Director

Romain Chassaing

Romain Chassaing's long-awaited return to music videos has come for the French-Moroccan rapper Kekra - and in Chassaing's trademark style this is a fast-moving,&nbsp;action-packed tale, with a sense of humour as dark as it's dystopian setting.&nbsp;Kekra always appears with his face obscured, and in the video for Putain De Salaire&nbsp;he becomes a post-apocalyptic superhero, transformed by the radioactive waste that collects in murky corners of a&nbsp;brutal city run on slave labour. The plot of the video centres around the accidental effect of the toxic substance upon him and his newly found powers that&nbsp;spark a rebellion among the downtrodden underclass.&nbsp;Chassaing was inspired by his love of graphic novels and working closely with DoP Rik Zang, he has created a richly atmospheric dystopia, mixing references&nbsp;from Blade Runner to Alan Moore's graphic novels, with a nod to Wong Kar-wai.The video was shot in Thailand over&nbsp;two gruelling 18-hour days - thanks to some superhuman efforts from crew and service company Eastness. The extensive post production - involving&nbsp;CGI characters, digital effects and matte painting to add an epic scale - by FIRM in Paris was also turned around in time to have the video finished within a four-week schedule from treatment to delivery.It is Romain Chassaing's first video since his two for Dizzee Rascal, Bop And Keep It Dippin'&nbsp;and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/10/19/dizzee-rascal-x-skepta-money-right-romain-chassaing/55603" target="_blank">Money Right</a>. He's been focussing more on building his profile in commercials since then. It is very good to have him back.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

France

Arthur Parratte

SOLAB

Rik Zang

Prawit Supo

‘lynn’ Preeyanan Suwannathada

Manuel Coutant

Muriel Archambeau

Firm Studio

Éloïse Rey

Edouard Chassaing

Eastness Productions

BOLD

Jonathan Lagache

Benoit Revilliod

Jeab ‘piyaporn Indageha’

Hip Hop

Kekra 'Putain De Salaire' by Romain Chassaing

Kekra-'Putain-De-Salaire'-by-Romain-Chassaing

Romain Chassaing, nominated at this year&#39;s UKMVAs for his video for&nbsp;Dizzee Rascal video &#39;Bop n keep it Dippin&#39;, now reunites with Dizzee to create something anarchic, fun and hugely cinematic for Dizzee&#39;s collab with Skepta on Money Right.It&rsquo;s London 2018 - and its turning into the Wild West. The city is fighting to hang on to its very soul, as a crime epidemic sweeps the streets.&nbsp;Drug dealers are dying, murdered in cold blood and their weed stolen. It&rsquo;s lawless and uncontrollable and just as Gotham needed Batman, London looks for a hero&hellip;Out of the darkness emerges Dizzee. He&#39;s a rogue investigator, there to right the wrongs. Or so it seems. he&#39;s not exactly playing by the book...&nbsp;Shot in and around London for three days in September 2018, Romain Chassaing&#39;s video repeats the high octane storytelling of Bop N Keep It Dippin&#39;, putting an English slant on his talent for comedy drama. It&#39;s stylish, cinematic&nbsp;&ndash; and Dizzee (and Skepta) comes out on top in this one...Romain Chassaing is now being represented in the UK by Carrie Sutton and Lock It In, for music video, together with his fellow directors at Solab in Paris, Romain Laurent&nbsp;and&nbsp;Marius Gonzalez.[imgtoken data:1] &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Nicolas Tiry

Shabana Mansuri

Rob Godbold

Hannah Simons

Adric Watson

John Clarke

Paulina Rzeszowska

Natalie Wilkins

Robyn Rowan

Muriel Archambaud

Carrie Sutton

Lock It In

John Moule

Island Records

Grime

Dizzee Rascal x Skepta 'Money Right' by Romain Chassaing

Dizzee Rascal - Money Right ft. Skepta

Dizzee Rascal is a geezer not to be messed with in Romain Chassaing&#39;s video for Bop N Keep It Dippin. So when a young accountant rips off Dizzee&#39;s vicious yet somewhat careless gangster, it sets off an epic chase, involving eye-watering identity changes and blood-curdling violence as the accountant is hunted all over the world by Dizzee&#39;s goons.Chassaing, who&#39;s up for a couple of MVAs this week for his latest magnum opus for Naive New Beaters, applies the comedy-drama aesthetic that works so well with NNB, and ramps up body count big-time. As a result, this is an absolute corker. Including confirmation, if any were needed, that Dizzee can play scary. &nbsp;

Nico Poulsson

Pulse Films

James Sorton

Drew O'Neill

Melanie Le Portier

Dizzee Rascal 'Bop N Keep It Dippin' by Romain Chassaing  

Dizzee Rascal - Bop N Keep It Dippin

Romain Chassaing embarks on an ambitious choose-your-own-adventure project for Naive New Beaters and the result is one of the most creative and engaging interactive videos we&#39;ve ever had the pleasure of clicking through.Remember those choose-your-own-adventure books you read when you were a kid? You came to a fork in the road and had to make a choice of which path to take - one leads to glory, the other certain death (or at the very least you end up back on the previous page). Well, this video is essentially the interactive music video equivalent.Following a man from his last days in college, you navigate through adulthood via a series of moral dilemmas. Will you end up ruling the world, or waste your life playing video games?It is an incredibly ambitious project, beautifully executed by Chassaing and Solab in their latest collaboration with Naive New Beaters - and the payoff is well worth the effort. The creative range of short vignettes and the various combinations of unlockables will keep you hooked for ages.

Rock, Indie, Alternative

Naive New Beaters 'Words Hurt' by Romain Chassaing

Romain Chassaing and Naive New Beaters pair up once again to bring us another&nbsp;entertaining clip&nbsp;in the form of this&nbsp;360&deg; degree music&nbsp;video.You can watch it&nbsp;on your smartphone on the Youtube app, or with&nbsp;a VR helmet such as&nbsp;Oculus or&nbsp;Samsung Gear VR.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will also soon be on Naive New Beaters&#39; upcoming &#39;Heal Tomorrow&#39; app&nbsp;which will be launched shortly on the IOS App store and on Google Play.In it, we&nbsp;see guitarist&nbsp;Martin Luther B.B. King, synth player&nbsp;Eurobelix and singer&nbsp;David Boring performing on a televised stage&nbsp;along with French&nbsp;singer&nbsp;Izia -&nbsp;who ends up entirely upstaging them.&nbsp;Indeed, David Boring&nbsp;walks offstage and&nbsp;onto a film set nextdoor,&nbsp;while&nbsp;Izia takes centre stage.Exuding happiness and&nbsp;self-assurance, the singer does her thing solo while PAs sneakily replace the poster behind her to exclude &#39;Naive New Beaters&#39; and make her name larger. Then if that wasn&#39;t enough, Izia is given a Golden Record, which is promptly stolen by our jealous, drunken protagonist...

Arnaud Potier

Marie Le Grevelec

Gregoire Ohnet

Jeremy Leloup

Baptiste Glayman

marion brillouet

Alexandra Petry

Nightshift

Philippe Joubert

Sebastien Voisin

Simon Lyobard

Mathieu Caplanne

Mael Gaumont

Benzene

Dance

Indie

Naive New Beaters ft. Izia 'Heal Tomorrow' 360° video by Romain Chassaing

Naive New Beaters - Heal Tomorrow - Clip 360° ft. Izia

The zany, rather scruffy goofiness of Naive New Beaters has been faithfully recorded in a bunch of great videos down the years - and here&#39;s another one that&#39;s up with their best. Romain Chassaing has delivered a brilliant, electric-paced promo for Run Away which follows the band&#39;s unlikely progress from normal guys to inept yet wildly&nbsp;successful criminals.NNB&nbsp;frontman David Boring plays a frustrated working stiff and&nbsp;family man who decides to dabble in small-time robbery with his pals. Which sets off a frantic, and completely off-the-wall&nbsp;trail of events, involving hold-ups, bundles of cash, animal masks,&nbsp;sex, betrayal and a knife-twisting denouement. &nbsp;Chassaing and the band went over to Argentina to shoot the video and make the production budget go further, and it looks great. But as Romain explains here,&nbsp;they found that running around with guns in Buenos Aires, even fake ones on a video shoot, can be a dangerous business.[imgtoken data:1]

Julien Meurice

Yannick Roux

Lucie Santamans

Martin Bustos

Sol Giancastro

Diego Rochman

Flor Colombatti

Nico Raffaele

Martín Coca

Lucas Guardia

Juan Paviolo

Ezequiel Di Grillo

Santiago Gershanik

Matías Infiesta

Julio Gonzalez

Diego Porto

Maximiliano "Aduki" Zanabria

Camila Marconi

Celeste Galickas

Audrey Belin

Yael Botia

María Pía del Olmo

Reepost

Roxane Fauré-Huet

Anne Szymkowiak

Milliasseau Merlin

Dehia Oussana

Cécile Hournau

Tarek Maalouf

Frédéric Monvoisin

Théo Josso

Naive New Beaters 'Run Away' by Romain Chassaing

NAIVE NEW BEATERS - RUN AWAY

Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic&rsquo;s Fade Away &ndash; a blackly comic procession of hit-man killings in order to take hold of a briefcase and its mysterious contents, and a true cycle of violence&hellip;Romain&rsquo;s choice of locations is perfect from the outset as we follow a chain of hired killers taking each other out blow by blow &ndash; each differently from the last and each paying homage to a different seminal crime film. Beginning in a rusting ship, we travel from horse-racing to hotel rooms, and out to the open countryside, with fantastic work from DoP Fabien Benzaquen.As well as the serial violence, Romain manages to incorporate some great tongue-in-cheek moments. One hit-man even aims up a drain-pipe to take his opponent unawares whilst shaving. All good, clean fun.&ldquo;The idea was to play with hit-men and gangster movies,&rdquo; says Romain. &ldquo;Killers settling scores, like in classic movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, that we watch over and over again with the same pleasure.&ldquo;Shooting this music video was like a game. We had a lot of fun reproducing, modestly, some famous movies scenes and creating new ones.&rdquo;

Excuse My French

Constance Guillou

Fabien Benzaquen

Antoine Ricard

Clementine Nithart

Agathe Wesolek

Rémi Veyrié

Marie-Claire Neveu

Grégory Moro

Emilie Orsini

Loïc Andrieu

Nourédyne Amroun

Bertrand Val

Clément Melot

Arnaud Marten

Mathieu Baptista

Laetita Quillery

Frédéric Alhinho

Electronic

Electro-pop

Vitalic ‘Fade Away’ by Romain Chassaing

Vitalic - Fade Away (Official Video)

From the prolific Romain Chassaing and the SoLab studio - whose videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/03/04/we-have-band's-divisive-by-jul-mat/" target="_blank"> We have Band</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/01/19/pony-pony-run-run's-walking-on-a-line-by-romain-chassaing/" target="_blank">Pony Pony Run Run</a> have both featured here recently - comes another wonderfully inventive, beautifully made work. And this one for Wax Tailor and Charlie Winston involved an epic studio build clearly requiring mind-shredding dedication - as chronicled in the <a href="" target="_blank">making of</a>.
It features, among many other things, creative use of both Scaletrix and Brio train tracks. That stuff can really lie about the place when the kids get bigger.

Thomas Letellier

Wax Tailor feat. Charlie Winston’s I Own You directed by Romain Chassaing

Wax-Tailor-feat.-Charlie-Winston’s-I-Own-You-directed-by-Romain-Chassaing

A French love story with an imaginative in-camera twist courtesy of the prolifically inventive Romain Chassaing. 
This affair quickly runs into problems, as things start to go flat. And he's a bit two-dimensional if you ask me. She's nice though...
Actually a bit of departure for Romain, who's a dab hand at the graphically enhanced performance, like Gush's <a href="" target="_blank">I Just</a>, Tahiti 80's <a href="" target="_blank">All Around</a>, and Housse de Racket's <a href="" target="_blank">Oh Yeah</a>.

Premiere Heure / SoLab (Edouard Chassaing)

Pony Pony Run Run’s Walking On A Line by Romain Chassaing

Pony-Pony-Run-Run’s-Walking-On-A-Line-by-Romain-Chassaing

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