Line Producer

Jean Davi

A young man is so obsessed with French electro-duo Jamaica that he rebuilds them as robots, in Emile Sornin&#39;s video for the band&#39;s Two On Two. And you sense that might turn out to be a big mistake...&nbsp;Right now, Emile is&nbsp;possibly the only person who could make this brilliantly insane, hugely entertaining idea work. Which, of course, he does &ndash;&nbsp;with the considerable help of a few of Paris&#39;s top post houses, including Mathematic and Black Lab.

France

Émile Sornin

Division

Jules de Chateleux

Antoine Camard

Black Lab

Mathematic

Gabriel Kerlidou

Emma Skowronek

Philip Lozano

Mark Zarka

Inès Marty Monzon

Didier Billet

Sandy Moreau

Jeanne Dekonink

Djoher Ait Amer

Indie

Jamaica 'Two On Two' by Emile Sornin

Jamaica - Two On Two

Shot at the end of last year, new JJ Stereo signing Ross Cairns delivers his first for the company with&nbsp;the promo for&nbsp;Jake Bugg&#39;s A Song About Love.Taken from his Shangri La album, Cairns and his team decamp&nbsp;to Paris for the stylish shoot, as we&nbsp;see&nbsp;Nottingham&#39;s finest performing the song to his love interest in a hotel room, before&nbsp;wandering the romantic city streets alone...&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Ross Cairns

JJ Stereo

Amy James

Daniel Trapp

Tristan Haley

Rob Gilmour

Amaury Bourgalay

Geraud Panroy

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Natalie Arnett

Untitled

Singer-songwriter

Jake Bugg 'A Song About Love' by Ross Cairns

Jake Bugg - A Song About Love

David Brent immortalised the boss you love to hate in The Office, that boss that you&#39;ve all had at least once. In&nbsp;Disclosure&#39;s &#39;Grab Her&#39;, Emile Sornin returns to the scene creating the boss who is so dislikeable everything&nbsp;he touches is physically repelled.&nbsp;Continuous laugh-out-loud moments lead up to a climax that can&#39;t help but put a smile on your face.And as always with&nbsp;Emile there is an air of &#39;how the...?&#39;, as a mix of post production and on set tricks&nbsp;confuses the senses...Emile Sornin&nbsp;talks to Luke Tierney about making the video for Disclosure&#39;s Grab HerThe boss character is portrayed perfectly. Were there any influences when creating him?The influence was clearly Ricky Gervais in &quot;The Office&quot;, i think is the funniest man in the world.Comedy can at times be very hit or miss, did you have any apprehensions with the concept?Not at all, when we found the main character (Jean-Baptiste) I didn&#39;t have any apprehensions because he was really funny during casting. He was able to bring to any gravity trick to the next level.As always with your projects, post production plays an interesting and important&nbsp;role. How much of the effects were done in camera, how much was post?Well a magician can never reveal his tricks. But most of the effects weren&#39;t too hard to make, aha.The desaturation of colour is key to setting the tone and the (late 70s/early 80s) period. Why did you set the video in the past?It&#39;s not a matter of temporality. I think I just love 70&#39;s gear and aesthetic, and it matches perfectly with my concept (telephone with wire, big computer etc...)You&#39;ve worked with a series of interesting British artists who, like your promos, are very different from each other (Alt-J, Dizzee Rascal and now Disclosure). Has this been intentional? Who is next on your wishlist?I&#39;m really influenced by British humour, so that&#39;s why it works well with English bands or artists. There is something absurd and second degree in English humour that I really like... Every one knows that Monty Python are the best in the world. They create the best jokes I ever saw.&bull; Check out Luke Tierney&#39;s blog,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wordischeap.wordpress.com">Word Is Cheap</a>, or his Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/wordischeap">@wordischeap</a>, for more thoughts on his favourite music videos.

Nicolas Loir

Nicolas Larrouquere

Dance

Disclosure 'Grab Her' by Emile Sornin

Disclosure - Grab Her (Official Video)

Their first video for Gesaffelstein is multi-nominated for awards at UK Music Video Awards 2013. And&nbsp;here&#39;s Fleur &amp; Manu&#39;s&nbsp;follow-up,&nbsp;for the head-banging DJ/producer&#39;s Hate Or Glory, which expands&nbsp;on the&nbsp;enigmatic gold glove motif of Pursuit with an allegory on the corrupting effect of power and riches.&nbsp;We&#39;re down in the &#39;hood to witness a young gangster&#39;s brutal rise to dominance &ndash; and then his uniquely extravagant method of&nbsp;demonstrating his accumulation of wealth. Like a&nbsp;sort of King Midas in reverse, he gold-plates himself. Now that&#39;s a bold statement, and frankly, you&#39;re asking for trouble...

Fleur & Manu

Jorge Pallares

Michael Ragen

Loïc Andrieu

Christopher Dahdah

Victoria Aronson

Haley O'Neil

Clémence Cuvelier

Paul Crehange

Home Digital Pictures

Guillaume Marien 

Jehan Bard-Bouazza

Thomas Van Maele

Fred Brandon

Electronica

Gesaffelstein 'Hate Or Glory' by Fleur & Manu

Gesaffelstein - "Hate or Glory" (Official Music Video)

Jonas &amp; Francois head to Las Vegas for this sizzling and visual stunning&nbsp;promo to Iggy Azalea&#39;s Change Your Life.Taking their influence from the 1995 film Showgirls, the Aussie rapper gets to close to TI, busts some moves and sets a car on fire. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...

United States

Jonas & François

Rob Witt

Christophe Dahdah

Alejandro Hemandez

Sami Knight

Priscilla Ono

Nadia Shalini Ramnath

Laure Salgon

Hip Hop

Iggy Azalea ft TI 'Change Your Life' by Jonas & Francois

Iggy Azalea - Change Your Life (Explicit) ft. T.I.

A marvellous video for Warp signing Jackson And His Computerband&#39;s Dead Living Things - featuring the distinctive vocal stylings of Planningtorock - by Alex Courtès, that really is good for repeated viewings.It has an impenetrably&nbsp;surreal, vignette-style that has become quite familiar&nbsp; - and Alex has commented on its debt to other notable filmmakers, saying on <a href="http://warp.net/records/jackson-and-his-computerband/new-video-dead-living-things" target="_blank">the Warp Records site</a> that &quot;this project is a direct reference to the works of Fellini and David Lynch. It is a juxtaposition of life scenes and actions that have nothing to do with each other in particular, that however create a fantastic dynamic and resolutely surreal experience.&rdquo;Absolutely. But it&#39;s worth adding that the film really has the true&nbsp;quality of a dream. These scenarios are conjured from imagination, like a random dreamer&#39;s thoughts, with&nbsp;a coherent narrative just tantalisingly out of reach.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Alex Courtès

Francois Lizé

Mathieu Plainfosse

Marie D'Alençon

Amaury Brougalay

Sebastien Grasso

Olivier Benoist

Joy Sauvage

Alain Tamaya

Béatrice Han Ching

Warp

Alternative

Jackson And His Computerband 'Dead Living Things' by Alex Courtès

Jackson and His Computerband - Dead Living Things (Official Video)

So lets all party like it&#39;s, erm.... 1699?But&nbsp;Émile Sornin&#39;s video for Dizzee Rascal&#39;s I Don&#39;t Need A Reason doesn&#39;t just have Dizzee living it up like Le Roi Soleil surrounded by bewigged flunkies and gorgeous floozies. That&#39;s impeccably mounted as it is, but then&nbsp;Émile combines&nbsp;Dizzee&#39;s performance with gif-style loops.&nbsp;Absolute monarchy at it&#39;s very best...&nbsp;

Jean Paul Agostini

Philippe Roch

Claude Neron

Elise Bouquet

Richard Delassus

Louise Coutin

Camille Lameynardie

Nicolas Sommermeyer

Emmanuel Roudaut

Hip Hop, Urban

Dizzee Rascal 'I Don't Need A Reason' by Émile Sornin

Dizzee Rascal | I Don't Need A Reason

It&#39;s superhero time - with suitably awesome visual effects - for the monster sound of&nbsp;DJ Fresh vs Diplo feat Dominique Young Unique&#39;s Earthquake. But&nbsp;Jonas &amp; François&#39;s existential superhero satire/homage&nbsp;introduces a costumed gang a lot scuzzier than the Avengers.They cause&nbsp;mayhem in their wake, appear to be on the verge of annihilation, and aren&#39;t too popular with the local populace either.That&#39;s in keeping with the video&#39;s tie-in with Kiss Ass 2. And&nbsp;Jonas &amp; François&#39;s video does its job by engaging in the spirit of Mark Millar&#39;s ultra-violent comic&nbsp;turned movie franchise, rather than including clips from the new film. Great fun - and as ever, great work from the VFX team at Machine Molle.&nbsp;

Jonas &amp; Francois

Fiat Lux

Jeff Kim

Diamond Dave

Angela Esteban Librero

Machine Molle

Gopal Puntos

Ministry of Sound

Caroline Clayton

Riff Raff Films

DJ Fresh vs Diplo feat Dominique Young Unique 'Earthquake' by Jonas & François

DJ Fresh VS Diplo Feat. Dominique Young Unique - 'Earthquake' (Official Video) (Out 18.08.13)

A word of warning: if you&rsquo;re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don&rsquo;t watch this video. Or if you&rsquo;re in a workplace with other people that aren&rsquo;t necessarily as broadminded as yourself, then you should take the NSFW label seriously&hellip;But for everyone else &ndash; well, go ahead and enjoy Megaforce&rsquo;s video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s Dancing Anymore &ndash; which, although it contains explicit and relentless sexual imagery, is not actually pornography. Not really.It is, of course, the follow-up to the French directing team&rsquo;s sensational, hugely successful video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s The Greeks, and it is very much its conceptual sequel. And it shares a good deal of The Greeks&rsquo; genius too. It&rsquo;s just that instead of cartoon violence from the imaginations of small boys playing Nerf gun wargames, we are confronted with the contents of an male adolescent&rsquo;s brain, at the point when he has the opportunity for some serious masturbation action&hellip;Mathematic in Paris provided the adult-oriented animation &ndash; appropriately more three-dimensional than that used in The Greeks, yet deliberately imperfect in a rather perfect way. Meanwhile we asked Leo Berne, one of the four-man directing collective that is Megaforce, a few questions to get some insight into the making of the video&hellip;Leo Berne from Megaforce on making the video for Is Tropical&rsquo;s Dancing AnymoreHow would you describe the similarities between this and The Greeks?We see them as a diptych. In both videos, we use a post production trick to represent what is happening in the minds of our protagonists.In the first video, we intentionally shot very roughly with a cheap camera. In our opinion, it was the best way to express the wild side of childhood. To contrast with that, we wanted the representation of their fantasies to be very thorough. We choose japanese animation for its incredible power to represent explosions and blood in a fascinating, aesthetically compelling way.For this new one, we wanted the story to be more cinematic, more intimate. We achieved this contrast through adding unperfected CG characters with all of their bugs and glitches. This was mostly because our of our fascination about those things comes specifically from the way in which they fail to replicate reality.What were the difficulties in making the video? Did you have trouble selling the idea to the band and the label?Well the cadre of all the people we worked with was so high, that we can honestly say that is wasn&rsquo;t a difficult video to shoot. Our production company Iconoclast, the DOP André Chemetov and his team, the post production company Mathematic, the Label Kitsuné and the band, they all trusted and supported us from the start till the finish with no major glitches.What was the budget? Did the success of The Greeks mean you had more money to make this one? How long did it take to come together?The budget was low, basically the same than for the Greeks, but this time the production company and the post production company invested more in it. We will be eternally grateful for that. You need huge balls to support a project like this.Where did you shoot the live action (nice place!)?Its in one of the poshest areas in the suburbs of Paris called le Vesinet. We wanted a house that was almost unreal, in which you would clearly feel the excitement in the freedom to be left alone in there. Besides, the living room was very convenient because it was big enough to place all the green screens we needed for the full CG scenes.Did you have any trouble casting your &lsquo;hero&rsquo; (ie, any contenders for the part put off by the idea of having to be masturbating through most of the video?)It was tricky but our casting director Philippe Elkoubi is really someone we can trust. It actually was a very short casting, we only met 4 guys. Each guy we saw brought the film in a very different direction. One of them declined when we explained to him more precisely what it was all about. Anyway, when I saw Louïs I said to myself &ldquo;That&rsquo;s him! That&rsquo;s my bro!&rdquo;, from that moment I started to be able to picture the film.Who worked on the animation? And which one of the Megaforce team had the job of directing the animation? Was the job done in a veil of secrecy, or under more secretive conditions, due to the nature of the content?The modeling, the animation, the integration, all of that had been done by the brilliant teams at Mathematic. The 4 of us at Megaforce had an eye on what was going on and we often popped into the studio to give our comments. Yes, it was quite tricky for them to hide their screens when they welcomed clients&hellip;Is this going to be released through the usual channels? Have there been any concerns from the label and the band about where the video is going to be shown, getting banned or censored, etc?Well, we knew that it was going to be difficult but still we feel that being banned from YouTube is unfair, the video only lasted for 25 minutes on the site. We didn&rsquo;t do the video to shock people and achieving buzz through controversy was not our intention. We just want to make videos that touch us and share them with all those who will take the time to receive them.Are there any plans for a third video in the series? After dealing with Sex, is there any need&hellip;?Well we&rsquo;re thinking about it, but we will only do something if we think we have something that&rsquo;s worth it.

Megaforce

Iconoclast

Roman Pichon Herrera

Gildas Fablet

Eleanor Hart

Andre Chemetoff

Matthieu Desnos

Camille Perrier

Adrien Euverte

Martin Trepreau

Is Tropical ‘Dancing Anymore’ by Megaforce 

Is Tropical / Dancing Anymore

<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/12/12/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi2/" rel="attachment wp-att-57443"><img src="http://www.promonews.tv/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Azealia-Banks-Atlantis-by-Fafi2.jpg" alt="Azealia Banks &#039;Atlantis&#039; by Fafi2" width="640" class="alignright size-full wp-image-57443" /></a>

<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/12/12/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi/" rel="attachment wp-att-57442"><img src="http://www.promonews.tv/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Azealia-Banks-Atlantis-by-Fafi.jpg" alt="Azealia Banks &#039;Atlantis&#039; by Fafi" width="640" class="alignright size-full wp-image-57442" /></a>

<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/12/12/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi/azealia-banks-atlantis-by-fafi4/" rel="attachment wp-att-57445"><img src="http://www.promonews.tv/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Azealia-Banks-Atlantis-by-Fafi4.jpg" alt="Azealia Banks &#039;Atlantis&#039; by Fafi4" width="640" class="alignright size-full wp-image-57445" /></a>Bonkers, brilliantly visual, endlessly inventive video for Azealia Banks' Atlantis by Fafi, with great old-school 2D FX work by Machine Molle...

Azealia Banks 
Atlantis 
Record Company: Polydor / Interscope 
Director: Fafi
Prod co: <a href="http://www.divisionparis.com/" target="_blank">Division</a> 
Producer: Jules De Chateleux 
Line Producer: Jean Davi 
Production Assistant: Julie Geille 
1st Assistant Director: Mark Zarka
DoP: Michel Taburiaux 
1st Ass. Camera: Vincent Campanella 
2nd Ass. Camera: Marc Stef 
Set Manager: Amaury Brougalay 
Ass. By : Alexia Cipriani, Nordine Bouazzaoui, Philippe Royer
Key Grip : Nicolas Kent
Key Electrician : Cyrille Girard 
Ass. By: Gregory Bar
Stylist: Brigitte Slama 
Personal Stylist : Marie Gibert 
Key Make Up Artist : Ismael Blanco 
Manicurist : Virginie
Post-House : Home Digital Pictures 
Head Of Pp : Clémence Cuvelier 
Editor : Gopal Puntos
Vfx. Post-House : Machine Molle 
Pp : Jean-François Fontaine 
2d/3d Graphist : Jiwee, François Malary, Cyrille Greneux, Guillaume Gaussuron, Thomas Faroy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj-xBpQ0CI0

Fafi

Julie Geille

Michel Taburiaux

Brigitte Slama

House

Azealia Banks 'Atlantis' by Fafi

It started with Midnight City, then continued with Reunion. Now here&#39;s the concluding part of Fleur and Manu&#39;s epic kids-with-superpowers trilogy for M83 - for Wait. And things don&#39;t exactly get wrapped up neatly in this one.At first we&#39;re in the aftermath of the confrontation at the climax of Reunion with the leading telekinetic girl, then we&#39;re in outer space with her boy adversary, and a sequence which isn&#39;t so much influenced by Kubrick&#39;s 2001, as an exact reconstruction (before he becomes the Boy Who Fell To Earth...)But this project was always about creating eyepopping blockbuster movie moments &ndash; and this is arguably the most satisfying of the lot.&nbsp;

M83 'Wait' by Fleur & Manu

M83-'Wait'-by-Fleur-and-Manu

We&#39;ve seen Émile Sornin&#39;s admirable visual effects vision in action before - not least in the very entertaining <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/09/14/cut-copy-blink-and-youll-miss-a-revolution-by-emile-sornin/" target="_blank">Cut Copy &#39;Blink and You&#39;ll Miss a Revolution&#39;</a> (as well as his more sleight-of-hand work for Naive New Beaters&#39; <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/11/02/naive-new-beaters-la-onda-by-emile-sornin/" target="_blank">La Onda</a>). Now Émile has delved into the world of recent Mercury Award winners Alt-J&#39;s Fitzpleasure.However, Émile&#39;s twist has utilised some mind-bending VFX (some subtle - some not so subtle) to warp and morph his characters, creating an altogether more fascinating character examination that sits excellently with Alt-J&#39;s frenetic and changeable song.

Marka Zarka

Judith Chalier

Elsa Bennett

Clément Cantier

Connie Meade

Infectious

Alt-J 'Fitzpleasure' by Émile Sornin

Alt-J-'Fitzpleasure'-by-Émile-Sornin

As if he&#39;s reached the logical conclusion of all his previous videos, Sébastien Tellier collaborates with Alex Courtès to become the guitar-wielding Rasputin of Sex, overseeing a belter of a disco-orgy, in the video for Cochon Ville, first single from the upcoming album My God Is Blue.Of course its sexy. Its also pretty funny, and somewhat unsavoury. And you really don&#39;t want to put a firework there...Lets put it this way: Ken Russell would&#39;ve absolutely loved it. Thinking about it, Ken&#39;s probably the inspiration for the whole thing...

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