Director

George Belfield

The recent re-release of Max Richter&#39;s acclaimed album The Blue Notebooks&nbsp;has led to the creation of this music video for it&#39;s most celebrated track&nbsp;On The Nature Of Daylight, directed by George Belfield and featuring a characteristically intense performance from A Handmaid&#39;s Tale, Top Of The Lake and Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss.The video for a song that will be familar from its inclusion on movie soundtracks from&nbsp;Shutter Island&nbsp;to&nbsp;Arrival&nbsp;is a study in human resolve in the face of catastrophe. Moss hears some terrible news in her car, she gets out and starts walking. We follow her journey through deserted streets, city and country, and bear witness to her psychological trauma, courtesy of the skill of&nbsp;Belfield&#39;s direction and Steve Annis&#39;s cinematography. It&#39;s harrowing, but Richter&#39;s beautiful music, makes it bearable.In a statement Moss has said: &quot;When I was asked to do this project it was a dream come true. My work has been inspired by his music for so many years and not a day goes by on set where I don&rsquo;t have Max&rsquo;s music playing in my ears before a take. His music and my acting have gone hand in hand for a long time. So for me the opportunity to act to one of his most prolific pieces was such an incredible honour.&quot;Working with George and this entire team was so artistically fulfilling and an experience I will never forget.&quot; &nbsp;

Somesuch

Saskia Whinney

Steve Annis

Danielle Sahota

Thomas Grove Carter

Simon Bourne

Framestore

Max Richter 'On The Nature Of Daylight' by George Belfield

Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight

Ed Sheeran gets nostalgic in the video for &#39;Castle On The Hill&#39; by George Belfield.Casting a cinematic gaze back on Sheeran&#39;s formative teenage years, the video is a sometimes-sombre,&nbsp;nostalgic look at English small town living. Allowing the restrained, social-realist &#39;nothing-happens-yet-everything-happens&#39; narrative to guide the film, we watch a young Ed and his pals just try and kill time in the countryside.Disappointing house parties, dilapidated ruins, and awkward first kisses make up most of the onscreen action. With some great compositions from DoP Steve Annis really helping to highlight the young ensemble&#39;s group struggle to find something to fill up the day.

United Kingdom

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Tom Gardner

Marketa Husecka

Francesca Resteghini

Thomas English

Eira Wyn Jones

Matt Farrant

Johnny Lewis

Pop, Singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran 'Castle On The Hill' by George Belfield

Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill [Official Video]

Director&nbsp;George Belfield, singer&nbsp;Tom Odell and DoP&nbsp;Steve Annis collaborate again for Here I Am -&nbsp;&nbsp;the first music video trading in Tom&#39;s&nbsp;usual appearance with that of an actor instead. And what an actor. It&#39;s none other than Kevin Spacey.&nbsp;The video takes the form of a nightmarish limbo that sees Spacey keep climbing endless flights of identical stairs, only to have the door to a&nbsp;party repeatedly shut in his face. Increasingly frustrated,&nbsp;desperate and sweaty,&nbsp;he runs faster, passing symbolic&nbsp;characters, before getting into a fight with an identical version of himself...

Tim Nash

Sally Campbell

All:expanded

Emi Stewart

Cindy Miller

Mik Cooper

Kurt Uebersax

David Vogel

Janice Min

Jason Remeikis

John Vallon

Nick Gardner

Dave Mikutsky

Donny Aros

Mike Keelty

Joe Kurtz

Rock

Folk

Tom Odell 'Here I Am' by George Belfield

Tom Odell - Here I Am (Official Video)

Alex Hulsey has delivered this sweet and streamy clip for the song Rockabye, featuring a couple in loved-up bliss,&nbsp;making out and smoking up. And that&#39;s it really, a simple, sexy video with some great&nbsp;colouring -&nbsp;channeling&nbsp;some&nbsp;nighttime vibes&nbsp;to match a sensual, baby-makin&#39; song...&nbsp;

Alex Hulsey

Deepa Keshvala

Jaja Kisses

Flowzart

Joe Hofmann

Lucinda Spurrier

Verity May Lane

Fouad Gaber

Jack McGinity

SilentJay and Jace XL 'Rockabye' by Alex Hulsey

SilentJay x Jace XL - Rockabye (Official Video)

George Belfield follows up his video for Tom Odell&#39;s Wrong Crowd with a dramatic&nbsp;sequel that&nbsp;reveals the nature&nbsp;of Odell&#39;s troubles in the first one.&nbsp;It&#39;s about a girl.Through a series of flashbacks - some from the previous video, some new - the story reveals itself, in which Odell&#39;s attempts to process the pain of a doomed love affair is accentuated when she turns up at the club he visits in Wrong Crowd.&nbsp;And&nbsp;with this sumptuous outdoor photography by Steve Annis - and an important contribution of a gorgeous vintage Porsche 911 booming down a deserted highway&nbsp;&ndash; Belfield builds the emotion in&nbsp;Magnetised to a higher level.

Tom Birmingham

Liam Johnson

Willhelm (Bubi) Furst

Vid Price

The Assembly Rooms

Robot

Laura Clayton

Sony

Indie, singer-songwriter

Tom Odell 'Magnetised' by George Belfield

English singer-songwriter&nbsp;Tom Odell&nbsp;is&nbsp;back, channeling&nbsp;the distinctly&nbsp;darkened, jaded&nbsp;swagger of a man that has matured past the age of uncomplicated love songs.George Belfield&nbsp;achieved the artist&#39;s newfound&nbsp;style and disposition&nbsp;through an icy cool treatment that sees the dejected singer waking up in an anonymous&nbsp;hotel room.After&nbsp;taking in some&nbsp;old videos of his&nbsp;ex-lover, he drowns his sorrows by&nbsp;pouring&nbsp;himself a stiff drink, even though its still daytime. Then,&nbsp;our lonely bachelor&nbsp;hits up the club - throwing himself into a night of dancing and drinking&nbsp;with his band&nbsp;of party animals.The video - which was handsomely shot by DoP Steve Annis -&nbsp;is part one of two, so look out for the next instalment soon to be released.

Pop, Indie

Tom Odell 'Wrong Crowd' by George Belfield

Tom Odell - Wrong Crowd (Official Video)

George Belfield&#39;s video for Arthur Beatrice&#39;s Real Life continues the naturalistic flavour of <a href="http://promonews.tv/videos/2014/04/10/arthur-beatrice-late-george-belfield" target="_blank">Late</a>, his previous video for the artist. But this one runs counter to&nbsp;the usual downbeat&nbsp;subject matter associated with realism, and&nbsp;gives double meaning to the songtitle.The video captures often-overlooked&nbsp;moments of pleasure in ordinary life - a young man and his girlfriend looking forward to the birth of their child, being with&nbsp;friends and family. Then there&#39;s the new real life the couple are creating.&nbsp;And eventually there&#39;s a subtle suggestion of the supernatural.

Denna Cartamkhoob

Peter Arboine

Ahmet Husseyin

Tim Gibson

Verity May-lane

Julian Fletcher

Time Based Arts

Tom Johnson

Universal

James Burgess

Sally Mcleery

Martha Stewart

Lauren Hedges

Arthur Beatrice 'Real Life' by George Belfield

Arthur-Beatrice-'Real-Life'-by-George-Belfield

Jamie XX,&nbsp;Young Thug, and Popcaan perform&nbsp;I Know There&#39;s Gonna Be (Good Times) in the video directed by Rollo Jackson. And as it checks out, it does seem their life is pretty damn good...&nbsp;

Rollo Jackson

Phil Lee

Smith

Jackson Hunt

Ozzie Pullin

Houmam Abdullah

Electric Theatre Collective

Electronic

Jamie XX ft. Young Thug, Popcaan 'I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)' by Rollo Jackson

Jamie XX - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) ft. Young Thug, Popcaan

George Belfield brings his best game&nbsp;to American suburbia in his lovely video for&nbsp;Brooklyn-based trio&nbsp;Wet&#39;s&nbsp;bittersweet song Deadwater.In the director&#39;s distinctive style this is a&nbsp;naturalistic drama, about a girl dealing with emotional turmoil in a believably understated&nbsp;fashion&nbsp;in the picturesque town of Peekskill, in upstate New York.But when the drama starts to incorporate a performance, as the&nbsp;girl -&nbsp;Wet singer Kelly Zutrau - starts to sing, the emotion moves to another pitch, and it becomes a song (and&nbsp;video) to give you the chills.

United States

Kyle Clarck

Lori Desimone

Rene Navarette

Leila Sarraf

Trim Editing

Saul Levitz

Sony Music

Wet 'Deadwater' by George Belfield

Wet "Deadwater"

Hot on the heels of winning Best British Female at The Brits 2015 on Wednesday, Paloma Faith teams up with&nbsp;George Belfield for the promo to Beauty Remains - penned by Bernard Butler and Fyfe Dangerfield -&nbsp;from her chart-topping third album A Perfect Contradiction.True to form, it&#39;s a very stylish piece featuring the star mourning her lost love, and George Belfield&nbsp;delivers an effective, slow-burner set in some stunning, cinematic locations.&nbsp;Our knowledge of her lover&#39;s motorbike accident at the start&nbsp;sets a decidedly melancholic tone throughout - all the while Paloma attempts to convince herself that beauty remains.&nbsp;The dramatic promo sees Paloma, who puts in another dazzling performance, in a loved-up relationship just before tragedy strikes...

Tash Tan

Darko Skulksy

Lyubzja Knorozok

Ole Yakovleva

Dennis Sonin

Manuel Alberto Claro

Sara Sensoy

Eamonn Hughes

Lan Nguyen

Dan Sherwen

Final Cut

Cinnamon

Alex Prihodko

Kheri Sherpa

Karl Willet

Radioaktive Film

Daniel Millar

Soul

Paloma Faith 'Beauty Remains' by George Belfield

Paloma-Faith--'Beauty-Remains'-by-George-Belfield

As a young director&nbsp;George Belfield has shown great promise with his videos for the likes of Arthur Beatrice and Richard Hawley. But now he takes it to the next level with this is a beautiful&nbsp;execution of&nbsp;Kwabs&#39; soul ballad Perfect Ruin.Shot in sub-zero temperatures in and around the town of Lulea in the north of Sweden, this has&nbsp;a simple, bold concept - the London singer&nbsp;takes a walk through deserted snowbound town into&nbsp;the icy wilderness beyond.&nbsp;But it&#39;s the cinematic approach - facilitated by Steve Annis&#39;s wonderful photography - which gives the video its power. It&#39;s intimate and&nbsp;epic, and an almost perfect mix of&nbsp;pop video and pure cinema.

Jessica Wylie

Kaj Snijder

Kim Miell

Adam Soderholm

Peter Brannstrom

Cobbie Yates

Janakie Ohlund

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Urban, Pop

Kwabs 'Perfect Ruin' by George Belfield

Kwabs-'Perfect-Ruin'-by-George-Belfield

A great track by Desert Sound Colony, is a given a simple and powerful visual treatment by director Alex Hulsey - and this&nbsp;dance performance on a beach, choreographed by Holly Blakey, was&nbsp;shot on Super 16mm by Robbie Ryan.As sunset arrives, it becomes breathtaking...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Licia Conn

Beki Henderson

Robbie Ryan

Dec Hardy

Verity Maylane

Jennifer Nelson

Edwin Metternich

Chris Anthony

Parinay Mehra

Simon Gold

This Is Music

Holly Blakey

Dance, Electronica

Desert Sound Colony 'The Way I Began' by Alex Hulsey

An exceptional portrayal of young lives and failed relationships, with intimations of disaster, for Arthur Beatrice&#39;s Late by George Belfield.Shot on the Isle of Sheppey, it&#39;s also beautifully photographed by&nbsp;Steve Annis on 35mm film.&nbsp;

Suze Olbrich

Mark McPadden

Alex Teale

Ed Sinclair

Victoria Higgs

Natasha Lawes

Tom Chick

Moffy

Nicky Bell

Arthur Beatrice 'Late' by George Belfield

A man walks out of a deserted&nbsp;theatre and, in a disconcerting moment, steps onto the deck of a classic English seaside pier&nbsp;at night in George Belfield&#39;s promo to Cosmo&#39;s Measurement Of Moving On. It&#39;s minimal and slightly strange mood&nbsp;is an excellent counterpoint to&nbsp;the big atmospherics in Cosmo&#39;s soundtrack.&nbsp;

Jaime Feliu Torres

Rupert Ashmore

Polydor

Emily Tedrake

Indie

Cosmo 'Measurement Of Moving On' by George Belfield

George Belfield&#39;s video for Richard Hawley&#39;s majestic Don&#39;t Stare At The Sun has a compelling, almost wilfully simple concept. These are scenes from ordinary life, each lingering shot takes in the back of someone&#39;s head. These are people in contemplation, whereever they are. And they do offer a reflective mood that gels with Hawley&#39;s trademark melodious delivery. But it also becomes increasingly intense...The young director, who directed the impressive video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/11/21/dva-ft-vikter-duplaix-madness-by-george-belfield/" target="_blank">DVA&#39;s Madness</a> just over a year ago, shot this over three days in and around Hawley&#39;s hometown of Sheffield, working with local street-cast people, and shooting on 35mm film. Incidentally, it was commissioned in Richard&#39;s local during an unrelated meeting between director Daniel Wolfe (who co-exec produced this), producer Lee Groombridge and commissioner John Moule...Watch: <a href="http://www.somesuchandco.com/home/dont-stare-at-the-sun/" target="_blank">here</a>

Jamie Torres

Laura Serra Estorch

Xènia Gasull

Markos Goikolea Unzalu

Helene Michaelides

Tom Lindsay

John Moule

Daniel Wolfe

Lee Groombridge

Richard Hawley 'Don't Stare At The Sun' by George Belfield

Madness is taken from the forthcoming DVA album 'Pretty Ugly' due for release on Hyperdub in early 2012.

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