Director of Photography

Hayden Mason

David M. Helman directs a superb study of interconnected lives&nbsp;for American Football's cover of Mazzy Star's classic Fade Into You.&nbsp;Focused on a series of captivating vignettes, the video for Fade Into You captures transitionary moments in seemingly random characters'&nbsp;lives. But then the scenes reveal themselves to be like beads on a chain: a&nbsp;background character in a scene moves centre stage into the next one, then passing the baton onto the next character.[imgtoken data:1]Helman's method - each scene is a beautifully-shot portrait, with a slow zoom moving closer to the characters - is a wonderful device to create a sense of a narrative, but also hint at something rather more profound. Reality and a touch of surreality sit side-by-side, mirroring the serendipitous nature of life and who we meet on our journeys.&nbsp;This is terrific work, that&nbsp;lingers long after watching - the sign of a very good video indeed.

United States

Jen Dunlap

David M. Helman

Cristian Quintero

Mouthpiece

Noco

Ben Joyner

Jean Mougin

Ryan Deng

Benjamin Steen

Stacy Gonzalez

Zaldy Lopez

Kaitlyn Battistelli

Ethos Studio

Alternative

Rock

American Football ft Miya Folick 'Fade Into You' by David M. Helman

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After the impressive video for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/11/30/nana-ft-reason-la-times-andrew-litten/68266" target="_blank">LA Times</a>, Andrew Litten's latest film for Nana focusses upon another aspect of the California rapper's history - his upbringing&nbsp;in a devout Christian family, and how he strayed from that path.This is more deftly powerful filmmaking, with Litten focussing upon character through a series of small episodes, and then dovetailing&nbsp;his impressionistic storytelling with the lazer sharp message of Nana's track, King's Blvd 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Andrew Litten

Anastasia Solovieva

Voyager

Andrew Hutcheson

Ben Steen

Marizo Siller

Mohamed Alaali

Christine Cangelosi

Narkie Opong

Derek Hansen

Arsenal

Ryan Game

Jordan Hollingsworth

Reprobates

OB Management

Sabrina Rivera

Hip Hop

Nana 'King's Blvd 2' by Andrew Litten

Things are not what&nbsp;they seem in David M. Helman's video for James Vincent McMorrow, which follows a happy-go-lucky twentysomething on his way to Hollywood.&nbsp;Opening with a quote from the oracle that is Nicolas Cage, the quirky promo follows an aspiring actor - played by fellow music video director&nbsp;Ezra Ewen - who is trying to find his feet in the city.&nbsp;With all the gear but no idea, Ewen broadcasts his newfound "success" to his followers on Instagram, and we follow the mishaps and stumbles on the&nbsp;journey to his first project... a self-tape casting for a shady Craiglist advert.&nbsp;A scene that really stands out is the drunken dancing down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, another nod to Nicolas Cage in the film&nbsp;Leaving Las Vegas.&nbsp;Beautifully shot by&nbsp;Hayden Mason, the picturesque charm and wonder of Los Angeles is a perfect backdrop to the narrative, and the&nbsp;use of mobile phone footage and montage style edits creates a hyperactive and frenetic feel.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ireland

Aiden Magarian

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Carlos Laszlo

Nick Rondeau

Work Editorial

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Carbon

Ezra Ewen

Claire Stubbs @ Mouthpiece

Dan Millar

Singer songwriter

James Vincent McMorrow 'I Should Go' by David M. Helman

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David M. Helman strips it all the way back for this gritty, instinctive performance video, starring French-British rapper Octavian and Smoke Purpp in a throng of phone-waving supporters.Last seen directing an ambitious four-part video project for shey baba, Helman has gone back to basics for this visual, designed around the simple social dynamic of a filmed performance. The video is shot on 35mm, but it takes cues from the rough-and-ready style of old school SBTV freestyle videos -&nbsp;lit entirely by phone torches.In spite of this lo-fi process, the video looks luminescent, thanks to inky photography by Hayden Mason and a nuclear grade by Houmam Abdallah.

Jared Lundy @ Checkmate Films

E-Class

Olesya Golub

Houmam Abdallah

Velem

Exile Edit

Laura Jones @ Representt

Black Butter

Octavian 'Take It Easy' by David M. Helman

Octavian-'Take-It-Easy'-by-David-M.-Helman

Andrew Litten directs Nana&#39;s debut music video for On My Momma, with a vibrancy and wit that makes it a supremely watchable video from start to finish.&nbsp;At first, it&#39;s all lo-fi and&nbsp;night vision, as Nana and his friends head&nbsp;back to his house, to wake up his dear Mom, to play her the song he just made in her honour, followed by a all-action sequence of shenanigans.Nana&#39;s night takes an unexpected turn after lots of&nbsp;Jackass-style goofing around&nbsp;ends with him crashing out of a shopping cart and knocking himself out. And that&nbsp;sends him into a much slicker &#39;music video world&#39;. It&#39;s a nice variation, almost switch-around, of the dream sequence idea&nbsp;that works really well.&nbsp;And then when Nana finally comes around, back to reality, his good old Mom is there for him...

David Arteaga

Keith Hudson

Cole Crawford

Robby Salisbury

The Mill

Diane Valera

Dlgn

Nana 'On My Momma' by Andrew Litten

Nana - On My Momma (Official Video)

Daniel Henry&#39;s accomplished video for Cleveland blues-rock band&nbsp;Welshly Arms lights up a place in the darkness to show that everyone is looking for safety and stability - the Sanctuary of the songtitle.In sketching different stories Henry also shows that sanctuary&nbsp;can sometimes mean different things to different people. And not everyone is keen on the usefulness&nbsp;of drones.

Hayden Mason

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