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Rollo Jackson

Rollo Jackson directs a mesmerising performance visual for newcomer Pa Salieu's Betty.&nbsp;Opening in an exterior location under a strangely-hued pink sky, the video&nbsp;is formed of dynamic performance setups, spectacular VFX work -including the artist atop several 3D body parts- and&nbsp;a lo-fi performance captured on an infrared camera.The lyrical content and visual concept are very much open to interpretation and deeper insight. Salieu wrote the track to explore both the vibrance and difficulty of black life, against the backdrop of perpetual violence and grief in his lived experiences, and these themes punctuate the video throughout.

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Somesuch

Elly Camisa

Tom Gardner

Saskia Whinney

Deepa Keshvala

Chloe Slattery

Elliott Power

Trim Editing

Fouad Gaber

Tatyana Alexandra

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Luke Morrison

Hip Hop

Pa Salieu 'Betty' by Rollo Jackson

Pa Salieu - Betty (Official Music Video)

Rollo Jackson has written and directed a powerful, thought-provoking short drama to accompany Stormzy&#39;s acclaimed, era-defining debut album Gang Signs &amp; Prayer. It crystallises the themes of the album into a narrative of a young Afro-Caribbean boy in London who is drawn to become a &#39;bad boy&#39;, with terrible consequences. This is punctuated by Stormzy performing a number of tracks from the album.&quot;Young ​youts ​like ​myself, ​that ​grow ​up ​in ​the ​hood, ​we ​often ​don&#39;t ​know ​that ​we ​are ​actually ​the masters ​of ​our ​own ​destiny,&rdquo; ​Stormzy says in the film. ​&ldquo;There ​are ​so ​many ​things ​that ​steer ​us ​in the ​wrong direction ​however, ​we ​decide ​what ​happens ​in ​our ​own ​lives ​and ​like ​my ​album, ​I endeavoured for ​this ​film ​to ​portray ​just ​that. ​Derived ​from ​my ​album ​Gang ​Signs ​&amp; ​Prayer, and ​written ​and directed ​by ​the ​legend ​that ​is ​Rollo, ​I&#39;ll ​let ​the ​visual ​do ​the ​talking.&quot;[imgtoken data:1]

Sarah Pearson

Peter Arboine

Hayley Williams

Bobby Shore

Eira Wyn Jones

Jomar O'Meally

Colin Thwaites, Diego Moyano

Ruth Crawford

Verity May Lane

Natasha Lawes

James Forbes-robertson

The Whitehouse

Houmam Abdallah

Lydia Evitt

The Fader

Youtube

Sally Campbell

Tim Nash

Laurent Polain

John Scarabough

Stormzy 'Gang Signs & Prayer (The Film)' by Rollo Jackson

Stormzy-'Gang-Signs-&-Prayer'-by-Rollo-Jackson

A seedy, psychedelic motel is the setting for Rollo Jackson&#39;s trippy video for Belly ft. Future.Taking the visual motif of water rippling and distorting the world&nbsp;and bringing it onto dry land, we see Belly &amp; Future haunt the rooms of this motel, drenched in pink and blue hues. The hallucinogenic visual effects combined with elements of surreality make the motel feel like it could be anywhere and nowhere - a purgatory of sorts.

freenjoy

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Nathan Scherrer

Caroline Clayton

Tom Birmingham

Benjamin M. Piety

Jackson Hunt

Carlos Lazlo

Lisa Madonna

James Forbes Robertson

Houmam Abdullah

Belly ft. Future 'Frozen Water' by Rollo Jackson

Jamie XX,&nbsp;Young Thug, and Popcaan perform&nbsp;I Know There&#39;s Gonna Be (Good Times) in the video directed by Rollo Jackson. And as it checks out, it does seem their life is pretty damn good...&nbsp;

Phil Lee

Smith

Ozzie Pullin

George Belfield

Electronic

Jamie XX ft. Young Thug, Popcaan 'I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)' by Rollo Jackson

Jamie XX - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) ft. Young Thug, Popcaan

Rollo Jackson&#39;s promo for Hot Chip&#39;s Started Right&nbsp;sees a girl in an empty bar singing the tune on a little karaoke set-up, with&nbsp;some characteristically random karaoke-style videos playing alongside the lyrics,&nbsp;featuring old cartoons, footage of sea-life,&nbsp;surfers and beach babes.As&nbsp;bits of her audition tape&nbsp;start to creep in to the mix, the boundaries between genres, and the relationship between interacting and viewing blur and fall away.&nbsp;&nbsp;A karaoke/lyric video that becomes something else altogether.&nbsp;

Scott O'Donnell

Denna Cartamkhoob

James Dyer

Dan Stafford-Clark

David Agah Rafei

Sam Aminzadeh

Larry Prinz

Aradia Crockett

Louise Hinton

Kai Van Beers

Ryan Boucher

Amy Smith

Rebeca Marcos

Jonny Bradshaw

Domino Records

Sam Ebrahim Riley

Marshall Street Editors

Hot Chip 'Started Right' by Rollo Jackson

Rollo Jackson takes a trip through a digital world of futurist glamour for Wilkinson&#39;s&nbsp;Dirty Love.&nbsp;

Tash Tan

Sophie Dewey

George Nelson

Adam Scarth

Felix Schmilinsky

Ciaran Maginn

Seth Crosby

Robbie Mailer-howatt

Sally Finnigan

Josie Nellist

Eve Marie Coles

Paul O'Reilly

Stitch Editing

John Moule

Virgin EMI

Wilkinson 'Dirty Love' by Rollo Jackson

Wilkinson-'Dirty-Love'-by-Rollo-Jackson

Rollo Jackson&#39;s video for Real Lies&#39; World Peace is an urban tale of young love which flits between time-frames, from the mundane of a high street&nbsp;hairdressers&#39; to the seductive setting of an outdoor&nbsp;swimming pool at night.Rollo makes this timeless theme of waiting for the working week to end to have fun&nbsp;into something rich and visual. The pool is a far more evocative location for the couple&#39;s encounter&nbsp;than the usual bar or club, and it&#39;s&nbsp;impressively shot by Dan Stafford-Clark. Very nice.

Edwin Metternich

Framestore

Emerald Lewis

Jermaine Gallacher

Marathon Artists

Ronojoy Dam

Holly Knoyle-Hughes

Dance

Real Lies 'World Peace' by Rollo Jackson

Here's a seriously lofi video for Hot Chip's How Do You Do by Rollo Jackson, which he shot, in an organic sort of way, in London and LA - and packed with "amazing things". 
"I wanted to make a video that reflected the blissful, joyful nature of the song - a sort of celebration of 'amazing things' like dancing, diving, etc - and above all was fun and didn't take itself too seriously," Rollo explains. 
"The band were keen that it shouldn't look overproduced and that skateboarding was involved. Given the state of the weather here and that I had very little time to work with, I got in touch with a friend of mine in LA who I knew could help and jumped on a plane to go and shoot the surfing / skating and a lot of palm trees! 
"Naturally, the first day I got there it rained..."

Jonny

Sophie Medhurst

Tom Aston

Hot Chip 'How Do You Do' by Rollo Jackson

Hot-Chip-'How-Do-You-Do'-by-Rollo-Jackson

Rollo Jackson puts on a dazzling show for Squarepusher and places the breakbeater in a blinding stage of LED lights.
According to Squarepusher - aka Tom Jenkinson - the concept came from "apocalyptic nightmares about trails of nuclear missiles" and is intended to mimic "accelerating through massive corridors of books"...

Stamp

OB Management

Laura Tunstall

Squarepusher 'Dark Steering' by Rollo Jackson

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Squarepusher-'Dark-Steering'-by-Rollo-Jackson

Rollo Jackson and Man Like Me got together a year or so ago to make an engaging video largely set in Smithfield Market for <a href="" target="_blank">London Town</a>. Now they're reunited for an equally engaging studio performance, and have enlisted the help of highly talented art direction team Jiggery Pokery - that's Anna Lomax and Lauren Davies - who specialize in creating life-size versions of everyday objects.
In this case, pop-up cards. "It was derived from a concept of theirs based on some naff pop-up cards they picked up on a trip to India," says Rollo. "Knowing well the OTT, colourful, kitsch look that Man Like Me are all about, they constructed a life size, handmade, pop-up card environment in which the band members could move from card to card and interact with to bring the song's narrative to life. 
"I shot half the video very wide to 'reveal' the card and the other half super close / fisheye to try and maintain the illusion of the set. Having worked with the band before I knew the strength of their physical performance would come across well in a confined space and went with an over saturated grade to keep the pop up card aesthetic."

Rollo Jackson

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