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Sam Care

Sye Allen's poignant short film The Empty Chair&nbsp;is about the big stuff - loss, grief, reflections upon the life of a loved one. The beauty lies in how he handles this subject matter - it's direct and intimate, and all the more powerful, humane and uplifting&nbsp;as a result.&nbsp;The form of the film is simple and straightforward: the words of a fulsome eulogy to a departed loved one, read by actress Kate Dickie, accompany images of absence, of his regular haunts: the football stand, the church pews, the cinema stalls and pub stool - and his favourite armchair at home.Allen also wrote and produced this labour of love - ably assisted by a small platoon of music video-making veterans, and his production company Burning Reel -&nbsp;and he succeeds in achieving a balance of emotion and believability without spilling too far into sentimentality. There is also a lovely original soundtrack by Nico Casal, accompanying Dickie's performance.Not surprisingly, the pandemic was a big influence on the making of the film - as Sye Allen explains below. But it's message,&nbsp;about the conduct of our lives and how we are remembered, is relevant every year.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Sye Allen

Burning Reel

Joe Elliott

Winston Milton

Dave Agha-Rafei

Chris Roebuck

Jax Harney

Kate Dickie

Aaron Taffel

'The Empty Chair' by Sye Allen

The Empty Chair

A man&nbsp;finds himself in an upside-down world, in Alexander Brown's mesmerizing video for Sub Focus and Wilkinson.Employing spectacular drone footage of Canary Wharf in London and a clever use of Steadicam, Brown&nbsp;toys with the viewer's experctations and sense of visual perspective, in a slow-motion rollercoaster where Down is usually Up, and vice versa - and is occasionally vertigo-inducing.Brown's approach - which originated as a lockdown video idea and evolved as film limitations eased - is well suited to this dreamy dance track, with its lyrical references to gravity. Our hero - dancer Mikey Boats - appears to be unbound by such things.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Alexander Brown

Theo Youngstein

Sweetshop

Avner Shiloah

Toby Tomkins

CHEAT

Mikey Boats

Dance

Sub Focus & Wilkinson 'Air I Breathe' by Alexander Brown 

Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Air I Breathe

Darren Statman has directed this highly&nbsp;dramatic love story&nbsp;for&nbsp;Brian Fallon&#39;s Painkillers, featuring Skins actor&nbsp;Alex Arnold playing&nbsp;a young man who is in love with a girl who is&nbsp;stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship.Set in a pub, we see our protagonist&nbsp;drinking a pint at the bar, watching over the young woman&nbsp;as she&nbsp;struggles to leave her&nbsp;manipulative partner... until he confronts them and&nbsp;things come to blows outside the pub.

Darren Statman

Jamie Whymark

Nathan Killham

Kode Media

Mark McPadden

Ralph Messer

Pete Wade

Scott Heapy

Amelia Johnson

Timothy Lord

Gemma Stafford

Sally Cooper

Cut + Run

Alexander Arnold, Jasmine Blackborrow, Alex Walton, Alex Payne, Jamey May, Luke Rollason

Tasmin Taylor

Carrie Sutton

Stacy Vaughan

Rock

Brian Fallon 'Painkillers' by Darren Statman

Brian-Fallon-'Painkillers'-by-Darren-Statman

Who would have thought it? We all know that Noel Gallagher is not a great fan of making music videos. If we didn&#39;t suspect it from the wooden performances in some of his previous videos, his hilarious commentary for the Oasis DVD compilation a few years ago confirmed it.But now comes this - an absolutely brilliant music video for Ballad Of The Mighty I, directed by John Hardwick.And it&#39;s all about Noel&#39;s performance.&nbsp;Through his skill as a director - and possibly the application of some good old fashioned common sense &ndash;&nbsp;John Hardwick has achieved a sort of alchemy.&nbsp;He&#39;s turned the famous Gallagher antipathy to making videos into a positive, and&nbsp;into pure gold.&nbsp;

John Hardwick

Shabana Mansuri

My Accomplice

Jamie Clark

Mikael Nakkas

Matt Bell

Karl Hui

Sean Kisch

Barry Keegan

Olivia Young

Poppie Clinch

Las Bandas Be Brave

Sour Mash Records

James Layton

Flyonix

Felix Milburn Foster

Dylan Edwards, Jessica Ellerby, Dean Roberts, Michael Seed

Ben Unwin

Indie

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Ballad Of The Mighty I' by John Hardwick

Noel-Gallagher's-High-Flying-Birds-'Ballad-Of-The-Mighty-I'-by-John-Hardwick

Daniel&nbsp;Broadley directs an&nbsp;energised&nbsp;performance video for Don Broco&#39;s You Wanna Know, collaborating with DoP Sam Care to create a colour palette to go with different parts of the song - but also managing to capture the lighthearted aspect of the band&#39;s character.

Daniel Broadley

Rob Jelley

Alex Harman @ Kode Media

Dan Millar

Mat Troughton @ Met Film Post

Sony Music

Jack Goodwin

Don Broco  'You Wanna Know' by Daniel Broadley 

Don-Broco--'You-Wanna-Know-'-by-Daniel-Broadley-

Top London colourist Aubrey Woodiwiss steps into the director&#39;s chair once again for&nbsp;Sailor &amp; I&#39;s Tough Love - featuring the journey of a middle-aged man&nbsp;across water and land. It was achieved by placing the camera on a specially adapted boat - tricky, but its a great looking video, featuring former Olympic swimmer&nbsp;Peter Prijdekker as the mysterious swimmer.&nbsp;&quot;This video is the result of countless hours of phone conversations, recces, diagrams and insurance paperwork &nbsp;&ndash; and add in a last minute push back due to weather as well,&quot; says producer Elliott Tagg.&nbsp;&quot;Thanks to the excellent preparation of [DoP]&nbsp;Sam Care and his grip Emmet Cahill everything stayed afloat and ran as smooth as possible could.&nbsp;And without Pete Moore we would not have even had a camera in the first place.&quot;

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Riff Raff Films

Matt Fone

Elliott Tagg

Geoff Morgan

Matt Choules

Emmet Cahill

Richard J Lewis

Leila Sarraf

Trim Editing

Movietech

Caroline Clayton

Black Butter Records

Sailor & I 'Tough Love' by Aubrey Woodiwiss

Sailor & I / Tough Love

Alexander Brown delivers this highly atmospheric, driving and tasteful video for Waylayers&#39; SOS that captures night-time London in a cool and original way.Alexander harnesses the sweet electronic atmospherics within the soundtrack - powered by beautiful work from DP Sam Care. Alexander says: &quot;When the band approached me to do a follow up video to Magnets I was immediately taken by SOS and its driving rhythm. I had the idea of trying to make something as epic and cinematic as films like Drive that manage to conjure up a retrospective vision of the present, creating a world of gearboxes and the city&#39;s neon-lit underbelly.&quot;I knew from the beginning we were never going to be able to shoot in LA, but I always enjoy the challenge of trying to make the UK more epic. It&#39;s always a challenge shooting London in a way that doesn&#39;t look too provincial or something we&#39;ve all seen before. &nbsp;&quot;With a customised truck, hand finished costumes, about a million locations and an incredible crew pulling together over a bank holiday weekend, we really threw everything at this one.&nbsp;&quot;I think it&#39;s a real achievement of teamwork and willpower so its amazing it came out this well. So thank you to everyone involved!&quot;&nbsp;

Gail Mosley

Mark Whelan

The Quarry

Jayne O'Hanlon

Steve Gatti

Nice & Polite

Waylayers 'SOS' by Alexander Brown

Waylayers : S-O-S

UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin releases her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood&#39;s The Power Of Love following its use in the John Lewis Christmas campaign and teams up with Alexander Brown for the video.Alexander matches the minimalist, effortless charm of the soundtrack placing Gabrielle in a vast rustic mansion, where seated at her piano, gives a simple, no frills performance.

Flaura Atkinson

Jayne O' Hanlon

Steve G

Sam Seager

Gabrielle Aplin 'The Power of Love' by Alexander Brown

Gabrielle-Aplin-'The-Power-of-Love'-by-Alexander-Brown

The video is a narrative about a couple (played by Iain De Caestecker and Ophelia Lovibond) who hit a rocky patch, while out for a country drive - with Gabrielle as the observer of a tricky situation where one person is demonstrating a lot more affection than the other.&quot;We wanted to make this video a natural progression from the previous video for Home,&quot; says Joshua. &quot;It was evident that Please Don&#39;t Say You Love Me has a strong narrative dialogue built into the song and so we felt a narrative approach was key to creating a video that complemented it.&quot;Other than writing the script itself, casting was the most important element of bringing it to life. We were honoured that Iain De Caestecker and Ophelia Lovibond liked the script and song enough to come on board and from there it all fell into place. Both Iain and Ophelia brought the honesty and subtlety to their characters that I felt was necessary to make the relationship relatable and believable.&quot;

Joshua Sanger

Spun Films

Tristan Hefele

Bob Pl

Marc Covington

Andrew Bradley

Craig Davies

Elliot Scott

Jody McAlavey

Tony Frances

Beth Roberts

Ellie May Brown

Matt Troughton

Alice M

Iain De Caestecker and Ophelia Lovibond

James Hackett

James Fuller

Gabrielle Aplin 'Please Don't Say You Love Me' by Joshua Sanger

Gabrielle-Aplin-'Please-Don't-Say-You-Love-Me'-by-Joshua-Sanger

Cal Gordon

Bethan Hall Williams

Anca Badita

Andy Woodcock, Sam Upward

Craig Davis

Harry Waugh

Sara Dunn

Richard Starkey, Kyle Gibbon and Christian Britain

Jammer, Frankie W

Christian Kinde and N

Martyn

Cynthia Lole

Alex Ashman

Joshua Callis-Smith

Natalie Duncan 'Find Me A Home' by Joe Elliott

Natalie-Duncan-'Find-Me-A-Home'-by-Joe-Elliott

Aubrey's first Hadouken video, for Parasite, was a portrait of a man in distress. Now for Bad Signal, its all about a girl in trouble. She's raging against brain-dead parents, then losing herself in a bottle of Happy Juice - and finding anything but...

Seren Gibson

Tom Johnson

Dale Healy

James Nunn

Liz Barlow

Anna Mould

Lemonade Money TV

The Mill

Hadouken 'Bad Signal' by Aubrey Woodiwiss (Director's Cut)

Hadouken-'Bad-Signal'-by-Aubrey-Woodiwiss-(Director's-Cut)

The video for Hadouken's Parasite focusses on a man gripped by something - or things - that are driving him to distraction. 
It features a riveting performance by Lee Oakes, but this is also notable as the directing debut of someone who's a familiar name in another field: Aubrey Woodiwiss, top colourist at The Mill. A strong debut including some crucial VFX work to bring the creatures just under the skin to life - completed at The Mill, of course. 
And the song is available as a free download <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hadouken/hadouken-parasite-free-download" target="_blank">here</a>.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=hJudxieYdKk

Adam Farley

Lemonade Money

Thomas Grove Carter

Pete Moore

Hadouken 'Parasite' by Aubrey Woodiwiss

Hadouken-'Parasite'-by-Aubrey-Woodiwiss

Now represented by Crossroads Films for music videos - via Las Bandas - Johny Mourgue delivers this exciting and dynamic promo for dubstep producer Joker.
Shot over 3 days in North London and featuring a blistering performance from Buggsy, Johny captures a snapshot from the lives of a group and how they are individually affected by a world 'where scores are settled in a tragic and all too familiar way'. View the longer cut of the promo below.

Johny Mourgue

Ralph Messer and Ben Peacock

Ben Canny

Monica Rubio

Lewis Arnold

Enrico Poli

Jen Herrera

Joker ft Buggsy 'Lost' by Johny Mourgue

Joker-ft-Buggsy-'Lost'-by-Johny-Mourgue

Johny Mourgue translates the scary and exciting dubstep of Benga's Smack Your Bitch Up with this dark monochrome warehouse scenario with the mysterious masked ringleader...

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