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Thomas James directs a beautifully twisted and sublimely surreal exploration of&nbsp;inner demons coming&nbsp;to life, in his promo for Bring Me The Horizon's Strangers.In a nondescript industrial space, a host of characters undergo Cronenberg-style body horror transformations, intercut with a suitably haunting performance from the band.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Bodies twist, contort and conjoin in a horrific yet eerily beautiful way, balancing a nightmarish aesthetic with hyper-intimate, bravura cinematography by Adam Barnett.James draws on a host of influences - including&nbsp;a special nod to Chris Cunningham and Aphex Twin's Rubber Johnny - but adds his own facility for narrative and sense of humanity to the outstanding VFX work. It's a brilliantly successful execution of a stunningly ambitious concept.[imgtoken data:2]

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Emma Garrett

Karen Plowden

Worldwide Production Agency

Thomas James

Craig Dixon

Kat Cattaneo

Ian Stowe

Adam Barnett

Sam Holmes

Chris Malin

Callum Watt  

James Wicks

Patrycja Cygna

Begoña Fernández Martin

Whitehouse Post

Peter Oppersdorff

Tom Cole

Chloe Ensor

The Mill

Rca Sony Music

Lucy Bradley

Rock

Alternative

Bring Me The Horizon 'Strangers' by Thomas James

Bring Me The Horizon 'Strangers' (dir. Thomas James)

Alex Southam&#39;s riveting, crazy whirlwind of a video for Bring Me The Horizon, has frontman Oli Sykes is a down-at-heel outsider who is remodelled by a sinister corporation to lead a cult - with hair-raising results.In this supercharged Director&#39;s Cut, Southam manages to cram pretty much a B-movie&#39;s worth of lurid, satirical comic horror into four piledriving minutes of action, with the panache of an early Cronenberg.&nbsp;Mantra is a chaotic mix of mendacity, vulnerability, revenge, served up on a bed of psychotropic drugs, with a helping of voodoo for pudding. Hold on to your hats.[imgtoken data:1]

Alex Southam

Alex Chamberlain

Dasha Deriagina

London Alley

Jess Bell

2332 Films

Tim Sidell

Vadim Yuzba

Denis Kumeiko

Max Ruban

Aleksey Savelov

Daniel Dubrovsky

Dasha Taivas

Juli Levitskaya

Sergey Panteleev

Karin Papa

Marshall Street Editors

Dan Moran

Markus Lundqvist

Kent Hugo

OB Management

Dan Millar

Sony Music

Bring Me The Horizon 'Mantra' (Director's Cut) by Alex Southam

Zak Emerson has created a fascinatingly visceral video for electronica artist&nbsp;Ben Chatwin, using photography in such a stylised way it starts to resemble CGI. In fact, what we are watching is largely in-camera:&nbsp;a human figure that is largely hidden by the viscous liquid that covers them.This alluring figure, suspended in mid-air, is dripping in a latex-like, black lava,&nbsp;an almost alien&nbsp;form emerging in&nbsp;a dark, mysterious world.&nbsp;As the body contorts and ripples so does the increasingly intense electronic sounds of artist Ben Chatwin. It&rsquo;s&nbsp;an intense,&nbsp;immersive experience.&nbsp;Emerson has impressively wedded&nbsp;the hauntingly-acoustic sounds of Ben Chatwin with a&nbsp;powerful portrayal of birth, life and spirit.

Zak Emerson

Lily Goodchild

Merman

Dan Dickenson

Rosie Owen

Federico Alfonzo

Emily Durtnall

Nineteentwenty

Eloise Hymas

Village Green

Ben Chatwin 'Knots' by Zak Emerson

Ben Chatwin - Knots (Video)

Rising star Sigrid&#39;s irrepressible charisma is given&nbsp;full rein in Ivana Bobic&#39;s stylish video for Strangers. It showcases&nbsp;the Norwegian singer&#39;s amazing performance within&nbsp;scenarios that are not quite what they first appear.

Ivana Bobic

Natalie Arnett

Dobi Manolova

Ghandi El-Chamaa

James Dyer

Doug Walshe

Rami Bartholdy

Melanie Jansen

Sarah Jenesson

Sadie Hewlett

Sara Gilmour

Duncan Russell

Freefolk

Riff Raff Films

David Knight

Island Records

Billy Rae Smith

Tom Newman

Dimitar Itskov

Nelson Oliver

Sigrid 'Strangers' by Ivana Bobic 

Sigrid - Strangers (Official Video)

Continuing his collaboration with Nothing But Thieves, Thomas James followed the band on their recent US tour.Capturing snapshots of everyday America intercut with spoken word sections and clips from the band&rsquo;s live shows, James creates an ode to life on the road on Particles &ndash; which sees NBT at their most Buckley-esque.

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Isiah Donté Lee

Richard Fenton

Olivia Jessop

Holly Wolfers

Elizabeth Doonan

Nothing But Thieves 'Particles' by Thomas James

Luke Davies decided against getting&nbsp;all counterintuitive when it came to Piers James&#39;s Samurai. And that&nbsp;was a smart move. Instead he&nbsp;made the most of the opportunity presented by the songtitle.But as he explains, filming a samurai&nbsp;on Margate beach has its hazards...&nbsp;

Luke Davies

Leah Joyce

Ella Giradot

Spencer Wilson

Molly Manning Walker

Will Gething

Matthew Dickson

Kelly Sinclair Smith

Holly Miller

Thomas Mangham

Sillis Movement

Fat Lemon

Platoon Records

Academy Films

Piers James 'Samurai' by Luke Davies

Piers-James-'Samurai'-by-Luke-Davies

Hurts&#39;s Theo Hutchcraft displays some impressive acting chops - and dance skills &ndash; in the powerful video for Ready To Go by Thomas James.Hutchcraft plays the role of bereaved partner in a mirror-image narrative. It&#39;s a&nbsp;sequence of scenes depicting the couple&rsquo;s passionate relationship, all choreographed and cleverly cut against parallel footage of the grief-stricken frontman at his late partners wake.The video, produced by Black Dog in partnership with LS Productions, was shot&nbsp;at various locations in and around Horwich and Bolton, Greater Manchester &ndash; Hurts&rsquo; home city. The two-day shoot required 26 cast members, one horse, three locations, one caravan, 30 live butterflies and several stunts.

Benjamin Wearing

LS Productions

Abi Atkinson

Elizabeth Webster

Anthony Neal

Alexandra Green

Nicci Topping

Seven 7 Management

Adrian Thomas

UNIT

Hurts 'Ready To Go' by Thomas James

Hurts - Ready to Go

Thomas James&#39;s second video for Nothing But Thieves sees band frontman Conor Mason in a state of reflection, whilst nothing less than the end of days unfolds around him.Shot in Kiev, and created on a similarly&nbsp;impressive scale as James&#39; previous NBT video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/05/22/nothing-thieves-amsterdam-thomas-james" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, Sorry is both satisfyingly simple and detailed. A range of&nbsp;reactions to the imminent Apocalypse is sketched through a series of vignettes where individuals resort to anger, sex and murderous revenge, as well as family love and passive&nbsp;acceptance in their final hours. All the while&nbsp;everything revolves around Conor Mason, who walks past the ensuing chaos in a regretful, apologetic mood under a beating sun, towards his fate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Sorry is about getting older and the difficulties associated with it. It&rsquo;s about looking inwards and facing your demons,&quot; comments Nothing But Thieves&#39; guitarist Joe Langridge-Brown, who penned the track. &quot;The song hinges around a flawed individual who can&rsquo;t hold down a relationship, both to the detriment of themselves and their partner.&rdquo;Thomas James adds: &ldquo;The track to me felt like the last stop, a point in a relationship where you can be super honest, because it&rsquo;s the end. So we took that, and exaggerated it a teeny weeny bit, and went with the end of the world. If everyone has only got a couple of hours left &ndash; you&rsquo;re going to do and say exactly what you want. Whether that&rsquo;s poetic human honesty, or getting dominated one last time at a sex party.&rdquo;

Elizabeth Doolan

Daniel Millar

Anthony Neale

Sasha Chernyavsky

Daria Stepani

Carys Duffield

Absolute Post

Chris Tobin

Geri Krasteva

Mike Bovill

Oisín O’Driscoll

Lucy Mason

Indie

Nothing But Thieves 'Sorry' by Thomas James

Nothing-But-Thieves-'Sorry'-by-Thomas-James

Bec Sandridge&nbsp;performs the emotionally powerful song&nbsp;In The Fog, In The Flame&nbsp;while a baton twirler battles her way through a practice session coming out on top.&nbsp;Hendry successfully&nbsp;captures the emotional ups and downs of life&nbsp;in a simple and&nbsp;ultimately&nbsp;feel-good way alongside a strong performance from the artist.&nbsp;

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