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Simon Owens directs an unconventional love story for London-based electronic duo Technology + Teamwork.&nbsp;And if you've never seen a love story between two trashbags, you're in for a treat...Owens' idea is essentially a simple one, executed to perfection:&nbsp;a pair of red plastic bin bags lipsyncing convincingly to&nbsp;what the director describes as "a horror version banger of an Eastern European Eurovision pop song."Shot in a realistic, 'warts and all' way - with the bin bags situated in all the places you would usually find them -&nbsp;the visual feels gritty yet charming, and strangely fitting to the track."On first listen I genuinely found the opening vocal shocking," says Owens."It could be a pitched-down Taylor Dayne&nbsp;singing a Hall and Oates&nbsp;tune over Belgian Techno. I had to make a video for this tune."But what? Two bin bags, one in love with another, no matter what, run over, hospitalised, and lip-syncing. Natch."Natch indeed.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

SIMON OWENS

Nahal Ashrafii

Ben Magahy

Julian Eguiguren

CHEAT

Jeremy Fusco

Oliver Smart

Valerie Voronkina

Electronic

Technology + Teamwork 'You Saw Something In Me' by Simon Owens

Technology + Teamwork - "You Saw Something In Me"

Craig Bingham directs an evocative for James Blunt, reflecting on the process of getting older - which also features some gripping motorcycle action.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the video for Beside You, Bingham explores the idea of past selves, and how each version of our character has helped build the person we are today.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;The concept centres on&nbsp;stunt driving and thrilling motorbike sequences to encapsulate the theme of youth and ageing, together with&nbsp;some heartfelt performance setups from the artist."This film embraces an element of surrealism," explains Bingham. "James finds himself in a rough-and-ready flat-track arena where he encounters versions of himself that have made him the person he is. "Those versions of himself are always with him, driving him forwards - Beside You."&nbsp;&nbsp;

Hannah Ashby Ward

Lee Holden

Craig Bingham

Peter Wilson

DadBod Films

Kim Jarrett

Adric Watson

Rob Wildsmith

David Maart

Paolo De Batista

Jon England

Liam Meridith

James Tobias Norrington

Atlantic Records

James Blunt 'Beside You' by Craig Bingham

James-Blunt--'Beside-You-'-by-Craig-Bingham

Directing duo Mathy &amp; Fran return to music videos with a very characteristic piece for Georgia's latest pop gem: sensitive, humane and pastel-hued. And it touches on a subject that many&nbsp;people have faced, literally and metaphorically.&nbsp;In the video for Give It Up For Love, a range of characters take turns to stand upon a high diving board, and are challenged to make an all-important leap.It's a relatable moment where personal courage is required, but given a metaphorical&nbsp;element by it's staging, on a bright yellow platform against a pastel-pink studio background. And when the characters start to leap, they are captured in mid-air, in a state of blissful freedom.It's a simple yet powerful concept to match the sentiment at the heart of the song - letting yourself go to allow love to come in.&nbsp;Georgia's empathetic performance helps tie the whole project together.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Ellen Amann Johns

Alexandra Green

Dilia Knobel

Emily Davies

Jonie Myburgh

Rhona Ezuma

Mathy & Fran

Natalia Maus

Lydia Martland

DOGEATDOG

Carrie Sutton

Leopold Neassens

David Bird

Danny Stoker

Andy Sauer

Jonny Lewis

Colleen Lee

Luke Moran Morris

Anastatsia Stylianou

Grace Sinnott

Marta Wozniak

Natasha Lawes

Meg Thorne

The Quarry

Domino

Phil Lee

Georgia 'Give It Up For Love' by Mathy & Fran

Georgia-'Give-It-Up-For-Love'-by-Mathy-&-Fran

Ozzie Pullin directs a wonderfully charming and atmospheric love letter to Tom Gregory's hometown of Blackpool, in his new promo for Never Look Back.The video blends&nbsp;intimate portraits of a range of different characters and venues - including young cheerleaders, weightlifters and dance socials - and is a breezy slice of life, presenting the town in all of its glory.&nbsp;Appearing in a couple of performance vignettes down by the sea and in a social club, it's obvious Gregory is connected to Blackpool in a special way, and the video does both the town and his story justice.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Grace Leivers

Ozzie Pullin

Jack Bingham

Las Bandas Be Brave

Mike O'Keefe

Dan Millar

Wes Smith

Lou Pye

Tom Gregory 'Never Look Back' by Ozzie Pullin

Tom Gregory - Never Look Back

Broken Antenna return to music videos with this playful, technically adept video for Fatima and Joe Armin-Jones.The track&nbsp;#1, a song about a lover that’s emotionally disconnected due to past trauma, is paradoxically paired with a visual that demonstrates that love and compassion can still exist. The day to day goings-on in a&nbsp;domestic life are&nbsp;captured in a single tracking move, with its complexity highlighted by an additional layer of video squares, highlighting small details.&nbsp;It's a welcome return to music for the directing duo, whose work includes acclaimed videos for Hak Baker, Clark and Slick Don.&nbsp;

Tim Crosbie

Thomas Malins

Lily Wright

Broken Antenna

Ore Okonedo

Knucklehead

Michel Bewley

Alex Reid

Nibras Alwasiti

Fatin Hasado

Cosmo

Aquarii Records

Soul

Fatima & Joe Armon-Jones '#1' by Broken Antenna

Fatima & Joe Armon-Jones - #1 (Official Video)

Animation maestro Chris Ullens reunites with Rex Orange County, with their first collaboration since Loving Is Easy back in 2017, to create a sweetly romantic tale for Amazing.In contrast to <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/11/09/rex-orange-county-ft-benny-sings-loving-easy-chris-ullens/50382" target="_blank">Loving Is Easy</a>, where he employed stop motion to animate Rex's bedroom performance with Benny Sings, Ullens opted to use hand puppets to handcraft his story about Mr Hand - a milkman of an alpine town, who milks Cow each morning before going on his delivery round.But his happy regular routine is disturbed when he meets&nbsp;a young lady (hand), falling head-over-thumbs in love..."It's really cool that [Rex] came back to us for a second one!" says Chris Ullens. "He said it was the sister song to the first one we did a video for, and that he wanted us to be back on it for that. But the schedule was mad -&nbsp;so instead of stop-motion we suggested puppeteering and he loved the idea. The schedule was still mad though, as we took four and a half weeks to deliver. But really pleased with the result!"

Chris Ullens

Jade Bogue

Jamie Durand

Brin Frost

Alt-Pop

Rex Orange County 'Amazing' by Chris Ullens

Rex-Orange-County-'Amazing'-by-Chris-Ullens

Dan French explores the anticipation, nerves and sheer excitement&nbsp;of a new relationship, in his promo for Navos's You And I, featuring Harlee.&nbsp;Following a guy and girl - played by Lucas Jones and Leelah Voh - who are planning to meet up at an unconventional party location, the visual treads familiar territory in the narrative,&nbsp;but executes it in a fresh and exciting way.&nbsp;Using bodyrigs, we get right up in on the action, following every smile, worried glance and relieved grin on the character's faces, before the camera dives into an untethered 360 shot of their first kiss.&nbsp;In keeping with the aesthetic, Navos and Harlee also make a cameo appearance at the party, adding a brief yet perfectly fitting performance element.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Dan French

Ben Pengilly

Papaya Films

Pilar Muro

Shamara Adams

Ahmos

Ben Cotgrove

Toby Harro 

Anastasiya Cherkasyuk 

Owain Morgan 

Anthony Hensman

Sophia Katyea

Louise Hall

Kharmel Cochrane

Alec Gordon

Oana Anghel

Marisa Garner Associates

John Hassay

Universal Music

Leelah Voe

Lucas Jones

Navos ft Harlee 'You And I' by Dan French

Navos-Ft-Harlee-'You-And-I'-by-Dan-French

Simon Owens toys with the X and Y axes in his new video for Alexis Taylor, with the&nbsp;Hot Chip frontman&nbsp;apparently scaling&nbsp;walls&nbsp;with the biggest rope you have ever seen.Echoing the myth of Sisyphus, and employing a technique possibly last seen in the Batman TV series back in the 1960s - namely, tilting the camera 90 degrees - Alexis 'pulls' himself up different vertical structures&nbsp;and through spaces using a giant, thickly braided&nbsp;ship’s mooring rope.[imgtoken data:1]He also travels through intensely colourful doors travelling from external to internal locations and back again.As with their previous collaborations, such as <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/04/04/alexis-taylor-oh-baby-simon-owens/52469" target="_blank">Oh Baby</a>, Simon Owens uses irreverent, perception-challenging&nbsp;methods to present Taylor's&nbsp;serious ruminations on life in the House Of The Truth.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;that unfeasibly large rope that really gets you...[imgtoken data:2]

Jay Notley

Bruce Magahy

Sian Murphy

Daydreamervfx

Daydreamer Vfx

Verdigris Management

Cristian Ionut Necula

Alternative

Alexis Taylor 'House Of The Truth' by Simon Owens

His output in music videos has been sporadic in recent years, but now two videos by Anthony Dickenson have arrived at once. The first is for the Daniel Brandt's remix of London band Friedberg's Midi 8, which creates a soaring connection to the music with an entirely minimal approach.Created entirely on a car journey in Athens with&nbsp;Friedberg lead singer Anna F, Dickenson takes an almost abstract approach to an intimate moment, capturing the singer in a series of extreme, near tactile close-ups. Rather than quick-cutting, Dickenson uses the effect of street lighting, Anna's wind-blown hair&nbsp;as the car speeds along, and camera speed-ramps to dovetail the visuals with the music.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In characteristic fashion, Anthony Dickenson has created something hypnotic yet visceral, by exploring the visual possibilities of a single set-up for all its worth.[imgtoken data:1]

Anthony Dickenson

Vagelis Kasapakis

Eleni Lola

Dance

Electronica

Friedberg 'Midi 8 (Daniel Brandt Remix)' by Anthony Dickenson

Friedberg-'Midi-8-(daniel-Brandt-Remix)'-by-Anthony-Dickenson

Eoin Glaister captures the erstwhile ambitions of a frustrated smalltime DJ&nbsp;- played by BAFTA-winning actress Lauren Socha - in his return to music videos for Liverpool DJ-producer Mentis.Glaister&nbsp;captures the tragi-comic trials and tribulations of Kent’s premium mobile party provider, DJ Debs - played with real pathos by the superb Socha - in the video for Excuses, featuring Kate Wild.&nbsp;Her dream is to be a proper superstar DJ in Ibiza. The painful truth is that she is playing children's parties and weddings... if she's lucky.It's a classic comic storyline of the hapless wannabe, whose dreams of fame bear no resemblance to the reality. But in this case, it's made all the more poignant and funny&nbsp;due to Lauren Socha's performance&nbsp;- and by the fact her character begins to realise that she is not destined for stardom. She becomes increasingly disillusioned by her situation - but it's then when things finally start to turn around...&nbsp;Eoin Glaister has done a wonderful job with a great part for a superb actor and a down-at-heel setting that works perfectly for the narrative. Shot on 16mm, using an Arri SR3, this was achieved on what EP Hannah Bellil describes as a&nbsp;"three day escapade with a really close knit team" in the more run-down towns along the Kent coast, which allowed Socha get up to some seaside hijinks, including an 'Ibiza dream sequence' with a&nbsp;jet-ski.&nbsp;“We had so much fun making this," adds Bellil. "Lauren is an amazing talent and the opportunity for Eoin to build in dialogue with her was a total joy. However, I didn’t get to go on the jet ski, so I will be going back... to Ibiza this time.”&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Eoin Glaister

India Bradshaw

Stink Films

Hannah Bellil

Anna Peduzzi

Tom Wynborne

Joe Ramsden

Ed Hubert

Rich Savage

Chris Starkey

Sheherezade Amy El Moumni Beradï

Greg King

Nick Stombs

Pablo Garrido Carreras

Florence Jones

Hugo Harris

James Forbes Robertson

Trim Editing

Stink Rising

Lauren Socha

Hands London

Michael Lewin

Columbia Records

Cinelab Film and Digital

Mentis ft Kate Wild 'Excuses' by Eoin Glaister

MENTIS - Excuses (Official Video) ft. Kate Wild

A lone choirboy in his choral gown collects fragments of electronic equipment along mudflats in Broken Antenna's poignant video for Clark's Small.The track is taken from the electronic musician and soundtrack composer's latest album&nbsp;Playground In A Lake, released on classical label Deutsche Grammaphon, and features young Nathaniel Timoney on vocals - who plays the beachcoming choirboy&nbsp;in the video.Filmed in the Thames estuary, this is a tonal departure for the directing duo&nbsp;- that's&nbsp;Myles McAuliffe and Gustav Newby&nbsp;- compared to previous videos for&nbsp;Hak Baker and others. But the result is a&nbsp;distinctive vision of a Ballardian 'Drowned World' evoked in Clark's new album,&nbsp;with a splendid&nbsp;performance&nbsp;from their young lead.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Matthew Tregoning

Caolan Caddell

Cody Cruiz Brown

Fin Sullivan

Maria Bracher

Ben Boullier

Big Buoy

Nathaniel Timoney

Greg Eden

Deutsche Grammophon

Clark 'Small' by Broken Antenna

Clark-'Small'-by-Broken-Antenna

Hannah Berry George explores growth and anxiety in her promo for Sody's Butterfly.&nbsp;Isolated in a darkened bedroom, Sody is shown stalking the four walls around her, desperate to break the cycle of fear and overwhelm that keep her contained in&nbsp;the space. The arrival of several butterflies spurs her into action, showing how&nbsp;caring for something or someone&nbsp;can help us walk out of the darkness and back into the light - especially profound in our current climate.&nbsp;Exploring metamorphosis and the ability to break&nbsp;free from our self-imposed limitations, the poignant video ends with Sody walking off-frame, ready to face the world and conquer the uncertainty that comes with modern life.&nbsp;The use of restrained camera movement&nbsp;and&nbsp;stuttered effects in the edit helps represent the cyclical nature of fear, beautifully elevated by&nbsp;Nathalie Pitters' understated yet intimate lighting.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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