Director of Photography

Robbie Ryan

Sophie Muller directs an effervescent and emotional video&nbsp;for Zella Day, introducing the Arizona-born singer to the wonders and weirdness of the&nbsp;English countryside with typical panache.&nbsp;Shot over two days at Puzzlewood in the Forest Of Dean and&nbsp;Pen Moel Estate, the video for Mushroom Punch weaves together several creative vignettes, featuring Day running through landscapes and clawing her way through a luxurious&nbsp;Victorian manor house.[imgtoken data:1]Muller teams up again with DoP Robbie Ryan for this characteristically stylish showcase for the artist, confidently introducing experimental ideas in the cinematography and editing.It captures the intimate vibes of the track whilst keeping viewers on their toes with perpetually shifting imagery - and above all giving scope for a committedly intense performance from the compelling Zella Day.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Tiffani Rae

Sophie Muller

Chris Murdoch

Prettybird

Dilly Gent

Juliette Larthe

Sam Page-Jones

Rory Power

Margherita Fabbro

Concord Records

Zella Day 'Mushroom Punch' by Sophie Muller

Zella-Day-'Mushroom-Punch'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller directs a mesmeric performance promo for Kylie Minogue. In fact, this is Kylie, pure and simple - no distractions at all.So for Miss A Thing, we just have the glamourous disco diva, dripping in diamante, luxuriating in her domain - a black studio space.&nbsp;Shot by Robbie Ryan - and filmed on the vintage ikegami 79D TV cameras that were&nbsp;also used for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/11/18/kylie-minogue-jessie-ware-kiss-life-sophie-muller/73851" target="_blank">the Kiss Of Life video</a> - Muller just trusts in the sheer iconic status of her subject to prove you can remove everything else, and&nbsp;make a great Kylie video. In fact, distilling everything to the essentials just makes it better. &nbsp;Footage is&nbsp;layered into a hypnotic montage, with&nbsp;simple mirror VFX enhancing the mood, with the vintage camera adding texture. It is a characteristially Muller-esque display of confidence in its own simplicity. She knows that every so often, less is more.&nbsp;

Frank Strachan

Christian Vermaak

Kylie Minogue 'Miss A Thing' by Sophie Muller

Kylie-Minogue-'Miss-A-Thing'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Ellis-Bextor reunites with regular collaborator Sophie Muller&nbsp;for Hypnotized - and they are back on that dancefloor.Leading a group of dancers in a hypnotic haze, we see Ellis-Bextor perform under coruscating lights, with featured artist (and producer) Wuh Oh up on the decks. She leads the dancers&nbsp;- presumably in a reference to her very successful 'kitchen disco' lockdown videos - who grow mysteriously larger in number.[imgtoken data:1]It has all the trademarks of a Sophie Muller video - strong performance, bright spotlights, a naturalistic colour palette,&nbsp;and melodrama - with an added disco flair - and an edit that expertly builds the emotion around a strong, simple concept. Esteemed cinematographer Robbie Ryan brings his talents to this one too.&nbsp;The ending, as the dancers grow into an army behind Sophie E-B, is a spectacular display of understated choreography. Great.&nbsp;

Tamara Cincik

Sam Barber

Jack Cowhig

Remo Catani

Davey Logan

Frankie Mulholland

Kirstin Halliday

Lisa Laudat

LS Productions

Cooking Vinyl

Sophie Ellis-Bextor x Wuh Oh 'Hypnotized' by Sophie Muller

Sophie-Ellis-bextor-'Hypnotized'-by-Sophie-Muller

New director Sam Aminzadeh has made an auspicious music video directing debut with an delightful video for London singer-songwriter Murkage Dave, shot by the legendary DoP Robbie Ryan.The video for World I Want To Live In expresses the positive message in Murkage Dave's gospel-influenced song, in a studio set-up where a group of disparate individuals come together to express themselves collectively through dance.Dave is the charismatic centre that holds this group together, performing the song which reflects upon the stress that social media can cause, to him and to everyone else. The simple but expressive dance moves of the group - a collaboration&nbsp;of professional dancers and non-professionals - symbolises a common strategy, or therapy, to deal with the stress;&nbsp;finding a route to make that improved world that Dave is talking about.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aminzadeh has been working as an assistant to some eminent directors over the past few years, including Daniel Wolfe, Kim Gehrig and Grant Singer. With this accomplished debut&nbsp;he shows he has a very promising future as a director&nbsp;himself.

Matty Healy

Angie Broomfield

Saman Aminzadeh

Shion Hayasaka

Suzie Fownes

Anonymous Content

Leo Oleskar

Juliette Temple

Ethan Samuel Jacobs

Steve Shaw

Myles Bevan

Time Based Arts

Murkage Dave 'World I Want To Live In' by Sam Aminzadeh

Murkage-Dave--'World-I-Want-To-Live-In'-by-Saman-Aminzadeh

WIZ reunites with longtime collaborator Will Young for the first part of a short film, heralding the singer's latest project, an album&nbsp;of cover versions. And once again, director and artist explore interesting&nbsp;dramatic territory for Young's intriguing take on Bat For Lashes' Daniel.Young plays an ageing theatre actor -&nbsp;a character in sad decline, desperately clinging to his dignity.&nbsp;As he has demonstrated in various other videos down the years, directed by&nbsp;WIZ and others, the singer demonstrates a real capacity to inhabit a role and&nbsp;express&nbsp;vulnerability, and here he plays this flawed character&nbsp;with real pathos."The Daniel&nbsp;video is the first of two to be derived from&nbsp;Just Like That,&nbsp;a short film featuring Will," explains WIZ - aka Andrew Whiston. "The theme is addiction - addiction to performance. How there’s no escaping it, despite all the damage it may bring. It always pulls you back, as seemingly the only fulfilment lies in the ephemeral thrill of the stage. Also, it was shot By Robbie Ryan, which is pretty insane!"With muted cinematography and in-camera effects by Ryan - the DoP renowned for his work with Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold -&nbsp;WIZ keeps focussed on Young's&nbsp;characterisation&nbsp;throughout, prefaced by narrative context. It's on a smaller scale than the epic cinematic drama they created together for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpWnuzVlxk" target="_blank">All Time Love</a>&nbsp;some years ago,&nbsp;but arguably this is WIZ and Will Young's most courageous collaboration yet.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Cait Lyn Adamson

My Accomplice

Richard Grewe

Alisa Tritenko

Chris Kelly

Mia Castles

Charlie Hippisley

Stevi Jelbart

Tracy Ejuetami

Jacques Simon

Trim Editing

Richard Fearon

Black Kite

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Cinelab Film and Digital

Will Young 'Daniel' by WIZ

Will-Young-'Daniel-'-by-Wiz

Sophie Muller directs a haunting promo in reverse for regular collaborator Birdy.&nbsp;Following the stripped-back seaside vision for Surrender back in January, the video for Loneliness encompasses the same vulnerability and wistful performance style, with a more conceptual and experimental aesthetic.&nbsp;With cinematography by Robbie Ryan and art direction from Alison Dominitz, Muller&nbsp;mixes contemporary, dilapidated locations with vintage patterns and materials, giving the project a universal and timeless feel. The desaturated colour palettes elevate the melancholic atmosphere, and are reminiscent of their previous collaborations, and one of the director's most iconic visuals, Nelly Furtado's Try.&nbsp;The use of reverse footage adds another layer of surreality to the promo, representing the themes of loss and loneliness, and the feeling that things aren't quite what they seem.&nbsp;

Hayley Williams - 1st AD

Kitt Sullivan

Leo Olesker

Alison Dominitz

Aldene Johnson

Georgina Hamed

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Birdy 'Loneliness' by Sophie Muller

Birdy--'Loneliness'-by-Sophie-Muller

Molly Burdett's latest video for Arlo Parks is a tender portrait of youth that explores the highs and lows of adolescence, loneliness, and friendship - shot by&nbsp;Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan, and starring Bafta-winning actor Molly Windsor.&nbsp;&nbsp;This intimate film for Hope, released just ahead of Arlo Parks' much-anticipated debut album Collapsed In Sunbeams,&nbsp;is&nbsp;a timely reminder about the power of togetherness; something everyone needs now more than ever.

Molly Burdett

Ersan Beskardes

Spindle

Miles Nathan

Rachel Bashford

Elle Lotherington

Connor Travis-hunter

Elena Muntoni

Lucy Upton-Prowse

Emilie Louizides

Greg Hackett

Tim Swaby

Tim Smith

CHEAT

No.8

Molly Windsor

Transgressive

Mouthpiece

Arlo Parks 'Hope' by Molly Burdett

Arlo Parks - Hope (Official Video)

Sophie Muller directs a zesty, effervescent promo for Kylie's return to her disco comfort zone.&nbsp;Taking place in the outer reaches of the disco galaxy, the video cycles between glittering performance shots - atop an opulent horse statue, no less - and snippets of choreography, all overlaid with shooting stars and galactic visual effects.&nbsp;The maximalist video&nbsp;pays homage to some of Sophie Muller's strongest work - most comparably&nbsp;the dream sequence in No Doubt's Simple Kind Of Life -&nbsp;but with a fresh and contemporary twist.Kylie's performance is as animated, dynamic and Kylie-esque as ever, encapsulating the fun and unabashed energy of the track whilst reminding her contemporaries why the world first fell in love with her some three decades ago.&nbsp;This is Muller and Minogue's fourth video collaboration together - but the first for a while. Of course it's a match made in Heaven...

Benji Landman

Cristina Cretu

Andy Cole

Matthew Josephs, Ed Marler

Andrew Gallimore

Ross McDowell

Dancer: Kaner Flex

Faith Holmes

Kylie Minogue 'Say Something' by Sophie Muller

Kylie-Minogue-'Say-Something'-by-Sophie-Muller

Django Django are back, with Tic Tac Toe, and a new video by regular collaborator John Maclean - borther of the bands&#39;s drummer and producer David.In it, Vincent Neff leaves the band&#39;s caravan to have a cool, speeded-up English seaside adventure (it was shot in Hastings): a quick successful pool game, fish &amp; chips, a trippy trip on the Ghost Train.Some of the team involved in Maclean&#39;s first feature <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3205376/" target="_blank">Slow West</a> were involved in making this - including DoP Robbie Ryan who shot the video on 16mm, sped up in-camera. The result is classic Django Django, employing lo-fi VFX tricky, consistently entertaining and unpretentious.&quot;The film could be about the fading era of the beach arcades, time moving too fast, love and games, horror and happiness,&quot; says John Maclean. &quot;But it is actually about a man who needs to go buy a pint of milk to make a cup of tea.&quot;

John Maclean

Precious Mahaga

Greatcoat Films

Simon Oxley

Pedro Rilhó

Christina Cretu

Kai Blamey

Robin Jones

Jax Harney

Django Django, Hannah Louie, Grace Upshall,  Jean Maclean, Bryan Mills,  Robin Jones

Jane Third

Because Music

Indie

Alternative

Django Django 'Tic Tac Toe' by John Maclean

Django-Django-'Tic-Tac-Toe'-by-John-Maclean

Preparation for Dawn Shadforth&#39;s video for Fat White Family side project The Moonlandingz, featuring Rebecca Taylor from Slow Club, apparently&nbsp;involved lead singer Johnny Rocket (aka FWF&#39;s Lias Saoudi)&nbsp;staying up for five days before the shoot. Then he attached fried eggs to his nipples with clingfilm.His co-star Rebecca is not dressed quite as imaginatively, but looks like she&#39;s been up for a few days herself. She and Lias project a kind of uneasy chemistry that bring to mind Uma Thurman and John Travolta dancing to Chuck Berry in Pulp Fiction. If they had been&nbsp;in&nbsp;a Chinese restaurant cum karaoke bar in Dalston in the middle of a bender, that is.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was shot on film by esteemed DoP Robbie Ryan, who&#39;s recent feature work includes American Honey and I, Daniel Blake. But you just don&#39;t get to do this sort of thing working with&nbsp;Ken Loach.

Dawn Shadforth

Elly Camisa

Somesuch

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Denna Cartamkhoob

Ben Hanratty

Ted Dogliani

Leo Dogliani

Shaun Fenn

Connie Rosenthal

Martin Mcclean

Tracy Cahoon

Magdalena Plugowska

Tatyana Alexandra

Jack McGinty

Verity May Lane

Rock, Indie Rock

The Moonlandingz ft Rebecca Taylor 'The Strangle Of Anna' by Dawn Shadforth

The Strangle Of Anna - The Moonlandingz ft Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Duth producers&nbsp;Tiesto and&nbsp;Oliver Heldens joined singer&nbsp;Natalie LaRose to record this banger&nbsp;The Right Song, now paired with this silly,&nbsp;fun-filled video by directing trio Shynola.It follows a&nbsp;lone office cleaner&nbsp;who uses some quite unconventional cleaning methods&nbsp;and&nbsp;harnesses the power of dance to have a good time whilst on the job. Its a&nbsp;colourful&nbsp;treatment incorporating some surreal elements, especially after the girl opens the utility cupboard to find her true love, a bright yellow&nbsp;hoover.But the romance is rather short lived.&nbsp;Following&nbsp;a courtly&nbsp;paired dance, the pair go on a romantic date&nbsp;and the hoover knocks his glass of&nbsp;wine all over our protagonist&#39;s&nbsp;dress&nbsp;and hoovers the petals off the rose centerpiece. And after a minute of dissapointment, the girl bounces back, taking snow white&#39;s Whistle While You Work mantra&nbsp;to a whole new level.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Netherlands

Shynola

Jacob Swan Hyam

Katie Dolan

Steven Ferguson

James Sharpe

Stephanie Werrell Smyth

Kate Tabor

Ezra Piers-Mantell

Emma Farnell Watson

Carys Staton

Mark Down

Mike Holliday

James Bamford

The Mill

Vanderquest

John Moule

Universal

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Dance

Tiesto & Oliver Heldens ft. Natalie LaRose 'The Right Song' by Shynola

Tiësto, Oliver Heldens - The Right Song (official video) ft. Natalie La Rose

There&#39;s love and there&#39;s some blood on the dancefloor in&nbsp;Dawn Shadforth&#39;s marvellous&nbsp;video for Hurts&#39; Lights - a nightclub odyssey&nbsp;where chemistry explodes utterly believeably&nbsp;between two strangers&nbsp;&ndash; the man, played by Theo Hutchcraft (definitely out of his usual ice-cool persona mode), and the feisty&nbsp;girl. And that&#39;s just for starters.&nbsp;It&#39;s a&nbsp;wonderful mix of gritty&nbsp;British drama and&nbsp;fantasy&nbsp;&ndash; Hutchcraft is a revelation, great bullfighter styling by Alex Noble, and edit by Dom Leung -&nbsp;and its thrillingly&nbsp;photographed by&nbsp;Robbie Ryan.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Rachel Rumbold

Caroline Purkayastha

Sonny London

Paul Roberts

Callum Powell

Ian Kay

Marvin Campbell

Alex Noble

Mark Connell

Scott Parish

Tracey Cahoon

Celia Burton

Dominic Leung

Simone Grattarola

Patch Rowland

Final Cut

Nick John

Coffee & TV

OB Management

Hurts 'Lights' by Dawn Shadforth

Hurts - Lights (Official Video)

Superstar singer Sam Smith and his pals enjoy a night out in the big city in Sophie Muller&#39;s gorgeous black and white promo for Smith&#39;s new single Like I Can. Beautifully shot, the group -&nbsp;suited and booted -&nbsp;go for a stroll around Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge,&nbsp;ending up doing tequila shots in a city bar...

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