Producer

Jess Bell

Femi Ladi&nbsp;directs a hypnotic promo for Backroad Gee, featuring a blistering performance of his track Fear Nuttin.&nbsp;The latest in Apple Music's video series The Agenda Live - which shines a spotlight on&nbsp;Black British music’s most prodigious talents - the video is a high-energy showcase of the up and coming talent, shot in&nbsp;a dynamic, frantic style.&nbsp;The high-contrast cinematography creates an enigmatic atmosphere, leaning into the thrilling soundscapes and abstract nature of the piece.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Femi Ladi

Ayo Davis

Somesuch

Andre Reid-McKinley

Phillips Nortley

Joe Douglas

Peter Ward

Will Crafter

Lee Parfitt

Ahmet Buyukcinar, Art Dpt Assistant Sam Dacosta

Neesha Sharma

Ceecee Lawrence

Kaz Ove

Edit Egg

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Emory Ruegg

Grime

Dancehall

Backroad Gee 'Fear Nuttin' (The Agenda Live)' by Femi Ladi 

Backroad-Gee-'The-Agenda-Live'-by-Femi-Ladi-

Identical twins choose similar paths towards oblivion, in this Shakespearean family drama for British DJ-producer duo&nbsp;Camelphat.After saying goodbye to one another at a funeral, the brothers look for adoration in different places: one becomes a rockstar, the other becomes the leader of a cult. Through their search for control, they both spiral into self-destruction. They meet twice again. The first time, at the top of their game, they argue. But the second time, they meet under much graver&nbsp;circumstances.&nbsp;Charley Palmer Roe - who you may recognise as the spooky supporting character in absolutely everything - gives an alarming performance as both twins. The similarities between their separate lives are impressively realised with analogous compositions and match-cutting. The visual conceit drives the narrative, and there is exceptional work here by DoP Dustin Lane - shooting monochrome, as he did to award-winning effect for&nbsp;Alt-J’s Mexican epic <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/18/alt-j-3ww-young-replicant/47388">3WW</a>&nbsp;- and the director's regular editing collaborator Sam Bould.&nbsp;The Sacred Egg are still fairly fresh from their roles as second unit directors for Bohemian Rhapsody, and you can draw certain parallels between the Mercury biopic and this more insidious story. The duo are savvy enough to show us only a glimpse of this world before the video ends, leaving you curious. Who was the father of these men? Why were they drawn to take these paths and do the things they did?

The Sacred Egg

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Brett Hodgkinson

Dustin Lane

Mike Berg

Sophie Fraser

Sam Bould

Cut+Run

Duncan Russell

Ryan Hancocks

Charlie Palmer-rothwell

Kat Cattaneo

Dan Millar

Sony Music

Orange Films

Richard Moerdyk

Dance

CamelPhat ft Jake Bugg 'Be Someone' by The Sacred Egg

In this director&#39;s cut of Courtney Phillips&#39;s video for Dermot Kennedy, you get the full force of an absorbing story of courage and determination, set in the heart of Havana, Cuba.It&#39;s all about a girl boxer who wants to be the best - not just among her fellow females, but against the boys too. Her motivation is utterly believable - we see her homelife, where she and her younger sister have no mother figure to defend them against a father who oozes malevolence. She needs to somehow escape.This comes with the context of Cuba itself. It has&nbsp;that unique character that makes it so good on film - and it&#39;s never looked more richly atmospheric, thanks to brilliant work by the DoP&nbsp;David Procter. But the appraoch, combining drama and&nbsp;documentary, is also revealing about the true hardship&nbsp;under which people live. Havana may be beautiful, but as Phillips&#39; excellent video shows, it&#39;s also an extremely tough place.&nbsp;

Courtney Phillips

Harvey Ascott

London Alley

David Procter

Joe Walton

John Holloway

Houmam Abdallah

Velem

Cabin Edit

Remy Foxx

Hilary Coy

OB Management

Guillermo Ramos

Hanan Cher

Emily Ann Sonnet

Dermot Kennedy 'Power Over Me' by Courtney Phillips

Alex Southam&#39;s riveting, crazy whirlwind of a video for Bring Me The Horizon, has frontman Oli Sykes is a down-at-heel outsider who is remodelled by a sinister corporation to lead a cult - with hair-raising results.In this supercharged Director&#39;s Cut, Southam manages to cram pretty much a B-movie&#39;s worth of lurid, satirical comic horror into four piledriving minutes of action, with the panache of an early Cronenberg.&nbsp;Mantra is a chaotic mix of mendacity, vulnerability, revenge, served up on a bed of psychotropic drugs, with a helping of voodoo for pudding. Hold on to your hats.[imgtoken data:1]

Alex Southam

Alex Chamberlain

Dasha Deriagina

Sam Holmes

2332 Films

Tim Sidell

Vadim Yuzba

Denis Kumeiko

Max Ruban

Aleksey Savelov

Daniel Dubrovsky

Dasha Taivas

Juli Levitskaya

Sergey Panteleev

Karin Papa

Jake Armstrong

Marshall Street Editors

Dan Moran

Markus Lundqvist

Kent Hugo

Rock

Bring Me The Horizon 'Mantra' (Director's Cut) by Alex Southam

Bouha Kazmi&#39;s video for legendary French band&nbsp;Indochine&rsquo;s Station 13&nbsp;is not for the fainthearted. Visceral, brutal and harrowing, it&#39;s also an extraordinary&nbsp;achievement.Kazmi apparently takes us into the mid-century struggles for civil rights. It&#39;s a beautifully dramatised scenario that instantly evokes the battles against segregation in the American South, and against Apartheid in South Africa. But Kazmi adds another, almost&nbsp;biblical dimension to proceedings.The black men who are being serially persecuted and beaten by police are revealed to be angels on Earth. The stark, dramatic black and white images - beautifully shot by&nbsp;Kaname Onoyama - are redolent of classic Magnum photography, but they are influenced just as much by the religious painting of Caravaggio and Rubens.The themes of racism, suffering, police brutality are delivered with operatic gravity, leading to an almost unbearable finale - the ripping of an angel&#39;s wings from his body, in front of a crowd of onlookers.It is harrowing, but also unforgettable: the most powerful indictment of man&#39;s perpetual weakness - the impulse&nbsp;to try to destroy what he does not understand and therefore fears.

France

Bouha Kazmi

Sarah Tognazzi

Colin Greyvensteyn

Westley Durand

Kaname Onoyama

Laurence Bishop

Moira Meyer

Nikkila Mann

Portobello Post

Joseph Bicknell

CHEAT

Gloria FX

Sony Music France

Indochine 'Station 13' by Bouha Kazmi

Indochine-'Station-13'-by-Bouha-Kazmi

With&nbsp;Anne-Marie&nbsp;referencing some of her favourite anthems from the early Noughties in her UK Top 5 hit 2002,&nbsp;Hannah Lux Davis&#39;s wonderfully tongue-in-cheek video pays homage to the accompanying iconic videos to those anthems.So Anne-Marie channels&nbsp;Britney Spears&rsquo; &hellip;Baby One More Time,&nbsp;N-Sync&rsquo;s&nbsp;Bye Bye Bye, Jay-Z&rsquo;s&nbsp;99 Problems,&nbsp;and Nelly&rsquo;s&nbsp;Ride Wit Me.Did any of those actually come out in 2002...?&nbsp;

Hannah Lux Davis

Amber Millington

Brandon Bonfiglio

Alice White

Jerome Franc

Dan Stafford Clarke

Leo Bund

Sam Riley

Craig Davis

Oliver Hogan

Lola Chatterton / Phoebe Lettice

Jake Gallager / Kim Roy

Jojo Copeman / Emma Osborne

Marshall Plante

Skulley FX

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Uk

Anne-Marie '2002' by Hannah Lux Davis

Anne-marie-'2002'-by-Hannah-Lux-Davis

Joshua Osborne&#39;s video for Tom Misch&#39;s Movie is a real family affair. From the opening shot, featuring Polly Misch lipsyncing over a sample from Brief Encounter, we follow Tom into a private cinema to run a very special film on the projector.It&#39;s a &#39;home movie&#39;&nbsp;of Margriet and Klaus Misch, Tom&#39;s German grandparents, and the footage shows them just after the end of World War II, in love during very hard times in Europe. It&#39;s fascinating, and provided the inspiration for the song as well as the video. Most importantly, Osborne places this precious footage in a context which feels right for the jazzy cool of the track.&quot;This was definitely a unique experience and process,&quot; he says. &quot;And I thoroughly enjoyed working closely with the whole family to ensure we execute their story in the most respectful way.&quot;

Joshua Osborne

Johnny Griffith

Chris Malin

Diana Olifirova

Ilaria Fulvio

Nacho De Leon

Jak Wakefield

Carol Misch

Grant Sandy Phillips

Hasani Franke

Work Editorial

Connie Meade

Jazz

Tom Misch 'Movie' by Joshua Osborne

Tom-Misch-'Movie'-by-Joshua-Osborne

Alex Southam delivers a killer collage filled with a cosmic sense of existential dread for Barns Courtney.Southam&#39;s mind-bending psychedelic mixed media work incorporates a vast spectrum of impending doom (via skulls, pills, and explosions) and cuts that with archival footage of fun, the universe and geometric shapes. The end result is a carefully composed celebration of life in all its many forms, enshrouded in a retro-futuristic aesthetic.&nbsp;

Ailsa Robertson

Virginemi

Indie pop

Barns Courtney 'Golden Dandelions' by Alex Southam

Barns-Courtney-'Golden-Dandelions'-by-Alex-Southam

Little Mix celebrates female empowerment in this bright, bold era-spanning video by Hannah Lux Davis.Featuring cameos from the girls&#39; mums and a guest verse by Stormzy, the clip sees each of the girls occupy a different era and subculture, to celebrate the women therein. From the LGBTQ scene, to the 60s and 70s peace movement, to biker gangs and the New York streets of the 80s and 90s, the girls perform in their own aesthetic universe, each celebrating the power of the women surrounding them. A colourful, bright and polished effort as ever from Hannah Lux Davis - proving too that she&#39;s one of the most powerful women in Music Videos.

Harriet Towler

Angela Gregory

Luga Podesta

Daniel Stafford-clark

Carlos Veron

Hannah Lux Davis, Joe Shahood, Rachel Gutknecht

Brian Smaller

GloriaFX

Mike O'keefe, Lisa Foo, Barney Leigh

Sony

Little Mix Ft. Stormzy 'Power' by Hannah Lux Davis

New York singer-songwriter Amber Mark unveils her debut music video for&nbsp;Lose My Cool, a revealing and intriguing slice-of-life directed by&nbsp;Courtney Phillips that employs different formats to frame Amber in the here and now, and also in the past, through the lens of an unseen lover.This is good stuff. An engaging performance by Amber suggests she&#39;s a talent to watch, and with the help of a fine edit by Flaura Atkinson, Courtney Phillips shows how the&nbsp;accumulation of familiar unfortunate events makes it very difficult to always be nice.

Sam Cutler-kreutz

Flaura Atkinson

The Quarry

Emily Sonnet

Amber Mark 'Lose My Cool' by Courtney Phillips

Amber-Mark-'Lose-My-Cool'-by-Courtney-Phillips

Tim Mattia&#39;s video for Emeli Sandé brings together some troubled souls who need to overcome the obstacles in their way.Set in urban London, we see young people who seem trapped or held back by societal pressures in a series of heartbreaking narrative threads. The characters&#39; hurt evolves into dance and becomes a literally uplifting crescendo, intercut with a minimal, almost evangelical performance from Sandé.

Tim Mattia

Tom Birmingham

Johnny Griffiths

Isusko Garcia

Sy Turnbull

Mike Linforth

Michael Kinsella Perks

Phil Penfold

Fred Allsop

Flo Mitchell

Sian Duke

Jen Kennedy

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Emeli Sandé 'Breathing Underwater' by Tim Mattia

Emeli-Sande-'Breathing-Underwater'-by-Tim-Mattia

Apprehensive conversation between two young lovers&nbsp;sets the scene for&nbsp;Never Letting Go, directed by&nbsp;Courtney Phillips for the&nbsp;new Zac Samuel annd&nbsp;Moon Willis collaboration featuring vocals by Taya - following a&nbsp;young biker and&nbsp;his girlfriend&nbsp;in their tumultuous, high-powered romance.&nbsp;Following the ups and downs of a&nbsp;young&nbsp;pair when they are together as well as apart, the&nbsp;struggles each one faces become crystal clear. The young man, torn&nbsp;between&nbsp;his fleeting love,&nbsp;biker life and his chase for excitement&nbsp;and for the young woman, the anxiety that something so good yet volatile&nbsp;is likely to&nbsp;crash and burn.&nbsp;

Matt Posner

Katharine Cowell

Joe Cook

James Rhodes

Jamie Jarvis

Robyn Rowan

Nina Igbino

Cami Starkman

Sunset Edit

Ellie Johnson

Speade

Phil Currie

Otis Bell

Stitch Editing

Zac Samuel, Moon Willis ft. Taya 'Never Letting Go' by Courtney Phillips

Here&#39;s a clever piece of in-camera trickery from Emil Nava in his latest performance&nbsp;video for&nbsp;West London collective WSTRN&#39;s track&nbsp;A List.The video sees Akelle Charles, Haile and Louis-Rei charming attractive ladies in&nbsp;bright, colourful tropical&nbsp;shacks. But it&#39;s the way they glide between these backdrops&nbsp;that has us wondering if they&#39;re actually performing in front of a green screen. All is revealed at the end!

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