Hannah Ashby Ward

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Dave Bullivant directs a stirring promo for Zurich alt-rock outfit NONEXISTER, employing&nbsp;a clever plot device to tell a story of victim blaming, touching&nbsp;on racism, police brutality and the patriarchy.The video for How Do You Dare opens&nbsp;with the main character - played by Selina Jones - pinned to the floor surrounded by police. The video then plays out in reverse, giving context to the scene whilst challenging our first assumptions of what is going on.&nbsp;It's a poignant, important video, which uses the reverse-motion technique in an inspired way, and leads&nbsp;to a harrowing climax that is an unfortunate everyday reality for many in society.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Switzerland

Dave Bullivant

Jeanna Koba

Dynamic Frame

Anna MacDonald

Luzius Fischer

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Selina Jones

Alternative

Rock

NONEXISTER 'How Do You Dare' by Dave Bullivant

Non-Exister-'How-Do-You-Dare'-by-Dave-Bullivant

Directing duo Pensacola have created a breathtaking spectacle for The Chemical Brothers' latest collab with Beck - featuring stone-skimming champion Kurt Steiner.It's not always advisable to go literal on a songtitle. In fact, it rarely is. But it's exactly the right move here, as the CANADA-signed directors&nbsp;chart the unstoppable path of a perfect skimming stone, delivered from the hand of the enigmatic, cool-looking Steiner, who's every&nbsp;director's dream of what a professional stone skimmer should look like.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;This stone skims across a lake then shoots into the forest and roads beyond like a missile, passing through people's lives, reaching the city to cause considerable havoc and destruction.In fact it appears to have a mind of its own, and an interlude suggests it originally came from outer space - and finally it soars meteor-like over the landscape.Filmed in&nbsp;Lithuania at the end of August, shot by Christopher Ripley, with VFX at Mathematic in Paris, it's a cinematic blockbuster (or rockbuster?) that sits among great Chemical Brothers videos with&nbsp;a real flavour all its own.[imgtoken data:2]And it's release was very well timed to coincide with the <a href="https://www.stoneskimming.com/" target="_blank">World Stone Skimming Championships</a> last month. And <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02954-2" target="_blank">NASA's mission to bring rock dust from an asteroid&nbsp;back to Earth</a>...&nbsp;[imgtoken data:3]&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Miranda Lorenz

Pensacola

Adam Farley

Davey Ahern

CANADA

Ailsa Robertson

Christopher Ripley

Callum Harrison

Indre Siupinyte

Asta Rizgeliene

Monika Solomine

Emiliano Serantoni

Mathematic

Kurt Steiner

Hands 

Dance

Electronic

The Chemical Brothers, Beck 'Skipping Like A Stone' by Pensacola

The-Chemical-Brothers,-Beck--'Skipping-Like-A-Stone'-by-Pensacola

Lucy Knox directs an intimate portrait of life on the Isle of Sheppey, in this&nbsp;tender promo for Australian band DMA's.&nbsp;Shot with a crew of four at the start of the year, the video is a charming exploration of people and place, following a central narrative with accompanying portrait vignettes of different residents.&nbsp;Exploring the complex relationship between a father and his daughter, the video is one that really pulls at the heartstrings, and the docu-style aesthetic helps convey a story that is both personal and universally relatable.&nbsp;A masterclass in blending narrative and documentary elements, and a very well executed video indeed.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Australia

Margherita Alaimo

Lucy Knox

Sandrus Wilson

Tina Ldn

I Oh You

Nathan Rubins

Henry Lockyer

Charlotte Skeate

Rebecca Richards

Leila Gaabi

The Editors

Matt Fezz

Nick Bartlett

Natasha Atkinson

Indie Rock

DMA's 'Forever' by Lucy Knox

Dma's-'Forever'-by-Lucy-Knox

On your&nbsp;marks, get set... go euphoric, with Fa &amp; Fon's hypnotically zany video for Georgia.The California-via-London artist is back with new single It's Euphoric, and the directing duo make her the star of her own wonderfully strange, uber-stylised world&nbsp;set in a the world's coolest athletics track.Georgia joins a intriguing cast of characters in a race around the track, where her competitors are weighed down with anxiety, and their devotion to Fashion.&nbsp;And soon the visual echoes of their bodies warp and glitch intermittently.It's a wonderfully vibrant, idiosyncratic vision, where Georgia stands at the pretention-pricking centre of a memorable clash of inventive styling and cool FX.&nbsp;Every shot works to reinforce its whimisical distinctiveness, yet Georgia emerges as the hero, both part of and apart from the surrounding lunacy.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's&nbsp;arguably the most impressive outing in music videos by the Watkins sisters - aka Fa &amp; Fon -&nbsp;so far.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Ellie Beale

Troy Smith

Dan Hills

Innes Woo

Fa and Fon

Rachel Bashford

Riff Raff Films

Phil Lee

Ryan Delahunty

Ahmet Hüsseyin

Laura Clayton

Alexander Miguel-guerreiro

Ty Hack

Robert Barlow

Samuel Harding

Max Edmed

Gabriel Healy

Laura Vallejo

Rapahel Arcadios

Lainy Black

The Assembly Rooms

Katie Dymmock 

The Mill

Domino Recordings

Sebastian Foux

Georgia 'It's Euphoric' by Fa & Fon

Georgia - It's Euphoric (Official Video)

An intense, grotesque, extraordinary&nbsp;video for Slowthai by directing collective Crowns &amp; Owls.With great cinematography by Jack Exton and terrific grade by Tim Smith that punches the richness of the colours to the max, this has a hyperreal visual aesthetic as visceral as this powerful track&nbsp;deserves, without sinking into darkness.But at the heart is the performance of Tyron Frampton&nbsp;(aka Slowthai) himself, which is remarkable. It's a visible howl of anguish and pain, but still with that unmistakeable chink of impudence and humour.

Crowns & Owls

Javier Alejandro

Noir

Theo Hue Williams

Ella Kenny

Jack Exton

Mike Linforth

Ky Brasey

Greg Probert

Lyndon Ogbourne

Frankie Noller

Karla Quinoniz-Leon

Tim Smith

No.8

Pendulum

John Holloway

Edit Egg

Amanda Dann

Slowthai 'Yum' by Crowns & Owls

slowthai - Yum (Official Video)

The Director's Cut of Marc Oller's video for Arlo Parks' Weightless arrives, and adds weight to the symbolism around a story of a&nbsp;couple falling out of love.Oller employs powerful visual metaphors to tell the tale, which are given free rein in this version: Arlo in a car with no driver, a house breaking apart, cars crashing, and perhaps most powerfully of all,&nbsp;a wild horse having escaped from its captor, running free&nbsp;in the city.Within these scenes, Parks herself comes across strongly, performing the song which is the first release from her forthcoming album, My Soft Machine - the anticipated follow-up to her Brit and Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed In Sunbeams.[imgtoken data:1]Shot in Serbia last December, Oller says that ‘’we followed the brief of how a lover gets tethered to the idea of someone, either to how good it felt at the beginning or how close things are to looking up, whilst also wanting to present Arlo in a way that her fans had not seen before." He adds that this presented various challenges on the shoot, particularly due to bad weather affecting the production."We had to recreate the exact same room we were shooting in an apartment, then wreck it with a bulldozer," he says. "The construction team was outstanding."[imgtoken data:2]So was the horse, called Asa - who is a magnificent presence in the video, captured wonderfully by DoP Zach Spiger and his team. "Asa was a great actress - we all fell in love with her and she actually made our lives easy," says Oller. "Unfortunately, it was raining heavily and the shoot was constantly interrupted by the storm. This tightened our schedule and we had to sacrifice many shots that we had planned on shooting."&nbsp;Shot on film, which also presented challenges in terms of finding the right kit for "an old school kind of shoot", Oller adds that he was supported by both familiar and new collaborators to achieve his goals.[imgtoken data:3]"They were all amazingly talented and invested in the project," he declares. "Zack Spiger is an old collaborator - we shot a short film back in the day when I lived in Tokyo; Vicki Viñas is one of my longest time collaborators and she’s an outstanding art director and has the best taste; Alberto Ojeda is one of the best steadicam operators in Spain; and Ana Cano is my oldest collaborator and my ‘go-to’ for hair and makeup."And I loved working with our new Head of Music Videos at CANADA, Callum Harrison, who always challenged me to keep pushing the boundaries of creativity and was a great support."[imgtoken data:4]

Serbia

Marc Oller

Sara Renteria

Anna Bacardit

Débora Zhang

Zack Spiger

Vicki Viñas

Fouad Gaber

William Kjarval

Cyber Few Good Men

Vuk Marjanovic

Lewis Munday

Emilie Louizides

Natalia Vega

Ana Cano

Alberto Ojeda

Arlo Parks 'Weightless' (Director's Cut) by Marc Oller

Arlo Parks - Weightless (DC)

Tanu Muino brings us the first outstanding British music video event of 2023 with Sam Smith's unabashed, splendidly theatrical and joyfully outrageous video for I'm Not Here To Make Friends.Exuberant,&nbsp;eccentric, and defiantly brazen, this sees Sam Smith dispensing with any last vestige of previous public incarnations and embracing their queer superstar status with gusto - but also with a healthy self-knowing nod and a wink.Sam arrives by helicopter to a historic countryside manor, joining&nbsp;a gregarious crowd to engage is an extravagant costume party for the ages, over an inspirational sample of RuPaul before the disco beat of this surefire smash kicks in. And eyebrows&nbsp;are soon being raised...[imgtoken data:1]There is dancing. There are some extraordinary outfits. There's rowdy behaviour. And there is some very suggestive things going on, including a scene that may possibly be inspired by Frankie Goes To Hollywood's video for Relax!Throughout is the stunning array of costumes and looks, and Sam's playful and sexy performance, which dazzles in every vignette. They are clearly having the time of their lives.&nbsp;Bringing together so many different layers and inspirations - including a knowing nod to Steven Klein's&nbsp;promo for Gaga's Alejandro&nbsp;- the video oozes self-love and an excitable confidence, and is the perfect release to complement Gloria, Smith's just-released new album.It just ticks all the boxes it's supposed to tick - and that is really down to the genius of Tanu Muino. She just knows what a pop video like this should do, and achieved it, from start to finish.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Morgan Kennedy

Ben Reardon

Tanu Muino

Robert Katz

UnderWonder Content

James Hackett

Nikita Kuzmenko

Frank Borin

Fred Bonham Carter

Alexa Haywood

Chris Kelly

Sam Rawlings

Ben Cascillo Roger

Luke Bradley

La Horde

Sorcha O'raghallaigh

Nick Royal

Ryo Narushima

Neil Moodie

Grace Ellington

Miranda Joyce

Vinnie Hobbs

Vh Post

Company 3

Joseph Bicknell

Roma Onufriychuk

Tilt

Ivanna Borin

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Just Fred

Hannah Cooper

Spencer Graves

Sam Smith 'I'm Not Here To Make Friends' by Tanu Muino

Sam Smith - I'm Not Here To Make Friends

Hector Dockrill directs a heartwrenching promo for new Lewis Capaldi track Pointless.&nbsp;The narrative for the video captures a mother-son relationship with beautiful and heart-breaking intimacy. Spanning a couple of decades, the concept follows a&nbsp;single mother who strives against all odds to give her son the life she never had, and is packed with an emotional punch.&nbsp;With a wonderful performance&nbsp;from&nbsp;BAFTA winner Niamh Algar (The Virtues, Raised by Wolves)&nbsp;and three actors playing the son at different stages of his life - including Charley Palmer-Rothwell as her grown-up son -&nbsp;the video reinterprets the song's lyrics to explore a different type of relationship, and it works perfectly.[imgtoken data:1]The naturalistic cinematography and relatable themes help make the video feel incredibly realistic and universal, and it will no doubt have viewers thinking about their own loved ones as we enter the festive period.&nbsp;With mixed dialogue throughout, we both hear and see glimpses into the ups and downs of their daily lives over the years including financial hardship and the tightrope of being a working single parent. And in keeping with the theme of family, Laura Dockrill – Hector’s sister - wrote the script, making this a family affair both on and off screen.“Lewis had a beautiful idea that focused on the mother/son bond, and how responsibility shifts as you grow older," says Hector Dockrill. "Niamh Algar is a phenomenal talent and we’re already chomping at the bit to work together again. With only a week’s prep, she managed to immerse herself into the role and completely make it her own. This is definitely a special film that everybody can connect with – a shout out to every mother.”

Hector Dockrill

Nnena Nwakodo

Joseph J Goldman

Pulse Films

Zoe Gunn

Patrick Golan

Anthony Mchugh

Steve Cameron

Robyn Wilton

Verity May Lane

Natasha Lawes

Begona F Martin

Holly Shearn

Stitch Editing

Sarah Adewunmi

Rich Woolway

Oscar Wendt

Caroline Clayton

Lewis Capaldi 'Pointless' by Hector Dockrill 

Lewis Capaldi - Pointless (Official Video)

A battle ensues for Wizkid's heart, in CHILD's stylish, UK-shot promo for Bad To Me.&nbsp;On the set of a contemporary TV show, we are introduced to various behind the scenes staff, including a showrunner the artist is romantically involved in.&nbsp;Between the glitzy performance setups and entertaining vignettes, we see this romance develop as several other women have their eye on him.&nbsp;It's a glamorous affair, from the slick styling through to the effervescent lighting, and the video is already racking up the views in the millions.&nbsp;

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