Production designer

Jason Kisvarday

Saman Kesh&nbsp;has been relatively quiet on the music video front&nbsp;since his&nbsp;hilarious/controversial&nbsp;video for Basement Jaxx&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/07/25/basement-jaxx-never-say-never-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Never Say Never</a>,&nbsp;featuring the&nbsp;strange and delightful&nbsp;Twerkbot,&nbsp;which closely followed his brace of&nbsp;detective-style, scene-breakdown, Bret Easton Ellis-narrated&nbsp;videos&nbsp;for Placebo&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/18/placebo-loud-love-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Loud Like Love</a>, and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/08/13/placebo-too-many-friends-saman-kesh" target="_blank">Too Many Friends</a>.But now he&#39;s back with Kygo&#39;s Stole The Show - one of those videos premiered as part of the YouTube Music Awards &ndash;&nbsp;and once again it&#39;s&nbsp;Saman&#39;s command&nbsp;of the little details that makes his latest video for Kygo&#39;s Stole The Show stand out.&nbsp;The promo&nbsp;manages to be&nbsp;really charming as well as&nbsp;mightily slick-looking, as it features two&nbsp;dancing extraterrestrials in&nbsp;spacesuits, and perfectly incognito as they crash a fancy dress party.Comprises excellent dance sequences and great, Spielbergian cinematic shots, Saman has yet again proven himself to champion the art of combining great&nbsp;narrative ideas and brilliant, detailed&nbsp;execution.&nbsp;

United States

Saman Kesh

Vision Film Co

Geoff McLean

Matt Factor

Shelly Townsend

Laura Tunstall

Guillermo Garza

Michelle Thompson

Fon Davis

Alterian Inc

Paul Rogers

Varnish

Nicholas Carmen

Marc Steinberg

Brent Kiser

Kygo 'Stole The Show' by Saman Kesh

Kygo - Stole The Show feat. Parson James [Official Music Video - YTMAs]

David Wilson delivers a righteous, ultimately joyous accompaniment to a classic Arcade Fire cri de ceour We Exist, thanks to a gripping performance by&nbsp;Andrew Garfield, showing that he is a more courageous actor than the&nbsp;Amazing Spider-Man allows.&nbsp;In fact, this also involves a change of garb, but a more profound transformation. The Garfield character&#39;s need to express himself as a woman&nbsp;leads him to a bar where he puts himself at the mercy of the local rednecks. But the predictable outcome of victimisation and violence - with echoes of Boys Don&#39;t Cry, the film about the murder of transgender teenager&nbsp;Brandon Teena &ndash;&nbsp;gets turned on its head.Drama becomes fantasy, as Garfield&#39;s aggressors become dancers - this is the second collaboration&nbsp;in quick succession, between David Wilson and&nbsp;choreographer Ryan Heffington who (as well as working on the Sia Chandelier video) choreographed David&#39;s superb video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/06/hercules-love-affair-ft-john-grant-i-try-talk-you-david-wilson" target="_blank">Hercules &amp; Love Affair&#39;s I Try To Talk To You</a>.And then comes the brilliant payoff. Garfield is led by his dancer guardian angels through a portal into the real world: Coachella 2014, and Arcade Fire are playing We Exist. A moved (or quite possibly terrified) Garfield joins the band on stage. What a moment.&nbsp;

David Wilson

Jason Baum

The Director's Bureau

Larkin Seiple

Thomas Grove Carter

Trim Editing

Sue Yeon Ahn

Francis & Pereira

Ryan Heffington

Simon Bourne

Jesse Fleece

Colonel Blimp

Ari Robbins

Hayley Simpson/Plaster Casting

Framestore

Chris Bristow

Munky

Indie Rock

Arcade Fire 'We Exist' by David Wilson

Arcade Fire - We Exist

First there was Too Many Friends - Saman Kesh&#39;s video for Placebo last year,&nbsp;which introduced the forensic,&nbsp;multi-camera, highly cinematic, Phantom-shot and super-cool strand Unfortunate Details - narrated lugubriously by author Bret Easton Ellis.&nbsp;That was set in a party in the near-future. And now Saman has created a mirror-image video for Placebo&#39;s&nbsp;Loud Like Love. It&#39;s another party, where a sudden destructive incident requires some deep&nbsp;analysis. This time it&#39;s a sexy 1960s pool party; again, Easton Ellis narrates;&nbsp;and again Kesh&nbsp;demonstrates an awesome eye for detail and a brilliant and very stylish execution.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Jason Colon

Mandy Brown

Issac Bauman

890 Productions

Kelsi Ephraim

Skunk

Chad Goel

John Rampey

Derek Hansen

John Moule

Placebo 'Loud Like Love' by Saman Kesh

Placebo-'Loud-Like-Love'-by-Saman-Kesh

How much fun can you have&nbsp;while just about keeping&nbsp;your clothes on?DANIELS get back to videos for the brilliant, hilarious, typically nuts video for&nbsp;DJ Snake &amp; Lil Jon&#39;s Turn Down For What - starring the infectious lunatic moves of DANIELS&#39; very own Dan Kwan, the snake-like contents of his track bottoms,&nbsp;a brilliant cast of characters, mayhem, destruction &nbsp;- and&nbsp;dancing boobies.

DANIELS

Prettybird

Zak Stoltz

Jon Wang

Judy Craig

Candice Ouaknine

Ricky Gausis

Bryan Younce

Joceline Gabriel

Juliette Larthe

Dance

Hip hop, Hip Hop, Urban

DJ Snake & Lil Jon 'Turn Down For What' by DANIELS

DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down for What

Bookended by a&nbsp;voiceover from&nbsp;novelist&nbsp;Bret Easton Ellis, Saman Kesh (the director formerly known as Keshavarz)&nbsp;delivers this beautifully-shot melodrama to partner Placebo&#39;s new single Too&nbsp;Many Friends.With scenes largely shot in slo-mo, the promo explains - via on-screen text messages - possible outcomes in this whodunit-style film&nbsp;to curious and brilliant effect...

Sarah Park

Isaac Bauman

Chad Goei

Universal

Placebo 'Too Many Friends' by Saman Kesh

Placebo-'Too-Many-Friends'-by-Saman-Kesh

An unmistakeable slab of Daniels&rsquo; virtuosity graces the video for Passion Pit&rsquo;s Cry Like A Ghost &ndash; about a girl who&rsquo;s on an emotional rollercoaster &ndash; and physically swinging from guy to guy during the course of the video. It almost resembles a horror film at first, shot in a dark forest, but the characteristic whimsy of Messrs Scheinert and Kwan comes bubbling through as her unsatisfying urban encounters with various chaps burst through the trees. You can watch Daniels&rsquo; thoroughly entertaining (of course) Behind The Scenes below&hellip;
And you can also watch the extended cut <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3YhAVlXo-k">here</a>, which gives a more insightful look at &lsquo;Sylvia&rsquo; and her psychological turmoil&hellip;

Jonathan Wang

Tallie Medel

Saul Levitz

Passion Pit ‘Cry Like A Ghost’ by Daniels

Passion Pit - "Cry Like A Ghost" (Official Video)

Passion Pit - "Cry Like a Ghost" (Behind the Scenes)

This is what happens when a matador messes with the wrong bull... Directing collective Brewer (brothers Ben and Alex Brewer) deliver this engrossing, highly watchable and beautifully surreal promo for the red hot Alt-J.
Shot at an authentic bullfighting arena in a Portuguese neighbourhood just outside Los Angeles (apparently bullfighting is still legal in California), Brewer match the soft altrock tones of Something Good to perfection with this slo-mo gem. The track is taken from the band's Mercury Prize-nominated album An Awesome Wave.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aNYjOVo5IEw

Brewer

Alt-J 'Something Good' by Brewer

Alt-J-'Something-Good'-by-Brewer

An imaginative kid patrols an abandoned, apocalyptic suburb whilst The Shins singer James Mercer gets dragged off by an alien creature in Hiro Murai's beautiful promo for the band's It's Only Life.
Shot in Portland, Oregon, the alien 'bunny' creature first featured on the cover of The Shins' Port Of Morrow album... 

http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&amp;v=fweNLKBCh5A

Hiro Murai

Doomsday Entertainment

Danielle Hinde

Will Basanta

The Shins 'It's Only Life' by Hiro Murai

The-Shins-'It's-Only-Life'-by-Hiro-Murai

Following the (very real) box office bombing of their movie The Pick Of Destiny, Tenacious D, living up to their name, are back... But if the story of Jack and Kyle reuniting the band was told in the video for To Be The Best, catastrophe remains close - thanks to the young masters of chaos and iconoclastic FX, Daniels Kwan and Scheinert. 
DANIELS have done brilliant things before (at the moment it feels like they're doing it every week) but the video for Rize Of The Fenix ups the ante again - creating something amazing from a great big fail. The concept is that the band have accidentally released a rough cut of a video that actually went horribly wrong in the shooting.
It starts our sort of okay with The D at their rockiest - Jack and Kyle in hooded capes, with sword guitars and eye lazers. And then it all goes horribly tits-up as Kwan and Scheinert strip away the artifice, revealing the production assistants and the greenscreen. (They've described it as if their Battles video went wrong...) 
But it not only 'so bad its good' way - its spectacularly great in its awfulness. Its not just tenacious, its audacious. Another landmark for DANIELS... 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ls3rD8VfiSY&amp;feature=share

Christian Sprenger

Doomsday Ent

Tenacious D 'Rize Of The Fenix' by DANIELS

Tenacious-D-'Rize-Of-The-Fenix'-by-DANIELS

James Mercer from The Shins has passed on, but his last will and testament, shown on video to his less than grieving family, shows he's still able to have some fun and games with them in the highly anticipated video for Simple Song directed by DANIELS - Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinart.

Doomsday Ent.

The Shins 'Simple Song' by DANIELS

The-Shins-'Simple-Song'-by-DANIELS

Its been out a while but here&#39;s Daniels&#39; very zany video for Foster The People&#39;s Don&#39;t Stop - featuring Gabourey Sidibe (the star of Precious) as a very dangerous learner driver. But it&#39;s the story that really spins out of control.And fancy some more Daniels visual magic and zigzag storytelling Messrs Kwan and Scheinart&#39;s stunning short film Pockets premiered on Dazed TV&#39;s Random Acts on C4 this week. Little short of genius, and it&#39;s <a href="http://randomacts.channel4.com/#view/160" target="_blank">here</a>...

Doomsday

Action Factory

Gina Taner @ DRS

Candice Quaknine

Gabourey Sidibe

Foster The People 'Don’t Stop' by Daniels

Foster-The-People-'Don’t-Stop'-by-Daniels

It's a brutally unflinching, realistic promo, combining aspects of kidnapping, forced child labour and ruthless, blood-filled battles with child soldiers.

Lance Drake

Andrew J. Whittaker

Chad Nicholson

Kari Bradberry

Violeta Mallmann

Middle Class Rut 'Busy Bein' Born' by Lance Drake

Middle-Class-Rut-'Busy-Bein'-Born'-by-Lance-Drake

Isaac Rentz goes on a trip through the countryside with The Feeling in aid of the promo to new single Set My World On Fire.
Harnessing a strange glowing sphere (the sun) to change night into day, Rentz takes a simple idea of contrasting light with shade to a successful conclusion.

Isaac Rentz

More Media

Stephen Buchanan

Las Bandas Be Brave

Tamara Brooks

Jen Herrera

The Feeling's Set My World On Fire by Isaac Rentz

The-Feeling's-Set-My-World-On-Fire-by-Isaac-Rentz

The result is this beautiful and atmospheric promo for the Cults track Abducted which tells the story of an individual divided by two characters, exploring the delicate cycles of love and relationships. The video was shot in snowy California...

David Altobelli

Jules Dieng, Stephen Buchanan

Daniel Millar

Cults' Abducted by David Altobelli

Cults'-Abducted-by-David-Altobelli

Los Angeles brother and sister act The Belle Brigade team up with David Altobelli for this moving tale of animal rescue to accompany the terrific Losers from their self-title debut album. 
A real winner - especially for dog lovers. And after his impressive vids for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/12/23/sia%E2%80%99s-i%E2%80%99m-in-here-by-david-altobelli/" target="_blank">Sia</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/09/10/philip-selway%E2%80%99s-by-some-miracle-by-david-altobelli/" target="_blank">Phil Selway</a>, the big next step forward for David Altobelli.

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