Director

Oscar Hudson

Oscar Hudson is back, directing&nbsp;a&nbsp;fever dream wrapped in a music video for Slowthai.&nbsp;The concept for Feel Away opens&nbsp;rather innocently... Slowthai - real name Tyron Frampton - is with his girlfriend (played by Guindilla Ontanaya) at a maternity ward, shot through her first person perspective.Reality soon takes&nbsp;a distorted plunge into more surreal territory, as the perspective switches&nbsp;and it's Frampton who now has a baby growing inside of him. Cascading into multiple nightmare scenarios, his love interest falls in love with a doctor, his limbs turn into cake and the baby lipsyncs the lyrics via&nbsp;the ultrasound screen.&nbsp;Truly weird and wonderful, the video takes a sharp turn into the uncanny valley and doesn't let up until the final, haunting frame. The use of first person perspective drops the viewer right into the middle of this world, creating an erratic and claustrophobic environment with no way out.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Callum Harrison

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Tom O'Driscoll

Steven O Eniraiyetan

Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Bill Rae Smith

Taff Williamson

Daniel Pacitti

Amber Pitkin

Ellie Johnson

TenThree

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Chloe Ensor

Kharmel Cochrane

Rich Savage

Asia Rose Kilgallon

Hip Hop

Slowthai ft James Blake & Mount Kimbie 'Feel Away' by Oscar Hudson

Slowthai-'Feel-Away-Ft.-James-Blake,-Mount-Kimbie'-by-Oscar-Hudson

In the final episode of Natalie Steiner's film series about the music video community during the pandemic crisis, our panel of interviewees reflect upon what they have missed about their pre-lockdown work routine, and then ponder upon what the industry will look like when things start moving again.[vidtoken data:0]After <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-episode-4-wonderings-and-worries-exclusive-promonews/64893" target="_blank">Episode 4: Wonderings &amp; Worries</a>, in which Natalie Steiner's interviewees reflected upon the immediate concerns caused by Covid-19, and the bigger issues that have arisen from the crisis, The Future Of Our Industry mixes some fond recollections of the communal experience of filmmaking, from the camaraderie to the adrenalin-buzz, to the practicalities of getting the industry moving again.<blockquote>The discussion in this final episode is a mixture of prediction, hopes and nostalgic appreciation for the music video industry pre-Covid19.</blockquote>This timely episode, edited by Meg Thorne at Cut+Run,&nbsp;features nearly all of the panel interviewed by Steiner and Eleri Evans for the Music Videos In Lockdown series. 'As the loosening of lockdown approaches and shoots begin we’ve got the opportunity to collectively question old habits, and start new ones," says Steiner.&nbsp;"The discussion in this final episode is a mixture of prediction, hopes and nostalgic appreciation for the music video industry pre-Covid19."The interviewees are: 1st AD Clara Paris;&nbsp;Virgin EMI director of video James Hackett;&nbsp;My Accomplice EP Imogen Harrison;&nbsp;wardrobe stylist Terri Higgins;&nbsp;director Aidan Zamiri;&nbsp;directors Zhang &amp; Knight;&nbsp;Knucklehead EP Ore Okonedo; Greatcoat Films' EP&nbsp;Kareem Adeshina; choreographer&nbsp;Simon Donnellon; FRIEND EP Luke Tierney; DoP Diana Olifirova; Envy colourist Jax Harney; director Oscar Hudson; Atlantic Records' director of video Dan Curwin; DoP David Wright; camera assistant Jomar O'Meally; Blink EP Laura Northover; producer Tom O'Driscoll; wardrobe stylist&nbsp;Taff Williamson; OB Management director's agent Sam Davey; hair and makeup artist Jessica Summer; marketing manager&nbsp;Olivier Massey; production runner&nbsp;Amelia Mullooly; Pulse Films' EP Rik Green; director Myles Whittingham; Object &amp; Animal EP Morgan Clement; director Ian Pons Jewell; and runners' agent Julia Patterson.This is the final episode of the five-part series Music Videos In Lockdown about the UK music video community during the crisis, exclusively presented by Promonews. Here are links to the previous episodes in the series:• Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 1: Last Jobs <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-launches-promonews-episode-1-last-jobs/64690" target="_blank">here</a> • Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 2: Spending Time <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-continues-episode-2-spending-time-exclusive-promonews/64744" target="_blank">here</a> • Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 3: Working During The Lockdown <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-episode-3-working-during-lockdown-exclusive-promonews/64811" target="_blank">here</a> • Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 4: Worries &amp; Wonderings <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-episode-4-wonderings-and-worries-exclusive-promonews/64893" target="_blank">here</a>

Clara Paris

James Hackett

Imogen Harrison

Terri Higgins

Aidan Zamiri

Zhang + Knight

Ore Okonedo

Kareem Adeshina

Simon Donnellon

Luke Tierney

Diana Olifirova

Jax Harney

Dan Curwin

David Wright

Jomar O'Meally

Laura Northover

Sam Davey

Jessica Summer

Myles Whittingham

Morgan Clement

Ian Pons Jewell

Natalie Steiner

Eleri Evans

Meg Thorne

'MUSIC VIDEOS IN LOCKDOWN' Episode 5: The Future Of Our Industry - exclusive on Promonews 

Music Videos In Lockdown | EP 5: The Future of Our Industry

Things get serious in the the fourth episode of Music Videos In Lockdown. The focus is on the real impact for many as the work has dried up. And will that be a catalyst for change in how the industry operates?[vidtoken data:0]Having&nbsp;seen how the&nbsp;UK music video production community has adapted to life and work in the current situation,&nbsp;the fourth episode of Natalie Steiner's must-see series addresses some of the serious issues that now confront the industry.As camera assistant Jomar O'Meally says at the start of Episode 4, the "people at the bottom" are the ones who take the brunt of the emergency - a situation which puts music video production in common with many other sectors of business and society. Wonderings And Worries touches on these issues, and the unease and anxiety that lies just beneath the surface of an industry which, as Kareen Adeshina says, largely depends upon the commitment and work ethic of freelancers.The episode also asks interviewees about how things might change, to ensure that hardworking peple do not fall through a trapdoor in any similar eventuality in future. And director Ian Pons Jewell, UK representative of campaigning body We Direct Music Videos, talks about the initiative&nbsp;to create a new standard contract for music video production, happening at the moment.&nbsp;As Oscar Hudson says, "The film industry has a lot of bad habits...&nbsp;this crisis can offer an perspective of what is important in our working lives."&nbsp;With lockdown restrictions&nbsp;beginning to ease, should the industry be as intense and fastmoving&nbsp;as it was before?&nbsp;''As the lockdown is loosened across the UK it feels as though everyone within the industry has acknowledged the importance of working within our lives, and creative selves," says Natalie Steiner, the music video producer who has made Music Videos In Lockdown during an enforced break from working, interviewing a wide range of people within the industry on Zoom over several weeks."This episode hosts a discussion of whether 'business of usual' should be what we’re aiming to get back to, or whether lockdown has given us an opportunity to reassess how, why and what we were doing before.''For this episode&nbsp;Steiner and her co-interviewer Eleri Evans talked to camera assistant Jomar O’Meally, DoP David Wright, producer Kareem Adeshina, commissioner Dan Curwin, marketing manager Olivier Massey, production runner Amelia Mullooly, makeup artist Terri Higgins, agent Julia Patterson, director Aidan Zamiri, producer Imogen Harrison, director Zhang &amp; Knight, producer Luke Tierney, commissioner James Hackett, colourist Jax Harney, producer Morgan Clement, director Oscar Hudson, producer Rik Green, director Ian Pons Jewell, producer Laura Northover, and director Myles Whittingham.This episode of Music Videos In Lockdown was edited by Meg Thorne at Cut+Run.&nbsp;This is the fourth episode of the five-part series Music Videos In Lockdown about the UK music video community during the crisis, exclusively presented by Promonews. Here are links to the previous episodes in the series:&nbsp;•&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 1: Last Jobs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-launches-promonews-episode-1-last-jobs/64690" target="_blank">here</a> •&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 2: Spending Time&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-continues-episode-2-spending-time-exclusive-promonews/64744" target="_blank">here</a> •&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 3: Working During The Lockdown&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-episode-3-working-during-lockdown-exclusive-promonews/64811" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;

'MUSIC VIDEOS IN LOCKDOWN' Episode 4: Wonderings And Worries - exclusive on Promonews 

Music Videos In Lockdown | EP 4: Wonderings And Worries

In the third episode of Natalie Steiner's series about the UK music video production community during lockdown, she discovers how work has continued, the ubiquitity of Zoom, the resourcefulness of music video creatives - and the resulting phenomenon of lockdown videos...[vidtoken data:0]Natalie Steiner has documented the extraordinary moment created by the pandemic, by interviewing her workmates, contemporaries and friends from the music video community in London. She has spoken to&nbsp;everyone from&nbsp;directors, producers, camera crew, choreographers, commissioners, directors reps, stylists, hair and makeup artists, and more - via Zoom, of course.In Episode 3: Working During The Lockdown, she asked interviewees about how they have managed to keep working through isolation, and&nbsp;discovered that the industry quickly mobilized to find ways to continue to make music videos, via remote directing, artists self-shooting, crowd-sourcing, and placing a greater emphasis on animation.<blockquote>The way we’ve carried on throughout this crisis has highlighted what a bunch of genuinely creative people we are.</blockquote>The interviewees in Episode 3 are directors Zhang &amp; Knight,&nbsp;Oscar Hudson,&nbsp;Myles Whittingham,&nbsp;Ian Pons Jewell, Aidan Zamiri and Will Hooper; directors' agent Sam Davey at OB Management; producers Tom O’Driscoll, Kareem Adeshina, Morgan Clement, Rik Green and Laura Northover; choreographer Simon Donnellon; commissioners James Hackett and Dan Curwin; assistant director Clara Paris; colourist Jax Harney; cinematographer Diana Olifirova and camera assistant Jomar O'Meally.&nbsp;With interviews conducted by Natalie Steiner and Eleri Evans, Episode 3 was edited by Cut+Run editor Meg Thorne.&nbsp;Natalie Steiner says: "During these interviews I was actually surprised by the interviewees and their get up and go attitude.&nbsp;The way that we’ve collectively picked up and carried on throughout this crisis has really highlighted what a bunch of genuinely creative people we are, who are able to overcome challenges and just figure it out."This is the third episode of the five-part series&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown&nbsp;about the UK music video community during the crisis, exclusively presented by Promonews. Here are links to the previous episodes in the series:&nbsp;•&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 1: Last Jobs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-launches-promonews-episode-1-last-jobs/64690" target="_blank">here</a> •&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 2: Spending Time&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-continues-episode-2-spending-time-exclusive-promonews/64744" target="_blank">here</a>

Will Hooper

OB Management

Cut+Run

'MUSIC VIDEOS IN LOCKDOWN' Episode 3: Working During The Lockdown - exclusive on Promonews 

Music Videos In Lockdown | EP 3: Working During the Lockdown

In the second of music video producer Natalie Steiner's film series about the UK music video production community during lockdown, she asks people from all corners of the industry about what they are doing, now that many of them have far more time on their hands...[vidtoken data:0]Steiner has documented the extraordinary moment created by the pandemic, by interviewing her workmates, contemporaries and friends from the music video community in London. She and Eleri Evans have conducted interviews with everyone from&nbsp;directors, producers, camera crew, choreographers, commissioners, directors reps, stylists, hair and makeup artists, and more - via Zoom, of course.&nbsp;In the second of the series, she finds out about how they are spending their time now they are not working on film shoots - and elicits a range of&nbsp;illuminating, inspirational and entertaining responses from her interviewees.Episode 2: Spending Time - exclusively presented by Promonews - features directors Ian Pons Jewell, Zhang + Knight, Will Hooper, Oscar Hudson, Myles Whittingham and Aidan Zamiri; producers and executive producers Luke Tierney, Imogen Harrison, Tom O'Driscoll, Laura Northover, Morgan Clement and&nbsp;Rik Green;&nbsp;stylist and makeup artists Terri Higgins,&nbsp;Jessica Summer; colourist Jax Harney; 1st AD Clara Paris; camera crew David Wright, Diana Olifirova and Jomar O'Meally; choreographer Simon Donnellon; and&nbsp;commissioners James Hackett and Dan Curwin.As she told Promonews on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-launches-promonews-episode-1-last-jobs/64690" target="_blank">the launch of the series with Episode One: Last Jobs on May 6th</a>,&nbsp;Steiner wanted to tap into the communal spirit of the music video community at this difficult time.&nbsp;"My hope was to pull together a film which showcases the full range of people within our industry, and shows commonality and unity amongst us. I wanted to learn something about the industry, the people in it, and what we can do it make it better. Hopefully this series does that and it makes you feel a little closer to normality."This is the second&nbsp;episode of the five-part series&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown&nbsp;about the UK music video community during the crisis, exclusively presented by Promonews. Here is the link&nbsp;to the previous episode&nbsp;in the series:&nbsp;•&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown Episode 1: Last Jobs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/music-videos-lockdown-series-launches-promonews-episode-1-last-jobs/64690" target="_blank">here</a>Future episodes on Music Videos In Lockdown will focus on how work has continued during the crisis, and the impact of the seismic change in the work routines on the industry, both now and when things return to relative normality.&nbsp;

Jess Summer

'MUSIC VIDEOS IN LOCKDOWN' series continues with Episode 2: Spending Time - exclusive on Promonews 

Music Videos In Lockdown | EP 2: Spending the Day

A new film series by music video producer Natalie Steiner about her colleagues in the music video production community as they navigate the current situation in lockdown&nbsp;is premiered on Promonews.[vidtoken data:0]With the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown curtailing normal ways of working, the community of people who make music videos in London - directors, producers, camera crew, choreographers, stylists, hair and makeup artists, and more - have seen their working life suspended, or seriously altered by the unprecedented impact of the pandemic.Like many other people,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/profiles/natalie-steiner/51397" target="_blank">Natalie&nbsp;Steiner</a>, normally a hardworking producer of music videos (her credits include videos for Dave, Stormzy,&nbsp;Stereophonics,&nbsp;Raye, Ray BLK,&nbsp;Emeli Sande and&nbsp;The&nbsp;Horrors) has had much more time on her hands than usual. So she decided to document this extraordinary moment, by interviewing her workmates, contemporaries and friends from the music video community in London - on Zoom, of course.These interviews (by Steiner and Eleri Evans) have formed the basis of the four-part video series called&nbsp;Music Videos In Lockdown, with the first episode premiered on Promonews today.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>I wanted to showcase the range of people within our industry, and the&nbsp;commonality and unity amongst us.</blockquote>"The music video industry is a very busy one," she says.&nbsp;"We spend endless hours on set together pulling through early call times, bad weather, dodgy catering, and night shoots.&nbsp;As lockdown was enforced I was worried about a growing disconnect amongst people who were losing their ability to work and, even more, work together.&nbsp;"My hope was to pull together a film which showcases the full range of people within our industry, and shows commonality and unity amongst us. I wanted to learn something about the industry, the people in it, and what we can do it make it better. Hopefully this series does that and it makes you feel a little closer to normality."In&nbsp;the first episode,&nbsp;Last Jobs,&nbsp;the interviewees&nbsp;discuss&nbsp;the work they were doing just before lockdown - and how work stopped. It features&nbsp;directors Will Hooper, Aidan Zamiri, Myles Whittingham and Oscar Hudson, choreographer Simon Donnellon, DoP Diana Olifirova, camera assistant Jomar O'Meally, commissioners Dan Curwin and James Hackett,&nbsp;makeup artist Jessica Summer, producers and&nbsp;EPs&nbsp;Kareem Adeshina, Morgan Clement,&nbsp;Imogen&nbsp;Harrison, Laura Northover and&nbsp;Luke Tierney.Future episodes, to be released over the next two weeks, will discuss how life and work has changed during lockdown, and its impact on the industry - now, and potentially in the future - with contributions from the above and other interviewees, including&nbsp;Sam Davey,&nbsp;Rik&nbsp;Green,&nbsp;Terri Higgins, Tom O’Driscoll,&nbsp;Ore Okonedo,&nbsp;Taff Williamson,&nbsp;David Wright, and&nbsp;Zhang &amp; Knight.• Episode Two of Music Videos In Lockdown will be premiered on Promonews on Monday, May 11th.

'MUSIC VIDEOS IN LOCKDOWN' series launches on Promonews with Episode 1: Last Jobs

Music Videos In Lockdown | EP 1: Last Jobs

Oscar Hudson&rsquo;s marvellous video for Loyle Carner manages to do something extremely rare these days &ndash; it references the old masters of music video direction, and then extends that vocabulary of visual wonder and make the seemingly impossible happen before your eyes.It begins in lo-fi home video mode, with Carner dozing on a crowded commuter train, before appearing alone in a luxurious express train &ndash; before the huge face of guest singer Jordan Rakei appears in the window. What we think is VFX trickery is in-camera trickery. And from that point on, we&rsquo;re in a train carriage with the Carner and Rakei and fellow passengers, that is constantly changing, even though the position of the camera never moves&hellip;It&rsquo;s certainly possible to describe this visual treat as Gondryesque. It is, but this is no imitation. Its pure Oscar Hudson. As well as bamboozling trickery, there are visual jokes that you won&#39;t get on first viewing. And the subject of the songtitle Ottolenghi is in the video too &ndash; famous chef Yotam Ottolenghi is the ticket collector&hellip;Within in all, Loyle Carner gives another terrific performance here &ndash; and then there&rsquo;s the price of his train ticket from East Croydon to London Bridge. Mindblowing stuff![imgtoken data:1]

Daniel Precious

Ruben Woodin-Dechamps

Peter Bishop

Luke Moran-Morris

Ezana Ove

Toby Tomkins

CHEAT

Connie Meade

Loyle Carner ft. Jordan Rakai 'Ottolenghi' by Oscar Hudson

Loyle Carner - Ottolenghi (Official Video) Ft. Jordan Rakei

Col3trane ponders the shifting and unpredictable sands of time in Oscar Hudson&#39;s hallucinatory double video for the teenage R&amp;B singer/rapper&#39;s Fear &amp; Loathing and Britney.Taking Hunter S Thompson&#39;s gonzo classic,&nbsp;referred to in the title of the first track, as his jumping off point, Oscar Hudson and his regular cameraman collaborator Ruben Woodin-Deschamps employ&nbsp;some imaginative&nbsp;in-camera techniques for each song, and create a work that tackles the big subjects: life, death, drugs and flowers.&nbsp;&nbsp;First of all, Col3trane finds himself in the desert, his mental state altered courtesy of interesting combinations of camera zooming and pixellation. Then he&#39;s joined by a&nbsp;companion, a Thompson-like figure, transported to the desert after&nbsp;dropping acid, via his bowl of&nbsp;soup.&nbsp;Rather too much acid, as it leads to a decline and demise that Hudson turns into a black comedy of timelapse. And then things start to move back to the beginning...&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;I always wanted to make a double video for Fear &amp; Loathing and Britney,&quot; says Col3trane. &quot;The acid reference is an obvious nod to Hunter S Thompson but it was Oscar&rsquo;s idea for me and the other guy to turn up in each other&rsquo;s trips. Oscar is an amazing talent to work with. The song is about being stuck in a loop that you can&rsquo;t get out of, and he really brought that to life with the visual.&rdquo;

Francois Larpin

Scarlett Barclay

Ruben Woodins Deschamps

Caroline Clayton

Col3trane 'Fear & Loathing' & 'Britney' by Oscar Hudson

Col3trane-''fear-&-Loathing'-+-'britney''-by-Oscar-Hudson

Oscar Hudson returns with his first music video since winning Best Director at the UK Music Video Awards last year, and delivers another gem of in-camera visual effects ingenuity for Young Fathers, shot on a Scottish moor, where all manner of odd things are happening.Now available everywhere, following its Apple Music exclusive, Hudson&#39;s video for Holy Ghost uses thermal image technology to combine a video with a breathtaking look, together with a slow release&nbsp;of dark humour. It&#39;s also a&nbsp;performance video, involving lipsync and choreography,&nbsp;executed over a vast expanse of land - all captured&nbsp;on one camera.&nbsp;That was a rare,&nbsp;high-powered military thermal camera, which led the footage to look infra-red&nbsp;- or as&nbsp;&nbsp;Young Fathers&rsquo; Graham &lsquo;G&rsquo; Hastings has dubbed it: &ldquo;Shot in Infra-Dead&trade;&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;and zooming in onto a distant hillside&nbsp;where some very strange things seemed to be happening. As Oscar Hudson explains below, finding the camera and then using it for the purposes of making a music video was a very unusual experience.Shot on location in Perthshire in Scotland, Holy Ghost is a technical marvel, combining cinematography, survelliance and choreography to unique effect. Most importantly, a wicked sense of humour runs through it, from the opening (non-infrared) shot, to the last.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Maurizio Von Trapp

Rob Rowles

Stuart Cadenhead

Sean Hind

Laura Strong

Linzi St Clair

Ian Tod

Tamara Yazbek

Hilaire de Cacqueray

Jessica Vile

Framestore

Chris Anthony

Ben Stell

Paul O’Brien

Omar Akkari

Tim Greenwood

Theresa Adebiyi

Alternative

Young Fathers 'Holy Ghost' by Oscar Hudson

Young Fathers - Holy Ghost (Official Video)

Oscar Hudson&#39;s first full-length video for Radiohead arrives hot on the heels of his video for Young Martha, and it&#39;s another superb setpiece, that considering the name of the song, was just asking to be made.Thom Yorke embarks on one of the most surreal lift rides ever, and in the process taps into our anxiety about and the alienating effects of high-rise living. As with Hudson&#39;s previous work, like Bonobo&#39;s No Reason and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/09/11/young-thug-carnage-young-martha-ft-meek-mill-homie-oscar-hudson" target="_blank">aforementioned Young Martha video</a>,&nbsp;this is very largely executed&nbsp;in-camera.All the scenes beyond the doors of the elevator&nbsp;are there, for real &ndash; only the lift display and buttons were added in post&nbsp;- <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BY_H_JCjbqr/" target="_blank">an ingenious piece of design and organisation,</a> and exemplary work by production designer&nbsp;Luke Moran-Morris, art director Mia James and their team. A&nbsp;very satisfying experience.

Matt Posner

Heba Elgamal

Rebecca Green

Ty Hack

Spike Morris

Ewan Macfarlan

Ben Freeman

Celestine Healy

Oli Flowers

Josh Goodwin

Seth Crosby

Mia James

Kai Van Beers

Radiohead 'Lift' by Oscar Hudson

Radiohead - Lift

Oscar Hudson&#39;s first video since Bonobo&#39;s No Reason is another one-shot tour de force. Well, nearly a one-shot.But in true Oscar Hudson style, the video for Young Thug and Carnage&#39;s magic is achieved largely in-camera, and once again it&#39;s the result of a specially-made camera rig - in this case, one that travels through a 360 parabola. It reveals a scene of domestic magnificence, that gets brutal - mostly off-camera. Add some gravity-defing visual flouriths and you have a video that demands to be watched again and again. It&#39;s nuts, and the business.

United States

Alli Maxwell

Dylan Harrington

Griffin 'Griff' Evans

Van Dinh

Meliz Yilmaz

Kristian Zuniga

Mike Rooney

Austin English

Wayne Wolfgram

Andrew O'Connor

Crystal Broedel

Emily Kay Holloway

Fatima Bah

Young Thug & Carnage: Young Martha ft Meek Mill 'Homie' by Oscar Hudson

Young Thug & Carnage: Young Martha "Homie" ft Meek Mill [Official Music Video]

With his first music video since&nbsp;winning the&nbsp;Best New Director award at the UKMVAs last October, Oscar Hudson has moved squarely into &#39;How did they do that?&#39; territory.His video for Bonobo&#39;s No Reason is&nbsp;one of the rare moments when the viewer starts to question the evidence of their own eyes:&nbsp;the same bedroom of a Japanese teenager keeps appearing, even though the camera keeps moving forward - and it&nbsp;seems to be getting smaller. But that&nbsp;very genuine-looking tracking shot strongly suggests that what we&#39;re watching is real.For Si Green, aka Bonobo, its the latest in a growing body of outstanding music videos. For Oscar Hudson its a rip-roaring start at his new production company home - he recently joined Pulse Films. And we just had to ask Oscar all about it. On-set photos by Christian Cargill[vidtoken data:0]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Promonews: How did you come up with the idea?&nbsp;And what&rsquo;s the connection to Bonobo&#39;s music?Oscar Hudson: I knew from the brief that the album centred around Si&rsquo;s relationship to physical places and landscapes, with particular regard to the senses of alienation and detachment that he&rsquo;d experienced during his extensive time touring.&nbsp;My idea was aimed trying to link psychological space and physical space directly through a kind of physical metaphor.&nbsp;The idea was developed around the central physical concept of making a series of repeating rooms that shrink in scale around a central character. I got really excited about the prospect of trying to achieve this in-camera and seeing how extreme we take the idea.There was a point where I thought we&rsquo;d shoot the whole thing on lo-fi drain cameras (really narrow pipe-cameras that you push inside sewer pipes) and then also have the camera go inside people&rsquo;s mouths and down into their bodies&hellip; but that was probably a bit too dark and would have taken things away from the physical reality of what&rsquo;s actually possible. We opted to go for the slicker look and I&rsquo;m glad we did.[imgtoken data:1]Why is it Japanese?The aesthetic arose after discovering the Japanese phenomenon of the Hikikomori - young people who find themselves overwhelmed by life and who end up as housebound recluses. This felt like the perfect match for what my concept was trying to do and so very early on became a core part of the narrative we were creating.The Japanese aesthetic also worked really well on a number of practical levels. The low, minimalist furniture suited our low camera angle and was easier to reproduce &amp; scale down on mass and the Japanese pollution masks helped to make our 10 actors appear like the same character.Also the set is packed with all sorts of references to the song&rsquo;s lyrics and to the album campaign itself. I won&rsquo;t give these away, but people are starting to pick up on them in the YouTube comments which is fun.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>&quot;The aesthetic arose after discovering the Japanese phenomenon of the Hikikomori - young people who end up as housebound recluses&quot; Oscar Hudson (above, left)</blockquote>When did you realise it could work? Has anything like this been attempted before?I always knew the idea would work in some form or another. But after the early tests we did I realised it was going to work really nicely in the quite slick form you see. The grip system we designed to move the camera is entirely original as far as I am aware. The camera move had such specific and unusual requirements that almost all the grips we spoke to weren&rsquo;t that interested in the project because it fell beyond the realm of what&rsquo;s possible with existing equipment. To me and Ruben [Woodin-Dechamps- the DOP, below] though that was kind of exciting - we really had to think outside the box and get out hands dirty and get experimental.[imgtoken data:3]How big is the set? How long is the camera move? And how did you make the camera move?The set is made up of 18 rooms and was just under 100ft long. We basically rigged our little camera to a flat base plate of wood, covered the under side of this in downward-facing carpet and laid a very smooth lino to drag it across.To keep it in a straight line and to hide the tow wire we cut a one millimetre-wide groove into the floor all the way down the middle of the set and had two nails coming out the base of our camera unit to keep it sliding in the groove. The wire was then attached to the front nail and the camera could then be mechanically wound in from underground whilst the wire could remain hidden.[imgtoken data:4]It looks real. But how much is real and how much is post?I can say with great pride that there&rsquo;s no post FX whatsoever. The whole film is comprised of just two shots: the move forwards and the move backwards. There&rsquo;s one edit but it&rsquo;s a simple match cut, nothing fancy.&nbsp;A lot of people seem to ask how the actor is able to appear in every room. The answer is that it&rsquo;s not one&nbsp;actor, it&rsquo;s 10 actors.[imgtoken data:5]&nbsp;&nbsp;

Oscar Hudson on Bonobo's No Reason: "There are no VFX whatsoever"

Bonobo : No Reason (feat. Nick Murphy)

Watch in amazement as Oscar Hudson messes with your perceptions in this single-take journey for Bonobo&#39;s No Reason - Hudson&#39;s first video since joining Pulse Films.Utilising all practical effects, this incredible video for Bonobo uses forced perspective to shrink down a series of rooms as the camera passes through them, until before you know it the room is barely big enough to fit a hand inside.Littered with subtle easter eggs relating to Bonobo&#39;s latest record, brilliant bits of production design and some fantastic lighting effects, this clip is a real achievement - evoking the playful, surreal feeling of now classic 90s-era Jonze and Gondry videos.

Sarah Boardman

John Moule

Ninja Tune

Luke Moran Morris

Dan Smith

Michael Hobdell

Grant Sheridan

Ashley Hicks

Genki McClure

Sakara Dawson-Marsh

Robin Crowley

Laura Wisenger

Suzanne Judge

Alternative, Electronica

Bonobo 'No Reason' by Oscar Hudson

Radiohead have asked a number of artists and directors to interpret parts of songs from their new album&nbsp;A Moon Shaped Pool&nbsp;for their Instagram account. Oscar Hudson&#39;s piece for the last seconds of The Numbers has a young man doing some cleaning in a square room, while it fills up with sand, like a gigantic hourglass.Oscar Hudson says: &quot;I wanted to make a simple, strange scene - a peaceful moment plucked out from the middle of a dramatic narrative. It&rsquo;s a little film about time really.&quot;

Aaron Z. Willson

Mel Giles

Nai Sukanant

Josie Williams

Dexter Turner-Ramsay

Fenton Fielder

May Kindred-Boothby

Phil Lee

XL Recordings

Radiohead 'The Numbers (excerpt)' by Oscar Hudson

Don&#39;t you just hate it when you&#39;re trying to shoot an artfully arranged performance video of a cool, young band in a gritty English backstreet, but every take gets interrupted by a nosey man in a bright purple tracksuit?We&#39;ve all been there, right?&nbsp;Oscar Hudson certainly has.

Alasdair Mitchell

Orlando Morris

Carolina Schmidtholstein

Hannah Elwell

Anna Wild

Dan Millar

Sundara Karma 'A Young Understanding' by Oscar Hudson

Sundara Karma - A Young Understanding (Official Video)

Oscar Hudson started out making skateboarding videos for his friends, before setting off to uni, and since he graduated he&#39;s&nbsp;continued to hone his skills as a filmmaker through a diverse range of projects:&nbsp;documentaries, fiction and non-fiction&nbsp;shorts, fashion&nbsp;films &ndash; and lately,&nbsp;some excellent music videos.&nbsp;His latest for Darwin Deez&#39;s<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/11/12/darwin-deez-mess-she-made-oscar-hudson" target="_blank"> The Mess She Made</a>&nbsp;is based on a&nbsp;playful idea that sees Darwin&nbsp;matching his face with historic figures found on international banknotes. Before that, he directed two videos for Gilligan Moss, including&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/07/gilligan-moss-choreograph-oscar-hudson" target="_blank">Choreograph</a>, a meticulously-timed&nbsp;piece&nbsp;which sees family&#39;s morning routine repeated endlessly. And now Oscar, who is 25 and lives in Tottenham, north east London, has agreed to complete the Questionnaire.Education:&nbsp;I have a degree in Anthropology from Sussex University that I got&nbsp;for writing about the Apocalypse &amp; Phantom Limbs.Previous occupations:&nbsp;Prolific neighbourhood nanny. Photo assistant to a food&nbsp;photographer. 5D gun-for-hire&hellip; I&rsquo;ve&nbsp;been&nbsp;chronically freelance my&nbsp;whole life.<blockquote>Favourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;Alt J,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/25/alt-j-pusher-thomas-rhazi">Pusher</a> by Thomas Rhazi.</blockquote>Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;Gassafelstien, <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/06/19/gesaffelstein-pursuit-fleur-manu" target="_blank">Pursuit</a>&nbsp;by the consistantly brilliant Fleur &amp; Manu, and&nbsp;Chemical Brothers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0" target="_blank">Let Forever Be</a>&nbsp;by Michel Gondry.Favourite publications/websites: Thrasher, Guardian, BBC Football on constant mindless rotation.Favourite food/restaurant:&nbsp;Thai stuff. I like it spicy as hell and doused in fish sauce &amp; lime&nbsp;juice.Favourite drink/drug:&nbsp;Those little glass bottles of beer from Lidl.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>Last movie you saw (and was it any good)?&nbsp;I just saw the new James Bond. It was a steaming pile of&nbsp;manure.</blockquote>Favourite directors:&nbsp;Paul Thomas&nbsp;Anderson, Werner Herzog, Joshua Oppenheimer, Roy&nbsp;Anderson, Spike Jones, David Lynch.&nbsp;Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Business Lunch. They played a gig in my front room. It was very&nbsp;good. The leader singer snogged a decapitated goat&rsquo;s head and&nbsp;pulled its tongue off with his teeth.Favourite bands/artists:&nbsp;Tom Waits,&nbsp;Connan Mockasin,&nbsp;Timber TimbreCurrently reading/favourite book:&nbsp;Infinite Jest by David Foster&nbsp;Wallace. I&rsquo;ve been reading it for the&nbsp;past seven&nbsp;months and it&rsquo;s staggeringly brilliant but it&rsquo;s so damn long&nbsp;I&rsquo;m afraid I&rsquo;ll never finished it - but I think the book is trying to&nbsp;make me feel that way.How did you get a start in the business?&nbsp;I first picked up cameras to make skate videos with my friends.&nbsp;Then I bought myself a cheap DSLR and fell into doing bits and&nbsp;bobs for online mags like i-D &amp; Dazed and things slowly started&nbsp;picking up from there. I got a big leg-up into music video biz from&nbsp;Sam &amp; Kim at OB Management - who&rsquo;ve had my back in a big way&nbsp;ever since.What was the first music video you worked on - and what&nbsp;were you doing on that job?&nbsp;It was a video for the old Yorkshire rock band Terrorvision. I was &quot;DPing&quot;&nbsp;(read: waving a 5D around) for my good pal Spike Morris.&nbsp;He&rsquo;s gone on to be a talented DP himself so we&rsquo;ve swapped roles.<blockquote>What equipment do you rely on most to do your job?&nbsp;My notebook. I do a lot of sketches to figure ideas out.&nbsp;</blockquote>Favourite job (or jobs) of the past 12 months?&nbsp;My video for Gilligan Moss&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/07/gilligan-moss-choreograph-oscar-hudson" target="_blank">Choreograph</a>&nbsp;(below)&nbsp;was a very satisfying&nbsp;one. It was quite a complicated set-based-trickery concept involving&nbsp;lots of identical twins and lots of precisely timed choreography. I&nbsp;was confident but nonetheless the first time you call action and see&nbsp; the whole thing actually working it&rsquo;s such a thrill. The last shot of&nbsp;that video - the big zoom out with the mountain of eggs might also&nbsp;be the best image I&rsquo;ve ever made.[imgtoken data:2]What was the most challenging job you&rsquo;ve worked on?&nbsp;The follow-up video we made for Gilligan [for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/09/24/gilligan-moss-ceremonial-oscar-hudson" target="_blank">Ceremonial</a>] was a real tough shoot. It&nbsp;was an outdoor night shoot involving building multiple sets in a field&nbsp;and the dragging of a shirtless man behind a truck. I learnt that you&nbsp;really, really don&rsquo;t want to leave yourselves breaking down&nbsp;nightclub sets in cold dark fields at 5am.What&rsquo;s the Next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?&nbsp;I&rsquo;m working on making films inside people&#39;s bodies. It&#39;s gonna be&nbsp;microscopically huge.<blockquote>What would most improve your life?&nbsp;A magic treatment button.</blockquote>Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?&nbsp;I was really pleased to get to make the Darwin Deez video (below) - he&rsquo;s had&nbsp;such amazing films from some seriously brilliant directors - I feel like&nbsp;a total imposter next to those guys. Also my short film <a href="http://www.oscarhudsonfilm.com/lord--lidl.html" target="_blank">Lord &amp; Lidl&nbsp;</a>screened at the BFI London Film Festival last month - I&nbsp;was pretty&nbsp;proud of that.Worst moment?&nbsp;Back in the early days we had a petty falling out with the lead performer of a film we had just spent a very full-on ten&nbsp;days driving&nbsp;around Europe shooting. We never had him sign a release form (&#39;cause&nbsp;who needs legal shit, right?) and he was threatening to block us&nbsp;from using his image. He was in every single shot. It was a total&nbsp;nightmare at the time but we got it sorted in the end and the film&nbsp;ain&rsquo;t bad either.[imgtoken data:3]Biggest frustration?&nbsp;Budgets, I guess.What&rsquo;s the big issue or issues facing music video makers&nbsp;right now?&nbsp;The competition is hot. But that&rsquo;s a good thing. Gotta be better.<blockquote>Person you most admire?&nbsp;I admire filmmakers that steadfastly refuse to work commercially.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s stubborn and unrealistic and romantic and I kind of envy them.&nbsp;They&rsquo;re like the martyrs of the industry. &nbsp;</blockquote>What advice would you give to someone starting out in&nbsp;music video production?&nbsp;If you want to direct music videos - but you&rsquo;ve never made a music&nbsp;video - then no one is going to ask you to make a music video. So&nbsp;just get started. The sooner the better. Find a band that you like&nbsp;and convince them to let you make them a video. Great ideas don&rsquo;t&nbsp;have to cost much. Surround yourself with interesting people and&nbsp;look outside of film for inspiration - the best ideas come from&nbsp;strange places.Any hot tips on who will be the future stars in music video in&nbsp;the next couple of years &ndash; directors or otherwise?&nbsp;My Gang. They&rsquo;re the best. When we started out we were totally&nbsp;faking it- just making it up as&nbsp;we went along. But now everyone is&nbsp;getting seriously, seriously good at what they do and people keep&nbsp;trying to steal them from me. Aaron Z. Willson is a miracle-working&nbsp;producer. Luke Moran&nbsp;Morris is the most enthusiastic and talented art&nbsp;director - a credit to anything he&rsquo;s involved with. My DP Ruben&nbsp;Woodin-Dechamps has the golden eye. All of &lsquo;em - they&rsquo;re the best&hellip;&nbsp;so hands off! (only joking - obviously give them all tons of work).

The Questionnaire: Oscar Hudson

Darwin Deez has maintained his excellent reptuation for making creative music videos&nbsp;by collaborating with Oscar Hudson for The Mess She Made, involving&nbsp;a clever&nbsp;visual treat - and lots of international currency.&nbsp;&nbsp;The eye-catching clip&nbsp;plays on the camera&nbsp;perspective&nbsp;and&nbsp;places&nbsp;Darwin into various banknotes, matching his face to numerous&nbsp;historic figures, some you actually may have heard of - and all achieved in-camera.&nbsp;The whole idea sprang from Oscar Hudson&#39;s mind a few years ago, while on holiday in Morocco - as he explains below.It doesn&#39;t have much connection with the songs lyrics. But as Darwin Deez told The Wall Street Journal (and we never thought we would writing that sentence):&nbsp;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it matters,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Most people watch 30 seconds of something and then they flip to something else. It was more like we had an opportunity to do this, and it seemed really cool.&rdquo;[imgtoken data:1]

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Oliver Hogan

Emma Borley

Stephen Richards

Lucky Number Music

Indie, singer-songwriter

Darwin Deez 'The Mess She Made' by Oscar Hudson

Darwin-Deez-'The-Mess-She-Made'-by-Oscar-Hudson

Oscar Hudson collaborates again with Gilligan Moss,&nbsp;following up his impressive&nbsp;video for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/07/gilligan-moss-choreograph-oscar-hudson">Choreograph</a>, and this one for Ceremonial is another engaging and strange affair working within its own quirky&nbsp;logic.A lone raver in a field, is attached to a rope and dragged backwards by a car - back to the nightclub, and also mum and dad&#39;s. Or possibly this very muddy young man is just imagining everything...

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Ross Lindgren

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Gilligan Moss 'Ceremonial' by Oscar Hudson

Gilligan Moss - Ceremonial

Oscar Hudson has created a video&nbsp;for producer Gilligan Moss&#39;s distinctively skewed pop ode Choreograph that follows a tried-and-tested theme&nbsp;of exactly matching specific visuals to music elements, but then adds his own clever&nbsp;twist.Repeated moves by family members around a young man about to tuck into breakfast would obviously&nbsp;be an intensive VFX job in normal circumstances. But closer inspection reveals this scenario&nbsp;was achieved&nbsp;for real, in-camera.Not surprisingly, this required formidable&nbsp;organisation, including, as Oscar Hudson explains below, finding several sets of twins &ndash; and&nbsp;breaking lots of eggs. In the process he&#39;s&nbsp;created a sublime but eery vision of chaos - a time loop in which people do the same thing over and over, but continue to age as normal...Is Oscar trying to tell us something?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Susan Daniel

Charli Williams

Gilligan Moss 'Choreograph' by Oscar Hudson

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