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Laure Scott

Colour is everything in this intense performance video for St. Lucia by&nbsp;Henry Kaplan.Kaplan starts with red, and very tight shots of the band. Then the main colour changes - to blue, then yellow, then green - without shifting the framing.&nbsp;But then a surprising new conceptual element is revealed - and a very different perspective on the proceedings.&nbsp;

United States

Henry Kaplan

Stephen Wayne Mallett

Jules Cortez

Green Glow Films

Frank Sun

Andrew Finch

Aaron Covrette

Saul Levitz

Columbia Records

St. Lucia 'Walking Away' by Henry Kaplan

St.-Lucia-'Walking-Away'-by-Henry-Kaplan

A rich young guy is living the dream - but that&#39;s nothing compared to the story inside his head. Ilya Naishuller&#39;s latest blockbuster for Russian rock band Leningrad flashes back&nbsp;from our hero and his numerous&nbsp;lingerie model, pole-dancing girlfriends, to his career as a master criminal. It all serves Naishuller&#39;s true purpose - to deliver as many explosive visual thrills as possible in four minutes.Featuring famous Russian actor Aleksandr Pal as the chain smoking anti-hero, Voyage is a trademark blockbusting thrill-ride from Naishuller involving girls, drugs, yachts and, of course, serious crime and punishment. It follows the jawdropping Kolshik, Naishuller&#39;s previous video for Leningrad, that&#39;s been scooping awards all over the place this year, including Best VFX in a Video at last month&#39;s UKMVAs.&nbsp;The new video includes a&nbsp;cast of over forty models, and the jacuzzi scene is set in one of Moscow&rsquo;s most famously expensive hotel suites (but they didn&#39;t have to pay the US$12K a night charge because the hotel owners are fans of both Naishuller and Leningrad, apparently). The final nightclub scene, where Pal&#39;s character pays his dues in a Bonnie &amp; Clyde style pay-off, required 120 squibs to get that full bloodbath effect. Naishuller doesn&#39;t really do things by halves.&quot;I wanted the audience to feel like they&#39;re watching a typical male fantasy video where something feels a little off, then flip the concept on its head with a crime drama twist,&quot; says Ilya Naishuller. &quot;We nodded our hat to a few impossible tricks to denote the imagination of the lead character. For example, old Cadillacs can&rsquo;t drift, so we used a mix of practical FX and CGI magic to bring that to life. Also,&nbsp;Alexander Pal, is actually well known for his comedic chops in Russia. I wanted him to play against type.When it came to the&nbsp;yacht scene, he points out it wasn&#39;t so glamourous for the models, as they were shooting in Russia locations in October, and it was very chilly.&nbsp;&ldquo;It was only five degrees outside when we shot the yacht scene, so it&#39;s fair to say that Russian women are hard as nails! The stuntwoman who dove into the freezing waters is probably a Kryptonian.&rdquo;[imgtoken data:1]

Russian Federation

Ilya Naishuller

Versus Pictures

Genrih Meder

Margarita Abaeva

Anastasia Kuropatkin

Anastasia Bagirova

Katia Kononenko

Ruben Adamyan

Aleksander Stetsenko

Anna Kudevich

Vladimir Vaulin

Vlad Yakunin

Aleksander Kopeikin

CGF, Moscow

Andrey Savchuk

Great Guns

OB Management

Rock

Leningrad 'Voyage' by Ilya Naishuller

Ленинград — Вояж / Leningrad — Voyage

It&#39;s been a long time coming, but Kesha is&nbsp;finally&nbsp;back with a powerful, stylised statement piece from Jonas Akerlund.Invoking spirituality on a quest for answers, this is Kesha&#39;s rebirth and return after a much-publicised legal battle that put her career on indefinite hold at a crucial time. She begins the clip adrift in black and white - floating lost upon a hopeless expanse of water, but somewhere in her mind, there&#39;s a colourful final grasp at hope that ultimately leads to her new beginning. Akerlund being the undisputed king of aesthetic brings a wash of style and statement to the clip - which seems to evoke Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn and a hint of David LaChapelle.Ending with a new beginning (and laced in iconography from the&nbsp;resurrection myth) we can only speculate where the next part of Kesha&#39;s journey will take her.

Jonas Akerlund

RCA Records

Camille Yorrick

Kesha 'Praying' by Jonas Akerlund

Kesha - Praying (Official Video)

Lady Gaga is back in&nbsp;true bombastic, daredevilish form for her new video&nbsp;John Wayne, directed&nbsp;by Jonas Akerlund.The frenzied&nbsp;Tarantino-flavoured clip sees the songstress with an incurable need for speed, gathering&nbsp;more and more momentum as she trades in racehorse&nbsp;for&nbsp;motorcycle for a car lurching forward towards complete oblivion - all told&nbsp;in&nbsp;zany, neon drenched, and&nbsp;entirely over-the-top&nbsp;fashion.Its a telltale story of a&nbsp;self-destructive romance where star-crossed lovers cavort, drink&nbsp;and bring out each others&#39; thrill-seeking&nbsp;side as&nbsp;libidinous fuel&nbsp;for an&nbsp;exhilarating and short-lived&nbsp;passion.&bull; Lady Gaga Joanne World Tour tour dates <a href="https://maineventspecials.com/lady-gaga-tour-dates/" target="_blank">here</a>

Violaine Etienne

Scott Pourroy

Michel Waxman

Serial Pictures

Par Ekberg

Matt Nee

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Lady Gaga 'John Wayne' by Jonas Åkerlund

Lady Gaga - John Wayne

Madonna&#39;s back to show &#39;em who&#39;s boss in Bitch I&#39;m Madonna. And in Jonas Åkerlund&#39;s video dominated by&nbsp;flashy K-pop flair complete with exaggerated neon&nbsp;colour and&nbsp;bombastic dance choreography, the Queen of Pop certainly shows no signs of slowing down. It sees Madonna criss-crossing from room to room, getting the&nbsp;party started. Dancing-duo&nbsp;AyaBambi&nbsp;from the beguiling &nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/03/19/snakehips-forever-sashinski" target="_blank">Snakehips&#39;&nbsp;Forever</a>&nbsp;get involved,&nbsp;providing&nbsp;their unique edge as the&nbsp;satisfyingly heavy bassline kicks in.Madonna&#39;s on a mission to cover a lot of ground, so she&#39;s&nbsp;quickly&nbsp;piggy-backed away to&nbsp;the&nbsp;dance&nbsp;floor where a series of cameos grace the screen, some in the scene (Rita Ora, Chris Rock and Diplo), while others&nbsp;(Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West) have been added in later (and are presumably Tidal-related).&nbsp;Nicki Minaj is also not physically present either, when delivering her rap. Madonna doesn&#39;t seem to mind, heading up to the rooftop where the party&#39;s just begun.&nbsp;

Michelle An

Interscope

Madonna 'Bitch I'm Madonna' by Jonas Akerlund

Madonna - Bitch I'm Madonna ft. Nicki Minaj

Alice Eve&nbsp;gets to play a very different character from the demure and efficient Carol Marcus from JJ Abrams&#39; Star Trek reboot in the video for Rixton&#39;s Hotel Ceiling directed by Clarence Fuller.This is the story of a passionate relationship, played out in flashback, between Alice and Billy Huxley. There&#39;s the full gamut of emotions as&nbsp;the passion boils then kirdles - including utter desperation, as Alice waits for news about her missing lover. And then comes a&nbsp;highly effective final&nbsp;twist in the tale...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Clarence Fuller

Rupert Savage

Everything Is Okay

Henry Lloyd Baker

Lana Salfiti

Jack Meredith

David Mackie

Anna Mould

Joseph Crone

Karen Alder

Martin Landgreve

Raymond Levé

Alice Eve

Andrew Ibea

Alexander Norton

Laura D'Asta

Nikolaj Belzer

Undercranked

Rixton 'Hotel Ceiling' by Clarence Fuller

Rixton-'Hotel-Ceiling'-by-Clarence-Fuller

Holy City - the first single from Joan As Policewoman&#39;s new album The Classic &ndash; is a Motown-influenced pop fusion, inspired by Joan&#39;s visit to Jerusalem&rsquo;s Wailing Wall,&nbsp;and understanding people find ecstasy in different ways, from praying to making music.And the video, filmed in New York City and directed by Alex de Campi, comprises of a series of surreal TV tableaux, from different ages of TV, with Joan playing different parts&nbsp;in each bizarre&nbsp;vignette - 50s housewife, 70s disco diva, and beyond...&nbsp;

Alex de Campi

Wesley Wingo

RSM Creative

Sean Mayo

PIAS

Robby Starbuck

Joan As Policewoman 'Holy City' by Alex De Campi

Joan-As-Police-Woman-'Holy-City'-by-Alex-De-Campi

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=KaasJ44O5lI&amp;ob=av2e Laurent Briet and Beyoncé deliver this simple slo-mo epic for the key track 1+1 from her Beyoncé 4 album.
Mrs Z is looking super-hot - with great use of lighting for that shimmering, glowing skin effect...

Laurent Briet &amp; Beyoncé

Greencard Pictures

Melody Roscher

Scott Beardslee

Ed Burke

Beyoncé '1+1' by Laurent Briet & Beyoncé 

Beyoncé-'1+1'-by-Laurent-Briet-&-Beyoncé-

Lost Weekend is a catchy number which features that a rare beast in modern rock, the totally banging extended guitar solo, and Alex shot the video in a place in Williamsburg, supplemented by a bunch of strangely behaving barflies - and a unicorn. 
"There's a tale behind this one," she says. "I remember hearing that in Joseph Kahn's vid for the Katy Perry single Hot N Cold, he apparently waived his fee so they could throw in the zebra at the end. I saw the video and loved it, but thought, wow, I'm sorry, but any chick (and most gay men) would know that if you're going zebra, you really should take the extra step and go full _____. So, even though our budget was less than the catering fee on a Katy Perry vid, we went the extra step. Wait for it... it happens around 3.05."

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Chase Bowman

Art Brut's Lost Weekend by Alex de Campi

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