Director of Photography

Marcus Domleo

Simon Owens's video for electronica duo Lunge features bandmember Viva expressing herself with controlled abandon within&nbsp;the vast empty space of Black Island Studios. And it is something to behold.&nbsp;This is the first of two videos by Owens for the band, who he discovered whilst listening to Marc Riley's evening&nbsp;show on 6Music. Turned out to be a match made in heaven as his video for This Idle Motion&nbsp;has a real sense of joy, and timelessness. It's a beautiful exercise&nbsp;in capturing&nbsp;a great performance."Lunge appeared all silvery, reflective and urgent through my left kneecap," says Owens, enigmatically. "I looked down, bent my knee and heard golden pop. I was next to the radio as Marc Riley played 'Off with their heads' for the 108th time. I loved it."I found myself talking with one half of the band, after a few messages back n forth we get talking about swinging, lots of swinging. That idea didn’t work out and it struck me the lead singer Viva could have two personalities in song form, dark and light (reality is lovely and lovelier), or light and shadow. So here it is Viva as light and shadow choreographed by us, Viva and me."If you watch Viva carefully when looking up to the sky she can actually see GLASS-z12 galaxy, us mere mortals could only see an old man precariously stood on a narrow piece of wood clutching a light. This is the key difference between performer and watcher, galaxies and light, and why just a single watch of This Idle Motion video can take you into the pillars of creation and the Lunge nebula."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

SIMON OWENS

Studio Simon Owens

Jon Mitchell

James Davies

Steve Kellet

Viva Seifert-Cleveland

Dani Granado

Andrew Patrick

Glassworks

Lunge 'This Idle Motion' by Simon Owens

LUNGE This Idle Motion Music video

Dir. Lx directs a stirring promo for Stormzy's This Is What I Mean.&nbsp;Filmed on the night of his album launch party, the video boasts a number of big-name collaborators, including&nbsp;Amaarae, Black Sherif, Jacob Collier, Ms Banks and Storry.&nbsp;Mobile phone footage of the event is cut together with enigmatic studio setups, creating an explosive, slick aesthetic that mixes raw energy with polished vibes, resulting in one of Stormzy's best videos to date.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Alice Gilfillan

Dir. Lx

Amy James

Aldgate Pictures

Nicola Sheppard

Ryan Delahunty

Simon Ingram

Stefan Demetriou

Curtis Dunne

Ben Plant

Chris Robertson

Sam Hardy

DOMA

Nielsan Bohl

Def Jam 2070

Stormzy 'This Is What I Mean' by Dir. Lx

Stormzy-'This-Is-What-I-Mean'-by-Dir.lx

Oscar Sansom captures a Royal Blood performance for a US talk show, with the excellent staging&nbsp;of Trouble's Coming for&nbsp;The Late Late Show with James Corden.Boasting bold production design and a pronounced orange and blue colour palette, the curved lighting rigs and staging compliment the dynamic cinematography.&nbsp;The saturated aesthetic has an almost 80s neon feel, which matches the band's effortlessly cool performance.&nbsp;"I really wanted to show how incredible Royal Blood are live," states Sansom. "This was the first live performance the guys have done since the release of the new album (Typhoons) and so we wanted to make something really exciting visually,&nbsp;but it was also really important to me that we didn't distract the focus from the band's performance."&nbsp;

Oscar Sansom

Forest Of Black

Beth Allan

Emma Greengrass

Rory Moles

Henry Keep

James Tonkin

Hangman

Jennifer Ivory

Warner Records

Royal Blood 'Trouble's Coming' (for The Late Late Show) by Oscar Sansom

Royal-Blood-'Trouble's-Coming---The-Late-Late-Show'-by-Oscar-Sansom

Oscar Sansom has collaborated with&nbsp;Brighton rockers Royal Blood on two performances for American talk shows and here's the first: a frenetic and striking version of their single Typhoons for ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live."Working with a band like Royal Blood is just a joy as a director," says Sansom, who has also created live music films for&nbsp;Biffy Clyro and Liam Gallagher."Mike and Ben are such incredible musicians and performers that they just blow me away every time we work together. It makes my job a lot easier and I am really just focussed on trying to find the best way to translate the energy of their live shows through the lens."&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jack Gemmell

Samuel Harding

Johnny Gaskill

Rock

Royal Blood 'Typhoons' (for Jimmy Kimmel Live) by Oscar Sansom

Royal-Blood-'Typhoons---Jimmy-Kimmel-Live'-by-Oscar-Sansom

Max Siedentopf lends his delightfully eccentric style to this&nbsp;hypnotic promo for British five-piece Easy Life.&nbsp;The aptly-titled Daydreams features a succession of oscellating vignettes featuring frontman Murray with and without bandmates, capturing a brief glimpse of static moments in time before spinning into the next setup.&nbsp;Utilising the rotating movement popularised in the Atlanta Season 2 Trailer,&nbsp;the perpetual motion of the camera builds a rhythmic yet offbeat energy, elevated by the vibrant colours and Siedentopf's fondness for the absurd.&nbsp;

Max Siedentopf

Molly McGregor

Riff Raff Films

Kate Brady

Suzan Mustafa

Rosie Owen

Jonny Lewis

John Clarke

Chloe Brady

Georgia Hope

Peter Oppersdorff

Theo Tagholm

Hands 

Laura Clayton

Universal Music

Alternative

Easy Life 'Daydreams' by Max Siedentopf

Easy Life - Daydreams

Two Door Cinema Club are back with a beautifully wacky form of lyric video from Max Siedentopf, who&#39;s taken inspiration from every single sentence of the band&#39;s new song Talk, and has created into over 90 scenes of colour-coded, off-the-wall visual wit.From using frontman Alex Trimble&#39;s&nbsp;head as a broom, to creating a six legged-man horse, and moving cheerful gymnasts into complicated formations throughout, the video gets literal, goes surreal, and is essentially a refreshing, breathless blast of tongue in cheek entertainment from beginning to an end.&nbsp;

Natalie Arnett

Chris Kelly

Paul Molloy

Jakob Gierse

Louise Hinton

Kerry Saxon

Nick Armstrong

Cut+Run

Jess Vile

Framestore

Christian Baker

Prolifica Inc

Indie

Two Door Cinema Club 'Talk' by Max Siedentopf

Max Siedentopf&#39;s video for Yak takes us into an appetising scenario - an 80s cooking show, where presenter Olivia Burslem is testing the new Deepfryer 2000, with presenter Oli. But then things get a little out of hand...Fried is all about our unsatisfiable desire to indulge in things that aren&rsquo;t good for us. And this is amply illustrated by&nbsp;Siedentopf with his usual wacky relish, as Olivia and Oli progress from chicken drumsticks to vegetables and then.... other stuff. After this, you might want to stick to salad...

Paul Toomey

Lisa Chau

Ben Crook

Speade Editing

Phil Hambi

Yak 'Fried' by Max Siedentopf

Max Siedentopf&#39;s completely out-there, live-action-cartoon approach gets full rein to express itself in this enjoyably bonkers video for US electro-DJ Gommi.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#39;s a&nbsp;stop-motion piece where a middle aged, clock-watching salaryman - played by Gommi himself&nbsp;- utterly loses his grip on reality, as he waits for his tedious&nbsp;9-5 day to end, imagining all sorts of weird stuff in the process. It&#39;s a full-on psychotic episode, to match the lyrics of Gommi&#39;s banging tune Psychosis.Maybe its a bit of a Marmitey approach, but&nbsp;Siedentopf command of a wonderfully nutty visual language is a joy to these jaundiced eyes. And, frankly, thank the lord for a new dance producer with a properly daft sense of humour.

United States

Alex Moffat

Thomas Wooton

Saul Harris

Shaun Fenn

Tors Beedles

Speade

Steve Warne

Ethan Wigfield

Heavyweight Records

Dance

Electronica

Gommi 'Psychosis' by Max Siedentopf

It&#39;s Take That, but not quite as you&#39;ve ever seen them before.Mike Baldwin sends Gary, Mark and Howard through a&nbsp;hyperreal mishmash of visual styles, throws them a few instruments and, bingo - he&#39;s made a rollicking video for Out Of Our Heads, with a&nbsp;lighthearted, Sixties psycheledia-lite vibe.The guys, particularly Gary, buy into this lighthearted family-friendly&nbsp;version of befuddlement. And the feeling that this could have&nbsp;popped from an old TV show, like The Monkees, is emphasised&nbsp;by their brief appearance in cartoon form. Maybe they could be the new Gorillaz...

Michael Baldwin

Jack Lightfoot

Blindeye Films

Ben Burton

Ran Geffen

James Wicks

Anna Mould

Emma Lamp

Sinead Mcgowan

Umbrella

Máté Barbalics

Lock it in

Semera Khan

Paul McKee

Polydor

Take That 'Out Of Our Heads' by Michael Baldwin

Take-That-'Out-Of-Our-Heads'-by-Mike-Baldwin

Take That reunite with director Gregg Masuak in this homage to some horror movie&nbsp;favourites.It looks as though Take That have gone and found themselves slap bang in the middle of every single horror film at the same time. What a spot of bad luck. Really though, take a second to pick all the best horror baddies out of the line-up here! This great tongue-in-cheek bit of over-acting from everyone involved is hilariously contrasted by the upbeat song, too. Oh, and just when you think all hope is lost, the band save the day the only way they can; with the power of dance.A fun, knowing collaboration from a band and director that have both learned a lot since the days of&nbsp;Pray.&nbsp;

Gregg Masuak

Kwok Yau

Biscuit Filmworks

Lisa Turnbull

Lock It In

Take That 'New Day' by Gregg Masuak

Take That - New Day (Official Video)

Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond make one of their more &#39;mainstream&#39; videos for High Contrast&#39;s Questions. That still means that anything could happen.In this case, a young lad wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, tormented by weird thoughts about a sexy girl. Cue&nbsp;a&nbsp;stream of oddball, quasi-Freudian symbolism straight out of the Casey &amp; Ewan handbook of weird thoughts: doors of perception leading to hearts drained of blood and pencils floating through doughnuts, via love as a pinball game.It all represents&nbsp;the lad&#39;s subconscious anxiety of losing the temptress Polyhedra to a buff-bodied&nbsp;airhead. Well, if you must go on Tindr just before bedtime.

Casey & Ewan

Matt Posner

Marisa Garner Associates

3 Beats

Llyr Williams at Bait Studios

Lucy Lawson-Duckett

Robin Crowley

Marcus Murry

Dan Gibling

Ashley Hicks

Rupert Hornstein

Helen Durbin

Carl Dunn

Charlotte Kraftman

Natalie Wilkins

Dance, Pop

High Contrast ft Boy Matthews 'Questions' by Casey & Ewan

High Contrast "Questions"

Thom Humphreys and Jean-Philippe Blunt -&nbsp;making-up the directing duo In/Out&nbsp;which has&nbsp;recently signed&nbsp;to Riff Raff&rsquo;s Nursery of Evil -&nbsp;have just completed this hauntingly poetic visual&nbsp;for&nbsp;the band Plaitum&#39;s&nbsp;new single Jagwa.The videos sees a beautiful&nbsp;unravelling of human bodies, with&nbsp;free-falling human figures in a black space, reflecting the sense of powerlessness of being trapped&nbsp;in an abusive relationship.Paired with jarring graphics and an&nbsp;aggressive scene of the&nbsp;couple on a bed, we witness&nbsp;bodies&nbsp;split into multiple images as they float in the air,&nbsp;illustrating a permanent, repetitive&nbsp;state of conflict.

In/Out

Ahmet Husseyin

Barry Keegan

Laurie Walters

Grace Gray

Oisín O’Driscoll

The Mill

Sonya Cullingford

Jordan Kennedy

Joceline Gabriel

Wolf Tone

Synth Pop

Plaitum 'Jagwa' by In/Out - now signed to Riff Raff

After getting together&nbsp;for the <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/24/ady-suleiman-so-lost-michael-holyk" target="_blank">So Lost</a> promo earlier this year,&nbsp;Ady Suleiman&nbsp;has teamed up yet again with Michael Holyk&nbsp;to deliver this amusing comment on modern society, with Suleiman smoothly rolling through the streets of London, expressing his thoughts on religion, faith and&nbsp;politics in the video for State Of Mind.On his journey, Suleiman&#39;s thoughts are brought to life&nbsp;by a diverse supporting cast,&nbsp;a religious figure (possibly Jesus) with a megaphone, Adam and Eve, nuns, and prospective MPs. When nighttime comes, the tone goes darker, and the singer demands to know, &#39;Where were you when the soldiers went to war, because it&#39;s you they&#39;re fighting for.&#39; But even the solemn subjects are uplifted by Suleiman&#39;s confident, charismatic&nbsp;performance.

Michael Holyk

Nice & Polite

Steve Whiteley

Matt Frost

James Dyer

Elliot Beach

Cassius McCabe

Stephanie Kevers

Flaura Atkinson

The Quarry

Mark Meadows

Smoke & Mirrors

Lydia Evitt

Pemba Records/Sony Music

Elizabeth Doonan

Ady Suleiman 'State Of Mind' by Michael Holyk

Ady Suleiman - State of Mind

Urban Ström takes on the&nbsp;eight-strong boyband Stereo Kicks (yes, they are the Octoband)&nbsp;for this&nbsp;performance promo for their song&nbsp;Love Me So.With emough&nbsp;emotive solos for everyone,&nbsp;slow-motion partying and&nbsp;closeups of the&nbsp;youthful bunch, and even a storyline of a troubled girl, Urban does sterling work in&nbsp;creating&nbsp;a suitably swoon-worthy video for irs target audience.&nbsp;

Marcus Domleo

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