Director

Miles Jay

The second of Natalie Rae&#39;s new videos for Leon Bridges has the soul singer visiting a series of ordinary folk in their home, like a silent witness to their daily trials and tribulations. But he also seems to be searching for something.The song Bet Ain&#39;t Worth The Hand&nbsp;is based on Bridges&rsquo; experiences of growing up and having trouble standing on solid ground. Regarding the video, Rae has said: &ldquo;People may think that he&rsquo;s searching for something physical, but what he&rsquo;s actually looking for is the last time he felt a human connection to someone.&rdquo;The film&rsquo;s grading by MPC&rsquo;s Ricky Gausis accentuates this emotional sentiment. &ldquo;In the beginning shot, Leon elevates into his own mind and encounters all of these different heart-breaking scenarios,&quot; Gausis explains. &quot;We wanted something more stylized for this first shot and more natural for the remaining shots, to disconnect the two worlds and to emphasize the transition.&quot;&nbsp;

Natalie Rae

Zachary Luke Kislevitz

Sanctuary Content

Preston Lee

Steve Annis

Sam Ostrove

Cabin Editing Company

Ricky Gausis

Saul Levitz

Leon Bridges 'Bet Ain't Worth The Hand' by Natalie Rae

Leon-Bridges-'Bet-Ain't-Worth-The-Hand'-by-Natalie-Rae

The first of two videos for Leon Bridges directed by Natalie Rae, creative directed by Miles Jay and shot by Steve Annis, Bad Bad News&#39; stars model-of-the-moment Paloma Elsesser, who is catcalled by a stranger on her way home, and is determined to strike back.Elsesser decides to follow and confront the stranger, busting out some dance moves along the way, her story unfolding on the streets of New York. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, Leon Bridges performs&nbsp;Bad Bad News with his band in a rehearsal space.Rae&#39;s concept for the video wass based on Bridges&rsquo; lyrics for Bad Bad News. &ldquo;I wanted to complement and bring to life his ideas,&quot; she says. &quot;In this case we showed how Paloma&rsquo;s story, being catcalled and rising up against the harassment would work well for the song&rsquo;s message. Women are really turning bad news into something good. Leon loved the idea of propelling the momentum of this movement.&rdquo;Steve Annis&#39;s photography was graded by Ricky Gausis at MPC in LA.&nbsp;&ldquo;The shots captured reality in a beautiful, raw way which allowed Paloma and Leon to dance freely and really be in the moment,&quot; says Rae. &quot;Ricky&rsquo;s grading heightened the shots - the red of Paloma&rsquo;s trench coat was enhanced to make it even more vivid and beautiful; the underpass was made even darker and grittier.&rdquo;Gausis says he was keen to enhance the simplicity of the shots. &ldquo;I wanted to make it so that the images looked like they&rsquo;d been loved, but nothing too crazy or heavy. I also wanted to enhance the grainy and dirty element of the locations, for example, accentuating the starkness of the underpass.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Leon Bridges 'Bad Bad News' by Natalie Rae

Leon-Bridges-'Bad-Bad-News'-by-Natalie-Rae

Smuggler director Miles Jay presents a moving short film for JAY-Z&rsquo;s latest &ldquo;Smile&rdquo;. Written by Miles, the video is a visually magnificent piece inspired by the emotional experiences of Gloria Carter, JAY-Z&rsquo;s mother.Set in Brooklyn in the 1970s, the video explores Gloria living in the shadows as she is forced to hide her homosexuality. We see her flourishing relationship with her female neighbour, which develops into a budding sexuality that can never be realised. Backgrounded by the social and economic pressures of the time, the two women sacrifice living their truths for the betterment of their children.A young Shawn Carter witnesses the vulnerability in his mother for the first time and through her pain learns to smile through adversity. JAY-Z&rsquo;s lyricism concludes with a poem written by Gloria in which she unveils her homosexuality for the first time, revealing the insight of her experience.Smile&nbsp;is a special and personal film, rendered compassionately by Miles Jay and expertly photographed by Stuart Winecoff.

Saul Germaine

SMUGGLER

Allison Kunzman

Stuart Winecoff

Akin Mackenzie

Ben Jordan

Work Editorial

Mike Howell

Color Collective

Blacksmith

OB Management

Reprobates

Kevin Kloecker

Jay-Z ft. Gloria Carter 'Smile' by Miles Jay

This powerful&nbsp;video for&nbsp;R&amp;B artist and&nbsp;singer-songwriter&nbsp;Leon Bridges&#39;s River, was inspired by real events, and although a sombre affair,&nbsp;Bridges&#39;&nbsp;intention to&nbsp;send a message of hope, as well as&nbsp;raise&nbsp;questions, has been fully achieved through the sensitive, cinematic direction of Miles Jay.Filmed on location in Baltimore, the video draws heavily from the Baltimore Uprising and includes an extended candelit&nbsp;vigil scene,&nbsp;attended by&nbsp;members of the West Wednesday movement. Created by the family of Tyrone West,&nbsp;who died while in custody of the Baltimore police department in 2013,&nbsp;West Wednesday has become the&nbsp;bedrock of the Baltimore protest movement.The video also features footage captured on a television screen of teenager Allen Bullock striking the windshield of a car with a traffic cone,&nbsp;which has come to be viewed as one of the most iconic images from the Baltimore Uprising.

United States

Dennis Beier

Chayse Irvin

Tom Poole

Gospel

Singer-songwriter

Folk

Leon Bridges 'River' by Miles Jay

Leon Bridges - River

The Facebook connect music video celebrates 'relationships and memories'. The interactive experience begins after a viewer connects to Facebook and gives the app permission to access their personal information. From there the app requests the name of the viewer's best friend the app then pulls mutually tagged photos of you and your chosen friend and incorporates your relationship into the music video. 
"My goal is to inspire the user on how special their friendships and memories are," explains Miles Jay. "With pulling photos and information from Facebook, I believe you can make a stronger emotional connection than with a traditional music video."

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