Nez

Andreas Nilsson's video for Miike Snow's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/02/13/miike-snow-paddling-out-by-andreas-nilsson/" target="_blank">Paddling Out</a> was nuts. Now comes the second part of the Jean Noel saga, and its even more bonkers. 
The alien spaceship which abducted Noel and subjected him to bizarre plastic surgery to turn him into a rocknroll Lionel Messi, has crashing to earth, creating deadly havoc in a playground. Now there are dozens of rocknroll Messis running around the crash site in the desert - and lots of cops with doughnuts.
It's all the unique comic brainchild of Andreas Nillson of course. Meticulously crafted, wondrous in its lunacy. And presumably part three is coming...

Andreas Nilsson

Jason Botkin

Greg Haggart

Fredrik M Backar

Final Cut

Miike Snow 'The Wave' by Andreas Nilsson

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Andreas Nilsson is back with his unique brand of oddness for Miike Snow's Paddling Out - his own take on alien abduction. These aliens are period-dressing cosmetic surgeons in a house-shaped spaceship-cum clone factory, who transform a hapless redneck earthling into the ultimate human - who happens to have an enormous schnozz...
As Andreas says: "Witness the birth of a new medical order seen through a bent mirror. The clone factory, an evil and childish experiment, is floating through space preparing a prank that will make no one laugh. Our abducted hero, Jean Noel, becomes the evolution of the perfect human. Let there be nose!"

Fredrik Backar Telecine

Blink

Arianna Tomasettig

Miike Snow 'Paddling Out' by Andreas Nilsson

Miike-Snow-'Paddling-Out'-by-Andreas-Nilsson

Nez gets down to business for the fourth single from Bruno Mars' hit album Doowops &amp; Hooligans with this cute suburban vignette starring Lenoard Nimoy.

Anne Johnson

Stephane Vallee

Brandon Creed

Bruno Mars' The Lazy Song by Nez

In Trigger Happy Hands, his short film-cum-video for Placebo, Andreas Nilsson brings us the story of Bubbles, who witnesses an act of terrible violence, and eventually is egged on to avenge that act by his new friends in the Militia. But then, what do you expect from a bunch of clowns. 
It's a thought-provoking allegory of outsiderdom which is, as you'd expect from Andreas, darkly comic and memorably weird. Co-written by Nilsson and Jeff Tetreault, shot by Mattias Keonigswierser and edited by Ben Campbell at Cut &amp; Run, the film was created in collaboration with Placebo's label Dreambrother and Atticus Clothing in another of those modern brand-sponsorship funding deals. 
And there are two cuts - the full-length ten minute short film and shorter pop vid version, both here.

Marisol Aragon

Ethan Tombman

Ben Campbell

Marshall Plante

Placebo’s Trigger Happy Hands by Andreas Nilsson

Placebo’s-Trigger-Happy-Hands-by-Andreas-Nilsson

You've seen the posters, now watch the video. Hot Chip, New Order's Bernard Sumner and remixers Hot City team-up for Didn't Know What Love Was, and Andreas Nilsson has directed the peach of a promo. 
All kinds of surreal stuff and nonsense of the Andreas variety involving multiple versions of the Hot Chip chaps, hairy drummers and switch-editing. But the star of the show is Barney Sumner, with shadow in tow: unashamedly middle-aged, but well cool. 
It's all part of Converse's <a href="http://www.converseblog.com/uk/music/" target="_blank">3 Artists, 1 Song</a> series - developed with creative agency Anomaly New York - as part of their bigger commitment to music. And there's a second Converse-sponsored video from Terri Timely on its way.

Tamsin Glasson

Daniel Bronks

Ben Ansell

Cynthia Lawrence

Sophie North

James Bamford

Anomaly NY

Hot Chip, Hot City & Bernard Sumner’s Didn’t Know What Love Was by Andreas Nilsson

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