Production Assistant

Laura Thomas-Smith

Directing duo AB/CD/CD directs a mind-bending slice of pop magic for Mae Muller's I Wrote A Song - the UK entry at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.&nbsp;Taking it's lead from the&nbsp;infectious, bouncy vibe of the track the video by the French directing duo takes these qualities and amps them up to a hundred.&nbsp;Featuring a menagerie of glossy studio sets, the video - which was premiered on BBC ONE last Thursday, when the song was announced as Britain's entry to Eurovision - sees Muller lament her cheating ex, as she haunts him on a whimsical journey through dreamlike sets.&nbsp;Experimenting with perspective and a push-and-pull style narrative, it's exactly the kind of eccentric promo that a UK Eurovision entry needs, and is one of the most enjoyable videos of the year so far.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Sigita ŠimkŪnaitĖ

Soki Mak

AB-CD-CD

Craig Dixon

OB Management

Katie Dolan

Darius Zalmonas

Persona.

Sam Holmes

Tom Wynbourne

Aidas Baltutis

Audrius Zelenius

Edgaras Naujalis

Sigita JonaitytĖ

Natalia Palomares

Oskar Pera

Zara Ali

Vincent Fleischmann

Mathieu Caplanne

Johan Luce-antoinette

Firm Studio

Mae Muller 'I Wrote A Song' by AB/CD/CD

Mae-Muller-'I-Wrote-A-Song'-by-Ab/cd/cd

It's video number three in Aidan Zamiri's collaboration with FKA twigs for new Caprisongs&nbsp;mixtape - and this time they're joined by featured artist Rema.&nbsp;The promo for Jealousy feels like a mix between 80s/90s video or fashion ad - think <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTGrV58wec" target="_blank">C&amp;C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;and contemporary editorial, and sees twigs joined by a group of dancers in a simple white cyc studio setup. Rema's scenes were&nbsp;shot by a splinter crew in Lagos, and blend seamlessly into the overall concept.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;use of action in the&nbsp;foreground and background adds a new dimension to the minimalist setups, whilst the anachronistic array of outfits creates an&nbsp;ethereal, high-fashion vibe. The careful use of silhouette and patterned light helps to elevate this aesthetic, creating a mesmerising tapestry of images.&nbsp;

Aidan Zamiri

Object & Animal

Morgan Clement

Alex Chamberlain

Jeremy Valendar

Tom Schneider

Dave Davis

Trim Editing

Luke Morrison

Electric Theatre Collective

Jeb Hardwick

Matthew Josephs

Louis Souvestre

Bea Sweet

Simone Cummings

Ella Lucia

Rosie-Grace Smith

Lauren Reynolds

Kash Powell

FKA twigs ft Rema 'Jealousy' by Aidan Zamiri

FKA twigs - jealousy (feat. Rema)

Dua Lipa and Angèle are out on the town in&nbsp;London - and having a proper good time whether they are travelling around or partying&nbsp;- in We Are From LA's scintillating video for the British and French team-up with Fever.With a intimate and gripping guerilla-esque shooting style, WAFLA are going for something palapably authentic - this is definitely a recognisable London after dark -&nbsp;but with a neat twist. In this town, it's&nbsp;all about the girls.

We Are From LA

Iconoclast

Hands 

Justine Sautrey

Horace De Gunzbourg

Tom O’Driscoll

George Nelson

Arnaud Potier

Sarah Jenneson

Lorenzo Posocco

Samantha Gill

Ameena Kara Callender

Nikki Wolff

Ophélie Secq

Anna Cofone

Charm La'Donna

Roxane Faure Huet

Jason Wallis

William Pope

Dua Lipa, Angèle 'Fever' by We Are From LA

Dua Lipa, Angèle - Fever (Official Music Video)

An ongoing personal project that Diana Kunst has been pursuing with her friend&nbsp;and muse Guindilla Ontanaya for several years has become an electrifying music video for Criss Cross, a previously unreleased Rolling Stones track from the 1970s.In a breathless, dizzying nearly-five minutes, Ontanaya romps across continents, exploring freedom and hedonism, and exercises her impudent whims to regularly go nude in public.&nbsp;Incorporating both motion&nbsp;film and&nbsp;photography, directed and shot&nbsp;by Kunst herself, it's all been brought together in a brilliant edit by Carlos Font Clos.&nbsp;It's the&nbsp;complete antithesis to the restrictive, locked-down nature of the past few months. But, ironically it was the limitations enforced by the pandemic crisis that made it happen.[imgtoken data:1]The basis of the project&nbsp;is a video diary that Kunst has worked on since 2015, filming Ontanaya in various places around the world, where she often manages to get naked.&nbsp;Polydor director of video Semera Khan realised its potential as a promo for the Stones song that was an outtake for their 1973 album Goat's Head Soup, and has just been released.Ultimately the video is a combination of that footage from 2015 onwards, and including a new film shoot that took place under strict quarantine conditions in Ibiza. The security required to make that happen, and to process the film footage meant it the edit&nbsp;completed just hours before its release.&nbsp;But the result is just about the most sexy, glamourous, quintessentially rock 'n roll video this year.&nbsp;

Diana Kunst

Guindilla Ontanaya

Dom Thomas

Semera Khan

Uri Barcelona

Alicia Galina Seijo Rushes

Steve Charalambous

Carlos Font Clos

Aitor Bigas

Richard Fearon

Tamara Mennell

Julie Evans

Black Kite Studios

Mark Hills

Factory

Cinelab Film and Digital

The Rolling Stones 'Criss Cross' (Director's Cut) by Diana Kunst

DK - Rolling Stones 'Criss Cross' Dir. Cut

How do you spend the day with your cool Uncle Stormzy? You bring a notepad. Stormzy is a&nbsp;mentor in this typically ambitious video by Henry Scholfield, starring the artist’s real-life nephews.&nbsp;Scholfield has had a hell of a year. His videos are ubiquitous and his name has become shorthand for a specific brand of technical flair. You know when you’re watching one. Through his work on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/04/29/stormzy-vossi-bop-henry-scholfield/58451">Vossi Bop</a>, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/03/07/wiley-stefflon-don-sean-paul-ft-idris-elba-boasty-henry-scholfield/57677">Boasty</a>, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/01/15/dua-lipa-idgaf-henry-scholfield/51298">IDGAF</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/07/10/dua-lipa-new-rules-henry-scholfield/48594">New Rules</a>, the director has developed a distinct visual syntax: a free-flowing approach to space, utilised through innovative transitions, complex blocking and choreography. This style has become inseparable from London, and has inspired a host of imitators.With an exhausting location count, an innovative use of digital zoom, and a loose approach to speed, Sounds of Skeng seems to share the most DNA with the star-studded video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/03/07/wiley-stefflon-don-sean-paul-ft-idris-elba-boasty-henry-scholfield/57677">Boasty</a>. Big budget grime videos are a hotbed of digital and practical effects, but the breakneck speed of this video is so impressive, even the famously feral YouTube audience have sat up to pay attention. A popular comment reads:&nbsp;“Director: Enough camera angles? Stormzy: AHHHH ISIT!!!!!”&nbsp;Quite. The video was shot by regular collaborator Kanamé Onoyama, and edited by Thomas Grove Carter at Trim.

Henry Scholfield

Nick Hayes

Caviar

Daniella Manca

Polly du Plessis

Daniel Smith

Kaname Onoyama

Liz El-kahdi Brown

Terri Higgins

Karla Q Leon

Thomas Grove Carter

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Duncan Buxton

Dan Curwin

Grime

Stormzy 'Sounds Of The Skeng' by Henry Scholfield

Stormzy-'Sounds-Of-The-Skeng'-by-Henry-Scholfield

Freya Ridings plays an exploded piano and leads a colour-coded movement through the streets of London, in Isaac Rentz's video for Castles.&nbsp;

Isaac Rentz

Rob Jelley

Kode Media

Hound Content

Isaac Rice

Nathan Killham

Johnathan Sidwell

John Perez

Merritt Gold

Rory Hern

Chris Dowling

Sets Appeal

Joanna Femi-ola

Gina Kane

Emma Regan

Jennifer Kennedy

Arianna Shining Star

Apache

F-render

Las Bandas Be Brave

Targa Sahyoun

John Hassay

Will Lyte

Natricia Bernard

Freya Ridings 'Castles' by Isaac Rentz

Freya-Ridings-'Castles'-by-Isaac-Rentz

Stroma Cairns video for Drones Club, builds charmingly around a simple premise. Using her younger siblings, friends and neighbours, Cairns creates an uplifting family vibe and a video that embodies that priceless&nbsp;feeling&nbsp;of kicking back during a hot British summer.When a teenage boy heads to the park to hang with his mate, he&#39;s confronted by his younger sister on her scooter. And so the wacky dancing begins...The use of film, retro details like&nbsp;the helmet&nbsp;and the unchoreographed, carefree dancing of the kids, all combine&nbsp;to create a very sweet video for Drones Club&#39;s Raise It Up.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Stroma Cairns

Ella Knight

Simon Plunket

Michael Hobdell

Kit Mackenzie

Oisín O'Driscoll

Prettybird

Dance

Drones Club 'Raise It Up' by Stroma Cairns

Drones Club 'Raise it Up'

Ivana Bobic pushes the boundaries of the live video format for Raw, performed by Sigrid on March 10th, both in and around the Village Underground in Shoreditch, London.It&#39;s the second collaboration between the artist and director, following Bobic&#39;s video for Sigrid&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/12/04/sigrid-strangers-ivana-bobic" target="_blank">Strangers</a>, released late last year.&nbsp;

Ivana Bobic

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Clara Paris

Tim Sidell

Sam Alberg

Maria Asadi

Sam Jones

Cut+Run

Andrew Fletcher

David Knight

Island Records

Sigrid 'Raw (live)' by Ivana Bobic

A boy left home alone deals with the freedom and the loneliness in a wholly feasible way in Stroma Cairns's video for Sundara Karma's Happy Family.In an excellent performance from young Luca Lamche - it's just him all the way through - it leads to an outpouring of emotion that culminates in him donning one of his mother's dresses, as a way of dealing with her continuing absence.Stroma Cairns says that the story was inspired by her own personal experience, as well as the lyrics. "After speaking to Oscar [Pollack, the band's frontman] the idea reflected his own childhood too and it was great to talk it through with him,"&nbsp;she tells <a href="http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/23/sundara-karma-happy-family-video" target="_blank">FADER</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Juliette Larthe

Bryony James

Nick Morris

Gary Long

Matt Farrant

Yan Murawski

Ellen L Pearson

Annabelle Casia

Ellie McNaughtan

Work Editorial

The Mill

Luca Lamche

Joceline Gabriel

Elizabeth Doonan

Sony Music

Indie Rock

Sundara Karma 'Happy Family' by Stroma Cairns

Sundara-Karma-'Happy-Family'-by-Stroma-Cairns

Stroma Cairns&#39;s beautifully executed video for&nbsp;Liv Dawson&#39;s track Searching is a&nbsp;guy-meets-girl love story with some naturalistic, fresh-faced performances.&nbsp;Beautifully shot by&nbsp;Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, we follow the pair as meet up at the bus stop and spend the day riding around from place to place, dallying on the verge between friends and something more.And although they&#39;re hanging out in impenetrably grey British weather, their obvious enjoyment of each others&#39; company&nbsp;cuts through it, with our lead guy unquestionably catching some real feelings for the girl. But as they meet up with their mates in the evening, the real question becomes -&nbsp;how free is she to fall for him?&nbsp;

Ruben Woodin-Dechamps

Spike Morris

Mimi Connolly

Peter Bishop

Ben Freeman

Lauren Armes

Holly Silis

Annabelle Philips

Lily O’Hara

Amy Atkins

Ruth Wardell

Emily Sonnett

Electronic

Alternative

Liv Dawson 'Searching' by Stroma Cairns

Liv Dawson - Searching

Lyle Lindgren directs an intimate live clip for Jax Jones ft. RAYE.With a simple, tight frame enclosing the duo, lit dynamically to let the shadows wrap around them, Lindgren&#39;ss&nbsp;live clip manages to be at once a lively party video (featuring cutaways of classic red beer cups in the hands of revelers in an unusually ornate setting) as well as a very intimate performance. The camera rarely straying too far away from the duo as they perform in very close quarters.

Lyle Lindgren

Spencer Wilson

Ahmet Husseyin

Jax Jones ft. RAYE 'You Don't Know Me' (live) by Lyle Lindgren

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