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Jeremy Fusco

Huse Monfaradi directs a splendidly vibrant, and wittily retro&nbsp;live visual for Declan McKenna's Be An Astronaut.&nbsp;With a single line of silver glitter drawn on his face, the indie-rock prodigy sets aside the more heavy surrealism seen in his official videos, and goes all-in with a dynamic live performance of old school glam rock.&nbsp;Paying homage to iconic artists in the genre - particularly Hunky Dory-era Bowie and early Elton&nbsp;-&nbsp;the&nbsp;track is visualised through a lively and unabashed performance from McKenna, backed up by a handful of equally animated, and appropriately&nbsp;styled&nbsp;musicians.&nbsp;The location is excellent too, toeing the line between derelict and palatial. And Monfaradi's canny use of camera&nbsp;and lenses seals the early '70s vibe,&nbsp;and works well in the themes of dreams vs reality that run through the lyrics.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Huse Monfaradi

Hannah Wainwright

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Chris Kelly

Ben Magahy

Jasmin Anderson

Paul Toomey

Terry Palamara

Micahael Darlington

Jackie Tyson

Nick Ellis

Vic Parker

Raised By Wolves

Carrie Sutton

Michael Lewin

Indie Rock

Declan McKenna 'Be An Astronaut (live)' by Huse Monfaradi

Declan-Mckenna-'Be-An-Astronaut-(live-Video)'-by-Nathan-Killham

Michael Cumming, best&nbsp;known for his TV comedy work like Brass Eye and Toast Of London, and his commercials, makes an auspicious music video directing debut for George Ezra that pokes wholesome fun at some of the absurdities of the music industry.The video for Pretty Shining People mocks the pop machine process, with George trying to win a recording contract by performing for&nbsp;a bunch of jaded record execs - all played by kids. They then want to turn the distinctive singer-songwriter into a pop star, by making him smile and dress and dance just like everyone else.Can George win them over by being true to himself? You better believe it.Ezra certainly has a knack for this sort of&nbsp;self-effacing, gently satirical comedy. It&#39;s served him well before&nbsp;- including a recent&nbsp;turn on Reeves and Mortimer&#39;s brilliant&nbsp;Big Night Out - and it does so again here.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Michael Cumming

Amber Millington

Moxie Pictures

Dawn Laren

Eleanor Daynes

Steve Roberts

Eve Carreno

Bruce Magahy

Rosy Thomas

Luci Ellis

Emma Regan

Jo Jenkins

Flaura Atkinson

The Quarry

Ross Baker

Halo Post

Charlotte Hawkins

Róisín @ Oblong

Marilou Bakkenist @ Moxie Pictures

Laura Clayton

Sony Music

Emilio Schlappi

George Ezra 'Pretty Shining People' by Michael Cumming

George-Ezra-'Pretty-Shining-People'-by-Michael-Cumming

If you could go on a date with anyone living or dead, who would it be? Alt-J made their picks and that became the basis of Young Replicant&#39;s science fiction dance film.Acting on behalf of the band, a machine in a subterranean bunker chooses Sylvia Plath, Lee Miller and Anne Boleyn, or at least it chooses their memories. Projected through small glass discs we intercut between these haunting, animated dance scenes (choreographed by Darcy Wallace) that are given a personality based on a computer&#39;s understanding of history.There&#39;s a detached, uncanny valley element to the clip - Alex Takacs aka Young Replicant&#39;s second for the band&#39;s current album, after the brilliant&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/18/alt-j-3ww-young-replicant" target="_blank">3WW</a> earlier this year &ndash; as these renditions of historical figures live again for a fleeting moment before fading with the light of the projector.

Young Replicant

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Sonya Sier

Rebecca Mason

Amanda Tuckwell

Elena Argiros

George Nelson

Ben Keswick

Martijn Van Broekhuizen

Jerry Pradon

Neil Blakesley

Matt Alsopp

Chris Belcher

Tom Grove Carter

Trim Editing

Oisín O’Driscoll

Imogen Pai

The Mill

Darcy Wallace

Nathan Parker

Lisa Zipper

Natalie Wilkins

Alternative

Alt-J 'Deadcrush' by Young Replicant

alt-J - Deadcrush (Official Video)

Arni &amp; Kinski tell a tale of rekindled romance with the unlikeliest of methods in their engaging new video for JP Cooper.Set around a piece of unfinished graffiti, this inner-city love story follows a young man pining for someone who seems to be closer than he first thinks. Told with flashbacks as well as performance from Cooper himself, rooftop hopelessness turns into street-level hope by the end of the clip.

Arni and Kinski

Shabana Mansuri

Joshua Carter

Ross Muir

Kerry Green

Jolyon Price

Anastasia Romanchuka

Mahalia John

Sid Jones

Max Rijavec

Barry Keegan

Simon Ingram

Ryan Delahunty

David Hamilton

George Stocks

Isak Freyr

Charlotte Beardow

Cami Starkman

Sunset Edit

Jax Harney

CHEAT

Emily Ann Sonnet

JP Cooper 'September Song' by Arni & Kinski

JP Cooper - September Song

Corinne Bailey Rae&#39;s has released this powerful video - the second&nbsp;directed by Chris Turner aka Favourite Colour: Black from her anticipated comeback album &ndash;&nbsp;for Stop Where You Are.&nbsp;The video captures a warm, uplifting&nbsp;performance by the singer&nbsp;amongst the cold concrete slates of&nbsp;the Southbank Centre&#39;s brutalist buildings. Around her, scenes of human kindness as well as antagonism and conflict play out, inviting us to drop the&nbsp;barriers that we build around ourselves and appreciate those around us, regardless of image, colour, creed or culture.

Favourite Colour: Black

Thalia Murray

Park Village

Joe Walker

Ed Bellamy

Jason Berman

Roland Phillips

Kevin Mcmorrow

Bianca Simone

Martina Lisette

Mark Whelan

Marisa Garner Associates

Ailsa Robertson

Virgin Records

Singer-songwriter

Corinne Bailey Rae 'Stop Where You Are' by Favourite Colour: Black

Corinne-Bailey-Rae-'Stop-Where-You-Are'-by-Favourite-Colour:-Black

Mike Carr has directed this&nbsp;minimal, greyscale&nbsp;video for&nbsp;Brixton four-piece The Thirst&#39;s&nbsp;debut single True. It&#39;s a sleek and simple&nbsp;proposition, focusing on the&nbsp;rhythm,&nbsp;instrumentation&nbsp;and&nbsp;performance of the band by its sober, restrained visual stylings.&nbsp;

Mike Carr

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Tom Ivens

Rowland Phillips

Peter Brimson

Ayishat Akanbi

Molly Portsmouth

Greg Hayes

Whitehouse Post

Adam Clarke

Absolute Post

James Beck

Lora Nikeolaeva, Owen Saward

The Thirst 'True' by Mike Carr

The-Thirst-'True'-by-Mike-Carr

The Rizzle Kicks&nbsp;certainly know how to travel in style in The Lennox Bros&#39; video for Tell Her - albeit in miniature style. Jordan and Harley speed across London in&nbsp;mini-monster trucks, model planes and tiny muscle cars&nbsp;while confessing their love to the world - and to the football pitch and the skate park.The Lennox Bros say that idea has been lurking in their files for years, and&nbsp;they &quot;waited until the right artist and track come along to use it.&quot; The fun-loving, and none-too-serious&nbsp;Rizzles&#39; were the ideal&nbsp;choice.

The Lennox Bros

Phil Vanier

Asylum Films

Luke Goodrich

Andy Parsons

James Hills

Julia Bowden

Richard Fearon

OB Management

Natalia Maus

Island Records

Rizzle Kicks 'Tell Her' by The Lennox Bros

Rizzle Kicks - Tell Her

Nick Knight&#39;s video for Kanye West&#39;s superb&nbsp;afro-glam-rock mash-up Black Skinhead is here &ndash; following their collaboration on the New Slaves video (presented as a series of &#39;guerilla&#39; outdoor projections a few weeks ago) and much of the visuals surrounding Kanye&#39;s Yeezus album.&nbsp;This is, perhaps predictably,&nbsp;an intense experience&nbsp;- and minimal. A CG version of&nbsp;Kanye performs the song against black (after that first shot of KKK-like hoods in black). He&#39;s&nbsp;initially lifelike (with more defined abs) and then becomes more extreme and digitally messed-up as it progresses. But the view-only video is just one way to experience Blkkk Skkkn Head.&nbsp;The interactive version on&nbsp;kanyewest.com&nbsp;allows you to speed up, slow down and take and share screenshots of the video with a cursor.On Twitter, a typically bullish Kanye has described&nbsp;Nick Knight&#39;s video as &quot;a step towards the possibilities of internet based video&quot; then asking his followers:&nbsp;&quot;please don&#39;t diminish the user experience by just posting it as a normal video &hellip; please link them to my site.&quot;No problem. So click &#39;Watch Here&#39; to experience the&nbsp;full interactive version of Blkkk Skkkn Head...&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Nick Knight

Hannah May

Carly Baker

Drew Arnold

Kevin Stenning

Peter Valkanoff

Dynamixyz & Centroid

Scott Altman

Maximillion Mallman

Will Broadbent

Jason Mayo

Nelson Oliver

Jay Patel

Simon Foxton

Isamaya French

Charlotte Knight

Hip-Hop

Kanye West 'Blkkk Skkkn Head' by Nick Knight

Kanye West - BLKKK SKKKN HEAD (Explicit)

Lily Cole reflects on the impossibility of perfection while revealing her true self in this anti-ad directed by Ian Bonhote - which is actually a sort of ad, made for Microsoft and Hyundai. It resonates because she has now retired from modelling, and this was maybe her last assignment...

Sarah Burkeman @ Smoking Pony Productions

Luke Palmer

Jamie Mac

Wes Tastard

Felicity Wetherell

Paul Bremner

'Perfection' by Ian Bonhote

For Dancing Pigeons and Diesel:U:Music, Tomas Mankovsky has conjured up this extraordinary, eye-popping, extremely dangerous duel of fire and water, played out by a couple of gibbering redneck idiots at a sumptuous one thousand frames per second. And that's got to be worth a few minutes of anyone's time.
In particular this compellingly lurid clash of the mental midgets features what must be the best bit flame-throwing footage since (I'm slightly guessing here) Arnie was in his pomp. It's the result of Tomas and Artem, his SFX team, custom-building their own flame-thrower. Nice.
"Duels fascinate me," says Tomas. "It used to be a popular thing, but in modern days it has died out," "So I thought that probably somewhere in the States, some hillbillies are still doing it, their way." 
He says that shooting almost entirely on the Phantom camera at 1000 fps threw up its own difficulties. "Since we shot at high frame rates we needed a lot of light, but I wanted to shoot it at night, which made it dif?cult. And on top of that, the main element in frame was a huge ?reball that was really bright. Adam Frisch, the DP, did a great job." 

Shooting in camera was a conscious decision to create a more real and visually striking ?lm. "It was dif?cult to know how this shootout would look like in superslowmo. We did some tests with a gas-?amethrower but the ?ame was only 2-3 meters and it looked quite bad in slowmo, so the special effects guys had to build a new ?amethrower from scratch. 
"They made one with liquid fuel, and that one was much better, ?ring out 10-15 meter ?ames. But the ?rst time we saw how the ?amethrower and ?re extinguisher looked and behaved in slowmo was on the day of the shoot."

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