Producer

Jake River Parker

Raman Djafari combines live action and animation to brilliant effect in the extraordinary new video for the brilliant Ashnikko - creating&nbsp;a Mad Max-esque dystopian landscape to transform the pop star into a monster truck-wielding hero, fighting off robot overlords as she navigates a strange new world.In an intense bombardment of visual imagination, Djafari fuses his signature aesthetic of texturally rich CGI with the unhinged, transgressive ambitions of Ashnikko, to create a wonderful, weird, high-octane action movie.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]The influences on the video range from painters Bruegel and&nbsp;Carravagio, to Bjork, to&nbsp;90s animes like Neon Genesis Evangelion - but you really have to watch on repeat to catch everything that is going on.Djafari worked closely with Ashnikko and her creative director Vassu Vu in conceptualising the video for Worms - which takes the distinctive style of his&nbsp;previous work -&nbsp;such as his massively successful video for Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart - into a whole new dimension.[imgtoken data:2]"I wanted to create a vast world that stretches way beyond the bounds of this one music video, like there's an abundance of stories waiting to be told," says Djafari.&nbsp;"I indulged my love for creature design and developed dozens of individual characters, monsters, robots and a huge monster truck. It was important to me to bring the world around this album to life, with a richness that reflects the depth of the music and lyrics.[imgtoken data:3]"Working with Ash and Vasso was a truly precious collaboration between artists - they supported and trusted my personal interpretation of the universe they created together. Looking back, I wish I could have spent more time in this world. I feel like this video barely scratches the surface of what I would love to create together with Ashnikko."Fingers crossed we'll get another chance to collaborate in the future.” &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Raman Djafari

Blinkink

Josef Byrne

Alex Halley

Molly Turner

Rowan Mackintosh King

Sam Seager

Vasso Vu

Julia Pavliuk

Hunter Daly

Rupert Hornstein

Nicola Braid

Tanmoye Khan

Laurent Arnaud

John Malcolm Moore

Laura Little

Holly Wood

Claire Moore

Mee Kyung Kim Porter

Georgia Olive

Rich Woolway

George Neave

Coffee & TV

Rich Martin

Will Hooper

Ashnikko 'Worms' by Raman Djafari

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Thomas Davis and&nbsp;Willow Kayne turn London into a Hellish otherworld in this fabulously fun video for White City.&nbsp;This is the follow-up to Davis and Willow's collab on the sweet and energetic video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/05/09/willow-kayne-final-notice-thomas-davis/76288" target="_blank">Final Notice</a>. This one starts innocently enough too, as we follow a girl styled to look like a young Willow, experiencing several interactions - both good and bad - with local residents, which includes the real Willow&nbsp;roleplaying several different jobs.&nbsp;And then things take a weird turn: giant eyeballs, no less.&nbsp;begin to descend from tower blocks; the girl is served a rather Cronenbergian dish of delights at a café...&nbsp;things get distinctly topsy-turvy.&nbsp;And then the ending suggests a slightly Apocalyptic note, before returning to a sense of normality... Or has it?This is brilliant, knockabout&nbsp;work from the team. The tone is&nbsp;both playful and slightly unnerving, accentuated by a&nbsp;great use of visual effects.

Rumah Sakit (hati Mas)

Chris Anthony

Suzie Walsh

Willow Kayne

Thomas Davis

Las Bandas Be Brave

Common People Films

Michael Lewin

Massimo Filippi

Toby Leary

Ramy Dance

Aidan Brooks

Kitty Rajakulasingam

Devan Clarke

Eyyaz Chishty

Josh Higgings

Bronte Carter

Callum Pearson

Dominic Phipps

Company 3

Shivam Solanki

Yash Agrawal

Young Willow: Nellie Sykes

Sony Music

Willow Kayne 'White City' by Thomas Davis, Willow Kayne

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Thomas Davis directs an atmospheric live promo for&nbsp;Beabadoobee.In a minimalist industrial space&nbsp;populated with overgrown house plants, we see Bea and her band perform the ethereal track.Flooded with natural light and with a slightly desaturated colour palette,&nbsp;the cinematography feels raw and authentic and highlights the intimate themes in the track.&nbsp;

Anthony Hensman 

Jon Moore

Elliot Morris

Dan Lightening

Joe Starrs

Marcus Alberston

Dann Cooper

Kieran Coyne

Dom Phipps

Dirty Hit Records

Alternative Pop

Beabadoobee '10:36' (Official Live Video) by Thomas Davis

Beabadoobee - 10:36 (Official Live Video)

Trailblazing London jazz outfit Ezra Collective hit the ring in Femi Ladi's joyous video for Victory Dance.Customers of a cornershop receive a mysterious invitation by the shopkeeper, leading them downstairs into the basement and a magical space. Suddenly we are in&nbsp;a big hall, a boxing ring in the middle - not to witness a boxing bout, but the moves of jazz dancer Jay Allen, and a thrilling performance of the individuals of Ezra Collective, and then the group as a whole.[imgtoken data:1]This is the band's first ever music video, reflecting their position at the heart of London's resurgent jazz scene. Femi Ladi achieves a sense of wonder and real occasion by keeping things based around the performances, and top and tailing the piece with the narrative element involving the audience. It really works.&nbsp;"I’m a big fan of the Ezra Collective, I find their music so refreshing and unexpected," says Ladi.&nbsp;"I had a personal experience of hearing the band's music for the first time when I stumbled into a performance of theirs by accident a few years back. I instantly became a fan. So, we went with an Idea that had similar journey of discovery with the band playing a secret gig somewhere quite unexpected."

Femi Ladi

Somesuch

Maëva Demurger

Courtney Bennett

Oliver Bingham

Scarlett Gardner

Jay Gomez

Jamie Hitchens

Philips Nortey

Rosie Taylor

Katie South

Jenny Glynn

Jay Allen

Kaz Ove

Yoomin Lee

Jazz

Ezra Collective 'Victory Dance' by Femi Ladi

Ezra Collective - Victory Dance (Official Video)

Rianne White is back with the final promo in a three-part series for Winnie Raeder.&nbsp;The video seamlessly transitions from the final frame of <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/04/28/winnie-raeder-promised-love-rianne-white/76090" target="_blank">Promised Love - Part Two of the trilogy</a> -&nbsp;and shows the camera stalking towards the artist as she performs, before spinning to reveal&nbsp;a large studio space, with theatrical art direction elements and the smashed pottery from the previous chapter of the concept.&nbsp;"It was so freeing to be fully immersed in this world we created on set," says White.&nbsp;"The entire process with Winnie across this project has been fuelled by such honest and personal observations of inner worlds. Finding the nerve in it all, entangled in our own physical and emotional bodies."This third and final part brings us full circle. Let’s feel it!!"&nbsp;

Furmaan Ahmed

Holly Tidwell

Detroit Law

Rianne White

Mouthpiece

Kode

Kieran Brown

Jake Gabbay

Nathan Killham

James Hills

Sonia Rodriguez

Madeline Brown

Charles Gamble

Okay Studio

Ruth Wardell

Winnie Raeder 'I Could Swim' by Rianne White

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Rianne White follows the enigmatic visual for Winnie Raeder's <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/03/28/winnie-raeder-end-me-rianne-white/75581">The End Of Me</a> with Promised Love, the second promo in a three-part series.&nbsp;The video opens with a slow pull-out from a piece of priceless pottery, which slowly tumbles and shatters in slow-motion. The interconnectedness of the concept is highlighted by the use of the same shots to end one video and begin another, and a separate vignette suggests this will be the case for the third and final promo as well.&nbsp;The arresting imagery is stripped-back yet very effective, and remains open to interpretation.&nbsp;"Promised Love (Part 2) was truly the most humbling process to trust and believe in this vision," says Rianne White. "There is so much I could say about this film, but the real beauty of it is bringing this moment to the audience to find their own meaning within it."It's powerful to remind ourselves how we really feel and connect when we slow down and listen."&nbsp;&nbsp;

Winnie Raeder 'Promised Love' by Rianne White

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Santi self-directs a frosty lo-fi promo for his new track Beautiful Nothing, featuring Gus Dapperton.&nbsp;The concept is a mesmerising clash of VHS-aesthetic vignettes and dreamlike animation, presented through a maximalist, Y2K lens.&nbsp;Overlaid with distorted textures and retrofuturistic graphics, the video is a hypnotic experience to watch, with brilliant creative direction from Anton Reva.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

Anton Reva

Santi

Sin Yu Sofia

Afnan Yassin

Christine Trinh

Amarjeet Singh

Thomas English

Freddie Searle

Tamia Diaz

Agnieszka Kocinska

Art Director: Katie South

Tiara Wada

Amam Azike

Nikita Kuhn

Dmitry Stukovnikov

Nicola Sheppard

Sian Rowe

Cruel Santino ft Gus Dapperton 'Beautiful Nothing' by Santi

Cruel-Santino-Ft-Gus-Dapperton-'Beautiful-Nothing'-by-Santi

Rianne White directs the first of three visuals for London-based&nbsp;Winnie Raeder's new EP, with&nbsp;a minimalist and near abstract piece for The End Of Me.&nbsp;The video explores connection and comfort, visualised through two pairs of hands entangled in twine, attempting to reach each other and free themselves from their binding. Rianne White explains that the idea came from the clarity&nbsp;of Raeder's delivery of her music.&nbsp;"Winnie has a sound that grants you access to your inner world and has you locked in a dance with yourself as you feel every word and note of it," she reflects.&nbsp;"We spoke about connection, feeling uncomfortable, playing with the nerve in the song - a place where you can be both fearless and vulnerable, consumed by a gas leak effect of your own emotions. Let’s sit still, and really feel it."The focus upon this symbolic imagery, and infusion of emotion perfectly match the downtempo track. It's an intriguing introduction to the video series.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Winnie Raeder 'The End Of Me' by Rianne White

Winnie-Raeder-'The-End-Of-Me-(part-1)-'-by-Rianne-White

NYSU - aka Spanish director Jesus Hernandez -&nbsp;directs a wonderfully eccentric promo for KAWALA.&nbsp;The video for&nbsp;Jesse C'mon centres on a man - played by&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;Díaz - who just can't stop shuffling his head to the beat of the track, wearing a happy&nbsp;smile.Various characters materialise around him, and the environment switches from studio space to house, to inside a vending machine. But despite all of this, he keeps nodding his head, perpetually stuck in a trancelike state. Even as various forces gather to wipe that smile from his face.&nbsp;From angry robbers to swing dancers, a baseball bat-swinging piñata-hitter, to&nbsp;a B-movie 50 ft Girlfriend, it's a highly imaginative&nbsp;visual take on&nbsp;the track.In fact, it is so&nbsp;easy to get absorbed into the playful concept, you might even find yourself bobbing your head to the beat...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

NYSU (Jesus Hernandez)

Patricai Puchol

Connie Mead

Olmo Sobrino

Lluis Murúa

Nadia Khairat

Fake Studio

Garage Films

Tony Roberts

Indie

Kawala 'Jesse C'mon' by NYSU

Kawala-'Jesse-C'mon'-by-Nysu-(jesus-Hernandez)

Callum Lloyd-James brings the magic of Scalextric to life in this delightful promo for iconic rock band The Wombats.&nbsp;Shrinking the group down into miniature&nbsp;racecar drivers, we see a group of kids build their own racetrack in a bedroom, complete with fire effects, nostalgic 80's toys and a rickety Jenga set that is just begging to destroy the whole setup.&nbsp;The video is worth a watch&nbsp;for the facial expressions of the group alone. But along with the playful concept and great performances from the cast, it's a real ride that matches the energy of the anthemic track, brought together in a blistering edit by Lloyd-James himself.[imgtoken data:1]"The film was inspired by a combination of things, including Tron (1982), Owl City - Fireflies and the band's artwork for their new album," he says.&nbsp;"This all came together with a series of nods to the lyrics, Mariokart, Wacky Racers, as well as the artwork to the band's debut album."We shot the film on six different cameras, including mounting a GoPro to a Scalextric car to get the POV shots on the track. It was so interesting experimenting with all the different things we could do with the idea once we had it down on paper. The band really put their all with their performance too, which made my life a lot easier on set."It took a long time to develop and gave me a lot of headaches, but the team came together to make something I know we are all really proud of. Shout out to Jake Parker, Katie South and Thomas English to going above and beyond on this one. It was a massive undertaking and a colossal effort from everyone involved."

Callum Lloyd-James

Head & Wrecker

Joe Mulvihill

Chris Steel

Anastasiya Cherkasyuk

Will Stuetz

Emma Gandolfo

Callum Lloyd James

Framestore 

Marisa Garner Associates

Awal

Rock

The Wombats 'This Car Drives All By Itself' by Callum Lloyd-James

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An unlikely protagonist gets the release we're all yearning for, in Thomas Davis' action-packed promo for NOISY's Young Dumb.&nbsp;Having established a relationship with the group on a number of previous videos, Davis takes a more narrative direction with this one, which follows an old man making the most of a post-lockdown world.&nbsp;From choreography in the street to smoking a joint and ending up at a packed club, the man - brilliantly played by&nbsp;Andrew Norman - embodies our collective fantasies of getting out and finally being able to live life to the full again, and Davis heightens this fantasy through a stylish and invigorated lens.&nbsp;Paying homage to iconic 90's videos whilst being simultaneously imbued with a contemporary aesthetic, it's a spectacular watch, and possibly Davis' best video yet for the NOISY boys.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]THOMAS DAVIS:<blockquote>I wanted to make a video that was flamboyant and memorable.</blockquote>“I’m always buzzing to be working with NOISY. We’ve developed a really close friendship over the past two&nbsp;years or so. I think YOUNG DUMB is the 5th or 6th Music Video I’ve made for these guys now. These boys always write absolute belters of tunes. This one especially, I felt like the video really needed to represent the current climate in the world, but in an outrageous way. Life is to short to give a fuck sometimes, so you’ve just gotta let go. Even if you are getting old."To be honest, I’m not sure how the idea for this video came around. It all sorta just clicked in place. I had recycled a few scenes from other videos that I had pitched in the past year, but they never got commissioned. Like the toilet scene with the water bottle, that was part of another pitch that wasn’t as successful. So I guess this video was full of ideas that I had in the tank, all combined together with new ideas making this a film that I am super proud of.[imgtoken data:2]"I really just wanted to make a video that was flamboyant and memorable. I'm so into early 90’s videos, that don't really care too much. I think a lot of what we are seeing today is very oversaturated and not always true to life. It’s always about trying to make someone look cool, whereas in this video, for me it was about being taken on this journey with the old man, and living the day and night in the same moment as he does. Hopefully making you laugh a coupla’ times, or throughout."I always wanna big up Common People Films, who trust me with my silly ideas on tight deadlines and somewhat tight budgets. We always deliver, it’s how we roll! My producer and best mate Jake Parker, always puts the extra leg work in to help make these ideas come to life. Wouldn’t be possible to do the things that I do without the solid team that I have around me.”[imgtoken data:3]Ramy Dance (EP):“We immediately loved this treatment when Tommy wrote it. It had a slight nod towards Fatboy Slim's&nbsp;Weapons of Choice&nbsp;video which of course is a classic. We felt it also echoed what so many are feeling at the moment."As a society we just wanna release, get back to “normal” and party again (if you’re not too old :) Tommy and the crew really captured that youthful energy in this video. It was a long day and Andrew, our lead actor, was an absolute superstar. He was dancing and running about East London for 14 hours straight without a single complaint, HERO! "As ever the NOISY boys, MGMT and Island were brilliant to work with and a massive thanks to the (tested) crowd who showed up and gave it everything in the club!”

H The Gee

Kai Newton

Jack Cullis

Anthony Hensman

Peter Oppersdorff

Mpc Colour

Andrew Norman

Common People

Sam Flynn

Island Records

Alternative

NOISY 'Young Dumb' by Thomas Davis

Noisy-'Young-Dumb'-by-Thomas-Davis

Melody Maker explores freedom and restrictions in her hallucinatory promo for Greentea Peng.&nbsp;Locked inside an apartment building, we see the artists isolated from the world outside, unable to connect with&nbsp;anything outside of the four walls that encase them.&nbsp;The hazy cinematography blurs into a surrealist dreamworld, as the artists&nbsp;appear as giant döppelgängers,&nbsp;staring at their true selves&nbsp;through the window glass as if they were experimental guinea pigs.&nbsp;It's a clever commentary on the extended period of time we have been trapped away from each other, and the ongoing severance of our natural ties to the world and our true purpose.[imgtoken data:1]

Melody Maker

Oliver Hill

Danny Williams

Peter Gregory

Charlie Grumbar

Jake Hunte

Maha Alselami

Okay Studios

Benson Udia

Jomar O’Meally

Reggae

Hip Hop

Greentea Peng ft Simmy, Kid Cruise 'Free My People' by Melody Maker

Greentea-Peng-'Free-My-People'-by-Melody-Maker

Yousef and Paloma Faith join forces in this modern twist on the&nbsp;Frankenstein story, in the video for Monster.&nbsp;Following the release of her BBC documentary&nbsp;Paloma Faith: As I Am,&nbsp;the fan-favourite single gets a vintage-inspired visual. Directed by Yousef with creative direction from long-time friend and collaborator Theo Adams, it takes the idea of the Monster head-on, by offering a new feminist take on Frankenstein with melodramatic Giallo&nbsp;and Bollywood stylistic influences.&nbsp;Though Faith is noticeably absent from the video, the concept is carried spectacularly by each of the performers, as well as Yousef's masterful use of cinematic language and mix of traditional and contemporary elements, to create something fresh and exciting.[imgtoken data:1]Featuring mesmerising VFX work at the climax - a given, considering the director's skillset - the video is left hanging on the question, who is the Monster? The women, the monster at the end, or the doctor himself?&nbsp;“The doctor represents society in general, showing how women are silenced, manipulated physically and mentally and then cast aside like they're nothing," comments Yousef. "Relating to the music industry which Paloma's lyrics are about, it shows how artists are churned out, disrespected and disregarded.[imgtoken data:2]"The aesthetic of the video is heavily inspired by the Italian horror genre epitomised by Giallo and Dario Argento’s supernatural horrors&nbsp;Suspiria&nbsp;(1977) and&nbsp;Inferno&nbsp;(1980), as well as vintage Frankenstein films like James Whale’s&nbsp;Frankenstein&nbsp;(1931).”Paloma Faith confirms that the inspiration for the song was personal. "Monsters is about my relationship with the music industry. and my career as a whole," she has commented.[imgtoken data:3]&nbsp;"There's this weird sense of feeling that women in the industry have a shelf life. With the video for Monster myself and Yousef wanted to reflect how society in general treats women whether it's physically or mentally. The male figure in this video decides and discards his pound of flesh.”Prettybird executive Producer Chris Murdoch commented: “This was a very special project for us. The combined creative geniuses of Yousef and Theo Adams working together to create pure magic. As well as representing Yousef at Prettybird, we also have Theo on our roster as a Creative Director. This collaboration with Paloma on Monster&nbsp;was the perfect platform to combine their powers.”[imgtoken data:4]

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