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Luke Monaghan

Sam Smith reunites with Luke Monaghan in a triumphant comeback for&nbsp;Love Me More.The song is all about the singer being more comfortable in their self, and Monaghan - who has directed more&nbsp;Sam Smith videos than anyone else - allows that feeling to seep through the course of the film in both a direct and evocative fashion.After a prelude listening to a&nbsp;phone machine voice message from an old friend who craves to meet up with them, Sam heads out into the day with a spring in their step - in a street scene reminiscent of one of their early videos.The introduction of a supporting cast is done through a break from the course of the narrative - conceptual set-ups and portrait shots of Sam's 'gang' from the LGBTQ+ community&nbsp;- before they all come together on the dancefloor.Monaghan keeps things interesting and affectionate throughout, never deviating from a positive and joyous mood. That's anchored&nbsp;by Sam's radiant performance. This dovetails really nicely with a song which has a tinge of gospel revivalism about it.Sam Smith is definitely back - and so is Luke Monaghan.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Arthur De Borman

Rose Waite

Ben Reardon

MrMr

Shore Works

James Hackett

Sol Sahaiti

Harry Wheeler

Alex Jefferson

Elliot Ruby

Ali Copland

Richard J Lewis

Jamie Monks

Phil Heron

Rob Hawkins

Max Randall

Sienree Du

Karla Q Leon

Sean Fazende

Houmam Abdullah

Capitol Records

Joe Mulvihill

Sam Smith 'Love Me More' by Luke Monaghan

Sam-Smith--'Love-Me-More-'-by-Luke-Monaghan

Luke Monaghan directs a&nbsp;defiant tale of love lived without regret for Sam Smith's Diamonds.Following their collaborations on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/07/26/sam-smith-how-do-you-sleep-grant-singer/59957#:~:text=Sam%20Smith%20astonishes%20in%20this,era%20of%20shiny%20event%20videos.">How Do You Sleep</a>, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/09/20/sam-smith-too-good-goodbyes-luke-monaghan/49705">Too Good At Goodbyes</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/10/06/sam-smith-writings-wall-luke-monaghan/37255">Writing's On The Wall</a>, this promo finds Smith&nbsp;in a stripped-out bedroom, dancing their heart out as blinding flashes of light pulsate through the windows.&nbsp;Conceptual and introspective, this is not&nbsp;the first time we've seen Smith take on choreography, but it's definitely a step up in skill and ambition. And the choice to bring in choreographer&nbsp;Holly Blakey is an inspired one, resulting in movements that encapsulate the emotional rollercoaster of the narrative.&nbsp;

Black Dog Films

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Savvas Stavrou

Daniel Smith

Rina Yang

Kate Molins

Jonny Lewis

Genki McClure

Anne Sophie Costa

Lizzy Graham

White House Post

Ricky Gausis

MPC LA

MPC London

Grace Thorpe

Holly Blakey

Cinelab Film and Digital

Sam Smith 'Diamonds' by Luke Monaghan

Sam-Smith--'Diamonds'-by-Luke-Monaghan

Orelsan gets introspective in&nbsp;Fantômes, directed by Luke Monaghan.&nbsp;Dark and stylish, the video centres around a group of residents all staring up at an accommodation block, where Orelsan is confined to his room as he performs. Lyrically dealing with friends and acquaintances who have become ghosts in his life, the haunting vibe stretches to the outdoors, where he appears with a group of silhouettes who back up his frenetic performance.&nbsp;Interesting aesthetically, the visual is a great match to the track and does well in representing the sombre tone of the new album.&nbsp;

France

Alex Chamberlain

Phantasm

Noé Baruchel Dominati

Patrick Bailey

George Nelson

Taff Williamson

Randy Baublis

Cabin Edit

Hansen

Arsenal Creative

Zoe Klinck

Jake Whitehouse

Orelsan 'Fantômes' by Luke Monaghan

Orelsan-'Fantômes'-by-Luke-Monaghan

Luke Monaghan, whose music video credits include acclaimed videos for Sam Smith, Disclosure, A$AP Rocky and&nbsp;Flatbush Zombies, has joined Black Dog Films in the UK for music video and commercial representation.<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/profiles/luke-monaghan/11269" target="_blank">Monaghan</a> (pictured above&nbsp;left, with Sam Smith)&nbsp;is best known in music videos for his cinematic performance videos and narratives, with his videos for Smith - including for Leave Your Lover, I'm Not The Only One and the James Bond theme, The Writing's On The Wall - and Disclosure racking up well over two billion views between them. &nbsp;This year he has directed the Dermot Kennedy video for Outnumbered, and Hamzaa's Write It Down, and Monaghan has now launched his career at Black Dog with the video for French rapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtClykmqxXs&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank">Orelsan's&nbsp;Fantômes</a>, released&nbsp;to celebrate the first anniversary of Orelsan's third album The Party Is Over.Monaghan's innate understanding of storytelling, and how to impact an audience, can also be seen in his commercial work for clients such as Beats By Dre, Nike, Adidas, Fox Sports, Stella Artois, and Levi's.Menahwile, his acclaimed longform work has seen him pick up several major awards and nominations, including an Emmy Award for his 2017 HBO sports documentary on Mexican boxer Ray Beltran.“I’ve always been a fan of Luke’s work, from the creative way in which he approaches&nbsp;his videos, to the cinematic&nbsp;execution," says Martin Roker, head of Black Dog Films UK.&nbsp;"Luke is a great addition to the ever-growing and talented Black Dog Films UK roster.&nbsp;Welcome to the fam Luke!”• Watch Luke Monaghan's showreel at Black Dog Films <a href="http://www.blackdogfilms.com/uk/directors/luke-monaghan/" target="_blank">here</a>

Luke Monaghan signs to Black Dog Films UK

After his emotional video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/07/15/dermot-kennedy-outnumbered-luke-monaghan/61669" target="_blank">Dermot Kennedy's Outnumbered</a>,&nbsp;released during&nbsp;the summer, Luke Monaghan does a similarly powerful, beautifully crafted job for young London singer Hamzaa.Monaghan visualises her song Write It Down as the story of a subdued teenage girl (possibly a younger version of Hamzaa) who is wedded to the journal in which she pours her heart and soul. And that causes a tension within her family.In a world of softly-lit domestic interiors, and nighttime&nbsp;exteriors, shot by Harry Wheeler, Hamzaa herself is captured performing in commonplace London locations - a bus stop, a park - like an slightly removed observer of the unfolding narrative.And in the girl's story, there is eventually a break in the tension - perhaps unexpected, but&nbsp;an authentic expression of Hamzaa's own story.

Riff Raff Films

John Robinson

Alex Edyvean

James Middleton

Paul Davies

Jamie Jamieson

Coralie Rose

Kiera Liberati

Justin Rose

Yasmina Bentaieb

Jade Farmiloe

Paul O'Reilly

Homespun

Alex Gregory

The Mill

Hands London

Soul

Hamzaa 'Write It Down' by Luke Monaghan 

Hamzaa - Write It Down (Official Video)

Luke Monaghan's video for Dermot Kennedy uses understated vignettes, beautifully shot, to let the powerful emotion of Kennedy's song Outnumbered grip the viewer.It's marvellous, a great showcase for this Irish singer-songwriter destined for big success, with outstanding cinematography from&nbsp;Joe Cook. &nbsp;

Harriet Towler

Motherland

Joe Cook

BettyJo Moore

Final Cut

Joseph Bicknell

Company 3

Dermot Kennedy 'Outnumbered' by Luke Monaghan

Dermot Kennedy / Outnumbered

Luke Monaghan presents an old school New York hiphop video with a distinctive cinematic edge for Flatbush Zombies, and it makes compelling viewing.It begins with a body in a deserted carpark at night - it&#39;s the title sequence for Headstone. Then comes what appears to be the flashback: the Zombies in their car, with their homies, on the street. It&#39;s dark and it&#39;s steamy, and it delivers so well on its preformance premise you cannot take your eyes off it.Special mention should go to the DoP Maceo Bishop, for his exceptional nighttime cinematography. It&#39;s one of the best shot videos of the year so far - with a great grade too by Ricky Sausis. But Monaghan deserves the biggest plaudits, for making the Flatbush Zombies the movie stars of their own video.

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Willie Crouse

Janye Roberts

Sam Light

Maceo Bishop

Haroun Ibn-mock

Tony Baloney

Greg Scruton

Timber

Tatiana Cinquino

Hip Hop

Flatbush Zombies 'Headstone' by Luke Monaghan

Newly-svelte Sam Smith teams with long term collaborator Luke Monaghan to visualise the big comeback single Too Good At Goodbyes. And&nbsp;not surprisingly, it&#39;s emotional.Sam Smith&#39;s heartfelt performance is intercut with dramatic vignettes, all variations on the main theme: the pain of saying goodbye. The strength&nbsp;of the performances - this was filmed with a combination of actors and non-actors - is underlined by the settings, and its resolutely British feel.Smith is an&nbsp;international pop star who wants to keep it authentic, and once again finds a worthy partner in&nbsp;Monaghan to achieve that.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Mikey Levelle

Tom Birmingham

Charlie Casely-Hayford

Charley McEwan

Jodie Hyams

Paul Edmonds

Ben Magahy

Callan Green

Chris Malin

Fabrizo Sciarra

Rick Woollard

Jess Elcock

Matt Moffatt

Adam Bell

Sam Jones

Cut+Run

Natalie Arnett

Sam Smith 'Too Good At Goodbyes' by Luke Monaghan

Sam Smith&#39;s theme for the latest James Bond film&nbsp;Spectre&nbsp;has been released with this ultra-slick&nbsp;video by&nbsp;Luke Monaghan,&nbsp;featuring exclusive clips from the film as well as cinematic shots of the singer performing on&nbsp;some of the&nbsp;film&#39;s most stunning locations in Rome.Editor Paul O&rsquo;Reilly was forced to relocate&nbsp;to Pinewood Studios&nbsp;in order to edit the video, due to the security surrounding&nbsp;the movie, released later this month.&nbsp;O&#39;Reilly was required to&nbsp;complete all his work at the&nbsp;studios,&nbsp;and the film footage had to stay on site for the duration.&nbsp;&ldquo;Obviously there was incredibly tight security on the footage we were given,&rdquo; says Paul&nbsp;O&rsquo;Reilly, based at Stitch Editing and Homespun.&nbsp;&ldquo;Initially we were only provided with the footage from the official trailer to make the first&nbsp;cut. However we were given the unexpected but wonderful privilege of meeting Sam Mendez and&nbsp;Barbara Brocolli. We were all understandably nervous for them to view our work but they were&nbsp;lovely - really positive about our ideas - and after a pitch with them and their production team they&nbsp;granted us an additional forty&nbsp;minutes of footage&nbsp;to help support the narrative of the music video.&rdquo;The footage provided had a limited amount of frames per shot, so&nbsp;had to be carefully curated to slot into the music video, without revealing too much of the film&rsquo;s plot.&ldquo;The extra footage gave us an opportunity to intertwine moments that really spoke to the narrative&nbsp;of the song and Luke&rsquo;s footage. It&rsquo;s been an amazing project to work on. An unforgettable&nbsp;experience, with some rather&nbsp;unforgettable rushes!&rdquo;

Matthew Fone

Benjamin Kitchens

Lauren Armes

Lottie Brooksbank

Stitch Editing

Tareq Kubaisi

Raised By Wolves

Gin Godden

Jon Hollis

John Moule

Roberto Malerba

Singer-songwriter

Sam Smith 'Writing's On The Wall' by Luke Monaghan

Luke Monaghan takes the subject matter of Rudimental and Sam Smith collaborator Jimmy Napes&#39; solo effort Give It Up&nbsp;as his jumping-off point for a story of a young man in Las Vegas, where his addictive pursuits come at an&nbsp;increasingly heavy price.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like&nbsp;in Monaghan&#39;s excellent video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/08/04/sam-smith-im-not-only-one-luke-monaghan" target="_blank">Sam Smith&#39;s I&#39;m Not The Only One</a> last year, this is the study of the main character&#39;s drift into a hell of their own making. In his case, there is the hint he may have a shot at redemption.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Arts & Sciences

Casey Byron

Mal Ward

Nick Giomuso

Ben Kitchens

Arcade

Ari Balouzian

Joceline Gabriel

Atlantic Records

Dan Curwin

Shadeh Smith

Justin Oberman

Sarah Boardman

Dance, Pop

Jimmy Napes 'Give It Up' by Luke Monaghan 

Jimmy Napes 'Give It Up'

For the next single to be taken from his No 1 album In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith and Luke Monaghan reunite for the promo to I&#39;m Not The Only One, following their collaboration on <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/27/sam-smith-leave-your-lover-luke-monaghan" target="_blank">Leave Your Lover</a>.&nbsp;Starring&nbsp;Dianna Agron (Glee) and Chris Messina (The Mindy Project), Luke explores the infidelity theme within Smith&#39;s lyric, as a woman is&nbsp;left alone in her palatial home, and the husband goes off to the office...

Marc Marrie

Nathaniel Greene

Isaac Bauman

Arcade Edit

Damian Stevens

Nicole Visram

Chris Messina

Dianna Agron

Marisa Garner Associates

Ballad

Sam Smith 'I'm Not The Only One' by Luke Monaghan

Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One

<a href="http://vimeo.com/91586954" target="_blank">Baby Gangster</a> director Luke Monaghan delivers an original twist on the love triangle scenario in his promo for Sam Smith&#39;s Leave Your Lover.&nbsp;Luke&#39;s sensitive portrayal - with a surprise ending - compliments the delicate ballad perfectly with some sublime photography&nbsp;from&nbsp;Pierre Edelmann...Luke is newly signed to Arts &amp; Sciences in the US for commercials and music videos.&nbsp;

Paradoxal

Laure Salgon

Gaetan Rousseau

Pierre Cazenave Kaufman

Pierre Edelmann

Gregory Reese

Forest Finbow

Lionel Rocques

Alexis Gravohac

Maxime Gallet

Ewa Wohn

Elizabeth Davis

Héloïse Noé

Sarah Reygate

Margaux Jalouzot

Lucille Durez

Lola Osorio

Sam Smith 'Leave Your Lover' by Luke Monaghan

Sam Smith 'Leave Your Lover'

Fresh from directing his beautiful short&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/10/16/wayward-only-flawezekiel-luke-monaghan" target="_blank">Ezekiel</a>, Luke Monaghan takes to the streets of lower Manahattan for the promo to A$AP Rocky&#39;s Angels.In this&nbsp;tense, cinematic thriller of a video we see A$AP and his gang of hockey-masked, BMX-riding&nbsp;marauders set off to cause mayhem in the neighbourhood...

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Carole Jarrin

Andrew Ellmaker

Matt Black

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Pierre Vannier

Martin Leitner

A$AP Rocky 'Angels' by Luke Monaghan

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