Director of Photography

Nicolas Loir

Alice Moitié&#39;s quirky black comedy for Myd and Cola Boyy&#39;s new track Muchas sticks the boot into corporate mentality and its dark side in a very entertaining fashion.&nbsp;In an office of&nbsp;comprised entirely of men wearing pencil moustaches and identical clothing,&nbsp;the unfunny high-jinx and bullying starts on the office floor but really gets going once they leave for the office outing. Boys will be boys...&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

France

Alice Moitié

Horace De Gunzbourg

Maëva Tenneroni

Lucie Beauvert

marion brillouet

Justine Sautrey

Jordan Stupnicki

Driss Lumbroso

Delphine Genest

Mathieu Caplanne

Myd ft.Cola Boyy 'Muchas' by Alice Moitié

Myd - Muchas (Feat. Cola Boyy) (Official Music Video)

For their new track Queens, Jonathan and Guillaume Alric of The Blaze have created a&nbsp;highly emotive, cinematic narrative and video.It tells the story of youth and friendship but also painful loss, conveying the most intense of human emotion and capturing the euphoric&nbsp;highs and crushing lows.Another&nbsp;brilliantly executed piece by the duo,&nbsp;from the&nbsp;direction to acting to camera work, that brilliantly accompanies&nbsp;their beautifully atmospheric sound. And a worthy successor to their earlier triumphs.&nbsp;

Jonathan Alric

Guillaume Alric

Jean Miel

Nicolas Larrouquere

The Blaze 'Queens' by Jonathan and Guillaume Alric

The Blaze - Queens (Official Video)

Dizzee hands over the floor to three feisty females in the video for Ghost, who blaze a trail through some landmark Paris locations - and gatecrash a wedding photoshoot - before heading back for more fun and games in their grand hotel room.Laura Weaver, director of <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/04/29/club-cheval-young-rich-and-radical-laura-weaver" target="_blank">Club Cheval&#39;s Young, Rich &amp; Radical</a>, orchestrates this&nbsp;whirlwind of high jinx, captured in handheld 16mm by Nicolas Loir, and superbly edited by David Poucet.Meanwhile Dizzee gets to chill on the Pont Neuf,&nbsp;while firing off more brilliant rhymes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Laura Weaver

Standard Films

David Poucet

Poster

John Moule

Dirtee Stank Recordings

Grime

Hip Hop

Dizzee Rascal 'Ghost' by Laura Weaver

Dizzee Rascal - Ghost (Explicit)

Loïc Andrieu&#39;s stunning video for KCPK&#39;s The End&nbsp;captures a teenage girl&#39;s unfolding nightmare in a series of jawdropping set-pieces.Anyone familiar with Andrieu&#39;s spectacularly cinematic previous work, like <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/04/keffer-rouge-lo%C3%AFc-andrieu" target="_blank">Keffer&#39;s Rouge</a>, will have an idea what to expect. But here, he&#39;s taken his epic vision into a familiar world, combining the pressures of adolescence and sexual awakening with grandiose horror.&nbsp;&quot;For this, I wanted to catch fragments of an odd journey through adolescent angst bathed in underlying sexual tension&mdash;a puzzle of senses and feelings flowing with gradual force, and oppressively constant,&quot; Andrieu has&nbsp;explained to NOWNESS, who are premiering the video. &quot;It&rsquo;s a coming of age snapshot. At this stage, the rules get rewritten. Your eyes open to what lies beyond family and school. It is the first time you&rsquo;re seeing yourself in the world, but emotional reactions overwhelm your ability to understand and cope.&nbsp;This is the end of innocence.&quot;And if he hasn&#39;t been snapped up to direct a Hollywood movie yet, he soon will be.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Loïc Andrieu

Soldats

Pierre Cazenave-Kaufman

David Danesi

Naza Giral

Simone Canez-Sabus

Academy Films

Tanguy Dairaine

PIAS

Rock

KCPK 'The End' by Loïc Andrieu

KCPK - The End (Official Video)

Alex Courtès elevates sex to a higher plane in his stunning and steamy video for Justice.A naked couple&#39;s throes of sexual passion take place in an abstract space and charged with beams of light, until the pair become positively godlike. Courtès orchestrates the action and their passage to sexual immortality with real panache, the sense of Kubrick-style perfection of the whole piece confirmed by the final shot.

Alex Courtès

Elsa Rodach

Division

Clémence Cuvelier

Machine Molle

Dance

Electronica

Justice 'Pleasure' by Alex Courtès

Justice | Pleasure

Helmi presents a glossy, stylish performance for Kali Uchis that oozes with effortless coolness.The colourful clip which sees Uchis and Jorja Smith perform in a melting array of setups featuring gorgeous colours, great cars and some floral rear-projections (and some wonderful nods to classic French Cinema). To take one single still image from this video and define it is almost impossible - this is a mash-up of distinct visual styles that seem so opposing on paper, but work so perfectly next to one another in this clip.

Helmi

Théo Gall

Cristina Francesca Dunlap

Mathieu Perez

Emma Wyman

Baptiste Glaymann

Emilie Aubry

Mathematic

Vincent Heine

Raphaël Vandenbussche

Kali Uchis 'Tyrant ft. Jorja Smith' by Helmi

Kali Uchis - Tyrant ft. Jorja Smith

Have you ever wondered what that final, iconic &#39;Beyond The Infinite&#39; scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey would be like if it was comprised mostly of writhing naked people? Well, wonder no longer.&nbsp;Helmi takes us there in this hypnotic, erotic video for Somewhere Else.Helmi&#39;s exploration of sex in Move Together is a wonderful, expressionist battering of colour and imagery that swims in an out of itself at an unstoppable rate. Mixing CGI with live action and bookending the metaphor and visual euphemism with a grounded reality, you&#39;re left with a complete sensory experience in a little over three minutes.

Mélodie Buchris

Gabriel Levy

Kim Shewy

Emma Skowronek

Bill Fabre

Johan Leclaire Botarelli

Gregory Bar

Benoit Fereol

Audrey Malecot

Nina Lefèvre

Jonathan Broda

Laurent Ripoll

Hip hop, Dance

Somewhere Else ft. Majid Jordan 'Move Together' by Helmi

Somewhere Else feat. Majid Jordan "Move Together"

Iconoclast, now with permanent offices in London, explode through the gates with this compelling&nbsp;video for French electro trio KCPK&nbsp;by director Nicolas Davenel.In this stunning work, Davenel explores the criminal underbelly of Eastern Europe. The video is rich in symbolism and follows several younger protagonists as they sink further into the underworld, each step they take forcing them to grow up before their time.It&#39;s a cinematic, layered and textural piece peppered with wide shots that distort the world around the protagonists. Some very considered cinematography here from Nicolas Loir brings this to life.

Nicolas Davenel

Iconoclast

Elias Belkeddar

Maxime Pozzi Garcia

Maxime Rivolet

Alternative, Electronica

KCPK ft. STS 'Who Wants It' by Nicolas Davenel

KCPK - Who Wants It feat STS (Official Video)

Luis Cerveró has directed this dazzling and cryptic&nbsp;pot pourri of&nbsp;tongue-in-cheek scenes, characterised by visual art, anachronistic&nbsp;lavishness, a bit of&nbsp;absurdity&nbsp;and number games.&nbsp;Whether it be the band playing to a highly&nbsp;unusual crowd, a hand rolling the dice, a girl&nbsp;spraying &#39;PRICKS&#39; on a wall, or painters&nbsp;showing their outsider art, each scene is part of a&nbsp;repeating structure that loops throughout, corresponding to an&nbsp;exact metric pattern and creating everchanging dialogue with the song.It&#39;s also very cool. And in explaining his work, Luis Cerveró says: &quot;This video is about predicting the future, writing bad graffiti, blurring identities, sliding doors, playing live with fake drummers and framing moustache portraits. Beyond it all a simple feeling should come across: the teenage spirit will prevail.&quot;[imgtoken data:1] &nbsp;

Luis Cerveró

Blink

Roman Pichon Herrera

Christelle Tastet

Charlotte Boulin

Anna Brun

Diane Gagnant

Djoher Ait Amer

Benjamin Renaud

Olivier Benoist

Candice Meiers

Home Digital Pictures

Bianca Benloukil

Cherise Payne

XL Recordings

Ratatat 'Pricks of Brightness' by Luis Cerveró

RATATAT - PRICKS OF BRIGHTNESS

A two-fisted tale of warring twin brothers&nbsp;in Grand Blanc&#39;s Surprise Party, a video by new Division signing, the 23 year old Max Vatblé - a punishing yet gorgeous&nbsp;visual feast,&nbsp;with a heavy&nbsp;Drive vibe.And it&#39;s also a&nbsp;slow&nbsp;burner,&nbsp;matching the languid synth pop track, with the rich colours and art direction reflecting the molten anger that is being released after a long period of simmering hostility.&nbsp;But at the end that we discover that&nbsp;the confrontation between the twins&nbsp;is not what it appears...

Max Vatblé

Mounia Mebarki

Mark Zarka

Didier Billet

Roxane Faure Huet

Muriel Archambaud

Synth

Alternative

Grand Blanc 'Surprise Party' by Max Vatblé

Grand Blanc - Surprise Party (Video Edit)

There have been various videos based on&nbsp;classic&nbsp;movie posters, and numerous vids have been inspired&nbsp;by the&nbsp;Blaxploitation movie genre. And it seems that at some point or another Snoop Dogg must have done one or the other. Well, now he&#39;s definitely done both, and surely&nbsp;nailed it for good.[imgtoken data:1]Francois Rousselet - now working solo, following after the retirement of&nbsp;directing duo Jonas &amp; Francois &ndash; has created the ultimate Blaxploitation movie poster video for Snoop&#39;s So Many Pros. It&#39;s a perfectly crafted, wonderfully detailed, witty, sexy recreation of some of the very best of the genre.&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]With a seriously impressive level of precision and scope of designs - and here&#39;s just a sample of the 30-odd posters Francois and the team at Division and Mathematic created for the video -&nbsp;Snoop dons&nbsp;various leading-man guises, and backed with a sizeable supporting cast, including&nbsp;Felicia &lsquo;Snoop&rsquo; Pearson from HBO&rsquo;s classic crime show&nbsp;The Wire, and the ubiquitous Pharrell Williams, who produced the new Snoop Dogg record.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:3]&ldquo;I wanted to depict Snoop Dogg as a black James Bond, and film him&nbsp;in scenes inspired by the Blaxploitation era,&rdquo; says Francois.&nbsp; &ldquo;The video is a total homage to this period, which was one of the richest in terms of graphic design.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:4]&quot;Only Snoop Dogg could embody such great characters through a series of posters that depict and pay tribute to one of the most iconic chapters of Hollywood history.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:5]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:6]

United States

Francois Rousselet

Jules de Chateleux

PJ Sodaski

Mindy Le Brock

Bruno Track

Guillaume Marien 

Nadege Moreau

Riff Raff Films

Saul Levitz

Columbia

Snoop Dogg 'So Many Pros' by Francois Rousselet

Snoop Dogg - So Many Pros

Electric house pioneer Etienne De Crecy made his directorial debut for his last video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0S9Qg9Imc" target="_blank">Hashtag My Ass</a>, but for the next&nbsp;video from his current LP Super Discount 3, EDC&nbsp;entrusted the super-talented Helmi - director of the brilliant&nbsp;video for<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/10/30/tiga-bugatti-helmi" target="_blank"> Tiga&#39;s Bugatti</a>&nbsp;- to deliver something good for You. And indeed, belly shirts have rarely looked so good.Helmi&nbsp;offers up a serving of French&nbsp;sexy-blasé in this perfectly stylish expression of city nightlife and youth searching for love on the dancefloor.&nbsp;The video goes hand-in-hand with the driving beat&nbsp;and builds up individual elements until they become&nbsp;collective patterns.&nbsp;Lipstick application, cigarettes, and bedroom eyes become mesmerising&nbsp;repeat&nbsp;motifs, as we&nbsp;go&nbsp;from&nbsp;buttoning-up the sexiest pair of jeans&nbsp;to taking them off in bed with the night&#39;s catch. And everything in between...&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Marie Le Grevellec

Ana Brun

Etienne De Crecy 'You' by Helmi

Etienne de Crécy - You

Thomas Rhazi&#39;s video for Alt-J&#39;s Pusher takes its inspiration from a great British democratic tradition of soapbox politics, and sends it into a dark,&nbsp;bleak place.As the camera circles an expanse of open ground a man climbs onto a box to begin to speak to the assembled smattering of homogeneous raincoat-wearing men. And as the circle tightens, the man becomes more passionate, and then desperate...As with previous videos from Alt-J&#39;s second album This Is All Yours, band frontman Joe Newman was involved at the conceptual stage of the Pusher video. And his&nbsp;involvement which has allowed Thomas Rhazi to reach for his powerful, thought-provoking,&nbsp;unquestionably bleak climax.&ldquo;The original idea was Joe&#39;s one,&quot; says Thomas. &quot;It was about a guy breaking his neck in a very poetic way. We spoke about the British Speaker&rsquo;s Corners&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;all those men and women in the late 70&rsquo;s preaching for their own reasons and beliefs.&quot;I wanted this film to be very humanist and as deep and simple as it could be.&nbsp;The hero does the most excessive act because he can&rsquo;t do anything else&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;shaking up people&rsquo;s minds in those dark and sad times&rdquo;, says Thomas.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Thomas Rhazi

Aurelie Bruneau

Didier Lefouest

Infectious

Alt-J 'Pusher' by Thomas Rhazi

alt-J - Pusher (Official Video)

The minimalist electronica and deadpan wit of&nbsp;Tiga&#39;s Bugatti has inspired a brilliant video by Helmi - driven&nbsp;by the rhythms of the track, witty, sexy, and the complete&nbsp;opposite of minimalist. The inspirations are essentially, 80s surrealism (particularly the album cover design of Hipgnosis) and alpine sports, conflated into a stream of imagery that offers up more things each time you watch it. Great stuff - and we had a little chat about it, and other stuff,&nbsp;with Helmi...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PROMO: The Bugatti promo is wonderfully surreal and provocative.&nbsp; What inspired it?HELMI:&nbsp;Merci. The Bugatti music video was inspired by Tiga, love for the 80&rsquo;s and the new wave. I love working within the universe of the artist so I began to read and watch everything I could on this period as well as the references. It&#39;s more &laquo;pop&raquo; culture than a specific period. I took inspiration from everything I found cool. For me it&#39;s one of the most interesting parts of the job and of course the internet help&rsquo;s a lot. ;)&nbsp;You&rsquo;ve already developed a unique style which is apparent in all four of the videos you&#39;ve made at Division in Paris.&nbsp;Who/what have your influences been so far?My influences are all the 90&rsquo;s music videos I watched as kid. That&#39;s what makes me want to make music videos. All the Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham... All these masters have influenced me!What do you hope to achieve over the next year?&nbsp; What are you currently working on?My prospects for the next two years.... To just have more and more fun on each project and meet new cool people. I&rsquo;m writing and testing new concepts but if &laquo;I tell you I have to kill you...&raquo; :) &nbsp;Your ideas are fresh and contemporary - so do you feel frustrated that some artists/labels are more inclined to &lsquo;play it safe&rsquo; with their choice of videos? &nbsp;Has this affected your work?I&rsquo;m not frustrated with my ideas. People are always waiting for new things and sometimes its a good time and sometimes you are too early or even too late. I don&rsquo;t feel any pressure by the label or artist if they don&rsquo;t like an idea. I can&rsquo;t force them but I have to find a better way to sell my ideas. It&rsquo;s amazing when you are on the same page as an artist. This is what happened with Tiga. It was just perfect to work like this...Is there a particular musician/artist you want to work with soon?I would love to work with Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Notorious BIG, 2-Pac, Amy Winehouse, Freddy Mercury, Elton John...&nbsp;But more seriously I would love to work with&nbsp;top charts artist&nbsp;like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Kanye West. Maybe one day! I&rsquo;m listening to a lot of The Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus... The only important thing &nbsp;for me is if I like the music then I&#39;ll do it, no matter the artist. Except one... ;)&nbsp;Has there been a&nbsp;director who&#39;s work you&#39;ve particularly admired this year?&nbsp; What&rsquo;s your favorite video of the last twelve months?&laquo;Movement&raquo; by Fleur&amp;Manu and also &laquo;CHANDELIER&raquo; by&nbsp;Daniel Askill and Sia. They are the kind of videos I can watch and watch again from this last twelve months.&nbsp;Can I just add this big thank you to all the DVSN familly, and all the crew who work on this project. :)&nbsp;

Francois Lebourg

Najat Younsi

Universal

Dance, Alternative

Tiga 'Bugatti' by Helmi

Tiga - “Bugatti” (Official Video)

David Brent immortalised the boss you love to hate in The Office, that boss that you&#39;ve all had at least once. In&nbsp;Disclosure&#39;s &#39;Grab Her&#39;, Emile Sornin returns to the scene creating the boss who is so dislikeable everything&nbsp;he touches is physically repelled.&nbsp;Continuous laugh-out-loud moments lead up to a climax that can&#39;t help but put a smile on your face.And as always with&nbsp;Emile there is an air of &#39;how the...?&#39;, as a mix of post production and on set tricks&nbsp;confuses the senses...Emile Sornin&nbsp;talks to Luke Tierney about making the video for Disclosure&#39;s Grab HerThe boss character is portrayed perfectly. Were there any influences when creating him?The influence was clearly Ricky Gervais in &quot;The Office&quot;, i think is the funniest man in the world.Comedy can at times be very hit or miss, did you have any apprehensions with the concept?Not at all, when we found the main character (Jean-Baptiste) I didn&#39;t have any apprehensions because he was really funny during casting. He was able to bring to any gravity trick to the next level.As always with your projects, post production plays an interesting and important&nbsp;role. How much of the effects were done in camera, how much was post?Well a magician can never reveal his tricks. But most of the effects weren&#39;t too hard to make, aha.The desaturation of colour is key to setting the tone and the (late 70s/early 80s) period. Why did you set the video in the past?It&#39;s not a matter of temporality. I think I just love 70&#39;s gear and aesthetic, and it matches perfectly with my concept (telephone with wire, big computer etc...)You&#39;ve worked with a series of interesting British artists who, like your promos, are very different from each other (Alt-J, Dizzee Rascal and now Disclosure). Has this been intentional? Who is next on your wishlist?I&#39;m really influenced by British humour, so that&#39;s why it works well with English bands or artists. There is something absurd and second degree in English humour that I really like... Every one knows that Monty Python are the best in the world. They create the best jokes I ever saw.&bull; Check out Luke Tierney&#39;s blog,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wordischeap.wordpress.com">Word Is Cheap</a>, or his Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/wordischeap">@wordischeap</a>, for more thoughts on his favourite music videos.

Jean Davi

Émile Sornin

Disclosure 'Grab Her' by Emile Sornin

Disclosure - Grab Her (Official Video)

Cyrille de Vignemont has created a gorgeous, very atmospheric&nbsp;video for Ghostpoet&#39;s Cold Win, with beautiful photography (by DoP Nicolas Loir)&nbsp;and subtle use of VFX to reflect&nbsp;the thoughtful sensibility&nbsp;of&nbsp;Obaro Ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet&#39;s music.Some of it&nbsp;was shot at dawn on the roads of Iceland, other parts in a house designed by the architect Alvar Aalto. And there&#39;s a tension between the wide open space and the interior - particularly focusing on Obaro himself, at the wheel of a vintage car in darkness, ad then surrounded by very special raindrops. They&nbsp;coallesce&nbsp;to form &#39;hobo symbols&#39; &ndash; series of characters used by the rootless vagabonds who appeared in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century to communicate below the radar of civilized society.But then Cyrille (now working under his own name rather than his old monicker of Danakil)&nbsp;was inspired by that special feeling of wanting to drive away from your life,&nbsp;but never quite managing it. And by all the rain that fell on Paris during&nbsp;June...&nbsp;

Cyrille de Vignemont

Wanda Productions

Celine Roubaud

François	Dupont

Claire Lance

Mark Maborough

Camille Langlais

Ghostpoet 'Cold Win' by Cyrille de Vignemont 

Ghostpoet - Cold Win

Fleur &amp; Manu have created an intoxicating tour de force of arresting imagery for the thumping techno of French DJ Gesaffelstein&#39;s Pursuit, with an enigmatic continuing thread - a golden gauntlet that turns up on the fist of a various members of a mysterious, powerful clan.Typically combining live action with exceptional VFX work &ndash; from regular collaborators at Paris post houses Mathematic and Machine Molle &ndash; it&#39;s hypnotic, and delicious. Who cares about the meaning &ndash; you probably won&#39;t want it to end.&nbsp;

Fleur & Manu

Zelda Bensoussan

Claude Neron

Gabriel Kerlidou

Isham Zarhar

Elise Bouquet

Corinne Gues

Cédric Kerguillec

Parlophone

Techno

Gesaffelstein 'Pursuit' by Fleur & Manu

GESAFFELSTEIN - PURSUIT (Official Video)

It started with Midnight City, then continued with Reunion. Now here&#39;s the concluding part of Fleur and Manu&#39;s epic kids-with-superpowers trilogy for M83 - for Wait. And things don&#39;t exactly get wrapped up neatly in this one.At first we&#39;re in the aftermath of the confrontation at the climax of Reunion with the leading telekinetic girl, then we&#39;re in outer space with her boy adversary, and a sequence which isn&#39;t so much influenced by Kubrick&#39;s 2001, as an exact reconstruction (before he becomes the Boy Who Fell To Earth...)But this project was always about creating eyepopping blockbuster movie moments &ndash; and this is arguably the most satisfying of the lot.&nbsp;

M83 'Wait' by Fleur & Manu

M83-'Wait'-by-Fleur-and-Manu

Just in time for carnival weekend, So Me delivers this brilliant montage of colourful Jamaican culture to partner the cool dubpop of Major Lazer's Get Free.

So Me

Tom Lindsay

Major Lazer 'Get Free' by So Me

AB/CD/CD&#39;s short film-cum-video for Factory Floor&#39;s On Hold (actually commissioned by Nowness) toys with the type of repetitive imagery made familar by animated gifs, using them to represent elements of the song.So a sort of up-to-date take on the Gondry&#39;s classic Chemical Brothers&#39; Star Guitar video. With additional attractive women...

AB-CD-CD

Partizan Darkroom

Arthur Cantin

Factory Floor 'On Hold' by AB/CD/CD

Factory-Floor-'On-Hold'-by-AB/CD/CD

New Sony signing EJ marches into view with an army of lookalikes in her video for Mama I&#39;m Going To Sing, directed by JACK. It&#39;s an impressively graphic interpretation by the French directing duo in their first UK commission.

J.A.C.K.

EJ 'Mama I'm Going To Sing' by JACK

Nicolas Loir

Director of Photography

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