Commissioner

Natalia Maus

Stephen Agnew draws inspiration from&nbsp;Dadaism, Irish Wicca and Catholic iconography in his stunningly photographed video for Amber Arcades.Shot in monochromatic 1:1 aspect ratio,&nbsp;the promo for True Love renders the artist -&nbsp;real name&nbsp;Annelotte de Graaf - as a reimagining of the Celtic deity&nbsp;Bríg.Switching between silvery&nbsp;beach-set&nbsp;exteriors to darkly intimate close-ups, the concept sees an alien&nbsp;consciousness poured into a human mind in an empty desolate world.With cinematography by&nbsp;Martin Senyszak,&nbsp;cut and composited by Agnew and finessed by Toby Tomkins, before a final flair by&nbsp;Jessica Malleau - in the form of creative pitch gylphs - this is a mesmerising showcase for the artist.&nbsp;

Emily Davies

Stephen Agnew

Lydia Martland

DOGEATDOG

Martin Senyszak

Grace Campbell

Molly Whiteley

Toby Tomkins

CHEAT

Fire Records

Singer songwriter

Amber Arcades 'True Love' by Stephen Agnew

Amber-Arcades-'True-Love'-by-Stephen-Agnew

Ex-Beta Band frontman Steve Mason goes walkabout in James Hankins' video for the rousing anthem No More - featuring Bollywood singer Javed Bashir.In numerous locations, from beaches to London streets and Underground to Pakistan - and elsewhere - Hankins employs super fish-eye lenses and 360˚ technology to create an unceasing flow of absorbing scenes and drawing the performances of both artists together.

Sam Phinikas

Justin Selway

James Hankins

Ben Huss Smickler

Nick Dalby

Bubble

Studio Dosage

Ben Dosage

Domino Reccords

John Moule

Steve Mason ft Javed Bashir 'No More' by James Hankins

Steve-Mason--'No-More'-by-James-Hankins

Diane Sagnier brings a melancholic twist to Christmas in her video for Metronomy's collab with Seb Tellier.They may be living in a cozy winter chalet hideaway, but Metronomy's Joseph Mount and Tellier are in contemplative mood - possibly in the comedown after previous festivities -&nbsp;as they perform&nbsp;J'en Ai Assez Vu (trans: Okay, I've seen enough.)Which culminates in them both lying in the snow...

United Kingdom

Diane Sagnier

William Romeo

Marguerite Vernier

Jacques Mady

Charles Navarro

Manol Valtchanov

Dan Spiegelman

Lucille Durez

Noemie Laborde

Clara de Gobert

Nico Plinio

Benjamin Ricard

Pierre-Yves Boisramé

Alternative

Indie

Metronomy x Sebastien Tellier 'J'en Ai Assez Vu' by Diane Sagnier

Metronomy x Sebastien Tellier - J'en Ai Assez Vu (Official Music Video)

Ned Botwood directs a big-hearted love letter to the West Country, by way of the American West for Metronomy frontman&nbsp;Joseph Mount's wonderful duet with Katy J Pearson for Love Factory.This song is an absolute peach, and the video highlights the special chemistry that is created by bringing fellow west country artist Pearson on board. Botwood channels the visuals from 1960s US TV variety shows, and the legendary&nbsp;performances by Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and June Carter, blending&nbsp;British and American rural iconography, superimposing Katy and Joseph into sweeping Devon landscapes.Shot with a distinctly American flavour by DP Jamie Harding, the video trades prairie grass for wheat stubble and wide highways for narrow country lanes. The landscapes were captured over a sunset-chasing road trip through the South Hams in Jamie’s van.[imgtoken data:1]Ned, Jamie and editor Kevin Corry worked to recreate a variety of old-school televisual devices. Shooting country vistas to line up with studio performances, then using a combination of back projection, black negative space and lo-fi blending effects to merge them together.Eagle-eyed viewers will also spot a handful of homages to American cult classics, including Paris Texas, My Own Private Idaho and The Night of the Hunter. “What I love about this song is that it just sounds like it’s always been around, like an old standard on the radio," says Botwood.&nbsp;"It made me think of that golden age of country performances on TV in the late ’60s. Those variety hours like Kraft Music Hall and The Porter Wagoner Show.[imgtoken data:2]"Those shows really threw everything at the wall. All those charmingly janky sets and camera effects. Dolly Parton playing her Grammer guitar on a plastic porch, or Loretta Lynn superimposed onto rural Kentucky, or truly weird images like three disembodied Peggy Lee heads trading lyrics in different corners of the screen.“So much country music is about *home*. And if you absorb enough US culture, you can end up with this weird nostalgia for a rural heartland you’ve never actually been to. But it does make sense. When Dolly sings about her ‘Tennessee Mountain Home’, you understand that feeling instinctively, even if you’ve only been as close as the West Country. Katy, Joe and I are all connected to Devon. And sometimes when you’re down there, on the right day and in the right light, it really does look like the American prairie.”“Metronomy and Katy are two of my big indie heroes. So I was very sweaty when the email arrived! But I had the nicest team. Shoutout to Jamie Harding, who took me and his Arriflex sunset-chasing in Devon for two days. And Kevin Corry, who killed it in the edit.”

Joshua Gochez

Athene Xenia Aristocleous

Bo Dubema

Ned Botwood

André Reid

Somesuch

Yan Murawski

Jamie Harding

Maëva Demurger

Pòl Gil

Orlando Morris

Riccardo Angei

Kevin Corry

The Assembly Rooms

Ruth Wardell

Okay Studios

Because Music

Metronomy & Katy J Pearson 'Love Factory' by Ned Botwood

Metronomy & Katy J Pearson's - Love Factory (Official Music Video)

Roisino directs a euphoric, Studio&nbsp;54-esque promo for Sophie and the Giants.&nbsp;For her first video as a solo artist, we follow Sophie and&nbsp;several characters in an iconic&nbsp;LGBTQIA+ venue, dancing the night away under coruscating lights.&nbsp;The neon-tinged video for We Own The Night blends party vibes with a surrealistic twist - a trademark of Roisino's style - and boasts experimental camerawork and a hyper-vibrant style.&nbsp;"For this video, we had an incredible crew who pulled together to create a custom underground club setting, including artworked posters and custom set design." Roisino mentions.&nbsp;"The video evokes a serious sense of FOMO for anyone who didn't get the invite!"

Celia Arias

Roisino

Eden Madein

Marisa Garner Associates

Koko Stoimenvo

Edson Caldas

Nic Marily

Sophie And The Giants 'We Own The Night' by Roisino

Sophie-And-The-Giants-'We-Own-The-Night'-by-Roisino

Ben Mahon directs an&nbsp;intimate portrait for Paisley Underground stalwarts The Dream Syndicate - a day in the life of Damian.Played by Nick Bartlett in the video, Damian is an enigmatic drifter,&nbsp;constantly on the move. His car is his home - doubling as bedroom, bathroom and church - whatever that car happens to be. He is battling&nbsp;loneliness and&nbsp;wrestling with an off-screen relationship, as he drives on.The easy pacing and drawn-out shots reflect the thoughtful nature of the piece, whilst Bartlett truly embodies the role, with a complex yet believable performance.&nbsp;

Ben Mahon

Jacob Schühle-lewis

Jess Vile

Nick Bartlett

Rock

The Dream Syndicate 'Damian' by Ben Mahon

The-Dream-Syndicate-'Damian'-by-Ben-Mahon

Sam Bailey returns to music videos&nbsp;with this joyful love letter to the Golden Age of film musicals, in his new promo for Metronomy.&nbsp;The band are seen adorned in giant flower headpieces, playing their song Love Factory, while being led by a conductor, and&nbsp;as a vivacious dancer, Majella Fitzgerald,&nbsp;takes centre stage.&nbsp;Majella is the busy Bee, who picks out each Metronomy 'flower', one by one, to 'pollinate' them. And this happens in a splendidly suggestive representation of Nature - choreographed by Supple Nam.&nbsp;From there, the concept launches into full, Golden Age musical mode, as the Bee interacts with each flower, around the stately house that provides the venue of the video, viewing each member through her trippy, multi-imaged 'bee vision.'&nbsp;It's an extremely skilled display of lightly frothy entertainment, that is also clever and subtly alternative in its joie de vivre. In other words, it's&nbsp;very Metronomy.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush.</blockquote>"From start to finish this music video was huge lumps of fun to make," says Sam Bailey. "The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush in my garden, indiscriminately having sweet little intimate interactions before moving onto the next one."The flowers became happy little dance partners to the bee as it moved around from station to station, as if on a factory floor. It married up perfectly with Joe's lyrics and the uplifting feel of the track's hazy tone. I was thrilled that the band went for it."Knowing that they often get really involved in the performance side I thought we should challenge them to learn some sweet moves from choreographer Supple Nam, who has a great history of bringing theatricality and levity to his dances. Just look at his work on the Miike Snow promo [for Genghis Khan] by Ninian Doff."Our performers, Majella Fitzgerald and Andrew Lyle-Pinnock [the conductor] come from big tap backgrounds. So we had a lot of fun playing with moves from musicals of 50s Hollywood (White Christmas, Singin’ In The Rain, Let’s Dance...) God, it’s joyful watching dancers move around, exploring ideas, paying homage to Vera Ellen and co. Especially when they’ve got big ol’ Hollywood smiles on. The genre calls for constant smiling, but if I could dance as effortlessly as them (and without wheezing) I’d be smiling too.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>We had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking...&nbsp;hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements.</blockquote>"All of us behind the camera had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking too. DoP David Wright had all the good ideas on how to capture this. Hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements. Apologies to our grip Anthony - I made him loosen up all the tracks every time he’d painstakingly smoothed everything out. I think it looks good though - if you watch some of the tracking shots in Singin’ In The Rain they feel like the camera is being driven round on an ASDA trolley.&nbsp;"The band were unexhaustible. 48 hours before shooting this they had spent a day flying in harnesses for the excellent Right On Time&nbsp;promo by Juliet Casella and Thibaut Ceasar. So they must be awarded with some sort of endurance award. Especially since they aren’t smokers and I had them vaping (nothing toxic) for the pollination shot plates.&nbsp;"I have nothing but thanks to them for trusting the idea and getting stuck in. Same goes for the rest of the team who worked very hard to get this all going six floors up in a central London building with an unapologetically small lift."

Sam Bailey

Ben Pengilly

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Just Fred

Massimo Filippi

David Wright

Fred Bonham Carter

Alexa Haywood

Benji Smith

Zoe Gunn

Supple Nam

Sophie Cox

Majella Fitzgerald

Steve Wingrove

Jay Whittington

Anthony Ward

Jonny Tully

Fin Sully

Natalie Willis

Metronomy 'Love Factory' by Sam Bailey

Metronomy-'Love-Factory'-by-Sam-Bailey

Following the warmly nostalgic video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/01/21/metronomy-things-will-be-fine-juliet-casella-thibaut-caesar%C2%A0/74645">Things Will Be Fine</a>, Metronomy reunite with directors&nbsp;Juliet Casella &amp; Thibaut Caesar for the gleeful Right On Time.&nbsp;The band situate a dreamworld where they go skydiving, and then landing to enjoy a picnic and a spontaneous performance.&nbsp;Wonderfully art directed, the whimsical set design feels like a vintage kid's TV show, with bright colours and a menagerie of wacky props - which also happen to float around on their own.&nbsp;Anchored by playful performances and an overtly joyous tone, the video is an escape from the real world just momentarily, to enjoy a more innocent, laidback fantasy.And if you want to know more about how Casella &amp; Caesar and Metronomy created their skydive/picnic fantasy, check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicuQeJO0kM" target="_blank">behind the scenes video</a>.

Juliet Casella

Thibaut Caesar 

Joseph J. Goldman

Tara Sadeghi

Aaron Z. Willson

Adam Singodia

Nacho Guzman

Lou Alvarez

James Duffy

Briony Albert

Oliver Hogan

Anna Inglis Hall

Holly Adamthwaite Wood

Jamie Hodgson

Work Editorial

Phil Wood

Glassworks

Jonny Thorpe

Ground Work

Metronomy 'Right On Time' by Juliet Casella & Thibaut Caesar 

Metronomy - Right on time (Official Video)

Metronomy relive their teenage years&nbsp;in Juliet Casella and Thibaut Caesar's warmly nostalgic video for Things Will Be Fine.&nbsp;Band frontman Joseph Mount describes the video as “a sort of pseudo role-play therapy session in which we all re-visit our teenage selves.” And as such the five bandmembers each have their own well-observed vignette, recreating the byegone age of the late Nineties/early Noughties, reflecting on some of their childhood ambitions and dreams.&nbsp;So we see Metronomy revisit&nbsp;old social media platforms (on a first-gen iMac), first-time attempts at shaving, saving a guinea pig on the loose, and suffering from teen ennui - all unfolding within the same house. It's glued together by a band performance, which also has the feel of&nbsp;a teen band try-out, in the living room.[imgtoken data:1]With a&nbsp;concept that flows directly from the song's lyrics, the video delivers on bringing those themes to life in way that's pitch-perfect for the band. The art direction and set design are top-notch, as are&nbsp;the performances. It makes for a memorable, charming video - and&nbsp;confirms a fairly evident fact that Metronomy are a marvellous video band.But apparently, making this video did take its toll.&nbsp;Joseph Mount concludes: “Everyone ended up more scarred than they did before making it - apart from Michael [Lovett] and his fucking guinea pigs.” And that's that.&nbsp;

Chris Malin

Davide Scalenghe

Matthew Hollis

Johnjoe Besagni

Ben Tomlin

Electronic

Metronomy 'Things Will Be Fine' by Juliet Casella & Thibaut Caesar 

Metronomy-'Things-Will-Be-Fine'-by-Juliet-Casella-&-Thibaut-Caesar 

Dreamjob - that's Jack Whiteley and Joe Wills - give the now-familiar Groundhog Day structure an existential makeover for Metronomy's return to action with the aptly titled&nbsp;It's Good To Be Back.Metronomy's frontman Joe Mount encounters his fellow bandmembers through a series of studio-set exteriors of exaggerated fakeness. He ends the sequence with a singing cowboy in front of a sunset backdrop 'shooting' him with his fingers, sending Mount spinning back to the beginning.[imgtoken data:1]As he repeats the sequence of events, things inevitably change, but not quite in the way you might expect. This is no exercise in achieving improvement and ultimate perfection - quite the opposite. Mount and company's swing between indifference, cheeriness, depression and beyond, as they head repeatedly to the cowboy's inevitable finger-gun.Heroic failure is so more interesting than success...

Dreamjob

Joseph J Goldman

Curate Films

Dan Dickenson

Abbey Valentina

Carlos Veron

Anil Duru

Tekko Osman

Steve Cameron

Natasha Lawes

Yulia Bulashenko

Metronomy 'It's Good To Be Back' by Dreamjob

Metronomy-'It's-Good-To-Be-Back'-by-Dreamjob

Alewya leads a pulsating underground rave in Simon Lane's atmospheric performance vid for the singer-songwriter's Spirit_X.With Alewya tapping into the spiritual aspect of dance music, Lane creates an exciting spectacle from the judicious use of lighting, art direction, supporting cast and editing, in the rarely explored tunnels under London. Most importantly, the focus is on the stunning presence&nbsp;of Alewya herself.“This song was written from a presence and understanding of my flow state and how many things can come to me when I’m dancing this dance as crazy as it might be," states Alewya. "This is my absolute power and one to be reckoned with. It’s human, ancestral and it’s very wild.”

Simon Lane

Poppy Ashton

Forever

Sasha Nixon

Luke Goodrich

Jake Gabbay

James Hills

Jonny Boomer

Lee Trigg

Shamara Roper

Luz Giraldo

Vlad Barin

Thea Dagnaud

Because

Beau Pritchard James

Aimee Meek

Dance

Alewya 'Spirit_X' by Simon Lane 

Alewya--'Spirit_x'-by-Simon-Lane-

Alewya and Tom Ringsby head to the UK's only desert - Dungeness in Kent -&nbsp;in the intense, breathless&nbsp;promo for Jagna.&nbsp;Inspired by Discovery Channel clips&nbsp;of jaguars sprinting across the horizon, only letting the camera follow for a brief second before disappearing out of shot, the video is frenetic and abstract, and moves at a breakneck pace.&nbsp;Utilising various shutter speeds and intercutting day and night, DoP&nbsp;Karol Jurga creates a&nbsp;transcendent aesthetic, where danger could come from any corner - or perhaps it isn't really there at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;"Alewya just wanted to leg it for the whole video, so we put a Mad Max-crew together and headed for the desert with a spotlight, speaker and camera strapped to a car," explains&nbsp;Tom Ringsby.&nbsp;"The crew were insanely dedicated to making this work and we had a blast - until it got dark and rainy and we ran out of Snickers bars...."

Tom Ringsby

Rhory Danniells

Intergalactic Studios

Jamie Alexander

Karol Jurga

Jannick Fjeldsøe

Rufai Ajala 

Tim Smith

Bandits

David Calvet

Alewya

Omar Serge

Alewya 'Jagna' by Tom Ringsby & Alewya

Alewya-'Jagna'-by-Tom-Ringsby,-Alewya

Lucrecia Taormina laments consumerism and shopping fever, in the darkly comedic promo for Steven Wilson's Personal Shopper.&nbsp;In a sleek shopping mall, we are introduced to a man who has just received a huge wad of fifty pound notes. Ready to shop until he drops - quite literally - he visits different shops and counters, swapping parts of his body for bling and new things.&nbsp;As the shopper&nbsp;exchanges&nbsp;increasingly important parts of himself, from fingers to eyes to lips, the concept only gets more absurd and out of control, with Taormina's flair for the unusual remaining utterly engaging throughout. There's a terrific performance by Robert Lane as the deluded consumer, while DoP&nbsp;Pieter Snyman creates a hyperreal aesthetic through soft beauty lighting and clinical colour palettes of white and shiny metal.&nbsp;If Apple did body horror adverts, this is what they would look like. Fascinating work.&nbsp;

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