Producer

Morgan Clement

Aidan Zamiri takes an iconoclastic leap into new territory, and shows that the stuffy British legal drama is ripe for reinvention in his wonderful video for indie duo Jockstrap.The video for the band's splendid Greatest Hits takes on a familiar story throughout&nbsp;pop and rock history, when fame and success leads to in-fighting, legal wrangling, and ends up in court in a blaze of publicity.&nbsp;The genius&nbsp;of the video is how Zamiri gives this story a properly rock 'n roll treatment.Princess Julia - DJ, writer,&nbsp;"beloved mother of London’s underground" (The Gentlewoman), whose first video appearance was in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI" target="_blank">Visage's Fade To Grey</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;and actor John Foley are superbly cast as&nbsp;the feuding rock couple at the centre of the story, around whom a courtroom epic plays out,&nbsp;delivered through the prism of a lo-fi, trashy, surreal&nbsp;version of&nbsp;Court TV.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;As a continuous scrolling news tickertape relays details of the somewhat incomprehensible legal&nbsp;case, witnesses arrive and testify and legal&nbsp;officials of the courtroom&nbsp;mouth lyrics of the song. And the portrait by the courtroom artist bursts into full&nbsp;animation.With an unfeasibly large cast of characters and cameos - including Don Letts as a witness and Jamie xx on a legal team - this is&nbsp;a satire on fame and media frenzy that&nbsp;hits the mark without ever losing&nbsp;its sense of fun or cool.In fact, in our judgement, it's supercool.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Aidan Zamiri

Ella Woollgar

Object & Animal

Sofia Wilkinson-Steel

Rose Lucas

Jake Hunter

Saskia Dixie

Connor Adam

Louis Simonon

Hamish Wirgman

Benjamin David

Grace Sinnott

Lucy Wei

Alex Poles

Jack Foster

Pundersons Gardens

John O’Riordan

Rough Trade Records

Princess Julia

John Foley

Jockstrap 'Greatest Hits' by Aidan Zamiri

Jockstrap - ‘Greatest Hits’ (Official Video)

Aidan Zamiri and&nbsp;Yuma Burgess co-direct the mesmerising visual for FKA Twigs' latest release.&nbsp;In the video, we see the artist perform in front of camera, as the image is perpetually distorted and warped through an AI algorithm, making full use of Burgess' speciality as a visual artist.&nbsp;The resulting effect is a trip head-first into the uncanny valley, as different details of Twigs' face and body distort into something otherworldly and surreal, creating a haunting yet strangely engrossing effect.&nbsp;

Stefania Lucchesi

Matthew Josephs

Yuma Burgess

Tom O'Driscoll

Kash Powell

Rio Sreedharan

FKA Twigs 'Pamplemousse' by Aidan Zamiri, Yuma Burgess

FKA twigs - pamplemousse

Shygirl heralds the release of her debut album Nymph with a delicious slice of steamy suggestiveness, directed by Diane Kunst.Blane Muise aka Shygirl finds herself playing out various erotic fantasies with her ideal man in a lakeside cabin for Shlut, with Kunst establishing the atmosphere through the setting, art direction and Maximilian Pittner's marvellous cinematography - and most of all the inimitable presence of Shy herself.And this is the censored version...&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Affa Osman

Nell Kalonji

Diana Kunst

Ludwig Ljung

Pine

Maximilian Pittner

Adam Holmstrom

Joel Rostmark

Pol Agustí

Virginie Moreira

Luz Giraldo

Dance

Hip Hop

Shygirl 'Shlut' by Diana Kunst

Shygirl - Shlut (Official Video) [Censored]

Aidan Zamiri directs a brilliantly offbeat promo for&nbsp;Obongjayar.Stepping into the middle of a pitch black studio, with an expectant audience watching on, we see the artist flex his muscles and nod his head to the beat, as each of his biceps reveal a set of lips.&nbsp;The surreal vision of displaced, lip-syncing&nbsp;body parts proves too much to handle for most of the audience, as they each walk off apathetically, later recalling the event and questioning what it means. But one girl falls in love, and spends the rest of the video embraced with him.&nbsp;We've come to expect a certain surreality from Zamiri, and this video amps it all the way up, whilst retaining a sense of reflective poignancy which contrasts the absurdity of the concept.&nbsp;

Ruth Wardell

Prudence Ainslie

Oliver Craig

Steve Morgan

Ezana Ove

Okay Studio

Obongjayar 'Sugar' by Aidan Zamiri

Obongjayar - Sugar

Aidan Zamiri directs a fabulous lo-fi romp for Swedish rapper Yung Lean and FKA twigs.&nbsp;The video for Bliss sees twigs waiting to be picked up for the prom by Lean - messaging him on Microsoft Excel in true <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc">Nelly &amp; Kelly fashion</a>&nbsp;- and eventually going on a very British, very lo-fi journey through suburbia.[imgtoken data:1]There's a horse, a car with chandeliers attached to the front and a frantic older woman chauffeuring them around... and that's all in the first few moments.&nbsp;In true twigs fashion, it's off-the-wall but surprisingly fluid, and&nbsp;plays to Zamiri's Noughties fashion sensibilities. The whole video looks like it was shot on Hi8 - and it's brilliantly edited by Jack Foster and Zamiri.Most importantly, they make a great pairing of contrasting attitudes that entirely rings true for the concept: Lean is playing it cool, and managing to be almost entirely deadpan; while twigs&nbsp;is arguably at her most coquettish.&nbsp;It really is Bliss.[imgtoken data:2]

Louise Collins

James Graley

Simona Pranulyté

Carla Kaempfer

Louis Souvestre

Lauren Reynolds

John O'Riordan

Yung Lean ft FKA twigs 'Bliss' by Aidan Zamiri

Yung-Lean-Ft.-Fka-Twigs-'Bliss'-by-Aidan-Zamiri

It's video number three in Aidan Zamiri's collaboration with FKA twigs for new Caprisongs&nbsp;mixtape - and this time they're joined by featured artist Rema.&nbsp;The promo for Jealousy feels like a mix between 80s/90s video or fashion ad - think <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTGrV58wec" target="_blank">C&amp;C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;and contemporary editorial, and sees twigs joined by a group of dancers in a simple white cyc studio setup. Rema's scenes were&nbsp;shot by a splinter crew in Lagos, and blend seamlessly into the overall concept.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;use of action in the&nbsp;foreground and background adds a new dimension to the minimalist setups, whilst the anachronistic array of outfits creates an&nbsp;ethereal, high-fashion vibe. The careful use of silhouette and patterned light helps to elevate this aesthetic, creating a mesmerising tapestry of images.&nbsp;

Alex Chamberlain

Laura Thomas-Smith

Jeremy Valendar

Tom Schneider

Dave Davis

Trim Editing

Luke Morrison

Electric Theatre Collective

Jeb Hardwick

Bea Sweet

Simone Cummings

Ella Lucia

Rosie-Grace Smith

FKA twigs ft Rema 'Jealousy' by Aidan Zamiri

FKA twigs - jealousy (feat. Rema)

Following up the lo-fi promo for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/01/18/fka-twigs-ride-dragon-aidan-zamiri/74595">Ride The Dragon</a>, Aidan Zamiri and FKA twigs keep up the pace with the next visual for the new Caprisongs mixtape, for Meta Angel.&nbsp;This time around, the narrative plays a much stronger part in the concept, though there is still plenty of abstract imagery to delve into.Twigs stands in the middle of a field, performing on the spot as she looks around, dazed and mesmerised. Her&nbsp;doppelgänger climbs onto a roof, and with razor sharp precision, fires an arrow directly into the other character's heart.&nbsp;The dazzling track accompanies a darkly beautiful visual, which&nbsp;carries over the raw qualities of the artist's last collaboration with Zamiri, but is much more intentional and theatrical in its execution.&nbsp;

Lucy Bradley

Molly Manning Walker

Jack Meredith

Rory Cargill

Max Colt

750MPH

Cinelab Film and Digital

Harry Price

Kodak

FKA twigs 'Meta Angel' by Aidan Zamiri

FKA twigs - meta angel

Aidan Zamiri and FKA twigs embrace&nbsp;the challenges of going guerilla in the arrestingly lo-fi&nbsp;promo for Ride The Dragon.&nbsp;The candid video opens on the steps of&nbsp;Hackney Town Hall in East London, where twigs and her gang of dancers position themselves for a flashmob dance routine - to be captured on a long lens by DoP Molly Manning Walker. But it was never going to be that easy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With echoes of the classic video for Fatboy Slim's Praise You, the performance is interrupted when council staff and&nbsp;security guards act&nbsp;to promptly&nbsp;shut them down and move the girls along - leaving a confused-looking boom-op in their wake.The rest of the video documents how the gang regather at a local corner shop, regaining their zest before&nbsp;returning to complete their challenge, just metres away from the original location - before the heavy mob move in again.&nbsp;It's a far more rough-and-ready, doc-style affair than&nbsp;twigs&nbsp;and Zamiri's&nbsp;previous collaboration on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/08/21/645ar-ft-fka-twigs-sum-bout-u-aidan-zamiri/66212">645AR track Sum Bout You</a>&nbsp;- or indeed any previous twigs video.&nbsp;The first of a series of videos directed by Zamiri for&nbsp;Caprisongs, twigs's&nbsp;newly released mixtape,&nbsp;it&nbsp;also&nbsp;suggests a more spontaneous and impulsive side of the artist that actually adds to her mystique, and directly communicates her fantastic ability as a dancer.&nbsp;

FKA twigs 'Ride The Dragon' by Aidan Zamiri

FKA twigs -  ride the dragon

Hold on to your hats - Amber Grace Johnson has directed a spectacular promo for FKA twigs's collaboration with The Weekend.Pulsating with a riotous energy from the get-go, we see twigs dissolve from a 3D avatar and launch&nbsp;into&nbsp;impassioned choreography with a group of dancers, in a visceral interpretation&nbsp;of the songtitle, Tears In The Club.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;As the lights scintillate, the vignettes morph to&nbsp;sizzling&nbsp;setups on a dentist chair, and pole dancing in an underwater chamber, as Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd watches with an emotional smile. But by the end, it's twigs who has chasing down a miniature Abel, like a cat toying with a mouse.[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;&nbsp;Shot in a breathless&nbsp;hyperreal style, this is twigs in full-on pop video mode, but retaining that sense of raw emotion that is a central hallmark&nbsp;of her body of work.&nbsp;At the same time, it could also be the sexiest&nbsp;twigs video ever - which is saying something.This is twigs's&nbsp;first music video collaboration with&nbsp;Amber Grace Johnson,&nbsp;and evidently they are a heaven-made match. It certainly confirms that this is a director making some of the most exciting and coolest&nbsp;work in pop videos right now.&nbsp;

Amber Grace Johnson

Jeff Kopchia

Emi Stewart

Stuart Winecoff

Spencer Graves

Malcolm Marquez

Kabuki

Shea Hardy

Chiao Chen

Forager

Mikey Rossiter

Matthew Henson

Daronn Carr

Christine Nelli

FKA twigs ft The Weeknd 'Tears In The Club' by Amber Grace Johnson

Fka-Twigs-Ft.-The-Weeknd-'Tears-In-The-Club'-by-Amber-Grace-Johnson

Diana Kunst directs an incredible performance promo for FKA Twigs ft Central Cee.&nbsp;Taken from the soundtrack of upcoming 20th Century Studios film&nbsp;The King's Man&nbsp;- a prequel to the popular&nbsp;Kingsman&nbsp;franchise - the track is a sweeping, Bond-esque epic, with dramatic strings and powerful percussion.The video reflects this sense of drama, interweaving dance, martial arts and slick visual effects,&nbsp;anchored by Twigs' ethereal presence and adeptness at a menagerie of different performance styles.&nbsp;Extravagant and amibitious - just like every Twigs promo - this feels like a perfect balance between the avant garde and mainstream, and is a stunning achievement across the board.&nbsp;

Ben Gill

Vini Curtis

Laia Ateca

Daniel Sallstrom

Carlos Font Clos

Simona Cristea

Coffee & TV

Celeste Kennedy Doig

Alternative

FKA Twigs ft Central Cee 'Measure Of A Man' by Diana Kunst

Fka-Twigs-Ft.-Central-Cee-'Measure-Of-A-Man'-by-Diana-Kunst

Kasper Häggström creates a brilliantly absurd satire for this&nbsp;previously unreleased Radiohead track.​A spectacularly surreal&nbsp;premise is delivered in the Norwegian&nbsp;director's&nbsp;characteristically precise and measured fashion&nbsp;-&nbsp;people in suits are standing in fields, moors and woods - like grazing animals - being rounded-up&nbsp;by a trio of&nbsp;farm hands. And this leaves the viewer plenty of room to ponder the significance&nbsp;and symbolism of&nbsp;they are witnessing.[imgtoken data:1]Ultimately, it turns out that these creatures are being returned to what would be regarded as their natural habitat - a timely comment on the post-lockdown moment and rush back to 'normality'. But by this point you may be sighing with relief.Radiohead have taken Häggström into a darker level of comedy&nbsp;than&nbsp;we have seen in his previous videos, which is a fascinating development. He looks like a very good match for the great alt-rock&nbsp;band.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Kasper Häggström

Daphne Do

Dom Thomas

Joe Mulvihill

Daniel Voldheim

Jason Dully

Joshua Dadson

Von Adams

Fric Lopez

Jim Dowdall

Kate Forbes

Nicola Svensen

Dominic Leung

Harriet Cawley

Bacon Oslo

Eli Sandal

Øystein Dyb

Markus Tangre

Julien Alary

Hammond Cox Casting

Scott Wright

XL Recordings

Indie

Rock

Radiohead 'If You Say The Word' by Kasper Häggström

Radiohead - If You Say The Word

Deto Black shows off her unapologetic energy in&nbsp;Aidan Zamiri's sexually-charged promo for Tesla.&nbsp;Edgy styling and gritty lighting set&nbsp;the pace for the abstract video, which is focused purely on Black's confidently chaotic performance, and unsurprisingly opens in the back of a Tesla.&nbsp;&nbsp;Intimate close-ups are mixed with frenetic, 360 shots of the artist, creating an electric energy and mesmerising viewing experience.&nbsp;

Tom O’Driscoll

Sade Lawson

Jack Green

Jake Gabbay

Jamie-marie Shipton

Jimmy Owen Jones

Anders Mills

Myles Bevan

Times Based Arts

Jonny Boomer

Deto Black 'Tesla' by Aidan Zamiri

Deto-Black-'Tesla'-by-Aidan-Zamiri

A yomp in the country with Tiberius b, courtesy of Saskia Dixie.

Zoë Que

Joshua Collings

Julija Steponaityte

Tiberius b 'Big Deal' by Saskia Dixie

Tiberius b - Big Deal (Official Video)

Having collaborated with Headie One and Fred again.. on her latest release, FKA twigs has collaborated&nbsp;with director Emmanuel Adjei on the magisterial video for Don't Judge Me - a metaphorical exploration of&nbsp;the experience of being Black and British today.This is&nbsp;a double whammy of two distinct sequences that have their own riveting quality, and then weave together towards the greater message. Like most things created by twigs and Adjei - directors who are working together for the first time -&nbsp;they gradually create&nbsp;an indelible&nbsp;impression.[imgtoken data:1]On the one hand, there is twigs herself, sitting in a chair&nbsp;a grand room in a grand English house. But can she escape what reveals itself to be a gilded cage. Before she can get through the door of the room, unseen forces drag her back to the chair. When she negotiates the door, she only gets so far before flying back to her first position once again. It's a continual struggle, which increasingly calls upon angular choreography as well as wirework.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;And then in a mysterious counter-scenario to twigs's struggles, we are taken into another scene, the details of strange and shocking&nbsp;sculpture, and the people surrounding it. The artwork is Kara Walker's fountain sculpture Fons Americanus, a&nbsp;satirical take on a classic Victorian mode of art, cast in concrete - which has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London. The cast around the sculpture are eminent Black Britons - listed below - who have shared a particular struggle, shaped by&nbsp;cultural, systemic and structural biases,&nbsp;to be who they have become.[imgtoken data:2]"From someone’s appearance, we are unable to judge whether a person discriminates over colour, sex, religion, or gender," says Emmanuel Adjei, talking about the theme of The Invisible Oppressor, which has informed the video for Don't Judge Me.&nbsp;"The oppressors within the people surrounding us, most often remain invisible until their abuse against others is revealed. This is one of the reasons why, for generations, discrimination is so hard to fight. Who must the victim fight against if it can’t identify the perpetrator?[imgtoken data:3]"In this audio-visual document we get to witness artists FKA Twigs and Headie One, amongst other Black British influentials, fighting against invisible forces of judgement and oppression. Having the enormous Victorian-inspired fountain 'Fons Americanus'&nbsp;by visual artist Kara Walker - depicting the historical, sorrowful story of slavery and colonization - as our setting, and particularly as the spirit of the film, this important monument creates another layer of depth and meaning to an invisible yet shared history."

Emmanuel Adjei

FKA Twigs

Chanel Parkinson

Ty Hack

Paul Özgür

Michael Hobdell

Jomar O’Meally

William Pope

Paulina Rzeszowska

Theo White

Taiba Taiba

Marina Belfon-rose

Matt Newman

Joppo Te Veldhuizen

De Grot

Mathematic

Hadi Dahrouge

Fred Brandon

Young Turks

Elisa Spigariol

Mikaella Zarka

FKA twigs, Headie One, Fred again.. 'Don't Judge Me' by Emmanuel Adjei & FKA twigs 

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Jorja Smith's wonderful collab with Popcaan gets a superb visual accompaniment, thanks to another inspired collaboration.Amber Grace Johnson made a big impact with her debut video, made for Jorja last year - the steamy and stylish <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/08/19/jorja-smith-ft-burna-boy-be-honest-amber-grace-johnson/60355" target="_blank">Be Honest</a>. Now she has moved into the previously unfamiliar territory of animation for Come Over, and recruited the help of animation collective Future Power Station to create a thrilling vehicle to dramatise Jorja's love-life complications in the song.[imgtoken data:1]The approach was&nbsp;necessitated by the shutdown on live action production at the start of the coronavirus crisis.&nbsp;But it has conversely allowed Johnson to indulge her love of Japanese anime, and given FPS (that's Yibi Hu, Geoff Parsons, Naima Vogt) to make a rare excursion&nbsp;into music video and demonstrate their design and animation skills.The video is set in a near-future world familiar in anime, but the storyline is a timeless reflection of the song&nbsp;- Jorja is waiting on a call from a new boyfriend, while he's wondering why she has not called. Each one is hot for the other, each one fears the other has no interest. But with an apposite 'F*ck It', Jorja springs into action, leaping on her hover-motorbike (as opposed to the real bike in Be Honest). She undergoes a mystical transformation, and she also enters a club, and begins to reveal her superpowers to deal&nbsp;with the attention of toxic males, before breaking through the real and metaphorical wall to reach her lover.[imgtoken data:2]“When all production froze due to COVID,&nbsp;Jorja&nbsp;reached out to me," explains Johnson, in a statement accompanying the video's release.&nbsp;"Little did she know it’s a lifelong dream of mine to create an anime-inspired piece, being a fan of Ghibli, Satoshi Kon, Aeon Flux, Wicked City and other classics."Best part was that production limits in animation are somewhat non-existent (except of course for how much time you have and resources). But in terms of actions, it felt infinite. I wanted an airborne scene, a hover motorbike, and a fight scene of an undefeated&nbsp;Jorja&nbsp;to kill off a fleet of slimy, artificial club fuckboys on a dystopian sun planet using her hair as her weapon."Naturally my script evolved into ideas only my imagination could dream up. We were lucky to have the opportunity to work with Future Power Station, who brought the vision to life and exceeded expectations.” &nbsp;

Jorja Smith ft Popcaan 'Come Over' by Amber Grace Johnson

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