Art Director

Oliver Hogan

Joe Connor directs an innovative and beguiling promo for Ellie Goulding's Like A Saviour.Set against a desert backdrop cycling&nbsp;through different times of day, we see Goulding and a set of dancers perform slick choreography&nbsp;whilst the environment around them transforms.&nbsp;Making use of the latest production technology, the entire video was shot against a virtual LED screen, with the sand set built right in front (and on top)&nbsp;of it, allowing the creative team to completely control every aspect of the visual.&nbsp;Aside from the magic of the technology, Goulding and the dancers hit every mark, creating an evocative video that perfectly complements the emotive track.&nbsp;"Ellie came to me with a brief that dared me to think a little differently," explains Joe Connor. "I&nbsp;wanted to throw myself in front of the latest technology and play with what was possible using the large Virtual Production Volume screens."We’ve all seen the images of the Mandalorian, but I felt that there was so much room to use this technology for artistic expression. I wanted to create a desert space where time constantly shifted, from day to night and back to day again. This felt like a really exciting and dynamic starting point to work from.&nbsp;"Working with D-Neg studios, we built a large-scale, 3D desert in Unreal Engine and then built a detailed, real-world foreground using tonnes of sand to blend into our 3D world. The ability to shift through the time of day was enhanced by David Procter’s real-world lighting, which was synchronised with the constantly changing lighting on the screen.&nbsp;"What the team has created is a video which feels unlike any other Ellie Goulding video. It’s a great example of cooperation and collaboration in the pursuit of a singular visual idea."&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Joe Connor

Fred Bonham Carter

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Just Fred

Amanda Tuckwell

David Proctor

Daniel Alwell

Chris Kelly

Jacques Simon

George K

Ellie Goulding 'Like A Saviour' by Joe Connor

Ellie Goulding - Like A Saviour (Official Video)

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

Natalia Maus

Because Music

Steve Wingrove

Adam Singodia

Nacho Guzman

Lou Alvarez

James Duffy

Briony Albert

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

Celia Arias

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

Alternative

Indie

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

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

Directing duo The Rest channel serious Nineties&nbsp;vibes in their sweet and breezy promo for Mahalia's delightful Whenever You're Ready.The video - shot entirely&nbsp;on the Xiaomi Mi 11 Series phone - flips the script on the lyrics, reintrepreting the love interest as a friend who has grown detached from her group. It takes a heart-to-heart chat on the phone to get the fourth member of Team Mahalia to get back in the gang&nbsp;&nbsp;Paying homage to iconic videos from her youth, Mahalia exudes&nbsp;zesty, laidback energy&nbsp;and plenty of confidence to boot, ably supported by her girlfriends -&nbsp;Taitlyn and Kaylee Jaiy, and Demi Rox -&nbsp;whilst the effervescent visual is absorbingly nostalgic throughout.&nbsp;

The Rest

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Pieter Snyman

Josh Tue

Shaquille Williams

Rio Sreedharan

Maria Asadi

Lauren Webster

Paul O'Reilly

Trim Editing

Andrew Patrick

Taitlyn Jaiy

Kaylee Jaiy

Demi Rox

Kim Jarrett

Warner Records

Mahalia 'Whenever You're Ready' by The Rest

Mahalia-'Whenever-You're-Ready'-by-The-Rest

Ben Strebel makes a stunning return to music videos with his wonderful&nbsp;video for Skrillex, Starrah and Four Tet’s new track Butterflies - an impressionistic portrait on the impact of a year of Covid crisis upon a generation, which builds to a simply transcendent&nbsp;climax.With some hugely talented&nbsp;collaborators, including choreographer Holly Blakey, DoP Ben Todd, and the&nbsp;VFX team at Electric Theatre Collective, Strebel channels the frustrations of a generation of youth, whose relationships and&nbsp;opportunies have all been curtailed by the successive lockdowns, into a very contemporary work of visual art.On a London estate, an edgy teenager is a ball of energy as they sit in their room, and when a group of youths gather, the group immediately combine to&nbsp;performing Blakey's intricate, physically demanding choreography. Sheets float in the air, at the Chinese takeaway&nbsp;the youths&nbsp;also play ghosts, covered in sheets - and then the path from gritty reality to heightened sensibility spins into outright&nbsp;fantasy, all within the same concrete world.[imgtoken data:1]The climax of the video is wonderful - and that is partly because you do not see it coming. The kids have now become real ghosts, soaring into the air above the concrete,&nbsp;freed&nbsp;to cavort to the strains of this epic electronic collaboration between Sonny John Moore (aka Skrillex), Keiran Hebden (Four Tet), and Brittany Talia Hazzard (Starrah). This is a brilliantly conceived ballet - created with an ingenious execution of VFX work and camera movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Strebel has created a wonderful visual for Butterflies, the result of not only his own skill and vision, but the ambition and support of Skrillex. The artist and director&nbsp;had been talking for a long time about working together, and Skrillex took&nbsp;a hands-on approach throughout the process, sanctioning the lengthy&nbsp;period in post production required to make it happen.It was well worth the wait.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Ben Strebel

Adam Farley

Biscuit Filmworks

Andrew Law

Rupert Reynolds-MacLean

Samantha Chitty

Roma Nesi Pio

Ed Bellamy

Christopher Mears

Titus Penate

Ben Todd

Sean Lomax

Dan Jenner

Simon Wood

Wolf Wasserman

Ben Manwaring

Kate Forbes

Anna Wild

Holly Blakey

Kharmel Cochrane

Matt Nee

Metal House Edit

Electric Theatre Collective

James Sindle

Luke Morrison

Antonia Vlasto

Hannah Clark @ Metal Edit

Electronica

Dance

Skrillex, Starrah, Four Tet 'Butterflies' by Ben Strebel

Skrillex, Starrah & Four Tet - Butterflies (Official Music Video)

Samuel Douek presents a "love letter to London nightlife" in this visual tour de force for Little Mix's Confetti.&nbsp;This is the band's first release as a three-piece since the departure of Jesy Nelson, and shows the artists launched into&nbsp;a dance off between&nbsp;themselves and their male alter-egos.The project was very personal to Douek, and includes&nbsp;dancers and party starters from his personal circle, as well as icons from the latest Drag Race UK series – Bimini, Tayce and A’Whora.&nbsp;At six minutes in length, the video is no doubt a major event in the pop sphere, and is paired with top-notch cinematography and creative perfection across the board, from styling to costumes to art direction.It's great work to launch the next chapter of the Little Mix&nbsp;story, a great precursor to their win at last night's Brit Awards (May 11th) winning Best British Group, for a record breaking third time - and making an inspirational&nbsp;acceptance speech to boot - and certainly&nbsp;a big step forward in Samuel Douek's development as an exciting new Brirtish pop video director.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Samuel Douek

BELIEVE MEDIA

CAMP Prods

Hugo Holford

Stefan Yap

Samuel Marr

Johnny Thorpe

Kat Cattaneo

Rca Sony Music

Zack Tate

Jamie McFarland

Marcus Albertson

Josh Tilley

Beau Pritchard James

Aaron Carlo

Cassie Lomas

Mona Leanne

Hila Karmand

King Oholi

Thanh Jason Nguyen

Little Mix ft Saweetie 'Confetti' by Samuel Douek

Little-Mix-'Confetti'-by-Samuel-Douek

Rebekah Creative captures a spectacular vision of a modern fairytale, in her promo for Kamille's Mirror Mirror.&nbsp;From pastel styling to decadent palace halls, the video is a vibrant fantasy fit for royalty, and is elevated by cameos from pop heavyweights Jade Thirwall and MNEK.&nbsp;Anchored around a high-energy performance and dynamic choreography, Rebekah Creative's trademark flair shines through the tongue-in-cheek concept, and showcases a little of&nbsp;everything there is to love about pop promos.&nbsp;

Rebekah Creative

Lavinia Noel

Yellow Fish Group Limited

Luke Biggins

Keryn Mae

Gil Kolirin

Daniel Deighton

Jonny Boomer

Kiera Liberati

Edmund Bossman

Moomal Moghul

Kaz Ova

Jon Dobson

Wash

We Are Covert 

Marisa Garner Associates

Faye Purcell

Kamille 'Mirror Mirror' by Rebekah Creative

Kamille-'Mirror-Mirror'-by-Rebekah-Creative

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;

Lucrecia Taormina

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Ty Hack

Phil Heron

Rob Hawkins

Peter Bishop

Flora Huddart

Andrea Gomez Anzola

Meg Thorne

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Crystal Spotlight

Robert Lane

Ash Teague

Doug Walshe

Progressive Art Rock

Steven Wilson 'Personal Shopper' by Lucrecia Taormina

Steven-Wilson-'Personal-Shopper'-by-Lucrecia-Taormina

La Roux returns with a new track in her trademark sound, and the video for&nbsp;International Woman of Leisure by Nova Dando, sees her dispensing with her hitherto icy image for something more approachable.The video for the Grammy Award-winning artist captures La Roux’s bold style whilst incorporating a kaleidoscopic array of colour to match the track’s playful riposte to the debonair lifestyle of male privilege.&nbsp;It marks La Roux’s first material in five years ahead of new album ‘Supervision’ – released February 2020.&nbsp;

Nova Dando

Nancy Ryan

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Grant Freeman

Eoin McLoughlin

Karl Hui

Teresa Adamson

Lauren Palmer

Georgina Yates

Nick Dalby

UNIT

Flaura Atkinson

The Quarry

La Roux 'International Woman Of Leisure' by Nova Dando

La-Roux-'International-Woman-Of-Leisure-'-by-Nova-Dando

Ben Strebel has created a strikingly metaphorical and intensely visceral&nbsp;video for The Hour; a harrowing look at disenfranchised Britain and the exploration of freedom.The film features faceless, masked figures engaging in a dramatic event, which appears ominous and threatening. But Strebel invites the viewer to explore their perceptions, as the lack of sinlge identity is shown to be liberating:&nbsp;&nbsp;no class, no gender, no race, no disability. Everyone is the same, and ultimately a supportive community.The Hour is a collective of anonymous artists who themselves wear masks when performing live on stage, allowing the group to change freely over time. The mask is about being free and equal, also captured in Strebel&rsquo;s film.&nbsp;He explains:&nbsp;&ldquo;I wanted to examine the almost utopian idea of anonymity in the face of a society crazed by nihilism (social media driving us to extreme antisocial behaviour and mental illness).&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;

India Lee

The Hour 'Wasted' by Ben Strebel 

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