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Melina Matsoukas

Queen Bey reclining on top of a patrol car that&#39;s sinking into rising floodwaters is one of the controversial&nbsp;images in her New Orleans-set video for Formation - directed by longtime collaborator Melina. It&#39;s not as incendiary&nbsp;as her Black Panther-referencing performance at the Superbowl the day after the video&#39;s release, but its implicit&nbsp;criticism of the police, together with her wide-ranging celebration of the American black experience, is a Beyoncé-shaped addition to the&nbsp;Black Lives Matter cause.The video also uses footage that was originally shot for the New Orleans&#39; bounce documentary&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/58423297" target="_blank">That B.E.A.T.</a>&nbsp;- which caused a furore in the hours&nbsp;after its release on Saturday (Feb 6th). Then it was cleared up, with Beyoncé&#39;s representatives releasing a statement saying&nbsp;that the footage had been &quot;used with permission and licensed from the owner of the footage,&quot; and the documentary&#39;s makers, including Abteen Bagheri and Chris Black, duly credited.&nbsp;

United States

Nathan Scherrer

Prettybird

Malik Sayeed

Jeff Selis

Bonch

Ethan Tobman

Electric Theatre Collective

Aubrey Woodiwiss

JaQuel Knight

Parkwood Entertainment

Isaac Bauman

Allendra Freeman

Beyoncé 'Formation' by Melina Matsoukas

Formation (Dirty)

http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&amp;v=tg00YEETFzg

Juliette Larthe

Candice Ouaknine

Paul Laufer

Mark Geraghty

Ben Sullivan

Rihanna 'We Found Love' by Melina Matsoukas

Rihanna-'We-Found-Love'-by-Melina-Matsoukas

Following <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/01/04/rihanna-feat-jeezs-hard-by-melina-matsoukas/" target="_blank">Hard</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/02/15/rihanna%E2%80%99s-rude-boy-by-melina-matsoukas/" target="_blank">Rude Boy</a>, Rihanna and Melina rock up another relentlessly sexy, gorgeously shot video with dashes of wit - starting with her 'naked' intro (possibly inspired by Josephine Baker) to her charming impression of Slash (possibly inspired by Slash).
Including appropriate levels of Elvis lipcurl, and some very effective 'shudder' VFX.

Black Dog Films

Jil Hardin

Steele Studios

Rihanna’s Rockstar 101 by Melina Matsoukas

Wow. Beyoncé and Melina do Betty Page, Irving Klaw-style, with a big helping of Mad Men thrown in. 
And there's even time for the Grammys to get a spring clean.

Beyoncé's Why Don't You Love Me by Melina Matsoukas

After the eye-boggling combination of war and sex that was <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/01/04/rihanna-feat-jeezs-hard-by-melina-matsoukas/" target="_blank">Hard</a>, Melina fetishises Rihanna's Elvis-sneer in a myriad of roots-reggae-rock influences for a relentless bit of bump-and-grind twaddle. Consummately done.

Max Malkin

Clark Eddy

Click 3X / Mark Szumski

Rihanna’s Rude Boy by Melina Matsoukas

The second instalment in Rihanna's quest to throw off her tween image is this beautifully shot, rather expensive looking promo for new single Hard. Directed by Melina Matsoukas for Black Dog LA, Matsoukas blends brutality and sexual allure to excellent effect, helped by another knockout performance from Rihanna. 

Watch: <a href="http://bit.ly/8SELVs" target="_blank">here</a>

Steel Studios

Rihanna feat. Jeez's Hard by Melina

It really should start with something like &quot;Inspired by Dougal Wilson&quot;. But here&#39;s Melina doing her stuff with super-flexible Amazon woman Ciara.Great truck, great blue rubber dress, great boots, ridiculously great sky... Ciara obviously wanted that magic thing Melina&#39;s does with Beyoncé. It worked.

Karen Lin

David Checel

Ciara 'Work' by Melina Matsoukas

Melina Matsoukas has directed seriously superior pop videos for the likes of <a href="http://www.rsafilms.com/projects/links/beyonce-diva_alt_vsn.mov">Beyonce</a> and <a href="http://www.rsafilms.com/projects/links/katy%20perry%20-%20thinking%20of%20you.mov">Katy Perry</a> and many more. Now she demonstrates she can also make delightfully witty videos for taboo-busting English pop songs.With footage from The Porter Wagoner Show establishing Lily&#39;s C&amp;W credentials, this really does speak for itself. The girl just ain&#39;t getting no satisfaction. Looking forward to Dolly Parton&#39;s cover version.

Katie Griffiths

EMI Records

Lily Allen 'Not Fair' by Melina Matsoukas

Melina has just directed two videos for Kylie - for In My Arms and this one for Wow, the new European single.
It's Kylie at a sort of space-age LED-heavy fancy dress party, with some familiar visual references. And surely our gal hasn't been quite this Eighties since she was working with Pete Waterman.

Melina Matsoukas

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