Director of Photography

Jake Polonsky

As we welcome in the new year, here's a personal perspective of the unprecedented&nbsp;one that has just passed into history, from poet&nbsp;Hussain Manawer, brought to the screen by Jake Polonsky BSC.A cinematographer&nbsp;who has worked on hit TV show&nbsp;Billions&nbsp;over the past few years,&nbsp;Polonsky returns to shortform&nbsp;- where he made his name as a DoP on music videos in the late Nineties and early Noughties- to direct this visualisation of Manawer's personal account of lockdown, and his strategem to deal with its effect on his mental health.As the poet reads in a recording studio, a sole dancer begins to perform in a huge, empty space - The Troxy in East London, looking glorious, and prepared for its next live show before an audience, whenever that may be. The dancer works his way through the room, and the neat rows of seats, to make for the stage...Shot by Haris Zambarloukos BSC, with Polonsky filming other London venues, all designed to serve a specific community - a primary school, a mosque, a synagogue, and various other important&nbsp;live music venues - 2020 Vision was shot on the <a href="https://fujifilm-x.com/global/products/cameras/gfx100/" target="_blank">Fujifilm&nbsp;GFX100 large format camera</a>, and the film was made possible through finance by Fuji as well as support from a variety of bodies, from Time Based Arts and Panalux to the Music Venues Trust and Save Our Venues.&nbsp;It certainly serves to show how important those venues are to our collective wellbeing.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Kat Armour-Brown

FRIEND

Luke Jacobs

Elliott Tagg

Caswell Coggins

Haris Zambarloukos

Dom Cheung

Johannes Lohmann

Sabrina Corda

Nick Allix

Simone Grattarola

Time Based Arts

Marc Cattrall @ Fujifilm

Andreas Georghiades @ Fujifilm

Maxine Doyle

Will Thompson

Poetry

Hussain Manawer '2020 Vision' by Jake Polonsky

Hussain-Manawer-'2020-Vision'-by-Jake-Polonsky

Following his monster reworking of the guitar groove from INXS' <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/03/09/professor-green's-need-you-tonight-by-henry-scholfield/" target="_blank">Need You Tonight</a>, Professor Green turns his attention to the timeless SOS Band classic and ropes in Lily Allen to help out on vocals. 
And once again Henry Scholfield skilfully augments the whole cheeky chappie vibe with this fun, slick studio-set pop romp. Surrounded by hot women and Lily looking stunning as per, the Prof is in his element.

Henry Scholfield

Martin Poyner

Jim Cole

Dave Webb

James Hackett

Professor Green’s Just Be Good To Green feat. Lily Allen by Henry Scholfield

Watch: <a href="http://www.flynnproductions.com/music/director/michael_baldwin/1223/full/">here</a>

Michael Baldwin

Leanne Stott

Flynn

Karen Clarkson

Ailsa Robertson

Natalie Imbruglia’s Wild About It by Michael Baldwin

Preston as a vampire! Proper fangs! Eye-boggling Eighties party dresses!
It's a really quite sexy affair from Ollie Evans, servicing the good-looking chap's new post-mod, Siouxsie-sampling direction.

Partizan Darkroom

Ollie Evans

Paul Weston

Sam Tidman

Hannah Edwards

Del Mak

Dominic Leung

Smoke op Tim Robins, Flame op Andy B

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Tim Nash

Claire Stubbs

Preston’s Dressed To Kill by Ollie Evans

Amy Studt doesn't think much of nice boys - including her gentlemanly co-star dancers in Paul Minor's video.
Inspired by Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, and shot Old Finsbury Town Hall, we follow an unimpressed Amy through rehearsals with her dancers to final performance - and a satisfying twist in the tail.

Streetgang Films

Paul Minor

Marshall Plante

Carrie Sutton

Amy Studt’s Nice Boys by Paul Minor

Lily Allen is back, with lyrical sharpness and knowing on-camera presence fully intact.And in Nez&#39;s video for The Fear, he counterpoints Lily&#39;s witty satire on the world of celebrity, with an inventive, surreal production number.Lily goes directly from caravan to country pile - Wrest Park in Bedford - gliding through a platoon of dancing butlers, into rooms reflecting her role as a &#39;weapon of massive consumption&#39;, before the climax in the fabulous gardens of the estate - featuring her name spelled out in giant letters.It&#39;s an impressive leap into the pop world for Nez after his MVA-winning clip for Kano&#39;s Hustler. And as he explains below, he thinks that Lily&#39;s cautionary cry for help comes straight from the heart...&nbsp;

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Director of Photography

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