Production Company

Good Company

Actress (and trained ballet dancer)&nbsp;Margaret Qualley stars&nbsp;in this charming promo for Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff's band Bleachers, co-directed by Alex Lockett and Qualley herself.The video for Tiny Moves sees the actress dance&nbsp;around an empty car park just before sunset, eventually joining Antonoff -her husband - on the hood of his&nbsp;idling car.It's a concept fit for the end scene of an 80's rom-com - by no mistake, given the group's open admiration for old John Hughes films - and blends different dance techniques with lingering shots and a beautiful New York backdrop.

Griffin Stoddard

Patricia Villirillo

Margaret Qualley

Alex Lockett

Ellis Fox

Ed Blow

Omar Nasr

Ian Barling

Ryan Heiferman

Matt Tomko

Yoshi Teng

Jerry Chia

Jake White

Company 3

Dirty Hit

Bleachers 'Tiny Moves' by Alex Lockett & Margaret Qualley

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One the one hand, Alex Lockett's video for New Jersey band Bleachers looks quite simple and straightforward: it captures the band in performance in a studio rehearsal room. And at the start, as frontman and driving force Jack Antonoff enters the studio, it sounds live. But there's nothing simple about the way this marvellously watchable promo has&nbsp;come together.Musically, Bleachers are a throwback, with a clear debt to their antecedents, particularly fellow Jersey-ite Bruce Springsteen. And they radiate a&nbsp;similar exuberant energy to Bruce and his E-Street Band in the early days. All this is here - with a palpable sense of collective joy in the band performing their decidedly old school-sounding song Modern Girl.Lockett puts the viewer right in the middle of it, with an immediacy that actually comes from terrific craft.&nbsp;Brilliantly shot by&nbsp;Ian Barling and edited by Jerry Chia, it's&nbsp;a&nbsp;great&nbsp;experience from first to last. That has&nbsp;a lot to do with Antanoff and his bandmates,&nbsp;as well as the filmmakers, but it feels like&nbsp;the most compelling band&nbsp;performance video for a long time.

United States

John Gory

James Woods

Stew Cantrel

Derek Nelson

Stephanie Guzman

Kevin Ryan

Tayler Treadwell

Joseph Bicknell

Colin Stackpole

Dirty Hit Records

Rock

Bleachers 'Modern Girl' by Alex Lockett

Bleachers-'Modern-Girl'-by-Alex-Lockett

Maxime Quoilin makes a notable start as a fully-fledged music video director for Meek Mill's collaboration with Justin Timberlake, weaving their performance with a powerful story of personal redemption.Quoilin has built a reputation across disciplines, from photography and graphic design to creative direction and moving image across fashion, commercials and live music tours - including Beyoncé's Formation tour.Now he is taking the next step, with his video for Believe employing an old-school structure, separating the artist performance from the narrative. What is not old-school&nbsp;is how this story of hope is delivered in a gritty, hard-hitting fashion: after witnessing her father's arrest, a young woman turns to drugs, overdoses and almost dies. Her slow but determined recovery leads her to the boxing ring, and a reunion with her father.The video is Quoilin's first since joining Good Company in the US, and becoming represented for commercials by FAMILIA and Lock It In for promos in the UK.

Maxime Quoilin

Stacey Lynn

Brian Welsh

William DeSena

Alexis Johnson

Ron Sudul

Nice Shoes

Ralph Miccio

FAMILIA

Hip Hop

Meek Mill ft Justin Timberlake 'Believe' by Maxime Quoilin

Meek-Mill-Feat.-Justin-Timberlake-'Believe'-by-Maxime-Quoilin

Pull out your gum and lick a sledgehammer.&nbsp;Miley Cyrus is outrageous again. Alexandre Moors directs this taboo-busting performance video.A tribute to various women, the progressive video features cameos from activists and role models including her mother Tish Cyrus, along with trans models Casil MacArthur&nbsp;and Aaron Philip, and&nbsp;dancer Amazon Ashley. The progressive performance video features various taboos: images of breastfeeding, menstruation pads, scars, and a slogan that reads: "virginity is a social construct”.&nbsp;It benefits from some lush photography from DOP Natasha Braier (of The Neon Demon) and a lively grade by Ron Sudul.<blockquote>Music videos are the great barometer of popular culture in the 21st century. And if you ever needed evidence, you’d need look no further than Miley Cyrus’ visual canon.</blockquote>In 2017, Cyrus briefly returned to a more country&nbsp;influenced sound, and restrained visual presence to match. It was variously described with all the well intended clichés you might expect: the singer was making “clean”, “honest” music and “leaning into her roots”. But this latest video proves that Cyrus has always been more comfortable as a provocateur.Music videos are the great barometer of popular culture in the 21st century. And if you ever needed evidence, you’d need look no further than Miley Cyrus’ visual canon. Compare the warm reception of Mother’s Daughter to the well-publicised moral outrage that greeted her reinvention in 2013. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/10/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball">"Miley Cyrus's new Wrecking Ball video says young women should be sexually available”</a>, read a typically hysterical headline -&nbsp;in The Guardian, no less.There were some genuine criticisms of Bangerz era. In fact, her performance at the MTV VMAs was arguably the agent that propelled conversations about cultural appropriation into the mainstream. But the majority of the criticism levelled at Cyrus was from a public that simply weren’t ready for a female star expressing her sexuality so candidly. This video is equally provocative, at least to a mainstream audience. But when the worst Fox News can say is that the video&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/miley-cyrus-mothers-daughter-music-video-mixed-reviews">“draws mixed reactions”</a>, it makes you think. And when The Daily Mail calls it&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7205221/Miley-Cyrus-snuggles-mom-Tish-beautifully-diverse-Mothers-Daughter-video.html">“beautifully diverse”</a>, it occurs to you quite how dramatically culture has changed in a short six years.

Alexandre Moors

Natasha Braier

Andrew Illson

Alt Pop

Miley Cyrus 'Mother's Daughter' by Alexandre Moors

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Madonna is back in New York City, sending messages to Swae Lee in a very old-fashioned way in the video for Crave.It&#39;s directed by Nuno Xico, the NYC-based Portuguese director/editor who has collaborated with Madonna on a number of projects including content for her MDNA Skin product range.

Nuno Xico

Stephen Holtzhauser

Trevor Potts

Megan Lawson

Eyob Yohannes

Aaron Henrikson

Andy Lecompte

Fatima B

Tim Masick

Nicholas Montgomery

Carrie Sutton

Lock It In

Madonna, Swae Lee 'Crave' by Nuno Xico

Madonna, Swae Lee - Crave (Official Music Video)

Welcome to Nicki&#39;s Chinese S&amp;M club...&nbsp;The first of two new Minaj videos is a brilliant sexual neon dream by Steven Klein for Chun-Li. Allen Jones couldn&#39;t have done it better.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Steven Klein

Keith Brown

Benjamin Rodriguez Jr.

Nicki Minaj 'Chun-Li' by Steven Klein

Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li

The second NERD video &ndash; or &#39;Tutorial&#39;&nbsp;&ndash; directed by Scott Cudmore and Todd Tourso. Like the first it centres on phenomenal dancer Mette Towley, but the video for 1000 is more controversial, diving headlong into the polarised politics of the United States.&nbsp;Clearly influenced by the work of Arthur Jafa - the great Jay-Z 4:44 video, for example - and Beyoncé&#39;s Formation, it starts with clips of news footage - clashes between white nationalists and left-leaning protesters - in a seemingly&nbsp;unmediated way.&nbsp;There follows&nbsp;a break in the track to include a monologue by Mike Tyson at his boxing peak.Thought-provoking stuff, although it may not be entirely clear what message we&#39;re supposed to take from this Tutorial. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Todd Tourso

Scott Cudmore

Phi Hollinger

Jonathan Lia

Stacey Thiel

Malik Sayeed

JaQuel Knight

Brandon Mendez

Mette Towley

Shirley Kurata

Olive Meyer

Tina Martinez

Taylor Ward

Dave Hussey

NERD & Future '1000' by Scott Cudmore & Todd Tourso

N.E.R.D & Future - 1000 (Video)

&#39;Tutorial No.1: Lemon&#39; begins with Rihanna shaving the head of dancer Mette Towley. After that, the video heralding the return of Pharrell Williams&#39;s band N.E.R.D. (with Ri-Ri) is all about Towley.Todd Tourso and Scott Cudmore direct Towley&#39;s riveting performance,&nbsp;in contrasting sequences shot in LA and New York. And it&#39;s photographed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Malik Sayeed, and choreographed by&nbsp;JaQuel Knight, both veterans of Beyoncé&#39;s Formation video.&nbsp;

Bryan Norvelle

N.E.R.D. & Rihanna 'Lemon' by Todd Tourso & Scott Cudmore 

N.E.R.D & Rihanna - Lemon

After his hugely impressive video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/02/17/blondie-fun-dikayl-rimmasch" target="_blank">Fun</a>, Dikayl Rimmasch is back to sprinkle more magic on Blondie&#39;s return, with&nbsp;Debbie Harry and her boys&nbsp;returning to their old stamping grounds of New York City for Long Time.The video revels in old school techniques, from high contrast photography to a kinetic edit executed by Rimmasch, Alexander Hammer and Carlos Font Clos, to add to the band&#39;s undiminished rock &#39;n roll attitude - in which their legendary lead singer looks remarkably&nbsp;fab and unmistakeably Debbie Harry-like. She even dons the cabbie&#39;s cap to take us&nbsp;on a trip through Manhattan in her very own Yellow Taxi.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Dikayl Rimmasch

Leyden Pavlova

Pola Esther

Adam Klimaszewski

Asevernyc.com

Brandy Mcdonald

Guy Forrow

Bmg Uk

Alexander Hammer

Carlos Font Clos

Blondie 'Long Time' by Dikayl Rimmasch

Blondie-'Long-Time'-by-Dikayl-Rimmasch

Bruno Mars keeps it simple but utterly captivating for the video for That&rsquo;s What I Like, directed by Jonathan Lia and Mars: he commands the screen from start to finish, with some hand-drawn animations relating to the lyrics adding the only flourishes to the natural Mars charisma and fancy footwork.There is another element that gives Bruno&#39;s dancing a special kinetic quality. Lia filmed him performing to the audio track played at half it&#39;s normal speed - so the single take video was nearly eight minutes long.&nbsp;Then Lia played back the footage at 200% that speed to achieve a delightfully surreal effect.&nbsp;.Yes, it&#39;s the same effect as Garth Jennings used in Vampire Weekend&#39;s A Punk video all those years ago, and it turns out it also works very well with a bone fide pop showman like Mars. And, according to Jonathan Lia,&nbsp;it all came about by accident.&nbsp;&ldquo;It was originally written as a completely different concept,&quot; he says. &quot;We held a test shoot in LA, and weren&rsquo;t getting what we wanted. So we turned off all the lights except one and he just danced; it was magical and we immediately knew that was the video.&rdquo;The literal approach to the choreography allowed Lia and Mars to map out a few of the animations prior to filming, however purposely left some frames unplanned to see what would best support the visuals in post. The team at GenPop in Los Angeles expertly handled the scope of animation work.&ldquo;This was very much a true co-direction,&rdquo; says Lia. &ldquo;Bruno is one of the most humble yet invested artists I&rsquo;ve ever had the pleasure to work with. Despite his hectic schedule, he was involved every single step of the way. This video was very much a vehicle to just let Bruno be Bruno &ndash; you don&rsquo;t need anything else.&rdquo;

Bruno Mars

Jeremy Sullivan

Santiago Gonzalez

Philippe Tayag

Jacquelyn London

Marshall Plante

GenPop

Phil Botti

Atlantic Records

Bruno Mars 'That's What I Like' by Jonathan Lia and Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like [Official Video]

Blondie are back, releasing their&nbsp;song&nbsp;Fun from their upcoming album Pollinator, with Debbie Harry looking stunning, and a colourful, psychedelia-tinged&nbsp;narrative by&nbsp;NYC-based director Dikayl Rimmasch.With a performance sequence that the director describes as&nbsp;&quot;flash photography from a punk show,&quot; shot with one primary light right overhead of the camera, and an element of science fiction, it&#39;s a very stylish piece evocative of decades of pop culture.&nbsp;Dikayl Rimmasch describes the main character in the narrative element of the video as, &quot;a beautiful androgynous kid kind of drugged-out, cruising to Mars and finding a party there. Or maybe the whole trip was in this characters mind. We didn&rsquo;t want to take the sci-fi elements too seriously, so we did these light-hearted animations and shot in this minimal Apollo capsule set.&quot;

Julian Pinder

Philip Ujlaki

Chloe Page @ Lock It In

Ezra Bassin-Hill

David Bismuth

Olivia Carrano

Lisa Fries

Nash Lundquist

Alex Delgado

New Wave

Blondie 'Fun' by Dikayl Rimmasch

Blondie - Fun (Official Video)

After a&nbsp;prolific run of videos for everyone from Alt-J and Belle &amp; Sebastian to Metz and Spoon,&nbsp;Michael&nbsp;Leblanc and Scott Cudmore have now stepped boldly away from their roots in indie&nbsp;rock, turning their attention&nbsp;to&nbsp;Gym Class Heroes&#39; singer/rapper&nbsp;Travie McCoy&#39;s track Golden - featuring the soaring vocals of Sia.But despite this change of musical direction this&nbsp;retains defining characteristics of a&nbsp;Leblanc + Cudmore video, with its flowing camerawork and its taste for&nbsp;mild&nbsp;surrealism. Shot in the desert outside LA, the Godard-infuenced video sees McCoy stuck in a traffic jam in the desert, and finding that everyone is making the most of it, apart from him - and then going round all over again...

Leblanc + Cudmore

Michael Leblanc

Ari Robbins

Julien Janigo

Lauren Simpson

Jake Owens

Hip Hop, Pop

Travie McCoy feat. Sia 'Golden' by Leblanc + Cudmore

Travie McCoy: Golden (feat. Sia) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

This energetic dance pop track Wanna Live by Avan Lava has a video directed by&nbsp;Alexander Hammer - longtime editor of numerous Beyoncé videos and much more &ndash;&nbsp;in which black and white explodes into colour and movement.It&#39;s already a hit, and confirms that&nbsp;Alex is not just an excellent editor... &nbsp;

Alli Maxwell

Ashley Bandier

Jan Reichle

Matt Lowe

Jenn Freeman

Elle Werlin

Tarek Makki

Michael Anthony

Hue&I Creative

Avan Lava 'Wanna Live' by Alexander Hammer

AVAN LAVA - Wanna Live

Shot in the Mojave desert and beautifully captured by DP&nbsp;Todd Banhazl, Jimmy Ahlander and Robin Antiga&#39;s allegorical&nbsp;promo for Smashing Pumpkins&#39; Drum&nbsp;&amp; Fife sees a group of kids armed with catapults and a drum, playing war&nbsp;in the dunes - but then mysteriously and cruelly&nbsp;subjected to a real mortar attack.

Jimmy Ahlander

George Nessis

Todd Banhazl

Sean Fazende

Cut+Run

Robin Antiga

Kevin Cannon

Prehistoric Digital

Randi Wilens

Indie

Smashing Pumpkins 'Drum & Fife' by Jimmy Ahlander & Robin Antiga

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George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow undergoes image-deconstruction and transformation in Alex Turvey&#39;s monochrome promo for the sophisticated ballad Turn Me Up.&nbsp;The artist divests himself of metallic biker-style clothing that harks back to his action-packed brace of narrative videos, <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/06/21/twin-shadow-five-seconds-keith-musil" target="_blank">Five Seconds</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/07/13/twin-shadow-patient-keith-musil" target="_blank">Patient</a>, with Alex using practical mirror effects - and lots of shadow - to evoke a dark, reflective mood.&nbsp;

Alex Turvey

Tamsin Glasson

Sing Howe Yam

Susie Francis

Milan Zrnic

Danny Moon

Kali Kennedy

Scott Butzer

Final Cut

Richard Fearon

Logan & Sons

Warner

Twin Shadow 'Turn Me Up' by Alex Turvey 

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After their recent videos for Timber Timbre and Alt-J, Michael Leblanc and Scott Cudmore are definitely on a roll. Their&nbsp;intriguing video for Belle &amp; Sebastian&#39;s Party Line -&nbsp;taken from their forthcoming new album Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance &ndash; is fine indeed. It tells the story of a girls&#39; infatuation for a young man in at least two distinct styles, giving it a different interpretation each time, to reveal more of the narrative.Scott wrote this, and Michael photographed it - in two wildly contrasting formats -&nbsp;and its dreamlike quality is emphasised by what happens on the dancefloor: a sort of Northern Soul&nbsp;ballet, choreographed by&nbsp;Robert Binet.It all leads to a poignant&nbsp;moment which is very Belle &amp; Sebastian...&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Revolver Films

Jennifer Millington

Richard Cureton

Muska Zurmati

Caitlin Wright

Trisha At Alter Ego Post

Michael Heathcote

Justin Lovell

Matador Records

Belle & Sebastian 'Party Line' by Leblanc + Cudmore 

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Shot in California&#39;s San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles, Alexandre Moors &amp; The Little Homies&#39; spirited, energetic video for Kendrick Lamar&#39;s Isley Brothers-flavoured track i sees the hip hop star inspire&nbsp;his followers to wake up and conquer their doubts and fears...

The Little Homies

Danny Hiele

Kendrick Lamar 'i' by Alexandre Moors & The Little Homies