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Park Pictures

Music video and film worlds collide in Jake Erland's latest collaboration with Joy Crookes.&nbsp;The video for I Know You'd Kill is a thrilling, no-holds-barred spectacle, boasting backlit fight scenes, gravity-defying flips - and Joy as we've never seen her before.&nbsp;Battling an unidentified assailant, she holds her own whilst tearing up her apartment-turned-battle zone, captured in a combination of brilliant overhead shots and frantic closeups.And, as well as plenty of action-packed set-pieces, it's another video by Erland showcasing Joy Crookes' winning personality.&nbsp;

Jake Erland

Rowan Macintosh King

Shelley Jones

Joy Crookes 'I Know You'd Kill' by Jake Erland

Joy-Crookes-'I-Know-You'd-Kill'-by-Jake-Erland

Fatherhood is examined in a tender montage of vignettes, in&nbsp;Saddiq Abubakar's promo for Tom Misch.&nbsp;The video for Old Man features a selection of real life fathers and sons, ending with a breathtaking scene between&nbsp;the artist and his dad.&nbsp;Cinematic and absorbing, the visual lingers on simple everyday moments and connection, bringing to life snapshots of stories in a universally relatable way.&nbsp;Lovely work.&nbsp;

Saddiq Abubakar

Tarquin Ramsay

Jaime Ackroyd

Fran Thompson

Tom Misch 'Old Man' by Saddiq Abubakar

Tom-Misch-'Old-Man'-by-Saddiq-Abubakar

Jak Payne directs an evocative promo for Demise Of Love - a collaboration between producers/alt rock pioneers&nbsp;Daniel Avery, James Greenwood's Ghost Culture and Working Men's Club.The video for Strange Little Consequence sees WMC's&nbsp;Syd Minsky Sargeant&nbsp;perform whilst flanked by Avery and Greenwood within an abstract studio set - designed by art director Fin Sullivan&nbsp;- that's falling apart, littered with falling debris as it disintegrates around the three figures.&nbsp;Tied together by a breathless, quick-cut edit, it's a rousing promo with plenty of fun visual moments - and a great introduction to the new project.&nbsp;

Fin Sullivan

Jak Payne

Rosie Brear

Pete Bishop

Demise Of Love 'Strange Little Consequence' by Jak Payne

Demise-Of-Love-'Strange-Little-Consequence'-by-Jak-Payne

Joy Crookes and Kano deliver the joy and heartache of a life together in a series of moments, within the same four walls, in Jake Erland's compelling video for Mathematics.The artists portray a couple going through the life-changing phases of a relationship – young love, marriage, birth and death - all happening within their home. And&nbsp;we switch between periods, back and forth, as the action takes place within an almost theatrical framework - the same rooms of their council flat, shot on a locked-off camera. So the table used for a birthday party will later host a wake for a&nbsp;lost loved oneThis device is a winner, allowing for Erland to create almost painterly compositions as cinematographer as well as director of the piece. And it provides the contained space for the transfixing acting performances of the two artists.[imgtoken data:1]In this respect, Kano's talents are well known, due to his role in Top Boy. But he is matched by Joy Crookes,&nbsp;who portrays a young woman's ups and downs in a way that suggests she also has great potential as an actor. She has great chemistry with Kano, and the meaningful yet unheard exchanges between them provides good reason to return to this again and again.The&nbsp;visuals overall underscore a track that also feels transcendent,&nbsp;with Crookes expressing the pain of trying to be on the same page with someone you love. After <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/01/21/joy-crookes-ft-vince-staples-pass-salt-jake-erland/89735" target="_blank">Pass The Salt</a>, released last month, Mathematics is the second of a tryptich of videos by Erland for the new album. And after this, it's going to be fascinating to see what they come up with next time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Rowan Mackintosh King

Mouthpiece

Tara Leonard

Kat Cattaneo

Oli Hill

Kai Newton

Massimo Fillipi

Furmaan Ahmed

Angelica Wolanska

Mata Marielle

Grace De Ville

Kim Rance

Francesca Daniella

Eden Clark

Kiera Liberati

Thomas Adams

Arsenii Pronkin

Tim Smith

Rascal Post

Joy Crookes ft Kano 'Mathematics' by Jake Erland

Joy Crookes - Mathematics (Official Video) ft. Kano

It's been a while, but OK Go are back for their first music video-cum-visual art project in several years - seemingly prompted by Donald Trump's return to power.The band's frontman Damian Kulash co-directs the visual for A Stone Only Rolls Downhill with Chris Buongiorno, which begins with a title (in a familiar font) simply stating: 64 Videos on 64 Phones. It then presents the four members of OK Go through a varying, increasingly complex arrangement of phone screens, moving from phone to phone , or have a number of screens composite part or all of the image, and employing an escalating number of phones for ever-greater and ingenious compositions, also involving hand-based choreography.In other words, it's very clever. Not as spectacular as some previous outings, but just as magical and distinctively OK Go-like as ever. There's a peek behind the scenes, on how this very complex job was created and project managed&nbsp;in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7hI-mPqr8" target="_blank">BTS video</a>.&nbsp;However, unlike their previous videos the visual is also a poignant counterpoint to a lyric that's akin to a person gently breaking some very bad news: 'I wish I could tell you it'll all be just fine.' It's pretty clear what that refers to."We invested all this time and effort into this so that you could have three minutes of wow in your day and a real sense of joy about other humans in the world,"&nbsp;Kulash expains in the BTS. "That's a very precious commodity now."&nbsp;OK Go have responded to the world going to shit in a very OK Go way.[imgtoken data:1]

United States

Damian Kulash, Jr.

Chris Buongiorno

Jackie Kelman Bisbee

Caroline Kousidonis

Michaela McKee

Chelsea Schwiering

Omer Dagan

Justin Clare Hand

Phillip Chbeeb

Emilio Dosal

T. Hunter McCann

Benjamin Voutour

Gustavo Perez-Santos

Bryan Kaing

Gino Nix

Heather Coleman

Rock

Indie

OK Go 'A Stone Only Rolls Downhill' by Damian Kulash & Chris Buongiorno

OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

Jake Erland directs a vibrant performance promo for Joy Crookes.&nbsp;Opening in a deep red room, the video features a captivating showcase of Crookes' performance skills, encapsulated in mini vignettes adorned with minimalist art direction.&nbsp;Overlaid with lyrics for Vince Staples' featured section, the video employs a balanced use of colour, camera movement and beauty lighting&nbsp;to create a laidback yet completely absorbing aesthetic.&nbsp;Brilliant work across the board, and a rousing comeback for the London-based artist.&nbsp;

Joy Crookes ft Vince Staples 'Pass The Salt' by Jake Erland

Joy-Crookes-'Pass-The-Salt-Ft.-Vince-Staples'-by-Jake-Erland

Jake Erland directs (and shoots) the video for Olivia Dean's Time - very close to a runway at Heathrow Airport...

Nycollas Abreu

Rose Lucas

Olivia Dean 'Time' by Jake Erland

Olivia-Dean-'Time'-by-Jake-Erland

Iggy London directs a vibrant performance promo for Mabel.The video for Vitamins centres on a carefree band performance, introduced with a series of intimate, enigmatic portraits of characters who appear later in the video.&nbsp;The effervescent aesthetic is achieved through inspired art direction, with abstract patterns and block colours taking centre-stage, complemented by creative cinematography from start to end.&nbsp;A brilliant project - and the&nbsp;Drector's Cut expands on Mabel and her band's&nbsp;central performance in an interesting way.&nbsp;

Iggy London

Katie Dolan

Joe Mulvihill

Jake Gabbay

Kieran Brown

Jade Adeyemi

Toby Heard

No.8

James Hills

Gary Kent

Simone Beyene

Waddah Sinada

Shamara Roper

Hila Karmand

Shereen Assopiah

Shani Mushington

Mabel 'Vitamins' (Director's Cut) by Iggy London

Moonchild Sanelly and her gang of accomplices run wild and cause egg-related havoc all over town in Jabu Nadia Newman's terrific video for the South African artist and dancer's highly infectious Scrambled Eggs.From the start, the&nbsp;Capetown-based director transfixes the viewer with her bold and supercool take on contemporary South Africa, as the gang's invasion of a downtown cornershop has the edginess of a heist movie before turning into something more comedic and performance-based.With great camerawork, glam and choreo, Newman keeps the breathless narrative moving towards a daring climax, showcasing Moonchild Sanelly's great performance, and chemistry with her similarly blue-haired pals&nbsp;in the process.&nbsp;We suspect&nbsp;few eggs may have been harmed in the making of this video. Nevertheless, it's really&nbsp;eggs-cellent...<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rz6Cfwl5CFs?si=5azH-d400BN-Yjd4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

South Africa

Jabu Nadia Newman

Khosi Khumalo

Romance Films

Colors

Rozanne Rocha-Gray

Jules Dieng

Julie Mathieu Moreau

Tom Falck

Transgressive Records

Michael Cleary

Francois Ferreira

Chloe Andrea Welgemoed

Khaya Mhleli

Tshego Ramorwesi

Evy Katz

Left Post

Nic Apostoli

Ashwin Bosman

Funk

Moonchild Sanelly 'Scrambled Eggs' by Jabu Nadia Newman

Moonchild Sanelly - Scrambled Eggs (Official Video)

Jake Erland directs a captivating video&nbsp;for beabadoobee, highlighting Bea's star quality with a Hollywood-style&nbsp;street scene, and a touch of Groundhog Day.Bea performs Take A Bite, the first single from forthcoming new album&nbsp;This Is How Tomorrow Moves, amongst the hustle and bustle of life on a busy European city street, with the stylised look of a studio-set Hollywood musical.Exuding a mixture of drama and glamour - with Erland working as DoP as well as director -&nbsp;her performance gains an additional sense of mystery as the street scene moves from day to night and then blacks out entirely. Then Bea returns to the&nbsp;street corner where she started, to repeat the move&nbsp;twice more, with the scene slightly more chaotic each time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is both a visually arresting and nostalgic concept and&nbsp;echoes other videos Erland has shot for her - like the London-set song-and-dance based <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/11/03/beabadoobee-laufey-night-remember-jake-erland/83982" target="_blank">A Night To Remember</a>. But while retaining&nbsp;the texture of her edgier, grungy roots, its a definite statement about the next chapter for&nbsp;beabadoobee.[imgtoken data:1]

Dan Bassett

Jon Moore

Rachel Jones-Williams

Patricia Villirillo

Film Fixers Balkans

Liliyana Ivanova

Emilie Bromley

Krasimira Petrova

Indie pop

beabadoobee 'Take A Bite' by Jake Erland

beabadoobee - Take A Bite (Official Music Video)

Holly Blakey returns to music videos, directing and choreographing a mesmerising dramatic dance piece for&nbsp;alt-rock outfit Goat Girl.&nbsp;The video for Motorway follows a trio of characters whose interactions on a dark night lead to a unpreditably coming together in movement. Characteristially&nbsp;it is an unpredictable yet compelling combination of performances, seemingly unstructured and&nbsp;apathetic at first, yet building to a powerful, frantic&nbsp;climax.&nbsp;Adorned with bizarre makeup and styling, the video feels uncanny in the best way, representing the almost otherworldly nature of the track.&nbsp;Highly conceptual yet utterly absorbing, the video is an essential showcase&nbsp;of Holly Blakey's talent for direction and dance.

Holly Blakey

Ayomide Alli

Jack Exton

Lotty Sana

John O'Riordan

Tom Viney

Matthew Josephs

Alternative

Goat Girl 'Motorway' by Holly Blakey 

Goat Girl - motorway (Official Video)

Jake Erland, one of the most exciting new directors working in British music videos -&nbsp;most recently directing the Rachel Chinouriri video for Never Need Me featuring Florence Pugh -&nbsp;has now signed to Park Pictures in London for music videos and commercials.Erland is a director and DoP who started out&nbsp;shooting skate videos and evolved his signature style through a prolific long-term collaboration with London brand Palace.&nbsp;His dynamic vision as a cinematographer has evolved into a strong directorial voice, leading him to work with numerous brands&nbsp;including&nbsp;Samsung, On, Rapha, Dior, Tommy Jeans, Salomon, Vans, Louis Vuitton, and John Paul Gaultier.Erland has also directed&nbsp;and shot several acclaimed videos in the past year or so, for the likes of Shygirl, Rachel Chinouriri and Beabadoobee. His video for Beabadoobee's Glue Song was nominated at the UKMVAs last year. His recent Chinouriri video for Never Need Me, with Florence Pugh as the singer's best friend and 'wingwoman',&nbsp;went viral with press in Elle, Wonderland, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, W Magazine and Daily Mail.Park Pictures - co-founded by director and cinematographer Lance Acord and home to a roster of Academy Award-winning directors including Emmanuel Lubezki - is renowned&nbsp;as ‘the cinematographer’s production company’ and doubles down on that reputation by signing director and cinematographer Erland, who is signed at Park for the UK and repped for music videos at Mouthpiece.&nbsp;“Park London is thrilled to add Jake to our roster,"&nbsp;says Park London's MD Fran Thompson.&nbsp;"I am drawn to the energy and playfulness in his work.&nbsp;As a DOP/director he’s really the perfect fit.”Founded in 1998 by Acord and executive producer&nbsp;Jacqueline Kelman Bisbee, and based in LA, New York and London, Park has been producing award-winning work for clients such as Apple, Nike, Google, Adidas, Verizon, Beats, Spotify, Amazon and Volkswagen for over 20 years.&nbsp;Park has also produced numerous features and documentaries, with over twelve chosen as Official Selection at Sundance.&nbsp;&nbsp;“I’m so excited to start this journey with Park,” adds Erland. “I never planned to be a director, it’s something my career has evolved into naturally. So to join Park, a company with an ethos so aligned to my own, feels like I've found the natural home for my practice. I can’t wait to see where it goes from here but I rest easy knowing that I have this wonderful team behind me and an iconic roster to inspire me.”• Watch Jake Erland at Park Pictures <a href="https://parkpictures.com/director/jake-erland" target="_blank">here</a>

Park Pictures London signs Jake Erland

Mitski builds herself a tower in AG Rojas's return to music videos with My Love Mine All Mine, shot by Evan Prosofsky.Firstly we see the artist in an empty&nbsp;industrial space, stacking chairs&nbsp;higher and higher, into an improbably tall tower. Eventually, she places an egg under the bottom chair, and proceeds to climb this precarious structure.The track is the first single from Mitski's new album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We -&nbsp;comprised of songs written in bursts over the years since&nbsp;Mitski openly contemplated retirement from the music industry, with bravely vulnerable lyrics expressing the universal feelings of aching for and moving toward love.On first viewing the video feels more in the orbit of the singer-songwriter's canon of intriguing, often theatrically intense music videos than the visually poetic work that Rojas is known for. But within this interior setting, the director delivers on his reputation&nbsp;for creating memorable imagery with a strongly symbolic idea that dovetails beautifully with Mitski's sensitive delivery.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Neil Wyzanowski

Leila Richards

AG Rojas

Grace Campos

Cheyenne Shannon

Justin Usami

Evan Prosofsky

Cody Ryder

Ray Fuentes

Justin Lesch

Karla Marie Christensen

Scott Sison

Alex Nieto

Yuichi Kojima

A.g. Rojas

Gregory Reese

Royal Muster

Pariah Creative

Steven Wolff

Mitski 'My Love Mine All Mine' by AG Rojas

Mitski-'My-Love-Mine-All-Mine'-by-A.g.-Rojas

The London office of Park Pictures has welcomed acclaimed director&nbsp;Roger Guàrdia to its roster.&nbsp;Guàrdia is renowned for creating hypnotically atmospheric&nbsp;worlds with a meticulous eye for detail in commercials and music videos.&nbsp;Born and raised in the suburbs of Barcelona, Roger got into filmmaking in his youth, making music videos for the most exciting contemporary artists in the underground scenes he was a part of.He has collaborated with music labels Warp, Captured Tracks, and Sony Music, creating music videos for artists like Battles, Bad Gyal and Mourn, which have garnered him nominations for top awards including at the UKMVAs. Most recently, he directed&nbsp;Rosalía's collaboration with Romeo Santos on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/09/14/romeo-santos-rosal%C3%ADa-el-pa%C3%B1uelo-roger-gu%C3%A0rdia/78319" target="_blank">El Pañuelo</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;His commercial clients include the likes of Nike, UNICEF, Converse, Adidas and Stella McCartney.&nbsp;His 2021 campaign for Zara Origins – a visual experience based on Aphex Twin’s ‘Avril 14th’, in which the masters of the classical perform an arrangement of the song in a swimming pool, alongside a diverse cast of models wearing the brand’s collection – garnered numerous awards and nominations.Guàrdia’s move to Park Pictures London signals an intention to focus on more European projects rooted in areas like fashion, music and culture, where he has established a solid presence and audience. He has&nbsp;spent the past three years being represented by the production company in the US. He is represented by CANADA in Spain and other territories.“Roger is a director unlike any other on the Park roster,” says Park London's Managing Director Fran Thompson. “His unique perspective and style allows to engage on a whole new range of scripts and we’re excited to develop some agenda-setting projects with him and be part of his evolution as a director.”"I'm happy to expand my relationship with Park Pictures and join them in London," adds&nbsp;Guàrdia.&nbsp;"I really like the team’s background, vision, and approach. I can't wait to collaborate and create good projects together.”• Watch Roger&nbsp;Guàrdia's showreel at Park Pictures <a href="https://parkpictures.com/directors/roger-guardia" target="_blank">here</a>

Roger Guàrdia

Roger Guàrdia joins Park Pictures in London

Iggy London directs a&nbsp;visual exploration of girlhood, growing up and self-love, in his affecting promo for Grace Carter.&nbsp;The video for Pick Your Tears Up contains several intimate portrait vignettes&nbsp;of Carter and her friends, capturing them in a transitory, poignant manner.&nbsp;Carefully blending character study and an abstract, elevated aesthetic, the video exists somewhere between a music video and documentary, and is instantly captivating and moving.&nbsp;A beautiful complement to the track, which perfectly visualises an intangible, yet universal, set of emotions.&nbsp;

Elena Isolini

Jinjo Casting

Verity May Lane

George Telfer

Christian Huck

Lallie Doyle

Sam Barnham

Emmy Robinson

Ada Wesolowska

Tiffane Williams

Maya Man

Ed Hanbury

Trim Editing

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Cinelab Film and Digital

Grace Carter 'Pick Your Tears Up' by Iggy London

Grace-Carter-'Pick-Your-Tears-Up'-by-Iggy-London

Hector Aponysus directs an evocative promo for Petite Noir, featuring Sampa the Great.&nbsp;The video for Blurry sees the artist - real name&nbsp;Yannick Ilunga - perform in an industrial setting, whilst a series of experimental vignettes play out on-screen.&nbsp;Shot in 16mm black and white, and inspired by the spirit of 70's performance artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abromović and the work of William Kentridge, the film attempts to capture a sense of Petite Noir's interior and exterior experiences of the world, contemplating the meaning of shadow projection and evoking visions of claustrophobic unease.Beautifully abstract with a refreshingly inventive aesthetic, it's a brilliantly creative collaboration between the artist and director - who won the Best Live Video prize at the UKMVAs last October.&nbsp;