Sony Music

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Laura Clayton

Rich Hall puts indie band Elephant Kind on an intergalactic tube train chockful of aliens - in his superb video for Love As.The production team at Riff Raff&nbsp;says: "Possibly the most extreme recce we’ve done in a while, was to the Moon and back. Rich Hall wanted to set Elephant Kind’s video there, so we popped over to get the vibe. But the train on the way back to Earth was just so packed with characters, it was like a casting director’s hallway. So Rich said f*** it, let’s just shoot it now."The DoP decided zero-gravity worked in favour of a spinning train carriage shot, and the producer agreed to pay travel expenses for being outside the M25, only because they’d save on camera kit by using alien drool to a dolly effect."So the band warmed up, and busted out their single ‘Love As’. And that’s how we got a video for an indie band about intergalactic space train love.*"*actual sequence of events may have differed."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3][imgtoken data:4]

Oian Arteta

Leanne Flinn

Rich Hall

Luke Tierney

Hands 

Riff Raff Films

Kidda Selassie

Will Shanahan

Adam Bell

Ben Todd

Suzan Mustafa

Alasdair Copland

Jake Whitehouse

Barney Batchelor

Will Crafts

Celia Arias

Dom Hamilton

Georgia Olive

Ben Corfield

Homespun

Pete Oppersdorff

The Mill

Will Howland

Lora Nikolaeva

Mola Records

Elephant Kind 'Love As' by Rich Hall

Elephant Kind - Love As (Official Video)

Hugh Mulhern directs a visual assault on the senses&nbsp;for Hak Baker's fierce anti-tech anthem Telephones 4 Eyes.&nbsp;Mulhern's video is a mesmerising clash of live action, animation, stock footage and VFX, smashed together in a frantic, hypnotic fashion - with a little help from AI.&nbsp;In the song, Baker is lamenting&nbsp;the state of the society we live in today, and the video matches the lyrical content of the aggrieved track, and the deluge of visual iconography matches the neverending stream of content we consume on a day-to-day basis.And in a real change from his excellent back catalogue of music videos, the most you see of Hak Baker is his mouth appearing from a tear in a man's stomach. You won't not&nbsp;be looking at men's torsos in the same way in the near future.&nbsp;Taking advantage of trends whilst completely flipping them on their heads, Mulhern has created something singular and visionary, which not only brilliantly reflects the times we are living in, but also a project that is impossible to tear you eyes away from.&nbsp;"If I told you I had an initial rationale for everything in the video and it was all carefully figured out, I’d be lying," admits Mulhern. "In truth it was one of those ideas that came together almost instantaneously. I think that’s to do with how clear Hak’s ideas are in the song. Tetsuo the Iron Man was a key image, and I also think the inside of [the song’s producer] Dan Carey’s studio played a part in inspiring our phone thief’s lab. HR Giger meets Abe’s Odyssey circa this weird stop motion cartoon called Mr Bumpy."We spent hours figuring out what found footage felt right and was obscure enough to feed the sensation of over stimulation. We intentionally wanted to steer away from doing anything that felt too political or pointed when the song was carrying that message so effectively."Things went off the deep end in the final few days of the video. We sent some stuff over to Dom (infinite.vibes) to create AI sequences stylistically informed by the stop motion animation and what he sent back far exceeded my expectations. It’s my favourite thing I’ve made to date and all I wanna do now is expand on the techniques we experimented with.”&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Rory Mullen

Hugh Mulhern

Alexander Handschuh

Lisa Foo

Jorge Higgins

Eoin McLoughlin

Wolf Wasserman

James Wicks

Joseph Taylor

The Assembly Rooms

Peter Opporsdorff

Jack Rolf

Awal Recordings

Nadine Persaud

Alternative

Indie

Hak Baker 'Telephones 4 Eyes' by Hugh Mulhern

Hak Baker - Telephones For Eyes (Official Video)

Piers Dennis celebrates the awesomeness of Rebecca Taylor - aka Self Esteem - through a heady mix of documentary footage and composed performance for The 345.Dennis' fifth video for the artist&nbsp;features candid backstage footage that he has filmed over the past year during her rise to alt-pop stardom, capturing her most exuberent, and most tender moments.[imgtoken data:1]The energy and emotion&nbsp;expressed by Taylor in this revealing footage is cannily counterpointed by a simple head and shoulders shot of Taylor, shot in the style of a classic Hollywood portrait, in which she performs this momentously moving song.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beautifully made, the black and white aesthetic creates a timeless snapshot of the last twelve months, and is a perfect showcase of Self Esteem's journey so far. Bloody marvellous.

Piers Dennis

Connie Meade

Richard Scott

Jack Worrall

Dominika Besińska

Lauren Bell

Byron

Asher Lloyd

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Alternative Pop

Rock

Self Esteem 'The 345' by Piers Dennis

Self-Esteem-'The-345'-by-Piers-Dennis

Directing duo Fa and Fon direct an out-of-this-world promo for&nbsp;MØ.In the suitably extraterrestrial&nbsp;video for Spaceman, we see the artist wake up in some kind of futuristic holding pod, trying to get her bearings and formulate&nbsp;an escape plan.&nbsp;Later on, she wakes up in an unusually stark&nbsp;atmosphere, revered by a group of aliens, eventually being transformed into one of them.It's a distinct contrast to the video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/01/31/m%C3%B8-new-moon-fa-fon/74746" target="_blank">New Moon</a>, the London-based director-sisters' previous collaboration with MØ, which framed the Swedish superstar as a medieval goddess. But it's also an ideal companion piece for this catchy track that boasts&nbsp;striking art direction, eccentric styling and no-holds-barred performances. And confirms that Fa and Fon are definitely ones to watch.&nbsp;

Riley Wolf

Annabel Bennett

Jade Denne

Innes Woo

Fa and Fon

Scarlett Anderson

Kat Cattaneo

Krunal Saadrini

Charlie Herrandz

Motunrayo Soyannwo

Kitty (keerthana) Rajakulasingam

Gary Kent

Fric Lopez

Rupert Hornstein

Jak Waughman

Furmaan Ahmed

Carlo Avena

Scarlett Bovingdon

White House Post

Sanna Kelly

Daragh Mccan

Chioma Ehiemere

Maggie Chen

Sarah Casbah

MØ 'Spaceman' by Fa And Fon

MØ - Spaceman (Official Video)

A tube train carriage&nbsp;transforms into a coruscating disco wonderland in David Wilson's flamboyant promo for Zach Witness.&nbsp;The intimate video&nbsp;pays homage to two queer icons - Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan - and transports viewers back&nbsp;to 70’s New York, to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ roots of dance music.Exuding a hyper-confident, sexy aura, Zach Witness&nbsp;moves and shakes his way through the glorious track, creating countless iconic moments in just under three minutes.&nbsp;An intense&nbsp;visual feast from David Wilson - directing&nbsp;his first music video since pre-pandemic times -&nbsp;that deserves a tonne of attention.&nbsp;

David Wilson

Ajay Arora

Bernie Prentice

Brian Fawcett

Olly Ginelli

Frank Hellebrand

Jeff Vine

Christian Swaine

Rachel Hopkins

Darcy Wallace

Lucy Upton-Prowse

Chloe Rose

Meg Thorne

The Quarry

Zach Witness

Cinelab Film and Digital

Dance

Zach Witness 'Frankie And Levan' by David Wilson

Zach-Witness-'Frankie-And-Levan'-by-David-Wilson

Hugh Mulhern directs a surreal performance promo for&nbsp;Fontaines D.C.In the video for Skinty Fia - which takes its namesake from the group's upcoming third LP - we see vocalist&nbsp;Grian Chatten in the middle of a hedonistic celebration, trapped among a cast of eccentric characters, bizarre rituals and an overflowing sense of excess.&nbsp;The video opens with an oscillating multicoloured light darting through empty fields and into an enigmatic building, before the concept distorts into a haunting series of warped vignettes. The dreamlike aesthetic is grounded by Chatten's calm and collected attitude, which contrasts the disorder and chaos around him.&nbsp;In the same vein as the other video releases from this album, the concept transcends the performance and morphs into something otherworldly and uncanny, and perfectly fits the unusual atmosphere in the song.&nbsp;

Kate Brady

Karl Hui

Nina Mangold

Ewan Macfarlan

Johnny Donne

Andy Hillman

Lucy James

Alice Dodds

Daniel Castro Garcia

Nathan Matthews

Vid Price

Trim Editing

Peter Oppersdorff

Fontaines D.C. 'Skinty Fia' by Hugh Mulhern 

Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia (Official Video)

New directors Fa &amp; Fon take on MØ’s latest single New Moon,&nbsp;for their impressive music video debut.The directing and design duo team (and identical twin sisters)&nbsp;Fa and Fon Watkins present an epic neo-medieval tableaux with a celestial twist, perfectly capturing the power and dynamism of the&nbsp;track, anchored by a killer performance from MØ.Set within a post-Apocalyptic battlefield, the video sees the artist&nbsp;struggle under the weight of a fabricated moon, while a choreographed battle with swords, technology, and some very powerful styling ensues.&nbsp;It's an explosive introduction to the directing team, who up to now have been known for their creative and art direction. This is a promising sign of things to come.

Zoe Gunn

Freddie Wright

Ahmet Hüsseyin

Emily Jayne Robinson

Alfie Brown

Ryan Delahunty

Fuurman Ahmed

Faye Bluff

Charles Gamble

MØ 'New Moon' by Fa & Fon 

MØ - New Moon (Official Video)

'Sorry it’s not disco, we lied. It’s an album of terrible lows and even worse highs’&nbsp;- say Irish indie rock heroes Fontaines D.C. about their forthcoming third album, Skinty Fia. And the first video from the LP - directed by their regular collaborator Hugh Mulhern - is appropriately haunting.Centred around the band's performance of first single Jackie Down The Line - the&nbsp;last to grace Catford Theatre before it undergoes extensive renovation - Mulhern’s video also introduces the mysterious figure of Jackie as he navigates the harsh conditoins of a toxic relationship.&nbsp;This vision for the doomed romance sees a dedicated&nbsp;suitor in a jaunty hat - played by acclaimed choreographer and Kanye collaborator Black Haine - with an abundant supply of roses, seduced by sirens who incite violence. It evidently pays not to ghost a girl who is keen on archery. &nbsp;&nbsp;The dark theatricality of the concept feels evocative of early 90's grunge videos, and boasts brilliant performances centered around an unsetlling, abstract narrative. And Mulhern has also carried this concept into the live performance video of the track for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJvwi3N80g0">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon </a>-&nbsp;creating a new perspective of the narrative, through a one-shot drone setup.&nbsp;

Alex Handschuh

Celestine Cooney

John Cutler

Black Haine

Fontaines D.C. 'Jackie Down The Line' by Hugh Mulhern

Fontaines-Dc--'Jackie-Down-The-Line-'-by-Hugh-Mulhern

Greg Davenport directs If The World Should Ever Stop, the third in a series of five interconnected films exploring family, faith, love, confusion, fear and joy.The video follows a couple performing interpretive dance&nbsp;by the water, and offers a&nbsp;beautiful message of support and solidarity, of care and unwavering love in the face of adversity.&nbsp;Beautifully shot by&nbsp;Adric Watson, the one-take, fluid structure allows the choreography to breathe and expand to the space, creating a softly absorbing atmosphere.&nbsp;

Greg Davenport

Jack Bradley

Sam Holmes

Denis Kumeiko

Alex Savelov

Adric Watson

Eugene Bubley

Daniel Dubrovsky

Werelease

Kate Maksymova

James Bamford

Charlie Morris

Sam Davey

Island Records

JP Cooper 'If The World Should Ever Stop' by Greg Davenport

Jp-Cooper-'If-World-Should-Ever-Stop-'-by-Greg-Davenport

Greg Barth's latest collaboration with Leicester indie-R&amp;Bers Easy Life takes its cue from their excellent previous work - and one video in particular - and the cover of their just-released debut album&nbsp;Life's A Beach.As always frontman Murray Matravers takes centre stage, in a fantastical scenario where his bandmates paly supporting roles - both to Murray and his giant goldfish friend.&nbsp;As Greg explains below, its a surreal sequel of sorts to the animated <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Db_Gf9z8jk" target="_blank">Message To Myself</a> video. It's also the latest in an extensive body of Easy Life work over the past couple of years by the Swiss-born and London-based director, from the video for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQnXExTp2w" target="_blank">Nightmares</a> (featuring Jamie Demetriou of Stath Lets Flats) to the recent Gondryesque <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87U_l3AvyX0" target="_blank">Skeletons</a>. The work has been consistently inventive and entertaining, and this is certainly the case here.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;

Greg Barth

Ghandi El-Chamaa

Ramy Dance

Common People Films

Tony Roberts

Joe Starrs

Stefan Yap

Jerry Pradon

Joseph Edwards

Jasper Clarkson

Benny Casey 

Jaime Franes Jarvis

Maya Man

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Easy Life 'Ocean View' by Greg Barth

Easy-Life-'Ocean-View'-by-Greg-Barth

Femke Huurdeman celebrates the power of self-love in her splendid&nbsp;promo for Sigrid's Mirror.&nbsp;Each and every vignette in the video is dazzingly art-directed, and could have easily been ripped from the pages of a high fashion magazine. The visual has a distinctly fashion-forward and dynamic aesthetic, with a fun,&nbsp;idiosyncratic energy.&nbsp;Sigrid is the main attraction here, of course. Her charming personality and passionate performance ties everything together in a polished yet relaxed manner.&nbsp;"This is the journey of finding your core,&nbsp;coming to terms with who you are," explains Huurdeman. "Radiating this from oneself is at the heart of the concept of the video."[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

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