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A forbidden love. A forbidden face... Ariya Akhavan directs an unsettling story about the prohibition of emotion,&nbsp;set against the backdrop of a reimagined America.In the video, parts of the population have been wiped out in order to establish one true race and face. The narrative focuses on a young woman's failed operation to change her appearance as she searches for her identity in a world that considers her to be not enough.With a tinge of retrofuturistic nostalgia in the cinematography, and a clever application of practical makeup effects, the video oozes a certain cinematic quality. It also boasts dazzling performances from each of the characters.&nbsp;

Ariya Akhavan

Andrew Masanto

Nathan Murphy

Austin Engemann

Tyrone Mayorga

Charlotte Rose Wool

Becca Nasasira

Wendy Fisher

Thomas Kumeling

CHEAT

Lee Rodriguez

Pokey Spears

Dance

Electronic

Anona 'Not Enough' by Ariya Akhavan

Anona-'Not-Enough'-by-Ariya-Akhavan

Hoops (aka Liam Hoops) captures the slow and sensual groove of Minus Gravity's Your Friends in four scenes, captured in one continuous take.Shot in Hope Lofts, Los Angeles on 16mm - with a limited amount of stock - Hoops uses the lighting and the quality of the film to frame the band's performance, individually and collectively, into one cohesive whole.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"The track tells the story of your partner's friends getting involved in your business so my I translated the isolation of that into a visual format; the three band members each with their own distinct colour and setup," says Hoops.&nbsp;"The visual was also heavily inspired by the track, when I first heard the beats I knew I wanted something futuristic but with a raw, gritty texture to it, hence the choice to shoot on film. To keep it within budget, we only had 22 minutes worth of film to shoot on which gave us pretty much complete runthroughs of the song."

United States

Hoops

Liam Hoops

Rob Webster

Charlotte Woolstonecroft

Soul

Minus Gravity 'Your Friends' by Hoops

Minus Gravity - Your Friends ( Official video )

Willie J Healey celebrates coming of age with a one-shot video by Ricky Allen.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm, the combination of format and shooting style makes this immediately ambitious, and the good news is it's incredibly well executed. With Gary Long as DP and Matt Allsop on steadicam, the seamless concept is a mixture of Alice in Wonderland and old Britpop videos, and it's a perfect match for the nostalgic track.&nbsp;Utilising the single location as much as possible, we follow Healey as he poses with a selection of quintessential British characters, including cricket players and tea party guests, culminating in a food fight full of cakes, pastries and no doubt a cucumber sandwich or two.&nbsp;The understated performance from both Healey and the cast give this a slightly surreal, dreamlike vibe, and paired with the camaraderie and cheeky winks, lends an element of fun and experimentation to the project.&nbsp;Life is not linear, there is no correct path to 'come of age': it's feeling like you're upside down at times, it's turning back 180 degrees, it's finding yourself stuck in a loop that you eventually break free from. It's a trip, and the video represents the highs and lows of this process.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Ricky Allen

Guy Davies

Zebrafish Media

James Norbury

Theo Ryan

Hannah Allen

Cassie Walker

Brooke Davies

Matt Allsop

Yala Records

Zak Watson

Willie J Healey 'Songs For Joanna' by Ricky Allen

Willie-J-Healey-'Songs-For-Joanna'-by-Ricky-Allen

It's been a long time coming. Samuel Taylor directed three videos for London fourpiece Superfood in the spring and summer of 2018&nbsp;- which unfortunately coincided with the band's&nbsp;break-up last year.Consequently it has proved to be a tricky business getting these three videos released for the director who has also directed notable videos for Bloody Knees, Magic Gang, Dirty Danger and Crows in the last year or so. But over twelve months later, this fantastic trilogy for the tracks Where's The Bass Amp, Natural Supersoul and Double Dutch is finally out.Sam Taylor tells us&nbsp;all about how he made these superbly uplifting, low-budget videos, that bring to life and visualise&nbsp;the defining impulse behind Superfood's&nbsp;music: it just makes you want to dance. &nbsp;&nbsp;SAMUEL TAYLOR:<blockquote>It all just kind of clicked, that&nbsp;it should literally be what the album feels like, which is wanting to dance.</blockquote>Essentially I came to Superfood pretty late. I met them and became mates with them before I'd heard their music. And having met them and then listened to their music, it was very clear: their music is exactly them.[Their last album Bambino&nbsp;came out in late 2017] I challenge people to listen to it and not want to move and dance to it. It's the most fun album you'll ever listen to.We would meet up and hang out, and I kept on saying, "We need to do something."&nbsp;And then I was listening to it one day,&nbsp;walking down to catch the Tube, and I saw a businessman, with a suit,&nbsp;briefcase and headphones.&nbsp;He was bobbing his head and walking down the street. And kind of doing this little jump off the kerb. And I was just like, "Wait, is he listening to this album as well?"&nbsp;He's moving in the same kind of way, and he must be dancing to this album.And it all just kind of clicked -&nbsp;a moment of like, "Oh, it should be dance." It should literally be what the album feels like, which is wanting to dance. So we picked the three that they wanted to do videos for. And I just wrote three very different stories, that all have this kind of link.&nbsp;I'm a big fan of that you can have dance, trying to not necessarily make it feel too real. In the sort of way that they would do it in a musical, like Singin' in the Rain, sort of chatting, but then the music kind of comes in, and then they start dancing. And I really like that sort of old school musical way of doing things.So we just applied that to all three, and kind of went for this approach. And also tried to get a nice range of ages, and range of sort of different places in society.Video: Where's The&nbsp;Bass Amp?[vidtoken data:0]Synopsis: A strait-laced London businessman finds it hard to keep himself from dancing as he makes his way around the City, while listening to Superfood...&nbsp;ST: With Bass Amp, Henry [Napier-Brown, the producer] got a street permit, and we went down to Liverpool Street first thing in the morning, with a load of rolls of 16mm film, with Jordan Buck (the DoP), and, few other mates – and Ally Green, the choreographer, and director in her own right, who's amazing.[imgtoken data:1]And we just kind of went down first thing in the morning with the guy, and just got him to listen to the track. And pretty much he just walked up and down the street.&nbsp;He hadn't really heard the track up to this point.&nbsp;And he had his own complete style. And Ally and I, we were just shouting out things to him as he was walking down the street. It was entirely improvised on the day. We just made it up as we went along essentially.<blockquote>Security got pretty lairy with us for shooting outside the NatWest</blockquote>It was all actually shot hand-held, because you couldn't put anything down. Security&nbsp;got pretty lairy with us when we were shooting outside Nat West building. So we just kind of carried on shooting. It was a day of bumping into businessmen, and trying to make mischief, essentially. It was fun.&nbsp;Video:&nbsp;Double Dutch[vidtoken data:1]Synopsis: The lovers on a park bench, overlooking London. A homage on the Hollywood musical, rather like a London version of the La La Land.&nbsp;ST: Double Dutch&nbsp;and Bass Amp were shot back-to-back, with basically the same team. We shot&nbsp;Double Dutch the day after Bass Amp.The location was this little gem of a view of London that Henry found out of nowhere. It's like a small park,&nbsp;up near Greenwich. It's kind of a bit hidden, but you get this viewpoint, where you can just see the entirety of London.<blockquote>We were absolutely blessed with that&nbsp;sunset</blockquote>I think we did two days recceing, driving around, trying to find the right place with a fantastic view. Obviously so many of them have been done before, like Hampstead Heath. We were trying to find something that hadn't really been shot before, and this was the last one we visited. We just walked up, and we were like: "Yeah, I mean this is definitely it."[imgtoken data:2]We got there reasonably early in the morning: just me, Ally, and the two dancers at first. We sat down on the benches, and worked out the thing in the day, so we had a rough idea of what we were doing. We did a bit of rehearsal, but basically we just sat there from 10am til sunset, and worked out the dance.This was in&nbsp;about April last year, and we were absolutely blessed with that sunset in that video. We had no idea it was coming; it was raining in the morning, and the weather was very up and down. It actually snowed about twenty minutes after we did the sunset take. Then we waited for snow to go, and then we put the spotlight on and did the night take.[imgtoken data:3]It was a really weird one, because I'm so used to talking during the shoot. If I'm operating the camera - which is quite often -&nbsp;I'm constantly trying to excite people, and be really involved in the process of creating the kind of movement of the scenes. But with this one&nbsp;I just sat by a monitor, and was just watching this amazing performance play out.Video:&nbsp;Natural Supersoul[vidtoken data:2]Synopsis: The little girl who visits the park playground with her mum, and is a bit ostracised from&nbsp;the others, but it all works out in the end...That one was done a lot later.&nbsp;We basically ran out of money after the first two – we spent it all on shooting on film. It always just seemed like the band weren't going to put them out any time soon, so we took our time with it a bit.&nbsp;I was like, "We don't have enough money to do another one on film, so how do we go about doing this third one?" In the end, it became&nbsp;a combination of iPhone 8 and&nbsp;Super 8mm. Which is quite a weird mixture.[imgtoken data:4]&nbsp;We wanted to start with the mom walking the young girl into the playground, as a sort of touchstone, to the beginning of the story, and jumping from an adult world to the girl's world.&nbsp;So we did that with the change from phone footage to film. Format was the thing that's led that, a little bit.But it meant we had the advantage of being able to&nbsp;to run around with such a small bit of kit. We could work with the kids a lot quicker, and&nbsp;it was much easier than having a big bit of kit.&nbsp;I shot all of that, and Ally essentially directed a lot of it with me as we went.&nbsp;We just played games with them, and managed to get little moments.&nbsp;And then I just ran around with an 8mm camera, and grabbed all the other kind of more fantastical bits.[imgtoken data:5]Shooting that way is essentially&nbsp;trying to get out the way of the story, a little bit. You&nbsp;do that as much as possible, and that one felt very much like that was what we had to do: try to&nbsp;allow these kids be as fun as possible without stepping in the way too much.I suppose I'm not afraid of being quite cheesy when I want to. This is cheesy, but it's so paint by numbers, sort of, that it's actually quite an enjoyable process to see it play out a little bit. Then when it happens, it's kind of genuine enough. You're not turned off by it.• Samuel Taylor is represented by Agile Films*This feature is a Promonews and Agile Films co-production&nbsp;

Samuel Taylor

Henry Napier-Brown

Tommy Banham

Agile Films

Jordan Buck

Milo Brown

Matt Alsop

Hamza Twomey

Alexandra Green

Elle Lotherington

Daniel Hawkins

Kuldip Singh-Barmi

Bradley Salter

Emma-Louise Stansall

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Superfood Trilogy: 'Where's The Bass Amp?', 'Double Dutch' and ''Natural Supersoul' by Samuel Taylor

In a career now spanning over a decade Metronomy have made some outstanding music videos, working with directors like&nbsp;David Wilson, Daniel Brereton, Dent de Cuir and Michel Gondry. But here's a landmark moment, for their new song Lately:&nbsp;for the first time the band's frontman Joseph Mount has taken up&nbsp;directing duties himself.And, with a combination of performance, lo-fi VFX, and dry humour,&nbsp;it's very Metronomy. There's&nbsp;a nod to the '80s, and in particular the classic film Honey I Shrunk The Kids, as Mount and his fellow bandmembers emerge from the spools of a cassette tape, found by a schoolgirl in the park and brought back to her bedroom.&nbsp;But the tiny band need to be careful, especially&nbsp;when the teenager's dad threatens to squash the band...

Joseph Mount

Molly McGregor

Partizan

Mayling Wong

Joe Browne

Tom Wynborne

Arthur Loveday

Klara Rychtarcikova

Pearce Crowley

Benny Casey

Felippe Johann

Charli Avery

Thomas Brigden

Final Cut

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Alvaro Cajal

Rhian Emanuel

Because Music

Jake Whitehouse

Indie

Rock

Metronomy 'Lately' by Joseph Mount

Metronomy-'Lately'-by-Joseph-Mount

Octavian stars in this jamboree of fun and destruction for Diplo's New Shapes, directed by Angelo Dominic Sesto.

Angelo Dominic Sesto

Hannah Bellil

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Chris Murdoch

Clara Paris

Aaron Reid

Salvador Gomez

Sky Cripps-Jackson

Alex Gregory

Jim Wright

Ark__edit

The Mill

Charlie Morris

Zoe Hockings

Lillie Smith-lake

Aldo Hacheme

Jakob Gierse

Grant Sandy Phillips

Oli Waters

Alex Sossah

Theo White

Von Adams

Hannah May

Diplo ft Octavian 'New Shapes' by Angelo Dominic Sesto

Diplo-(feat.-Octavian)-'New-Shapes'-by-Angelo-Dominic-Sesto

Dumas Haddad&#39;s video for&nbsp;Anaïs follows a young man on a journey of discovery, where he finds out the&nbsp;hard way that the world isn&#39;t the bed of roses he thought it would be.&nbsp;Haddad combines an engaging narrative with a richly colourful look for Lost My Faith, and manages to&nbsp;add an exotic flavour to a UK-set shoot.&quot;We shot on 35mm film to bring soul and warmth to this story and also make our timeline ominous,&quot; he says. &quot;Our styling and locations blend the past and present day, as our characters are dealing with racial conflicts that are as prevalent in today&rsquo;s climate, as they have been historically.&quot;

Dumas Haddad

Adeleke O'Adelight

Cream Soda Productions

Byusgroup Films

Olan Collardy

Vini Curtis

Ana Baldini

Ola Ebiti

Virginie Moreira

Mata Labs

Virgin EMI

Anaïs 'Lost My Faith' by Dumas Haddad

Anaïs - Lost My Faith

The Circa Waves boys are back with the first promo of their latest album, Movies. Directed by Alex Nicholson, he takes us through an onslaught of filmic references and homages to cinema greats.The guys drive in their top-down convertible&nbsp;as Hunter S. Thompson and his trusty attorney Dr. Gonzo, ride away with Tim Roth AKA Mr.Orange, shot and bloody in the back seat, and briefly travel through time itself with Marty and Doc Brown.

Alex Nicholson

Mike Heath

Burning Reel

Johnathan Sidwell

Tom McMahon

Ed Smith

Minna Attala

Jack Smith

Monika Swiatek

Tom Goldser

Chris Bell

Creep Post

Cal Gordon

Kevin Woo

Marisa Garner Associates

Circa Waves 'Movies' by Alex Nicholson

Circa-Waves--'Movies-'-by-Alex-Nicholson

Brighton-based rock band Architects say that their song&nbsp;Royal Beggars&nbsp;&quot;looks at our inability to face the pain in our lives and our reluctance to reach out for help from those around us.&nbsp;We all have our own vices that we abuse to distract ourselves from looking at our demons in the eye.&quot;And Lewis Cater&#39;s video for Royal Beggars&nbsp;tackles this uncomfortable truth head on. Together with a powerful band performances, he&nbsp;creates portraits of&nbsp;each&nbsp;bandmember acting out a particular mind-numbing vice, with devastating effects upon their health.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

Lewis Cater

Jonny Pickup

Davey Gilder

James Wicks

Lee Parfitt

Jess Morgan / Jam Studio

Brooke Lee

Epitaph Records

Architects 'Royal Beggars' by Lewis Cater

Architects - "Royal Beggars"

Following on from his live video for Where did I Go?&nbsp;comes another live performance by Jorj Smith, captured by Shaun James Grant.The singer&#39;s smooth vocals are matched with the set,&nbsp;basking&nbsp;in warm golden tones to&nbsp;emit&nbsp;a&nbsp;70/90s fusion neo-soul feel.

Shaun James Grant

Harri Kamalanathan

Lemonade Money

James Payne

Steven Eniraiyetan

Joel Honeywell

Ben Millar

Jarbez Bartlett

Leah Abbott

Zateesha Barbour

Carol Ann Reid

Kit Jennings

Tom Mangham

Mish Mayer

Jorja Smith 'February 3rd' by Shaun James Grant

Jorja-Smith-'February-3rd'-by-Shaun-James-Grant

Declan Whitebloom&#39;s latest video for&nbsp;Jess Glynne shows off a lighter side to the singer, as she parties and holidays with friends in Rio de Janiero.The video for All I Am&nbsp;offers an unique glimpse into Jess Glynne&#39;s breathless pop star lifestyle,&nbsp;as she rehearses, performs at festivals, and parties with the great Nile Rodgers, no less,&nbsp;before heading off on a girls&#39; mini-break to Rio.All I Am comes from the Grammy Award-winning singer&#39;s upcoming LP&nbsp;Always In Between, and the video marks her fourth collaboration with Declan Whitebloom.

Declan Whitebloom

Shabana Mansuri

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Jack Wilkinson

James Wick

Holly Wolfers

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Jess Glynne 'All I Am' by Declan Whitebloom

Jess-Glynne-'All-I-Am'-by-Declan-Whitebloom

Harry Cauty&#39;s video for Big Zuu illustrates the power of music through its main character - a schoolboy who uses his love&nbsp;of music and writing lyrics to escape the everyday.Shot in Pimlico, London, Zuu is a supporting character in his own video for No Breaks, affectionately observing the young man as he makes his way through the world, while listening to Zuu on his headphones...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Harry Cauty

James Cross

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Sasha Moon

Elliott Linehan-Cross

Carrie Sutton

Grime

Big Zuu 'No Breaks' by Harry Cauty

Big-Zuu-'No-Breaks'-by-Harry-Cauty

Shaun James Grant continues his live work for Vevo with the first of two performances for Jorja Smith.Accompanied only by piano, Smith&#39;s vocal performance of Where Did I Go? gets a warmly-lit jazz-era setting, nicely photographed by Joel Honeywell.&nbsp;

Jorja Smith 'Where Did I Go? (live)' by Shaun James Grant

Jorja-Smith-'Where-Did-I-Go?-(live)'-by-Shaun-James-Grant

Daniel Broadley&rsquo;s video&nbsp;for You Me At Six&nbsp;is separated out into three acts and explores &#39;the expectation&#39;, &#39;the reality&#39; and &#39;the peak&#39; of a night out.&nbsp;&nbsp;With its use of atmospheric lighting, dark and flourescent, this performance piece is intertwinned with this engaging, well executed&nbsp;narrative that&rsquo;s both&nbsp;comedic and&nbsp;sophisticated.

Daniel Broadley

Conor Duffy

You Me At Six '3am' by Daniel Broadley

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