Director

Matt Lambert

Two families come together to celebrate the christening of its newest member, in&nbsp;Hannah Rosselin's brilliant promo for Mykki Blanco.&nbsp;Representing an amalgamation of Blanco's dreams of a successful personal and professional life, the video celebrates the idea of family and togetherness - an increasingly poignant theme given our last year of isolation.&nbsp;Sometimes hectic, at times completely absurd&nbsp;- with a matriarchal figure emptying her bladder on the street as the opening image - the video's main focus is on the freedom to be unabashedly ourselves.&nbsp;Shot in Paris, DoP&nbsp;Cesar Decharme leans in to the concept's celebratory energy, using handheld camerawork and clever transitions to match the magical vibes.&nbsp;

France

Hannah Rosselin

Lola Burelle

Division

Jules de Chateleux

Cesar Decharme

Tianès Montasser

Arthur Paux

Transgressive

Hip Hop

Mykki Blanco  'Free Ride' by Hannah Rosselin

Mykki-Blanco--'Free-Ride'-by-Hannah-Rosselin

Matt Lambert and Evvol frontwoman Julie Chance co-direct a lo-fi, doc-style visual for the Berlin-based dark synth pop duo's Speedboat.&nbsp;Falling somewhere&nbsp;between a YouTube sketch and Vice documentary, the off-the-hip shooting style matches the eccentric performance.&nbsp;'High Intensity Dyke’ roams the streets of Berlin, beckoning to her locked-down brood and spreading her sexual sutra to awaken then from their slumber…"As queer women often our sexuality is presented through a male gaze or in dramatic context — one that’s serious or heartbreaking," comment Evvol. "This was a moment for us just to enjoy being irreverent and playful with our sexual energy, particularly as spring was emerging and lockdown restrictions were easing."This is us taking control of our own narrative and is in itself a political act. This film is an escapist moment of relief from the turbulent moment we’re all in together."

Germany

Julie Chance

Jannis Birsner

Vitium

Larissa Bechthold

Andi Pek

Alternative

Experimental Pop

Evvol 'Speedboat' by Julie Chance + Matt Lambert

Evvol-'Speedboat'-by-Julie-Chance-+-Matt-Lambert

Berlin based singer-songwriter Finn Ronsdorf explores love, loneliness and isolation in Matt Lambert's video for Blue.&nbsp;Shot entirely in one room on an old VHS camera (or is it Hi8?), the environment and wardrobe are washed in a muted blue colour, a suitably cold and detached palette that embodies the themes of the track.&nbsp;Ronsdorf's performance is intimate and raw. Away from the public eye, locked in a bedroom shooting a spontaneous concept, the artist is able to show himself at his most authentic. The DIY vibes are inspired and very timely, and Lambert ensures that the emotion and heart of the track punch&nbsp;through visually.&nbsp;

Alternative, Singer-songwriter

Finn Ronsdorf  'Blue' by Matt Lambert

Finn-Ronsdorf--'Blue'-by-Matt-Lambert

The first of two videos for Anna Calvi by Matt Lambert for her eponymously-titled&nbsp;new album&nbsp;is a sensitive exploration of self-love and strength in solitude, from a queer perspective.&nbsp;Visually restrained, and undeniably sexy, one of Lambert&#39;s more mainstream&nbsp;explorations into LGBTQ sexuality is a beautiful piece of work, superbly photographed by&nbsp;Cezary Zacharewicz, for Calvi&#39;s outstanding Hunter.

Hugo Marcel

Prettybird

Iconoclast

Juliette Larthe

Hannah May

Nils Schwemer

Cezary Zacharewicz

Judy Landkammer

Anna Calvi 'Hunter' by Matt Lambert

Anna Calvi - Hunter (Official Video) (Explicit)

Matt Lambert&#39;s video for Christeene&#39;s Butt Muscle&nbsp;is an incredible, relentless and absolutely NSFW celebration of sexuality.Featuring fashion designer Rick Owens on the receiving end of a golden shower, a set covered in all kinds of fluids, creative sex toys, plenty of naked flesh and the hint of penetration, this clip doesn&#39;t stop to consider the limits of taste and decency and my god, it&#39;s all the better for it.A celebration of queer bodies, sexuality and hedonism, it&#39;s easy to forget amongst all the onscreen action that this video actually looks incredible. The amazing high-contrast black and white does something to the scene that colour wouldn&#39;t achieve, and there are some shots in here that are so artfully composed, it&#39;s beguiling.&nbsp;

Rich Aybar

Charlie Le Mindu

Inge Grognard

Rob Myers

Mathieu Caplanne

Nightshift

Nightshift, Arri Mitte

Christeene 'Butt Muscle' by Matt Lambert 

Christeene-'Butt-Muscle'-by-Matt-Lambert-

Singer Olly Alexander, director Matt Lambert and choreographer Ryan Heffington get together to make a bold statement for Alexander&#39;s band Years &amp; Years, channelling elements of&nbsp;Queer cinema into the mainstream for&nbsp;the video for Worship.Olly Alexander says: &quot;I couldn&#39;t have been more excited and grateful to work with two artists I massively respect, Matt Lambert and Ryan Heffington. Their super-charged magical queer creative energy was a real privilege to be a part of. This video is a collaboration between us and I am very proud of it.&quot;I want to stare down fear and intolerance with the queer eyes in my queer face. I want to try to not be afraid. I know I&#39;ll make mistakes, but I want to keep going. I&#39;ve seen the incredible amount of support and love from our fans and I&rsquo;ve learnt a lot from them. I can only hope that the dialogue continues and we trust each other enough to carry on. To keep making people sit up and think, to start the conversations that tackle identity, gender, gayness, queerness and the inter-sections between them all. I know that I&rsquo;m not going to be quiet about it.&quot;

United Kingdom

Bryony James

Steve Annis

Eira Wyn Jones

Matt Farrant

Rik Burnell

David White

Coline Bach

Ben Talbott

Elaine Lynsksey

Jamie O'Donnell

Jamie Cox

Laura Thomas-Smith

Ella Knight

Neil Blakesley

Thomas English

Chris Belcher

Von Adams

Daniel Sallstrom

Cut+Run

Emily Tedrake

Polydor

Houmam Abdallah

Electric Theatre Collective

James Cobbold

750MPH

Years & Years 'Worship' by Matt Lambert

Years-&-Years-'Worship'-by-Matt-Lambert

Mykki Blanco and Matt Lambert deliver an intensely powerful Shakespearean statement of intent - complete with sex, death and politics.&nbsp;Filmed in rural Germany - and photographed by Martin Ruhe (Control, Harry Brown) &ndash;&nbsp;this seven and a half minute mini-epic tells a years-spanning story of the decline of Europe into a &#39;Left Vs Right&#39; dystopia. Like all things, it isn&#39;t quite as easy as that - the world of this narrative is full of complex characters who can be seen to believe one thing whilst acting differently in private. It&#39;s a cinematic love story that&#39;s brimming with hate (or possibly a hate story with flashes of love).Its power is in Blanco&#39;s role within this film: one that challenges the wider world&#39;s views of race and sexuality, and posits very directly that in 2016 this shouldn&#39;t still be an issue.&quot;To me the film is nothing more than a story of love and hate,&quot; says Matt Lambert.&nbsp;&quot;It&#39;s a love story wrapped in the cyclical nature of conflict that humans seem to thrive on. It&#39;s a story of the moral relativity and polarizing forces of humanism and a simultaneous misanthropy that seems to live in all of us.&quot;Mykki Blanco has added: &quot;though The Mykki of &quot;High School Never Ends&rsquo; is a character, it is the closest to who I actually am and I felt a trust in Matt Lambert to portray this.&nbsp;I have been living in Europe off and on since 2012 when my career began because audiences seem to accept and acknowledge my creative work there on a larger scale&hellip; I&#39;m saying this because I&#39;ve seen Europe change, I have seen the surface of acceptance and the novelty of my brown skin become a frown in a public square, a belligerent rant in grocery store with a cashier telling me to &#39;go back to my own country&#39;&hellip;&quot;This story is about outsiders, forbidden love... when the Far Left &amp; the Far Right are willing to go to any extreme to prevail in their truth.&rdquo;

Joseph Patel

Robert Semmer

Alexander Geppert

Martin Ruhe

Elena Lustig Bromund

Larissa Bechtold

Marie Patzer

Julia Dobler

Arri Mitte

Bastian Schreitling

Kadir Alkan

Dennis Beckman

Mykki Blanco ft Woodkid 'High School Never Ends' by Matt Lambert

Mykki Blanco - "High School Never Ends" (ft. Woodkid) (Official Music Video)

Matt Lambert&#39;s lovely docu-video&nbsp;piece for Declan McKenna&#39;s&nbsp;Paracetamol&nbsp;offers up&nbsp;an intimate glimpse into&nbsp;the lives and emotional&nbsp;struggles for acceptance&nbsp;of two best friends on the LGBT&nbsp;spectrum, one trans boy, the other a gay young man.It&#39;s a simple and&nbsp;emotional work which feels profoundly modern, with handheld vlog-style footage from the cast as&nbsp;natural chemistry plays out between them. It&#39;s a perfect visual addition to the song, which the teenage singer-songwriter Declan&nbsp;McKenna wrote as a reaction to the&nbsp;tragic suicide of American transgender teen Leelah Alcorn.

United States

Hannah Bellil

Tara St Hill

Gabi Norland

Ines da Costa Duarte

Josie Williams

Ewan Macfarlane

Cassandra Rutledge

Sally Finnigan

David Glass

Sally Cooper

Cut & Run

Jason Wallis

Poppy Pierce

Indie, singer-songwriter

Declan McKenna 'Paracetamol' by Matt Lambert

Declan McKenna - Paracetamol (Official Video)

Our latest Questionnaire victim&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/profiles/matt-lambert" target="_blank">Matt Lambert</a> is a prolific&nbsp;filmmaker and photographer currently based in Berlin (&quot;By way of LA, NYC and London&quot;), whose work includes videos for Patrick Wolf and Austra, and several shorts chronicling the lifestyles of fast-living Berlin youth. He&#39;s currently working on on a TV series about relationships and sexuality among young people, in collaboration with Dazed, Iconoclast and a major TV network. And he&#39;s head of video for London-based, multidisciplinary art collective,&nbsp;Bare Bones.&nbsp;But with all that going on,&nbsp;Matt still&nbsp;found time to submit to our&nbsp;Questionnaire...&nbsp;&nbsp;Education:&nbsp;Art (Graphic Design and Animation)Previous occupations:&nbsp;Waiter, graphic designer and a few unmentionables&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;Favourite music video of the past 12 months?:&nbsp;AG Rojas&#39; video for Portugal. The Man&#39;s&nbsp;Modern Jesus&nbsp;is up there on the list.Favourite video of all time?:&nbsp;Patrick Daughters&#39; video for Depeche Mode&#39;s Wrong&nbsp;is definitely in the Top 5.Favourite publications/websites:&nbsp;032c, Dazed, Visionaire, Tissue, Purple, Flaneur, BUTTFavourite food/restaurant:&nbsp;Sushi &amp; MexicanFavourite drink/drug:&nbsp;WineLast movie you saw (and was it any good)?:&nbsp;Something Must Break - beautiful, sexy and honestFavourite directors:&nbsp;Just a few: Michael Haneke, Greg Araki, Larry Clark, LaBruce, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Lang, Guy Maddin, Xavier Dolan&hellip;Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?:&nbsp;Hercules and Love Affair - loved it!&nbsp;Favourite bands/artists:&nbsp;Hard to say, but right now listening to a lot of NYC kids:&nbsp;Cakes da Killa, Le1f, Mykki Blanco, Junglepussy&hellip;&nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;Advice? .... I&#39;d say&nbsp;be passionate about music or don&#39;t bother. Then find a band you LOVE and try to reach out to them directly...&quot;</blockquote>Currently reading/favourite book:&nbsp;Right now starting to read &#39;Food Chain&#39; by Slava Mogutin, and &#39;Suiciders&#39; by Travis Jeppessen.What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job?:&nbsp;PA on a video for The Hunns, featuring Duane Peters.Favourite job of the past 12 months:&nbsp;Austra &#39;Habitat&#39;, Westernhagen &#39;Alphatier Trilogie&#39;, MEAT and my editorials for HEADMASTER and Flaneur.What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?:&nbsp;A TV show and a photography bookWhat would most improve your life?:&nbsp;Funding&nbsp;Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?:&nbsp;A few highlights were the production of &#39;Heile Gänjse&#39;, shooting with Bruce LaBruce, the work and exhibitions I did with Bare Bones and probably half of the photo shoots I&#39;ve done since living in Berlin.&nbsp;Worst moment?:&nbsp;The three months spent directing a commercial for a major US bankBiggest frustration?:&nbsp;A lack of trust and an inability to see past the surface of my workPerson you most admire? I&#39;m&nbsp;in post on a music video for Hercules and Love Affair now. Juliana Huxtable is featured, and I&#39;m&nbsp;pretty into her at the moment. Also pretty excited when I get to spend time with David Wilson, Aaron Brown of Focus Creeps, Lucy McCrae, Geoff Lillemon, Gio Black Peter, The Bare Bones crew, AG Rojas, Brian Lee Hughes and other friends who keep me inspired.&nbsp;Your favourite (or most overused) phrase?:&nbsp;Right now - Faggot and CuntWhat advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production?:&nbsp;I&#39;m probably not the best person to ask, but I&#39;d say be passionate about music or don&#39;t bother. Then find a band you LOVE and try to reach out to them directly.&nbsp;Know yourself first and have something to say.&nbsp;

The Questionnaire: Matt Lambert

Matt Lambert&#39;s new video for Austra&#39;s Habitat looks at&nbsp;three parallel love stories on a bleak Saturday night,&nbsp;and explores the fragile and tender moments of anxiety and anticipation that lead up to first intimate contact.&nbsp;It&#39;s&nbsp;a continuation of Lambert&#39;s film and photographic work surrounding youth, love and sexual identity in a post-digital age, beautifully shot by DoP Bobby Shore.&nbsp;And of course there&#39;s nakedness and dancing involved.

Jason Aita

Vision Film Co

Geoff McLean

Christian Tyler

Alex Walti

Bobby Shore

Chris Reilly

Paul Raymond

Bryan Brooks

Zazu Myers

Alana Ka'kia

Carmelle Da Roza

Marcus Badow

MuchFact

Austra 'Habitat' by Matt Lambert

Austra - Habitat (Official Video)

Matt Lambert&#39;s&nbsp;trilogy of films for German rock legend&nbsp;Westernhagen follows the progress of &#39;Alphatier&#39; (Alpha Dog) on his relentless&nbsp;rise, eventually&nbsp;overcoming the father who turned him into a beast.&nbsp;&nbsp;This&nbsp;Oedipal tale is an evolution of Lambert&#39;s past three years of making films following the youth of Berlin, and the first time he&#39;s had the chance to make a film that, due to the huge popularity of Westernhagen,&nbsp;could resonate with a mainstream German audience.&nbsp;As the East of the city is usually favored by younger Berlin-based filmmakers, Matt set this film in West Berlin in an attempt to tell a story that plays with the deep tensions that exists in a city where up to three generations have experienced very different worlds and social moralities.&nbsp;Shooting over three days in Schöneberg, Friedenau and Potsdam Lambert created an 18-minute long epic and also worked with his second unit to create seven other videos, that function as smaller stories parallel to the main narrative. He also combined seasoned actors with ones who&#39;ve never been on screen before, workshopping their roles with the actors&nbsp;over a span of a few weeks.&nbsp;

Corinne Ahrens

Stink Films

Alex Blume

Mathias Schöningh

Facundo Altube

Beda Mulzer

Ewa Cervena

Schnittbar

Ben Spranger, Lea Mornar, Marius Müller-westernhagen

Motor

Rock

Westernhagen 'Die Alphatier Trilogie' by Matt Lambert

Westernhagen-'Die-Alphatier-Trilogie'-by-Matt-Lambert

Matt Lambert directed this video for Patrick Wolf&#39;s The Libertine almost a year ago, and then it sat on the shelf before being premiered last week through Madonna and Steven Klein&#39;s &#39;Art For Freedom&#39; project.&nbsp;&quot;We feared it would be a bit controversial, especially with what&#39;s going on with the gay struggle in Russia and around the world,&quot; says Matt. &quot;However, we felt it was now time!&quot;This film chronicles the last day of two lovers who are willing to risk everything in order to be free. And it&#39;s dedicated to the LGBT community in Russia and around the world.

Terry Hunynh

David Motta, Larissa Bechtold

Friend / White Lodge

Patrick Wolf

Gregg Reese

Patrick Wolf 'The Libertine' by Matt Lambert

Patrick-Wolf-'The-Libertine'-by-Matt-Lambert

Matt Lambert&#39;s promo for Emika&#39;s Centuries is the final installment in his trilogy for the Czech electronica artist following his work on <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2013/05/14/emika-she-beats-by-matt-lambert/" target="blank">She Beats</a> and <a href="http://vimeo.com/61536930"target="_blank">Searching</a>It&#39;s another visually striking video and another maverick performance from Emika. Filmed within a simple, minimalist setting, the promo perfectly echoes the soundtrack - with beautiful, contrasting dark and light sections.

James Birsner

Andrea Pek

Johannes Holweg

Mandy Stadelmann

Kiani Del Valle

Servullo

The Mill

Niamh McGregor

Tom Folwarkow

Emika 'Centuries' by Matt Lambert

Emika 'Centuries'

Matt Lambert directs for Czech electronica artist Emika, bringing some sexual avant-garde ambiguity to her sharp-edged electronica. Matt flicks between a gritty real-world and a hyper-sexual fantasy that&rsquo;s all smoke, coloured lights and topless ladies.
This is the second part of a trilogy that Matt is making with the Ninja Tune-signed artist, following his first for <a href="http://vimeo.com/61536930">Searching</a>, a one-shot vid shot in a very wintry Berlin.

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