Director of Photography

Kristof Brandl

A knight&nbsp;in armour returns on horseback to his manor, discovering he is&nbsp;mortally wounded. And then he embarks upon a remarkable ritual in Joe Wheatley's mesmerising new video for TV Priest.Shot by eminent DoP Kristof Brandl, and featuring a stunning peformance by TV Priest frontman Charlie Drinkwater as the wounded knight, Wheatley has drawn on&nbsp;the sense of weariness and smouldering fury in the song One Easy Thing with an unlikely scenario that radiates cinematic gravitas.There is great filmmaking craft at work here. Brandl bringing his unmistakeable skill to bear on this gloomy, pain-ridden world, shooting on black and white film&nbsp;to create amazing images. Wheatley and Drinkwater, working for the third time following the TV Priest videos for Decoration and Press Gang, give the dying knight's last moments&nbsp;transcendent meaning.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Joe Wheatley

Aidan Brooks

Agile Films

Precious Mahaga

Sana Khan

Milo Brown

Christopher Orr⁣

Simon Donnellon

Adam Jones

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Sub Pop

OB Management

Jake Butt

Kodak

Rock

TV Priest 'One Easy Thing' by Joe Wheatley

Tv-Priest-'One-Easy-Thing'-by-Joe-Wheatley

Fred Gervais follows up his <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/09/02/pl-wheelie-barbe-%C3%A0-papa-fred-gervais/72620" target="_blank">Barbe a Papa</a> video for Canadian hip hop outfit PL &amp; Wheelie with this Halloween-inspired ode to classic horror&nbsp;for WOOPA.As with the previous video Gervais employs PL (actor-rapper Pierre-Luc Lafontaine) in a number of set-ups that puts a comedic&nbsp;slant on the horror canon - in the whipsmart style of the early&nbsp;Eminem videos.Most of the old school monsters make an appearance, with an increasingly sexy take on the vampire genre.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Canada

Fred Gervais

Nicolas Fontaine

Jannie McInnes

PL & Wheelie

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Guillaume Moffet

Universal Music Canada

Nancy Grant

Charlotte Le Bon (Flying Peach Productions)

Kenny Dorvil

Victoria Hazelton

Maïna Militza

Simon Boisx

Scheme Engine

Hip Hop

PL & Wheelie 'WOOPA' by Fred Gervais

Pl-&-Wheelie--'Woopa'-by-Fred-Gervais

In Fred Gervais-Dupuis's video for Montreal electro-duo Dear Criminals, a young country boy confronts relentless terrors in an ever-evolving&nbsp;nightmare.This is breathtaking stuff. While the&nbsp;subject matter is tremendously bleak - this deathly pale&nbsp;child stumbles through his farmstead home from one&nbsp;horror&nbsp;involving a distorted version of a family member to the next - it is also delivered with an element of wonder, imagination and&nbsp;extraordinary beauty, delivered in stunning black and white cinematography by&nbsp;Kristof Brandl.Previously known for his stylishly gothic photography, this is Fred Gervais-Dupuis's first music video. What a debut.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Fred Gervais-Dupuis

Mathilde Donnard

AJ Helie

Nina Anton

Steven Turcotte

Simon Boissonneaux

Dear Criminals 'Lala' by Fred Gervais-Dupuis

Dear-Criminals-'Lala'-by-Fred-Gervais-dupuis

Bibi Zhou, a huge star in China in the Mandarin-language Mandopop genre, is transformed into an interdimensional puppetmaster, controlling the lives of characters in her orbit, in the gorgeous video directed by Jonathan Desbiens -&nbsp;aka Jodeb -&nbsp;for her new track&nbsp;Luna.&nbsp;Shot in Montreal and Iceland, with a cast of dancers situated in a remarkable selection of locations -&nbsp;brooding glaciers, basalt column caves, black sand beaches and moonlit lagoons - Jodeb has created a delightful, otherworldly piece, where Bibi Zhou is the spiritual rock, literally tied to these characters.The rope that connects Bibi Zhou and the dancers over time and space is a simple but highly&nbsp;effective device in also creating a connection between Zhou, the dancers and the viewer. It is delivered with&nbsp;characteristic skill and conviction by Jodeb - aided in no small part by the brilliant cinematography by Kristof Brandl - and also invites the viewer to ponder on the metaphorical aspect of a piece in which the moon is also a force, like a character in itself.&nbsp;The artist may be only vaguely known to a Western audience, but this one stands up with Jodeb's finest work. A director at the top of his game.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

China

Jodeb

Prettybird

Colossale

Juliette Larthe

Vlad Cojocaru

Hannah May

Hannah Bellil

Stefan Petrisor

Amy Gardner

Bianka Roussel Marino

Daniel Dessureault Wright

Theo Porcet

Michael Lewin

NOWNESS

Mathieu Leduc

Stephane Bourdeau

Mathieu Nadon

Charles Durand-Morin

Hugo Longtin

JF Clement

Hero Productions, Iceland

Bui Baldvinsson

Thora Margrétardóttir

Alfred Gíslason

Michael Hannides

Rútur Skaeringur

Bibi Zhou 'Lunar' by Jodeb

Lunar

Tom Green has created a thought-provoking and suitably moving video to accompany Ray Blk&#39;s heartfelt Run Run.This brings us into the world of a black British teenager who is almost certainly also a murder victim. But in a place somewhere between reality and a dystopian purgatory, his fear and need to escape continues.The metaphorical&nbsp;journey of the&nbsp;boy, powerfully played by Kai Francis Lewis, is intercut with Ray&#39;s performance on the terrace of a London estate.&nbsp;&quot;It was very emotional being on set to shoot the Run Run video,&quot; she says. &quot;Tears were shed.&quot;There&rsquo;s a scene where I am up on the roof of an estate in Brixton and I was looking down at these surroundings, thinking about what was probably going on in the estate. It was very real. Everyone walked away that day after filming feeling heavy.&quot;

Tom Green

Nkem Egbuchiri

Stink Films

Katie Lambert

Mark Gillespie

Bernin Isaac

Sam Hayes, Chris Rogers

Rik Burnell

Maxwell Randall

Ihunna Eberendu

Grace Ellington

James Wright

TenThree

Lewis Crossfield

Felix Geen

Kai Francis Lewis

Caroline Clayton

Island Records

Ray Blk 'Run Run' by Tom Green

RAY BLK - Run Run (Official Video)

Bastille reunite with Austin Peters for the lead-off track from their next album, and a beautifully made video featuring frontman Dan Smith on a breakneck surreal adventure through Paris and his imagination. And it begins with him shaving off his trademark big hair.Once Smith gets his smart new crew-cut, he finds himself instantaneously transported into a different scene, and then another. From club dancefloor&nbsp;to ice bath in grubby bathroom, Satanic ceremony to hanging with feisty and righteous trans people, to his constant confusion.It&#39;s a simple, strong idea served by a great production, and excellent direction by Peters - it&#39;s his fourth&nbsp;video for Bastille, following&nbsp;Flaws, Laura Palmer and Oblivion. And the video also features&nbsp;standout work by DoP Kristof Brandl and editor James Rose.&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;We made the video over a couple of days and nights in Paris with our incredibly talented friend, and long-time collaborator, Austin Peters,&rdquo; Smith has said in a statement.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a nod towards some of our favourite films and directors. Like the album as a whole, it&rsquo;s a surreal journey through euphoric highs and lows of a night, and all that comes with it: the escapism, warped realities, and unclear memories.&rdquo; More at <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/music/bastille-dan-shave-head-new-video-2323618">NME.com</a>.

Austin Peters

Francois Larpin

Forever

Sasha Nixon

Marylou Lapierre

Didier Mallet

Johan Leclaire Bottarelli

Nicolas Cadot

Lucie Libotte

Anna Tarissan

Céline Llerena

Francis Jaillans

James Rose

Cut+Run

Mikey Rossiter

The Mill

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Ama Labarthe

Anniki

Emma Skowronek

Loïc Andrieu

Jérôme Tanguy

Bastille 'Quarter Past Midnight' by Austin Peters

Bastille-'Quarter-Past-Midnight'-by-Austin-Peters

Kinga Burza brings together the mystery, vibrant energy and ethereal quality of Norwegian pop star Aurora all under one roof in grandly delapidated building in Prague for the uplifting Queendom.&nbsp;&quot;Queendom is about celebrating all the differences in us,&quot; says Aurora.&nbsp;&quot;It&rsquo;s about celebrating the women and the children and animals and the men also. The quiet ones and the introverts, where they can sing and be seen. It&rsquo;s about the shy people and the lonely people and I hope it can be a place where we can come and be lonely together and then not be lonely anymore. Queendom is a place for all of us.&quot;&bull; Exclusive interview with Aurora and more on the video on&nbsp;<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/ywxym5/norway-aurora-watch-queendom-music-video">i-D</a>&nbsp;

Norway

Kinga Burza

Natalie Wetherell

Tereza Kopecka

Eliska Matejkova

Lucie Sandlerova

Simon Colin

Oisín O'Driscoll

Ryan Payne

Glassnote

Andrew Fletcher

Milk & Honey (Prague)

Aurora 'Queendom' by Kinga Burza

AURORA - Queendom (Official Video)

DoP-turned-director Kristof Brandl won an MVA last year for his first video for Charlotte Cardin. That was intense, but it was just a prelude to this extraordinarily powerful work for Cardin&#39;s The Kids.This is a white-knuckle ride of emotional turmoil, delivered with a stunning command of imagery, drawing on themes of innocence, addiction, pain and love. We experience it through the eyes of a young boy in a broken family, withdrawing from his opiated parents.Incorporating both VFX-fired surrealism and dialogue,&nbsp;Brandl&#39;s hard-bitten&nbsp;story&nbsp;relates an unmistakeable truth: how the delicate trajectory of a child&rsquo;s life hinges on their environment during their upbringing. And with it, he has also announced himself as an exceptionally talented director.

France

Christophe Collette

Alternative

Charlotte Cardin 'The Kids' by Kristof Brandl

J.A.C.K have made a very enigmatic video for MØ&#39;s&nbsp;When I Was Young. In so doing, the French directing duo have captured&nbsp;the Danish popster&#39;s&nbsp;distinctive charisma in a way not previously achieved in her videos.In a deserted village, a solitary MØ is joined by two other versions of herself, one in white the other in black&nbsp;- the latter accompanied by a group of skeleton-clad ghouls. With a combination of artful choreography and visual effects, the original&nbsp;MØ allies with one of her duplicates to battle the other, and her ghouls.&nbsp;MØ has revealed that the inspiration for the video came from Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist best known for The Scream.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m so happy to present this video because it feels very true to the song and to who I am,&rdquo; she says. &quot;It was inspired by a painting called The Dance Of Life [by Munch]...&nbsp;It&rsquo;s an illustration of three women &ndash; one in white, one in red and one in black &ndash; and tells a story about three stages of human life: youth, maturity, and old age.&quot;I was always drawn to this image as a kid due to its simple symbolism and emotion and have been dying to do a video that could reflect on it. Since When I Was Young is all about nostalgia and reflecting on life &ndash;especially the past, but also the now and the future &ndash; it just seemed like the perfect time to do it. J.A.C.K came up with the idea of me playing all three women at the same time, dancing the dance of life, seduced, intrigued and fooled by each other, and they took this whole idea to levels I couldn&rsquo;t even have dreamed of.&rdquo;[imgtoken data:1]&ldquo;With this video we wanted to speak about youth, and picture metaphorically how a girl becomes a woman,&rdquo; say Camille &amp; Julien from J.A.C.K, &ldquo;Karen [MØ] is such a talented artist, it has been a pleasure to develop this concept together with her: an everlasting circle of life choreography, with life and death dancing hand in hand.&rdquo;

J.A.C.K.

Benjamin Zorrilla

Caviar

Katie Dolan

Benedict Turnbull

Christi Ciurea

Remi Quilichini

Holly Blakey

Aldene Johnson

Oana Draghic

Nicole Kahlani

Danielle Kahlani

Duncan Russell

Freefolk

FIRM

Manuel Coutant

Elizabeth Doonan

MØ 'When I Was Young' by J.A.C.K.

MØ - When I Was Young (Official Video)

Sing J. Lee explores what it means to belong in this fast-paced, lush-looking video for Tchami.Using non-actors and shooting almost entirely in Shanghai, Sing draws from his own experiences as a British-born Chinese man to create a deeply personal study of a girl from rural China being swept away by the city. Opulent, towering architecture and the colourful lights of a metropolis at night dazzle, overwhelm and ultimately take their toll on our protagonist, resulting in a visually poetic, serene final scene in which she revisits her roots with a new outlook.

United States

Sing J Lee

Billy Starman

Laure Salgon

Partizan Darkroom

Laura Jones

Kaiwen Li

Vid Price

Trim Editing

Gloria FX

Chris Clavadetscher

Confession

Tchami ft Luke James 'World To Me' by Sing J Lee 

After a quiet spell Sing J Lee steps up to the mark again in&nbsp;music videos with a real statement for Halsey. And&nbsp;it&#39;s&nbsp;just for starters.The video for Now Or Never is a blockbuster - a big, cinematic fantasy&nbsp;action thriller with blue-haired Halsey falling&nbsp;for a rival gang member during a turf war of heavily armed kids&nbsp;in a dangerous near-future LA.&nbsp;Everything leads inexorably to a gripping and very violent climax, and it&#39;s expertly&nbsp;helmed by Lee, in his first big&nbsp;Stateside music video. And this happens to be&nbsp;just the first half of the story. As Halsey escapes to cut her blue locks and recover from the trauma, we suspect there will be&nbsp;further twists in the tale.It&#39;s beautifully shot by&nbsp;Kristof&nbsp;Brandl, and as well as the two for Halsey, Sing J Lee has also worked with the DoP in a video shot in Shanghai for Tchami that comes out shortly. With another video for Raye in pre-production, Lee is well and truly back - all guns blazing.

Ryan Beck

Final Cut

Houmam Abdallah

Targa Sahyoun

Danny Lockwood

Astralwerks

Halsey 'Now Or Never' by Sing J Lee

Halsey-'Now-Or-Never'-by-Sing-J-Lee

Jonathan Desbiens - aka&nbsp;Jodeb &ndash; has realised perhaps his most ambitious filmic endeavour yet: a twenty-minute long&nbsp;short film in three acts, filmed in Thailand, for&nbsp;Wiwek and&nbsp;Skrillex called&nbsp;Still In The Cage.Beautifully shot by&nbsp;Kristof Brandl and scored by Wiwek&rsquo;s The Free and Rebellious EP, the film follows&nbsp;a close&nbsp;group of&nbsp;troubled&nbsp;friends who&nbsp;reach breaking point. When&nbsp;one friend&nbsp;half-jokingly suggests&nbsp;running away to join a rumoured community of free-spirited people, the three women suddenly&nbsp;decide&nbsp;to make a break for it. The trio steal a man&#39;s rowboat on the river, thus beginning their&nbsp;perilous&nbsp;journey&nbsp;into the jungle...The goal:&nbsp;to&nbsp;shake their spirits up and possibly&nbsp;find a new life amongst the tribe. But at at what cost? Are they willing to give up their past lives or even - their past selves?&nbsp;

Emmanuelle George

Mathieu Morin

La Majeure

Vision Film Co

Geoff McLean

Stacy Vaughan

OWSLA

Wiwek & Skrillex 'Still In The Cage' by Jodeb

Montreal singer&nbsp;Charlotte Cardin has paired up with DP-turned-director&nbsp;Kristof Brandl for this gorgeous portrait of a tumultuous relationship.&nbsp;The passion-filled romance&nbsp;between the singer and artist Husser plays out in cinematic style, with the pair hooking up, fighting, breaking up and making up in quick succession. Beautifully shot by&nbsp;Christophe Collette, the video offers an impressive variety photographic textures,&nbsp;with the couple in motels, outdoor locations and intimate bedroom scenes captured in&nbsp;colour and&nbsp;monochromatic footage. And there&#39;s some stunning still photography by&nbsp;John Londono.And although there is only a hint of a narrative, the action-packed video keeps you interested all the way to the end.&nbsp;

Jakob Preischl

Charlotte Cardin ft. Husser 'Like It Doesn't Hurt' by Kristof Brandl

Kristof Brandl

Director of Photography

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