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Nick Wood

Chris Boyle seems a little fond of the end of the world. &nbsp;Now&nbsp;we&#39;re not saying he&#39;s looking forward to it, but it has featured in his videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2011/09/21/three-trapped-tigers-reset-chris-boyle">Three Trapped Tigers</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/03/22/emperor-yes-cosmos-chris-boyle">Emperor Yes</a>. &nbsp;Nevertheless, the end of days is back on the agenda, and a forlorn newsreader and her beligerent co-anchor are the target of this throroughly heartwarming video.Seemingly spurned by a boisterous male newsreader, reporting on the end of days brings the female lead closer together with her colleague. &nbsp;It also brings together Summer Camp couple in the guise of weather-person Elisabeth and doomsayer Jeremy. &nbsp;Of course, this is all actioned with Chris Boyle&#39;s unique narrative voice and commendable post-production skill. &nbsp;It looks fabulous and the narrative is carried off with humour and warmth.

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Caroline Story

STK Films

Las Bandas Be Brave

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Summer Camp 'Two Chords' by Chris Boyle

Summer Camp - Two Chords

Having made their video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/09/06/emperor-yes-wasps-by-chris-boyle/" target="_blank">Wasps</a> last year, Chris Boyle is back with Emperor Yes, with another characteristic bout of comic lunacy combining live action and animation.
Firstly there's the band performing the song - all wearing extraordinary yeti-like outfits - in what Chris describes as "a marshmallow and lightsaber dream-cave", albeit blissfully unaware of the epic struggle for survival going on under their very noses, at ant level. 
A very small army of courageous ants are on a dangerous quest, and thanks to the band, not all of them are going to make it... So a little bit tragic. But mainly just nutty, and lots of fun.
"Huge thanks to Nick Wood for making the live action look lovely and to Sam Ballard for his gorgeous illustration," says Chris. "Oh, and the band are wearing ex-Chinese military arctic warfare suits. It's what all the cool kids are wearing..."

Helen Power

Emperor Yes 'Cosmos' by Chris Boyle

Emperor-Yes-'Cosmos'-by-Chris-Boyle

Thom Yorke, Garth Jennings and Wayne McGregor created a landmark clip for Radiohead's Lotus Flower a couple of years ago. And now the gang is back together, in the services of side project Atoms For Peace - with the important addition of Fukiko Takase, Thom's dance partner and doppelganger. 
And why not McGregor is a great choreographer, Thom can move, and developing on the phenomenon of Lotus Flower is a great idea for a song which has a similar groove. Its a bigger production - this one is going to be a bit more difficult to spoof - but just as hypnotic. And beautiful suits...

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=DpVfF4U75B8

Garth Jennings

Wayne McGregor

Dominic Leung @ Trim

Paul Allen

Carol Hart

Atoms For Peace 'Ingenue' by Garth Jennings

Atoms-For-Peace-'Ingenue'-by-Garth-Jennings

For Emmy The Great's God Of Loneliness promo, Chris Boyle delivers this excellent black comedy starring Peepshow's Isy Suttie and Shazad Latif from Spooks.
Half music video, half short film, the story peeks behind net curtains to reveal a happily macabre, odd-ball world where a woman will stop at nothing to have the perfect date night. A bitter-sweet Coen-esque comedy about a twee woman mutate from failing domestic goddess to manslaughtering boggle player in under six minutes.
"Emmy approached me looking to do something a little different for the re-release of her album Virtue, and I suggested that we shot a dark little character-based narrative," explains Chris. 
"Once I'd written the script we sent it out to cast and my first choices, Shazad and Isy were available and up for it... Plus, as an added bonus I also managed to blag a location in Trellick Tower to shoot for free. 
"We had a great day's shooting - the crew were amazing, Isy and Shazad knocked it out the park, DoP Nick Wood really nailed their performances and a special mention should to Caroline Story's amazing, if not flipping creepy, portrait of Isy..."

Rokkit

Tom Knight

David Sohanpal

Maite Chemin

Emmy The Great 'God Of Loneliness' by Chris Boyle

Emmy-The-Great-'God-Of-Loneliness'-by-Chris-Boyle

Nick Wood, DP on Garth Jenning's brilliant <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/02/18/radiohead%E2%80%99s-lotus-flower-by-garth-jennings/" target="_blank">Radiohead</a> promo, makes a return to directing with this dramatic and creepy monochrome saga for The Bookhouse Boys...

Anna Larkin

Martina Luisetti

The Bookhouse Boys 'With You' by Nick Wood

The-Bookhouse-Boys-'With-You'-by-Nick-Wood

i.hunter is the new project of songwriter Guy Chambers and singer/actress Sophie Hunter, and this a dark and daring promo for the brooding Epitaph, directed by Chino Moya - with a fair amount of unsettling, NSFW imagery. 
Sophie fully participates in a series of bold, well-crafted tableaux, often involving the juxtaposition of nudity and dead things. It came out of a fluid and improvisational shooting process, with casting action and settings decided on set - and it looks great, thanks to Nick Wood's photography and Aubrey Woodiwiss's grade.

Chino Moya

HSI London

Richard Hudson

Agustín Molinari

Saskia Price

Noam Piper

Aubrey Woodiwiss

i.hunter (Guy Chambers and Sophie Hunter)

i.hunter's Epitaph by Chino Moya

With a striking and charismatic performance by singer Juju and shot by Nick Wood, Chris takes the accelerated punk thrash and turns it into something special...

Little Fish’s Whiplash by Chris Boyle

Little-Fish’s-Whiplash-by-Chris-Boyle

Chino Moya's previous video was a marvelous and atmospheric clip for Spanish band <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/06/18/supersubmarinas-supersubmarina-by-chino-moya/" target="_blank">Supersubmarina</a>, shot in Bulgaria and featuring a cast of very characterful faces. 
His new one, for Spanish singer-songwriter L.A., is all set in the confines of one space but has a similar Delicatessen-style quality of period drabness enriched with eye-popping characters: a warring couple - her huge, him small and bald - with L.A. stuck in the middle, observing their attempts to kill each other.

Rob Mercer

Wanda Morales

Loretta Lipworth

Guillem Ventura

L.A.’s Hands by Chino Moya

You can hardly get a bigger subject than this - on a smaller scale.
Chris Boyle and the team at JJ Stereo have realised landmark events from the often bloody and grisly history of mankind in scale model form for the philosophical Just Jack. It's like a highly ambitious but rather less-explicit work by Jake and Dinos Chapman.


Chris Boyle and John Paveley on making the video for Just Jack's Embers
"The concept was basically to make the ultimate high school science project, showcasing the very human capacity for screwing up. So we built a 20 ft long diorama of the history of man.

"On the day, D.O.P. Nick Wood shot the model in one, so we could sync it to the track - every inch of the diorama corresponding to a second of the song.
"Then, after a quick green screen shoot and a couple of weeks manic post... the History of Man in three minutes thirty seconds!"

JJ Stereo

John Paveley

Dan Curwin

Tom Bird

Just Jack’s Embers by Chris Boyle

After a long hiatus, Dominic Leung returns to promo directing with this wonderfully woozy, superbly photographed video for the reinvigorated Tricky.
Set in a 1960s dive with Tricky as the sharp-dressed lady's man sounds a bit unlikely, but Dominic pulls it off. It's also beautiful - shot by Nick Wood - with a camera that's decidedly under the influence.
And, of course, a great edit by Dom too. He's back.

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