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Mathy & Fran

Barns Courtney gets an endoscopy in a surreal doctors practice, in the video for Hollow&nbsp;directed by Mathy &amp; Fran. As the doctor uses a thin camera to search inside Courtney’s body, a 404 warning appears on-screen (a nod to the album title)&nbsp;and no organs can be found.That is until Courtney and his band appear, performing the song and jumping around the pitch black space. The doctor is alarmed, but she has just the medicine for it. From then on, things get weirder and weirder, until Courtney breaks through and rejects the doctor’s orders, turning the practice into his new performing space.The surrealism and colour palettes are reminiscent of Gondry, and Mathy &amp; Fran show that they have complete control over their signature style, perfectly balancing colour and texture to great effect. This one is a trip, and not to be missed.

United Kingdom

Alisdair Mitchell

My Accomplice

Imogen Harrison

Sam Greaves

Charlie Goodger

Oian Arteta

Alexandra Day

Sian Duke

TenThree

Tim Smith

CHEAT

Paul McKee

Indie

Barns Courtney 'Hollow' by Mathy & Fran 

Barns Courtney - Hollow

Two Door Cinema Club get upstaged by&nbsp;ventriloquist dummies in the video for Once, directed by Mathy &amp; Fran.Fresh off the back of Au/Ra's Dance in the Dark, the directors have gone in a lighter, more quirky direction for this project. In the video, the group are being interviewed on a&nbsp;vintage variety TV show. However all the attention is on the puppets, not the band.&nbsp;As we see the grisly puppets get treated like stars, with their own glam squads, photoshoots and champagne, the group starts to get jealous, culminating in a gory climax to reinstate their independence. It's a bit of a shocker - but well worth waiting for...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Harry Flinder

Trevor Kelly

Jack Meredith

Jack WiIkinson

Adam Feeney

Sam Harding

Ben Austin

Alexandra Green

Lucy Berry

Ten Three Editing

OB Management

Sean Spray

Two Door Cinema Club 'Once' by Mathy & Fran 

Two Door Cinema Club - Once (Official Video)

Mathy &amp; Fran return to music videos with this mesmerising piece for&nbsp;Au/Ra's instantly hooky Dance In The Dark. It's&nbsp;a sensation of synchronised movement and monochromatic art direction.The simple concept is haunting and ethereal, picturing a group of cast dancing and sprinting around Au/Ra - that's Jamie Lou Stenzel, another teenage prodigy of dark electropop - as she performs in a white infinity studio.The close-ups of the performance are hypnotic, and the presence of just one bright colour -&nbsp;Au/Ra’s turquoise hair-&nbsp;is inspired, ensuring our focus is always on her, especially in the darker scenes at the end. A simple idea, executed brilliantly - with choreography by Alexandra Green and a fine edit by Joce Hockings.&nbsp;

Germany

James Graley

Rosa Rooney

Toby Goodger

Josh Govett

Jamie Jarvis

Nina Robinson

Lucy Thomas

Joce Hockings

Ten Three

Vic Parker

Raised By Wolves

Alternative Pop

Au/Ra 'Dance in the Dark' by Mathy & Fran

Au/Ra - Dance in the Dark (Official Video)

Mathy &amp; Fran return with their first video in ages, for the French indie rock band Kyo - an atmospheric band performance with choreography,&nbsp;bathed in washes of colour, and beautifully&nbsp;shot by DoP Rina Yang.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;There&rsquo;s something sensuous and sinister within Ton Mec that we wanted to bring out in this visual,&quot; say Mathy &amp; Fran. &quot;Built around Kyo&rsquo;s performance, elements of colour and movement were used to create an overwhelming feeling that&rsquo;s both euphoric and suffocating. A claustrophobic kind of catharsis.&quot;

France

Michael Evans

Jamie Clark

Richard Newman

Rina Yang

Joseph Crone

Charlotte Kraftman

Jamie O'Donnell

Cut+Run

Joseph Bicknell

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Jf Wang

Sony Music France

Rock

Kyo 'Ton Mec' by Mathy & Fran

Kyo - Ton mec (Clip officiel)

Best Coast&#39;s&nbsp;bittersweet powerpop ode Feeling Ok, has been paired with a video by Mathy &amp; Fran, that sees the LA duo getting up to daily routines: smoothies, cycling, gym and tennis&nbsp;for Bethany; lying down on the tennis court&nbsp;eating burgers for&nbsp;Bobb.The video gets to the heart of the serene tone of the song, with the British directing team&#39;s usual easy-on-the-eye art direction,&nbsp;conveying&nbsp;a feeling of suburban routine in which some days shine a little brighter than others...And here&#39;s something new - the video has premiered on the brand new behemoth&nbsp;on the block,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apple.com/music/" target="_blank">Apple Music</a>.&nbsp;

Hannah Clark

Walter Pictures

Lia Mayer Sommer

Targa Sahyoun

Las Bandas Be Brave

Ruth Du

Edgar Rosa

Nathan Perry-Greene

Cut & Run

Dan Moran

Smoke &amp; Mirrors

Frank Mobilio

Steve Doyle

Jeff Keith

Chris Galdamez

Joel Beezman

Marissa Peden

Marie Mingoia

Melissa

Sam Donahue

Best Coast 'Feeling Ok' by Mathy & Fran

Mathy Tremewan and Fran Broadhurst - aka Mathy &amp; Fran - are a directing duo (and real couple) who&#39;s captivating, sophisticated visuals have graced videos for the likes of Anna Calvi, Russ Chimes, Bipolar Sunshine, Kodaline and, recently,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/05/05/east-india-youth-beaming-white-mathy-fran">East India Youth</a>&nbsp;- their darkest video yet. As his surname suggests, Matty&nbsp;comes from Cornwall, while Fran&nbsp;hails from Cambridge. They now live in Hackney, East London. So we sent them the Questionnaire to find out just how cool they really are...&nbsp;Education:&nbsp;​Mathy: Fran and I both studied Film in Southampton, which is where we met.&nbsp; Fran: Yep - Southampton is where creativity and love blossomed. Though I&rsquo;m also proud of my City &amp; Guilds in Experimental Mark Making.. very grateful my parents never tried to make me more academic. &nbsp;Previous occupations:&nbsp;M:&nbsp;&nbsp;Teaching assistant, record shop employee. F: Cleaner&hellip; I know my way around a floor buffer. &nbsp;Also worked in a theatre, spent a few years in script development at Working Title and was a Director&rsquo;s Assistant on a feature.Favourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;M: Hiro Murai&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/10/03/flying-lotus-ft-kendrick-lamar-never-catch-me-hiro-murai" target="_blank">Never Catch Me for Flying Lotus</a>&nbsp;is quite something. Biased as I&rsquo;m a bit obsessed with the record, but HARRYS&rsquo; new one for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/05/12/toro-y-moi-lilly-harrys" target="_blank">Toro y Moi&#39;s Lilly</a> is proving very enjoyable.&nbsp; F: I loved <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie6plcFQ330" target="_blank">Warpaint - Disco//Very</a><blockquote>Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;Mathy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q" target="_blank">The Replacements - Bastards of Young</a>.&nbsp;Fran: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yrlw8FuJko" target="_blank">God Lives Underwater - From Your Mouth</a>, though I could also watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv644ipg2Ss" target="_blank">Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend</a> on an endless loop.</blockquote>Favourite publications/websites:&nbsp;M: Currently really enjoying a tumblr called Hardcore Architecture. F: Booooooom!, It&#39;s Nice That, various photography blogs.Favourite food/restaurant:&nbsp;M: Any food that comes with a bottle of hot sauce. &nbsp;I also feel like I&rsquo;ve pretty much existed on houmous and pitta bread my entire adult life - if venturing out for a flatbread fix then maybe Mangal 2 on Stoke Newington Road. F: Rasa on Church Street... and I&#39;ve just discovered coconut yoghurt.Favourite drink/drug:&nbsp;M: Black coffee and the TV show Columbo are definitely my strongest addictions. F: Coke (diet) and vitamin B12.Last movie you saw (and was it any good)?&nbsp;M: Montage of Heck &ndash; mixed emotions F: The all too honest answer is Idle Hands - it&rsquo;s terrible, but came from watching Beyond Clueless, which is&nbsp;infinitely better.Favourite directors:&nbsp;M: Gus Van Sant, Robert Bresson, Mike Mills, Lucas Moodysson, Wim Wenders, Hal Hartley, Spike Jonze.&nbsp; F: I&#39;ll watch anything by Yorgos Lanthimos,&nbsp;Céline Sciamma,&nbsp;Lucas Moodysson and Sofia Coppola. &nbsp;For music vids then Fleur &amp; Manu,&nbsp;Hiro Murai,&nbsp;Martin De Thurah.Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?&nbsp;M&amp;F: Sleater Kinney at the Roundhouse. Tremendous.Favourite bands/artists:&nbsp;M: All time faves - Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, Galaxie 500, Electrelane. Currently listening to Panda Bear, Merchandise, Waxahatchee, Mikal Cronin.&nbsp; F: Currently loving the new Toro y Moi and Panda Bear albums. &nbsp;Just ran a half marathon with a playlist that ranged from Little Mix to Pantera.Currently reading/favourite book:&nbsp;M: I&rsquo;ve just started reading The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black. As for a favourite, I&rsquo;ll go with pictures and choose William Eggleston&rsquo;s Guide.&nbsp; F: A Modern Way To Eat - brilliant vegetarian cook book I got for my birthday. I could spend a long time discussing the intricacies of buckwheat.What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job?&nbsp;M: Chopping a cucumber on screen in a video a friend of ours made &ndash; I&rsquo;m not sure it ever got released so my knife skills are sadly not on show to the world.&nbsp; F: Mine was a self-directed, produced and edited number for my Art GNVQ. &nbsp;I cast myself as the Lady of Shalott, wore my mum&rsquo;s old wedding dress and went off to jump in a lot of dirty rivers. &nbsp;It got a distinction. &nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;Favourite job of the past 12 months? M&amp;F: Seeing how many people we could fit into a BMW for East India Youth.&quot;</blockquote>What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?&nbsp;M&amp;F: Writing our first feature. If not big at least relatively long!What would most improve your life?&nbsp;M: A technocrane.&nbsp;F: A better memory.Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?&nbsp;M: Sitting in the boot of a Volvo listening to actress Jessica Raine sing along to Kurt Vile.&nbsp; F: Working with Anna Calvi.Worst moment?&nbsp;M&amp;F: Sheep herding mid-shoot to stop a hundred sheep falling off a cliff edge.Biggest frustration?&nbsp;M: The abandoned ships.&nbsp; F: Too many cooks.What&rsquo;s the big issue or issues facing music video makers right now?&nbsp;M: Uncertainty.&nbsp;<blockquote>Fran: The big issue is directors keeping ownership of their work, and surviving when more is increasingly being asked for less. &nbsp;</blockquote>Person you most admire?&nbsp;M: Fran!&nbsp; F: Mathy is the most brilliant person I know. &nbsp;And anyone who refuses to have a Plan B.​What advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production?&nbsp;M: Surround yourself with people you love and admire.&nbsp; F: Work with people you can learn from. &nbsp;Don&#39;t be afraid of what you don&#39;t know. And be kind.Any hot tips on who will be the future stars in music video in the next couple of years &ndash; directors or otherwise?&nbsp;M&amp;F: The awesome production company we&rsquo;re working with - My Accomplice.

The Questionnaire: Mathy & Fran

Linear shapes and tangled bodies populate the&nbsp;new East India Youth video for Beaming White&nbsp;directed by Mathy &amp; Fran. Photographically, the video is&nbsp;sleek and polished enough to sell cars,&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;the highly photogenic William Doyle, cast as a driver caught in a somewhat&nbsp;austere,&nbsp;directional light.The video retains a mystifying quality as anonymous figures and human limbs begin to occupy the vehicle, kept in somewhat uncanny, puzzling&nbsp;darkness before revealing themselves to us.&nbsp;

Chanse Fyffe

Afzal Robbani

Jack Wilkinson

Ryan Parkins

Guillermo Cheer

Stefan Mitchell

Victoria Reynolds

Smoke & Mirrors

Andrew Salem

Phil Lee

XL Recordings

Colette Little

Emmet Cahill

Alternative

East India Youth 'Beaming White' by Mathy & Fran

East-India-Youth-'Beaming-White'-by-Mathy-&-Fran

Mathy &amp; Fran bring us the Bible of Being Young, and a trawl through some iconic youth fashion of the past for pop princess Florrie&#39;s earwormy Too Young To Remember.Fun and colourful&nbsp;- with styling by Grace Snell &ndash;&nbsp;and delivered in 80s-friendly&nbsp;4:3 ratio,&nbsp;it&nbsp;not only comes supported by retail colossus H&amp;M &ndash; it&#39;s&nbsp;very M&amp;F.&nbsp;

Tina Pawlik

Leanne Stott

George Nelson

Alex Edyvean

Clementine Keith-Roach

Grace Snell

Craig Marsden

Kate Lindsey

Elizabeth Doonan

Florrie 'Too Young To Remember' by Mathy & Fran

Florrie-'Too-Young-To-Remember'-by-Mathy&fran

Mathy and Fran take the staccato soundtrack of Best Thing and interpret the lyric with a variety of signals including semaphore, smoke, hand movements&nbsp;and dance&nbsp;in their promo for London trio We Were Evergreen.&nbsp;

Harvey Ascott

Jake Scott

Chris Belcher

Ahmet Husseyin

Llewelyn Harrison

Aaron Walters

Nick Leishman

Holly Blakey

Sets Appeal

Charmaine Parram

Claire McGonigal

Final Cut

Matt Osborne

The Mill

Lucky Cat

Island Records

Natalia Maus

Electro

We Were Evergreen 'Best Thing' by Mathy & Fran

Mathy &amp; Fran&#39;s minimal staging in their delicious promo for the alt-pop of Piece By Piece by Anna Calvi, forces the viewer to focus&nbsp;entirely on Anna&#39;s very cool&nbsp;and maverick performance - with only a colour-changing backdrop for company...

Tom Allen

Craig Bilham

Fric Lopez

Craig Davis

Phil Penfold

Barry Keegan

Steve Daly

Sam MacLaren

Natasha Laws

Lauren Grant

Amy Holland

Domino

Nathan James Tettey

Alt-Pop

Anna Calvi 'Piece By Piece' by Mathy & Fran

Anna Calvi - Piece By Piece (Official Video)

From the start of Mathy &amp; Fran&#39;s video for Dan Croll&#39;s From Nowhere its clear that we&#39;re about to witness some kind of competition - but what is it?That initial&nbsp;mystery is just one of the good things about this charming piece, which has a premise that will resonate with anyone who spent much time&nbsp;in a school playground.It&#39;s also a very good vehicle for the up and coming singer-songwriter, presenting him&nbsp;as something of a cool geek who&#39;s not to be messed with. And as with a few of their other vids, the directing duo also populate the video with a group of attractive but distinctive extras, as Dan&#39;s competition.And although it&#39;s not an interactive video, it&nbsp;also invites the viewer to also get involved. Well,&nbsp;how long can you watch it without blinking..?&nbsp;

Phil Tidy

Squire

Alex Paterakis

Peter Mason

Colin Thwaites

Hannah Glossop

Ben Harrex

Rushes

Cynthia Lole

Universal

Dan Croll 'From Nowhere' by Mathy & Fran

Kodaline singer Steve Garrigan surveys a debris-strewn hall following the band&#39;s gig&nbsp;in Mathy &amp; Fran&#39;s promo for new single One Day.The directing duo employ a &#39;reverse narrative&#39; commencing with the deserted venue, going backwards in time through to the actual gig, complimenting the pensive, driving soundtrack...

Jonas Mortensen

Sony Music

Dan Millar

Fran Weston

Barney Coates

Richard Cornelius

Dale Slater

Jonathan Spencer

Lesley Vye

Chris Preston

Villing Chong

Matthew McKinnon

Kodaline 'One Day' by Mathy & Fran

Kodaline - One Day

Manchester singer Adio Marchant - aka Bipolar Sunshine - &nbsp;and model Jessie Dunne perform in front of square screens out in open landscapes, in Mathy &amp; Fran&#39;s serenely atmospheric promo for ambient ballad Love More Worry Less.

Mrs Grey

Josh Thomas

Nic Booth

Jessie Dunne

Polydor

Emily Tedrake

Arthur Graham-Maw

Toby Tomkins

Emanate Studios

Soul

Bipolar Sunshine 'Love More Worry Less' by Mathy & Fran

Bipolar Sunshine - Love More Worry Less

After their excellent video for Russ Chimes&#39; Turn Me Out, Mathy &amp; Fran apply their fresh, quirky visual wit to another surging summer dance anthem: Mausi&#39;s Move &ndash; which the directing duo shot in the dance duo&#39;s home in northern Italy.

Park Village

Joe Walker

Jacopo Miceli

Mausi 'Move' by Mathy & Fran

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