Commissioner

Sam Seager

Raman Djafari combines live action and animation to brilliant effect in the extraordinary new video for the brilliant Ashnikko - creating&nbsp;a Mad Max-esque dystopian landscape to transform the pop star into a monster truck-wielding hero, fighting off robot overlords as she navigates a strange new world.In an intense bombardment of visual imagination, Djafari fuses his signature aesthetic of texturally rich CGI with the unhinged, transgressive ambitions of Ashnikko, to create a wonderful, weird, high-octane action movie.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]The influences on the video range from painters Bruegel and&nbsp;Carravagio, to Bjork, to&nbsp;90s animes like Neon Genesis Evangelion - but you really have to watch on repeat to catch everything that is going on.Djafari worked closely with Ashnikko and her creative director Vassu Vu in conceptualising the video for Worms - which takes the distinctive style of his&nbsp;previous work -&nbsp;such as his massively successful video for Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart - into a whole new dimension.[imgtoken data:2]"I wanted to create a vast world that stretches way beyond the bounds of this one music video, like there's an abundance of stories waiting to be told," says Djafari.&nbsp;"I indulged my love for creature design and developed dozens of individual characters, monsters, robots and a huge monster truck. It was important to me to bring the world around this album to life, with a richness that reflects the depth of the music and lyrics.[imgtoken data:3]"Working with Ash and Vasso was a truly precious collaboration between artists - they supported and trusted my personal interpretation of the universe they created together. Looking back, I wish I could have spent more time in this world. I feel like this video barely scratches the surface of what I would love to create together with Ashnikko."Fingers crossed we'll get another chance to collaborate in the future.” &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Raman Djafari

Jake River Parker

Blinkink

Josef Byrne

Alex Halley

Molly Turner

Rowan Mackintosh King

Vasso Vu

Julia Pavliuk

Hunter Daly

Rupert Hornstein

Nicola Braid

Tanmoye Khan

Laurent Arnaud

John Malcolm Moore

Laura Little

Holly Wood

Claire Moore

Mee Kyung Kim Porter

Georgia Olive

Rich Woolway

George Neave

Coffee & TV

Rich Martin

Will Hooper

Ashnikko 'Worms' by Raman Djafari

Ashnikko_Worms_credits

Tobi Izedomi directs a slick dance promo for BURNS's&nbsp;Can't Let Go.&nbsp;Shot in black and white, the video features a pair of&nbsp;energetic dancers performing an impressive interpretive dance, whilst the camera jumps between unique, unexpected perspectives.&nbsp;Breathtakingly intimate yet ambitious, it's a great concept, and impressively executed.&nbsp;

Shaadow Sefiroth

Paris Crossley

Tobi Izedomi

Andre Wooz

Wow Filmworks

Labi Odebunmi

Will Lyte

Daniel Deighton

Parlophone/warner Bros.

Dance

BURNS 'Can't Let Go' by Tobi Izedomi

Burns-'Can't-Let-Go'-by-Tobi-Izedomi

Toronto-based director Lucas Hrubizna creates a groundbreaking and bewildering&nbsp;vision of a near-death experience for Sad Night Dynamite, courtesy of cutting-edge 'VolCap' technology, to introduce new release Volume II.Hrubizna has directed an interlinked series of five video shorts that takes the pop-electronic duo's fascination with surreal and psychedelic narrative into amazing new territory. It was made possible by access to the Volumetric Capture facilities at Dimension Studios in London - where SND were filmed performed, and effectively transformed into 3D models.Together with 2D plates of the band performance against greenscreen,&nbsp;Hrubizna could use this material to place them with his created CGI worlds without leaving his home studio. It has taken months of work, but the end-result is mind-boggling, as the approach is to make these worlds as harsh, forbidding, uncomfortable&nbsp;and unpredictable as possible - in accordance with the artists' brief.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>Each piece is meant to be a mini-fever dream.</blockquote>“SND had imagined a series of pieces taking place within some sort of purgatory - an abstract in-between place where time has dissolved," explains the director. "Having experienced a near-death event, they had seen the visuals of this project somehow reflecting the dreamlike journey from life to the precipice of death and back."I started to think of the ascending levels of Dantés Purgatorio, and loosely re-imagined them as bleak, liminal spaces from the modern world, wherein reality has exploded into harsh, digital fragments."Each piece is meant to be a mini-fever dream that perfectly loops, reflecting the endless sense of time and space in purgatory while also functioning on social media platforms, where looped video playback is standard.”[imgtoken data:2]

Suzie Walsh

Lucas Hrubizna

Rosie Brear

Blink

Esteban Gimpelewicz

Jamie Harding

Laura Northover

Beatrice Warren

Annabel Clark Clements

Lauren Webster

Electronic

Alt-Pop

Alternative

Sad Night Dynamite 'Volume II' by Lucas Hrubizna

Sad-Night-Dynamite-'Volume-Ii'-by-Lucas-Hrubizna

Dream Inc. directs a&nbsp;poignant promo for indie rock band newfamiliar.Shot within a community in Thailand&nbsp;inhabited by people from all over the world,&nbsp;the film touches on loss and companionship, and conceptually draws a parallel to the structure of the lyrics.&nbsp;Thematically exploring one young woman's experience with loss, the greater narrative is very much open to interpretation, and these lingering questions appear both visually and sonically.The visuals meditate&nbsp;on the power of community, friendship and relationships, and delicately balance&nbsp;a documentary-style aesthetic with lovely cinematography.&nbsp;

dream inc.

May Chucheewa

Amos Le Blanc

Jonathan Dizdarevic

Warner

Indie Rock

newfamiliar 'Here For You' by Dream Inc.

Newfamiliar--'Here-For-You'-by-Dream-Inc.

Claire Arnold's latest video for Ashnikko&nbsp;depicts Ash in three paradisiacal settings while they perform to camera.“I wrote this song pre-pandemic when I was on vacation," Ashnikko has said about&nbsp;Panic Attacks In Paradise. "I had been working really hard, just going going going... When I actually stopped to be with myself and be still, I didn’t know what to do. I was having really horrible mental health problems and I ruined my vacation for myself; so I quite literally had a panic attack in paradise.”

Claire Arnold

Ben Pengilly

Ground Work

Aaron Z. Willson

Anna Butler

Elicia Lotherington

Stefan Yap

Devan Clarke-Sheward

Dan Howe

Massimo Filippi

Ellie Koslowsky

Finn Sullivan

John Allan

Tom Chick

Adam Clarke

Fatima Ouklilane

Butterscotch Post

Warner Music

Parlophone

Jake Whitehouse

Ashnikko 'Panic Attacks In Paradise' by Claire Arnold

Ashnikko-'Panic-Attacks-In-Paradise'-by-Claire-Arnold

Edie Amos directs a joyful celebration of life, in her promo for Sam Ryder's More, featuring celebrated photographer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/derekridgers/" target="_blank">Derek Ridgers</a>.The uplifting promo intertwines Ryder's ebullient performance of the song with a look at Ridgers, a photographer with nearly 50 years experience as a street and portrait photographer, and who made a particular&nbsp;impact chronicling late 20th century&nbsp;underground club culture.Through the video&nbsp;Ridgers&nbsp;takes portraits of a number of strangers,&nbsp;with Amos's filming of the process and the resulting photos forming an important part of the multi-format montage in the video.Toeing the line between documentary and music promo, the video has an overarching message of enjoying life and holding onto all of the best moments with family and friends.[imgtoken data:1]

Edie Amos

Jake Parker

Lowkey Films

Vanessa Mc Donnell

Denny Kaulbach

Natasha Duursma

Fabio Olgiati

Scarlett Gardner

Sam Crook

Katie South

Roby Rowan

Shaquilla Alexander

Nigel Tadyanehondo

Derek Ridgers

Liv West

Sam Ryder 'More' by Edie Amos 

Sam-Ryder--'More'-by-Edie-Amos-

Jamie Whitby takes on a trip to the Psychedelic Views Hotel in his video for Sad Night Dynamite - a hallucinatory POV journey, where logic falters and goats roam free...Whitby references previous SND videos - the ones where they roam around in a stretch limo - and brings a strangeness to proceedings through clever use of visual effects and animation, to enhance the woozy, sleazy atmosphere.

Jamie Whitby

George Telfer

Agile Films

Sana Khan

Precious Mahaga

Kevin Cheung

Ty Hack

Karl Hui

Nina Mangold

Jorge Higgins

Jabez Bartlett

James Bradley

Alex Gregory

No.8

Agile Studio

OB Management

Ellen Wilson

Kit Falck

Sad Night Dynamite 'Psychedelic Views' by Jamie Whitby

Sad-Night-Dynamite--'Psychedelic-Views--'-by-Jamie-Whitby

Gustaf Holtenäs directs a mesmerizing and bizarre epic for rock legends&nbsp;Iron Maiden for Stratego, from their acclaimed new album.&nbsp;The film takes place in a Japanese-inspired landscape, with two rival armies heading to battle in an action-filled match of the ancient Japanese strategy game&nbsp;Shiogi. As with his recent video for Black Midi, Holtenäs combines 2D and 3D elements to create a mind-boggling visual to match the monumental tone of the song.[imgtoken data:1]This is the second&nbsp;collaboration&nbsp;between Blinkink and Iron Maiden, following&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/07/19/iron-maiden-writing-wall-nicos-livesey/71952">The Writing on the Wall</a>, directed by Nicos Livesey, released last month.Stunningly executed, the rich textures, vibrant colours and seamless animation form a dreamy, transcendent aesthetic, contrasted by the riotous, high energy pacing and bloody narrative. Truly epic in scale and well worth a watch.[imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]&nbsp;

Gustaf Holtenäs

Sami Goddard

Minna Floss

Will Barnett

Caroline Morin

Wash

Danielle Barnes

Heavy Metal

Rock

Iron Maiden 'Stratego' by Gustaf Holtenäs 

Gustaf Holtenäs - Iron Maiden "Stratego"

Blinkink director, metalhead and&nbsp;massive Iron Maiden fan Nicos Livesey fulfills a personal dream by directing&nbsp;the video for the legendary heavy metal band's new single. The result is a blockbusting&nbsp;epic six-minute 2D and 3D&nbsp;animated video that imagines Belshazzar's Feast... aka The End of the World.From the moment a mysterious&nbsp;gowned Samaritan tends to the last moments of a dying man in a parched desert, we are unmistakeably placed in a dystopian world ravaged by pollution and drought. Then the elite class begin to arrive for their exclusive party in the desert - including a fat, bloated US President and a bunch of faceless, bowler-hatted British civil servants...[imgtoken data:1]But their dastardly rule of the Earth is about to come to an end. The gowned figure is none other than legendary Maiden mascot Eddie, who summons the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse to destroy the vampire who is feeding off the souls of the young, perpetuating the rule of the elite...Derived from an original storyline from Maiden frontman&nbsp;Bruce Dickinson, and storyboards by veteran Pixar artist Mark Andrews, Livesey&nbsp;and&nbsp;Blinkink&nbsp;then pulled out all the stops to bring the production to life - and this was eight months in the making.The combination of 2D and 3D animation involved&nbsp;around sixty crew members, working across the globe in the UK, France, Spain, Norway, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Greece, USA, and Canada.It's an epic take on Armageddon - which becomes the basis of a new beginning...[imgtoken data:2]

Nicos Livesey

Bart Yates

Elliot Dear

Rosanna Morley

Sam Sneade

Mark Andrews

Iron Maiden 'The Writing On The Wall' by Nicos Livesey

Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall (Official Video)

Co-directors and Rascal Post owners Markus Lundqvist and Gareth Brannan build fantasy worlds around Swedish producer/singer A7S and his female counterpart in the VFX-fired blockbuster for Nirvana.Lundqvist and Brannan create an enigmatic tension between the pair - as she traverses a hostile landscape and a city that is collapsing upon itself - harnessing the animation and grading talents in Rascal's bases in Stockholm and London, and across the globe.[imgtoken data:1]

Markus Lundqvist

Gareth Brannan

Carl Linder

Rascal Post

James Beck

Katarina Tjernstrom

Robin Falck Loven

Fredrik Bäckar

Christian Norman

Joel Brunskog

Peter Övgård

Ola Martensson

Anton Marrtini

Johanna Norlander

Homespun

Dan Levy

2d : Richard De Carteret, Brad Wood,  Gareth Brannan,   Markus Lundqvist,  Unreal :  Russel Tickner, Gatis Kurzemniesk

Alma Helgesson

A7S 'Nirvana' by Markus Lundqvist & Gareth Brannan

A7s-'Nirvana'-by-Markus-Lundqvist-&-Gareth-Brannan

Stefano Ottaviano directs a whimsical, VFX-heavy promo for Diplo, featuring&nbsp;Elderbrook and Andhim.Scanning a variety of surreal, textural vignettes, the video boasts an artistic, dreamlike aesthetic, following one character as they transition from one transcendent setup to another.&nbsp;On some kind of perpetual loop, the video feels distinctly otherworldly, almost a product of the subconscious in its abstract presentation.The narrative isn't meant to be linear, the focus here is on shapes, textures, light, colour... all the things that exist as part of our world, and bring an unexplained vibrance to the everyday.&nbsp;

Stefano Ottaviano

Matouš Marcinko

Cardel

Carla Mooney

Michael  Šroubek

Tomáš Kotas

Delwyn Mooney

Diplo ft Elderbrook & Andhim 'One By One' by Stefano Ottaviano 

Diplo-Feat.-Elderbrook-&-Andhim-'One-By-One'-by-Stefano-Ottaviano-

Hamzaa takes her destiny into her own hands, in the sci-fi inspired promo for In Between directed by Loona Riia.&nbsp;Set in a near-future world, we see the artist perform across several glossy vignettes, whilst an abstract narrative plays out in the background.&nbsp;Complemented by sharp styling and makeup, futuristic art direction and empowering themes, this is a top-notch visual for a fast-rising R&amp;B artist.

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