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Ghost Robot

Tyler Childers is a grassroots country artist from Kentucky who provides an alternative voice&nbsp;in a genre associated with conservative values, and worse. And following the race-baiting ugliness of Jason Aldean's Try That In A New Town&nbsp;song and video, Childers' video for In Your Love - directed by Bryan Schlam -&nbsp;could hardly be more timely.It's a love story, set in the Appalachians in the 1950s, of two gay Kentucky miners. Starring&nbsp;Colton Haynes (WB's Arrow) and James Scully (Netflix's You), this is a tale that is touched with tragedy, but crucially one that sends a message of the power of love surmounting all obstacles, and the paramount importance of tolerance.The script for&nbsp;In Your Love&nbsp;was written by Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House - a friend of Childers - and Jason Kyle Howard. They then worked with Bryan Schlam&nbsp;on how to best adapt this unique story for the screen. It's the second time Schlam has worked with Childers - and bucked expectatations -&nbsp;having already directed the video for Angel Band (Jubilee Version). The In Your Love video also weaves in a performance by Childers and his band The Food Stamps, into the narrative.&nbsp;For House, it was important to not only depict the strife of growing up LGBTQ in an intolerant society, but also the joy and complexity of rural lives. For Schlam, the challenge was in how to do justice to the emotional core in such a short amount of time.[imgtoken data:1]"I knew we only had three minutes and forty-five seconds to put this story together, so every single shot, every single beat, and every action had to have purpose," says Schlam.&nbsp;"I wanted to move the audience in a way a traditional music video wouldn't be able to."After locking actors Colton Haynes and James Scully to star in this romantic tale, Schlam could lean into a more narrative storytelling world in order to truly bring the emotional truth of the song to life. To stay as accurate as possible to its time and Appalachian setting, Schlam worked diligently with the team at his production company home, Brooklyn-based Ghost Robot - including&nbsp;producer Whitney Wolanin and production supervisor Loren Greene - to source authentic locations and period detail."I spent so much time working through archival footage of miners in '50s and '60s," he says. "Just looking at every single detail from exact helmets, to the tools they used, to how dirty their clothes and faces were."After sourcing the perfect farmhouse and bar location, a limestone cave roughly an hour outside of Nashville stood in for the central coal mine. When it came to making the mid-century setting immediately recognizable, period specific cars and costumes became key components.[imgtoken data:2]Schlam brought in stylist Samantha Roe for everything wardrobe related; from the actor's midcentury attire to Tyler and the band's aesthetic in the video. Production designer Amanda Alberto was also key in providing key hand props, and diligently removing contemporary background details and supplementing what was already there.Director of photography Doug Porter was instrumental in shaping the narrative look of the video. Having also worked&nbsp;Tyler and Schlam on the Angel Band (Jubilee Version) video, Schlam praises Porter's ability to bring their creative vision to life. “By now, we have developed a shorthand that helped us pull off the shoot and give the frames emotion and life in such a tight schedule.” Tyler Childers has been previously outspoken on social matters such as racial injustice and police brutality. By centering a same-sex couple, In Your Love&nbsp;has predictably inspired strong reactions, but the most popular social media comments by far have been overwhelmingly positive. There's also been a swarm of reaction videos of TikTok, with fans filming themselves crying after being deeply moved by the video.For Schlam, this emotional reaction from fans has been particularly gratifying: "People are truly connecting to this inclusive message on another level," he says.&nbsp;"To be able to collaborate with Silas and Tyler on a story that lets people know they're loved, recognized, and welcome is a true gift – nevermind the opportunity to make a music video with such a strong message about empathy and humanity behind it."

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Bryan Schlam

Whitney Wolanin

Kacie Barton

Las Bandas Be Brave

Loren Greene

Doug Porter

Amanda Alberto

Samantha Roe

Nichole Lim

Harriet Greenspan

Matt Osbourne

Company 3

Colton Haynes

James Scully

Country

Tyler Childers 'In Your Love' by Bryan Schlam

Tyler Childers - In Your Love (Official Video)

The Black Keys attempt&nbsp;to reconnect to their blue-collar roots, in Bryan Schlam's uninhibited promo for Wild Child.&nbsp;In a riotous back-to-school concept, we see Patrick and Danny of the BKs&nbsp;take on a janitor and chef role at a high school&nbsp;full of drugs, fighting&nbsp;and various other disorderly behaviour.&nbsp;With a cast of teachers who are just as bad than the students - if not worse -&nbsp;all hell breaks loose when they take on their new roles. But will the Keys succeed to helps these kids, and these adults, become upstanding citizens?&nbsp;Er, no. But then, they can always go back to being rich rock stars...&nbsp;Playful and bawdy, Schlam packs out each scene with tonnes of laughs and gross-out humour, and the performances are spot-on all round. He's a master at this sort of thing.

Travis Jones

Jr Wilson

Alex Gordon

Ben Carey

Micah Parrigin

Colin Noel

Tyler Buchholz

Daniel Long

Corey Rich

Rock

The Black Keys 'Wild Child' by Bryan Schlam

The-Black-Keys-'Wild-Child'-by-Bryan-Schlam

When the gig economy escalates to working with The Grim Reaper, a friendship forms that challenges the commodification of death, in Willem Holzer's entertaining&nbsp;promo for John Robert.&nbsp;Move It To The Side opens with the spooky soul collector himself - played by&nbsp;John E. Bongos - signing in to an app called Dead Drops, ready for another shift. However, he has to make a unscheduled stop, when he knocks down a pedestrian and finds himself with an 'unauthorized soul' - that's&nbsp;John Robert, who then joins The Reaper&nbsp;on his shift throughout the rest of the video.&nbsp;Then we have a classic buddy comedy on our hands, with plenty of sight gags - before things turn rather more serious and poignant in the final act. Holzer excels in the storytelling in his mini-movie - and marshalling a pair of&nbsp;excellent performances from the two&nbsp;Johns, Bongos and&nbsp;Robert.If it was Hollywood, they would be lining up a sequel...

Willem Holzer

Dave Kornfield

Mark De Pace

Melissa Burns

Alex Purifoy

Ben Brady

Philip Steiger

Kim-quyen Nguyen

Ren Bray

Max Blum

Nicelife

Zachary Mortensen

John Robert 'Move It To The Side' by Willem Holzer

John-Robert-'Move-It-To-The-Side'-by-Willem-Holzer

Human decomposition as a thing of beauty and wonder. It’s so profound (and frankly, just a bit icky) that it takes a while to even begin&nbsp;to think how they achieved it.‘They’ being Darren Rabinovitch and the team at Encyclopedia Pictura.&nbsp;It could really only be them, and it’s a masterpiece.&nbsp;

Daren Rabinovitch

Isaiah Saxon

Encyclopedia Pictura

Ade Macalinao

David Vollrath

Mitch Herndon

Tom Platt

Nicholas Popkey

Michell Sfarzo

Sean Hellfritsch

Aparna Nancherla

Domino Records

Dan Deacon 'Sat By A Tree' by Daren Rabinovitch

Dan Deacon - Sat By a Tree

It's all sweetness and light in Kemba's world, as he makes his way to work at the diner every day. Only thing is, black men are always getting arrested...Describing his video as 'Get Out meets Groundhog Day', Tomson Tee has created a brilliantly&nbsp;chilling satire on race relations in the USA, for Nobody I Can Trust.Kemba plays an initially happy-go-lucky worker in an aggressively retro-Americana suburb. We witness a&nbsp;loop of the same three scenes that make up his day-to-day routine. And each day it starts with a&nbsp;different African-American person getting arrested, on Kemba's walk to work.&nbsp;And as more and more black men get locked away by increasingly aggressive cops, Kemba begins to notice the town’s attitude toward him shifting eerily, the mood in the diner changing. Things start to get ugly.Tomson Tee's crucial eye for detail serves the narrative so well, using a style employed by&nbsp;B movies and TV shows from the 50s and 60s, and building a surreal&nbsp;nightmare that feels increasingly plausible.Entirely plausible in fact, as the truth about the rise of racism in Trump's America is repeatedly borne out by events.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Tomson Tee

Nadine Lübbeling

Zach Mortensen

Skyler Tapley

Carlos Zozaya

Cory Fraiman-lott

Brian Hall

Laura Hilliard

Jay Laforest

Marc Anthony George

Jade Stanton

Mary Perrino

Republic Records

Hip Hop

Kemba 'Nobody I Can Trust' by Tomson Tee

Kemba-'Nobody-I-Can-Trust'-by-Tomson-Tee

What initially seemed&nbsp;to be a calm, serene&nbsp;take by Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) of his new single&nbsp;turns&nbsp;out to be a spectacular death-defying act, as the singer stands amidst a plethora&nbsp;of&nbsp;fireworks in Najeeb Tarazi&#39;s video for Dangerous.The soothing blue hues of Murphy&#39;s close up expand to a whirlwind of red and gold sparks, revealed through this&nbsp;authentic&nbsp;one-shot take.

Najeeb Tarazi

Christina Jobe

Jake Eisner

Andrew Baxter

Craig Ryan

Kristopher Smale

Indie

Nick Murphy 'Dangerous' by Najeeb Tarazi

Nick-Murphy-'Dangerous'-by-Najeeb-Tarazi

Here&#39;s a daft laugh for the excellent Hippo Campus by Tomson Tee: a nervous deer in the city finds herself in the sights of a relentless Dodge truck, trying to run her over. She&#39;s scared - but also strangely attracted to it, in a sort of JG Ballard way.Certainly the weirdest, and possibly the most endearing love story of the year so far...

Oliver Finley, Nadine Lübbeling

Jeremy Harris

Callum Shaw

Annie Chernecky

Ingrid Jacobsen

Steve Gottlieb

Grand Jury Music

Hippo Campus 'Doubt' by Tomson Tee

Hippo-Campus-'Doubt'-by-Tomson-Tee

Cashmere Cat, Diplo/Major Lazer and Tory Lanez take to the ice rink on a zamboni with a large squad of girl figure skaters called Team Image, in Austin Peters video for Miss You.It&#39;s uplifting&nbsp;stuff, with Team Image executing&nbsp;a routine that demonstrates how watching top level skating&nbsp;is really good for the spirit at this time of year. And of course it&#39;s&nbsp;well timed, with the Winter Olympics about to start&nbsp;-&nbsp;and even the notorious ice skater Tonya Harding being rehabilitated (somehow) in the Oscar-nominated I, Tonya.

Austin Peters

Andrew Krasniak

Radical Media

Jennifer Heath

Yori Tondrowski

Matt Santo

Kiersten Lane

Kyle Gorjanc

Kevin Bacon

Andy Deloach

Rachel Dainer-best

Holly Corasno

Marlo Caine

Spotwelders

Mikey Rossiter

The Mill

Justine Mae Biticon

Forever

Michelle An

Dance

Cashmere Cat, Major Lazer & Tory Lanez 'Miss You' by Austin Peters

Cashmere-Cat,-Major-Lazer,-&-Tory-Lanez-'Miss-You'-by-Austin-Peters

Daren Rabinovitch of Encyclopedia Pictura addresses the tricky business of love&nbsp;in his video for Dirty Projectors. He charts the classic stages of a relationship, from beginning to end, through a&nbsp;cast of characters who all share a common distinguishing&nbsp;feature.Dirty Projectors&#39; song Up In Hudson is a personal story. Rabinovitch and his associate director&nbsp;Isaiah Saxon have opened it out, and added the magic and fantasy, and brilliant colour palette, of which their creative collective are rightly renowned. Recognisable modern settings become the domain where the characters (the descendants of characters from The Hobbit?)&nbsp;find and enjoy, stumble and lose love, and then find themselves.Every shot is imbued with the familiar EP pink and blue-hued superreal look, and each stage brings new wonders - none less than the brilliant final sequence, at a busy intersection in Manhattan.

Rachel Nederveld

Jett Steiger

Lana Kim

Sarah Winshall

Bobby Nicholson

Drew Daniels

Troy 'teddy' Dickerson

Joe Rosenblit

Orlando Duguay

Kiani Del Valle

Almitra Corey

Lauren Wilde

Elizabeth Warn

Minnie Garcia

Chutima Savetanai/MESHFX

Dirty Projectors 'Up In Hudson' by Daren Rabinovitch

Dirty-Projectors-'Up-In-Hudson'-by-Daren-Rabinovitch

Cinematographer Adam Newton-Berra has directed this beautifully&nbsp;shot Wild West love story between a biker girl and a cowboy in this dreamy cover of&nbsp;Tracy Chapman&rsquo;s&nbsp;1988 hit song&nbsp;Fast Car&nbsp;by London-based producer&nbsp;Jonas Blue, featuring vocals by Dakota.&nbsp;Shot near the Salton Sea and Salvation Mountain, it delivers&nbsp;big, sweeping shots of&nbsp;the biker as she races through the desert with the&nbsp;cowboy on her tail, before she crashing down a dune. And after some struggle to run away - she falls in love with the&nbsp;persistent chaser. But the morning after a night together she finds him gone, sequestered back to his normal life as a checkout clerk... until she goes to find him again.&nbsp;

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Adam Newport-Berra

Kyle Smithers

Alexander Armero

Renni Pollock

Soren Nielsen

Prerna Chawla

Jardine Hammond

Heather Cvar

John-michael Powell

Megan Frai

Ricky Flowers

Andy @ Las Bandas Be Brave

Ailsa Robertson

Virgin

Jonas Blue Ft. Dakota 'Fast Car' by Adam Newport-Berra

Jonas-Blue-Ft.-Dakota-'Fast-Car'-by-Adam-Newton-berra

With this video for Caribou&#39;s Can&#39;t Do Without You,&nbsp;Lorenzo Fonda gives evidence to the age-old truism that a simple idea executed well can make for a strong final piece.The video highlights a scope of emotions,&nbsp;fear, acceptance, happiness, longing, and finally,&nbsp;dissapointment, all shot in the dreamiest of super-slomotion sequences.&nbsp;Like a miniature coming-of-age story, the video encompasses all the strong&nbsp;emotions children face and learn from. It&#39;s all part of growing up. But there&#39;s a bit of magic in there too...

Lorenzo Fonda

Judy Craig

Justin Gurnari

Celeste Diamos

Eric Archer

Coyote Post

Robert Crosby

Caribou 'Can't Do Without You' by Lorenzo Fonda

CARIBOU - Can't Do Without You

Superstar singer Sam Smith and his pals enjoy a night out in the big city in Sophie Muller&#39;s gorgeous black and white promo for Smith&#39;s new single Like I Can. Beautifully shot, the group -&nbsp;suited and booted -&nbsp;go for a stroll around Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge,&nbsp;ending up doing tequila shots in a city bar...

Sophie Muller

Black Dog Films

Jacob Swan Hyam

Svana Gisla

Diamond Dave

Robbie Ryan

Houmam Abdallah

Electric Theatre Collective

Amber Schaefer

Capitol Records

John Moule

Soul

Sam Smith 'Like I Can' by Sophie Muller

Room for one more great video in 2014? Following their long-awaited return with Metronomy&#39;s The Upsetter last month, the comeback of Encyclopedia Pictura gathers momentum with their new video for Panda Bear&#39;s mesmerising Boys Latin, and this time it&#39;s the collective&#39;s&nbsp;Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch turn to approach EP&#39;s&nbsp;favourite themes.The inspiration, as with much of their work, is&nbsp;the wonder of nature, and then turning it into something mind-bendingly fantastical. But Isaiah and Sean have taken an entirely&nbsp;fresh approach to this project:&nbsp;it&#39;s their&nbsp;first fully-animated video.This is a&nbsp;seashore adventure that has its characters go through sudden, radical and scary physical changes&nbsp;when they come in contact with mysterious aqueous fauna. So with&nbsp;the Metronomy video&nbsp;- directed by&nbsp;Darren Rabinovitch - displaying EP&#39;s remarkable talents for in-camera effects via costume design and art direction, this one&nbsp;focusses on their equally amazing talents for post work and animation.Another beautiful, jawdropping visual treat - and, of course,&nbsp;no less Encyclopedia Pictura.&nbsp;Definitely another (and perhaps the last)&nbsp;great video for 2014...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Panda Bear 'Boys Latin' by Encyclopedia Pictura

Panda Bear - Boys Latin (Official Video)

More than six years since they created their epic 3D video for Bjork&#39;s Wanderlust - the winner of Video of the Year at the first UK Music Video Awards in 2008 - to be followed by a long haitus from filmmaking, Encyclopedia Pictura are back.&nbsp;The directing collective, known for the&nbsp;extraordinary&nbsp;nature-based surrealism in videos for&nbsp;Grizzly Bear, Seventeen Evergreen and others, have returned to make the video for Metronomy&#39;s The Upsetter, with Daren Rabinovitch at the helm. Daren has also created the astonishing costumes in the video (their making is documented in the BTS film linked below), that sees the creation of one character, a sort of human sloth, to the transformation of the other, as a forest woman starts to incorporate the&nbsp;forest in her body.Essentially this is a&nbsp;love story,&nbsp;about the woman (possibly from&nbsp;civilisation who has been lost in the forest for years and grown a beard)&nbsp;who in her solitude creates a companion&nbsp;of grass and earth on the ground. Then, as her loneliness overcomes her, she brings the grass creature to life.The level of vision and ambition is there, as before, and the physical development of the characters is extraordinary. And Daren&nbsp;Rabinovitch&#39;s direction adds&nbsp;a level of warmth&nbsp;and poignancy to EP&#39;s trademark visionary style and&nbsp;themes. Very good to have them back.&bull; Making of Daren Rabinovitch of Encyclopedia Pictura&#39;s video for Metronomy&#39;s The Upsetter&nbsp;<a href="http://makingtheupsetter.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp;

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