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Leah Revivo

Samuel Taylor&#39;s hugely powerful video for Dirty Danger is a rare thing indeed. This close collaboration between the director and the artist shows in a few minutes a palpable reality of life now for many black teenagers in London, where gang culture is rife. It&#39;s a white-knuckle thriller that feels utterly authentic. And the message hits you like a hammer.&nbsp;Two boys play basketball on a court in a&nbsp;Hackney estate. But just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time makes them targets. Taylor&#39;s direction turns this into a gripping chase sequence through the estate, and also brilliantly extrapolates not only the danger the boys face,&nbsp;but also an agonising dilemma that comes at the end of their run for their lives.This is a really impressive work from Samuel Taylor, now signed to Agile Films for music videos. He and Dirty Danger developed the concept together and spent weeks on the casting, to get it just right, and they were rewarded by superb performances from their two main actors, Ishmel Bridgmen and&nbsp;Josiah Mutupa. The result is heartbreaking, but should be seen as a message to power to do something about this situation.The last word, rightly, is Dirty Danger&#39;s, with a message that also comes at the end of Molly Dineen&#39;s remarkable new documentary Being Blacker (now on BBC iPlayer).&nbsp;&quot;I&#39;m sick and tired of hearing another black boy has been killed on the streets. Don&#39;t digest what they feed you. That&#39;s your brother, not your enemy.&quot;

United Kingdom

Samuel Taylor

Alex Holberton

Henry Napier-Brown

Agile Films

Bradley Stearn

James Wicks

Vlad Barin

CHEAT

Ishmel Bridgmen

Josiah Mutupa

Hip Hop

Dirty Danger 'Run' by Samuel Taylor

An abandoned office in the post-crash financial district becomes the playground of three energetic young&nbsp;thrillseekers&nbsp;in&nbsp;Samuel Taylor&#39;s&nbsp;video for Stealth&#39;s How Much Further.This video snaps out the starting gates with the youthful exuberance of its&nbsp;leads (Bradley Salter, Mike McNeish &amp; Max Jarish) and never really lets up. And with all their energy, these young rebels also start communicating through a mix of sign language and ritualistic movement as a way to avoid the prying ears of our surveillance-obsessed&nbsp;society. It&#39;s an allegory by choreography that&#39;s&nbsp;pulled together with some aplomb&nbsp;by Taylor&#39;s own kinetic edit.

Loose Moose Productions

Hunter Daly

Rupert Hornstein

Jody Roberts

Ben Skyrme

Jess Barrell

Felicity Davies

Sophie Cox

Joseph Bicknell

Indie, Indie-pop

Stealth 'How Much Further' by Samuel Taylor

Stealth-'How-Much-Further'-by-Samuel-Taylor

Director Samuel Taylor has directed this fun&nbsp;promo-in-a-promo&nbsp;playing off&nbsp;the lyrics of emerging Liverpool band&nbsp;Whitecliff&#39;s song Five Minutes.&nbsp;The video&nbsp;sees a&nbsp;kitsch, hectic&nbsp;take on a performance video, with&nbsp;the camera crew trying to&nbsp;keep up with&nbsp;video star (and - as it turns out -&nbsp;director of the video)&nbsp;Emma Breschi&nbsp;as she plays havoc with her own video shoot. All&#39;s well that ends well though,&nbsp;with what results in an&nbsp;amusing, involved&nbsp;pop&nbsp;video.

Sorcha Bacon

Martha McGuirk

Try Hard Productions

Bryony James

Nick Morris

Dan Anthony

Thomas Terminet

Greg King

Geraint Humpries

Bryony Neylan-Francis

Gemma Pickerill

Esme Loughrey

Georgia Morris

Bryony Campbell

Daniel Hawkins

YEAROFTIGER

Whitecliff 'Five Minutes' by Samuel Taylor

Whitecliff - Five Minutes (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

New Desert Blues&#39;&nbsp;Rag &amp; Bone tells the story of Steph, a young woman trying desperately to distance herself from a past relationship, yet finding&nbsp;herself pulled back into one last night with her ex.&nbsp;With its spinning&nbsp;camera moves and&nbsp;wild&nbsp;night-out visuals, Samuel Taylor &amp; Daniel Hawkins&#39;&nbsp;arresting video&nbsp;encapsulates our protagonist&#39;s inner turmoil&nbsp;as she&nbsp;fights,&nbsp;flirts, yearns for and runs away from her&nbsp;ex-lover.

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