Art Director

Sam Tidman

Genre-blending Texas funk Trio Khruangbin have released this&nbsp;beautifully&nbsp;cinematic, Tarantino-inspired&nbsp;short&nbsp;for Two Fish And An Elephant.Largely financed by fans through crowd-funding website Kickstarter, the video&nbsp;follows Two Fish, a bow-and-arrow wielding young woman&nbsp;as she can&#39;t help but&nbsp;return&nbsp;to the scene of a massacre she has just committed. Led by&nbsp;a string around her finger, she walks back through the piles of bodies until she is standing in front of&nbsp;the Elephant, managing to find peace and closure&nbsp;with&nbsp;one last dance.Good friend of the band, Scott Dungate, made this strong&nbsp;directorial debut in collaboration with Somesuch and Wieden+Kennedy, with additional support from The Mill post production, Trim editing and Factory sound design all contributing time and resource to make the video possible.

United Kingdom

Scott Dungate

Tim Nash

Sally Campbell

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Tom Gardner

Jackson Hunt

Alexandra Green

Gleb Ignatov

Leanne Flinn

Elly Camisa

Phil Penfold

Gaby Winwood

Thomas Gale

Paul Hardcastle

Factory

Somesuch

Eira Wyn Jones

Khruangbin 'Two Fish And An Elephant' by Scott Dungate

Emil Nava&#39;s stylish video for Dua Lipa sees the rising pop star and a clique of her closest and&nbsp;most attractive friends hang out in a warehouse. The whole thing plays out as if set in the dark, slow comedown of a secret party. Except a little bit sexier.&nbsp;Tinged with gorgeous red and green washes and&nbsp;a series of incredible backdrops and costumes, this is a slick visual with some great artistic flourishes - the&nbsp;throne&nbsp;room arrangement and Super 8mm throwbacks being two real standout moments.

Emil Nava

Amy James

Jess Bell

Patrick Meller

Ellie Johnson

Speade

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Electric Theatre Collective

OB Management

Sam Seager

London Alley

Dua Lipa 'Hotter Than Hell' by Emil Nava

Dua-Lipa-'Hotter-Than-Hell'-by-Emil-Nava

Marking his debut as a Partizan signing, director Aitor Throup delivers this fun, energetic&nbsp;promo for Kasabian&#39;s brand new single eez-eh -&nbsp;taken from their forthcoming album 48:13 (June 9).Aitor shoots the Leicester fourpiece in monochrome on a minimal set,&nbsp;larking around with stuffed animals in front of a large pink screen - with a guest&nbsp;appearance by Swedish actress Noomi Rapace...

Aitor Throup

Partizan

Claire Stubbs

Brett Webb

Jon Mealing

Rio Cahill

Chris Kelly

Arnaud Potier

Harris Elliott

Jackie Tyson

Tom Bunker

James Rose

Frankie Elster

Duncan Russell

James Maclachlan

Aleks Ugarow

Warren Gebhardt

Adam Fenwick

Kayleigh Dugdale

Noomi Rapace

Sony Music

Elizabeth Doonan

Rock

Electronica

Kasabian 'eez-eh' by Aitor Throup

Kasabian - eez-eh

Paloma Faith&#39;s very soulful Can&#39;t Rely On You (from her forthcoming third album A Perfect Combination) is subject to this exquisite and mysterious&nbsp;promo by Paul Gore.&nbsp;Bold and stylish &ndash;&nbsp;it&#39;s photographed beautfully by Mathieu Plainfosse &ndash; it places Paloma in five completely different, intriguing scenarios, with one common combining&nbsp;factor:&nbsp;Paloma&#39;s&nbsp;man woes.&nbsp;Shot over two days in five different locations, producer Denna Cartamkhoob explains: &quot;We worked closely with&nbsp;Paloma&nbsp;to create a world which we wanted to be - Fellini meets Holy Motors! We looked at Pasolini and Matthew Barney for inspiration.&quot;Paul&#39;s concept explored&nbsp;Paloma&nbsp;in relationships with five different men, not necessarily all romantic: The Surgeon, The Lover, The Stable Boy, The Chauffeur and The Leader. The idea was that all these men leave her which echoes the sentiment of the song. Eventually she leaves The Lover. We didn&#39;t want her to be totally down and out!&quot; &nbsp;

Paul Gore

Denna Cartamkhoob

Tash Tan

Mathieu Plainfosse

Adam Howe

Karl Willet

Thomas Grove Carter

Trim Editing

George K

Time Based Arts

Frederick Schmidt

Dennis Okwera

Bruno Braho

Simon Rhodes

Martin Dillon

Mike O'Keefe

Ash Lockmun

Soul

Paloma Faith 'Can't Rely On You' by Paul Gore

Paloma Faith - Can't Rely on You

A very stylish and grown-up&nbsp;Katy Perry crouches down in the snow, releases an owl, gets hit by a vintage car and winesses a flaming bed in Brent Bonacorso&#39;s visual feast for her next single Unconditionally.&nbsp;With these set pieces acting as&nbsp;metaphors for unconditional love, the glossy, expensive-looking shoot is one part Dangerous Liasons, one part Rabbit In Your Headlights, several parts&nbsp;out and out fantasy...

United States

Brent Bonacorso

Collaboration Factory

Passion Pictures

Thom Fennessey

Danny Lockwood

Dan Scott-Croxford

Magdalena Gorka

Capitol Records

Katy Perry 'Unconditionally' by Brent Bonacorso

Katy Perry - Unconditionally (Official)

I don&rsquo;t think we should be too surprised that a combination of Dizzee Rascal, Robbie Williams, Andreas Nilsson and a song called Goin&rsquo; Crazy should result in a video that establishes its own parallel universe of nuttiness.Andreas comes into this having made his genre-screwing video for 2Chainz and Kanye West, and just finishing an equally bonkers video for David Guetta. But he&rsquo;s brought an appropriately British aesthetic to his deranged ideas for this tasty pairing of a couple of fun-loving British musical icons: it&rsquo;s basically a one-shot Quadrophenia on mobility scooters, featuring Robbie as King Mod (with a quiff) and Dizzee as rocker emerging from a custom-studded mini&hellip;It&rsquo;s nuts, but quite nice and gentle with it&hellip;

Colonel Blimp

Andreas Nilsson

Tamsin Glasson

Steve Annis

Andy Banwell

Simon Wood

Luke Sellway

Emmet Cahill

Malcom Huse

Matthew Hicks

Roger Cutting

Ben Glickman

Daniel Precious

Titus Penate

Ellie Britton

Jenny Cogan

Rebecca Duschl

Anna Trevelyan

Alfie Gardner

Oliver Woods

Charlie Le Mindu

James Early

Stephanie Williams

Al Brown

Charles Robinson

Sarah Cockings

Gina Kane

Ben Campbell

James Bamford

Adrian Aurelius

Gary Brown

Universal-Island Records

John Moule

Annabelle Dunbar-Whittaker

Cut+Run

Dizzee Rascal ft. Robbie Williams ‘Goin’ Crazy’ by Andreas Nilsson

Dizzee Rascal - Goin' Crazy ft. Robbie Williams

Shot in a palatial setting, Palomo Faith plays the part of a girl trapped in a bad relationship in Emil Nava's promo for Picking Up The Pieces.

Pulse Films

Stacy Vaughan

Ross McLennan

Courtney Phillips

Final Cut

Simone Grattarola

Ed Line

Paloma Faith 'Picking Up The Pieces' by Emil Nava

Darkly gothic, enigmatic and really rather creepy, Tabitha Denholm's video for Florence's Never Let Me Go is set in a deserted ice rink where a budding love affair between Florence and Jamie Campbell-Bower of Twilight fame turns very weird and disturbing...

Tabitha Denholm

Phil Tidy

Jallo Faber

John Price, Douglas Haynes & Milo P

Tracy Cahoon

Ailsa Robertson

The Mill

Florence and The Machine 'Never Let Me Go' by Tabitha Denholm

Florence-and-The-Machine-'Never-Let-Me-Go'-by-Tabitha-Denholm

Jake Gyllenhaal in East London, killing Dalston hipsters, with a fencing rapier and pretty much anything else that comes to hand...No, not just a fanciful idea. That is Daniel Wolfe&#39;s new video for The Shoes&#39; Time To Dance: an eight-minute American Psycho-style rhapsody of mayhem featuring Hollywood leading man Gyllenhaal as the dead-eyed killing machine on the loose in grim London, with a very particular axe to grind...It&#39;s Wolfe&#39;s first video since his outstanding run of work for Plan B, Chase &amp; Status, and his last Shoes video, for Stay The Same, a year ago. That was intense; this is intenser... it&#39;s poetically bleak stuff as we follow Gyllenhaal&#39;s path of destruction through the icy city - shot by Robbie Ryan, and edited by Tom Lindsay.? Daniel Wolfe talks about the making of the Time To Dance video at <a href="http://www.onepointfour.co/2012/04/04/gyllenhaal-murdering-hipsters-in-dalston/" target="_blank">1.4</a>http://www.youtube.com/watchv=pt9wnawn7xQ

Lee Groombridge

Robbie Ryan

Tom Lindsay

Simon Bourne

Ben Leeves

Leanne Flinn, Kharmel Cochrane

Sara Sensoy

Anim

Lynn Darragh

Leo Leigh

Pierre Le Ny

Dougal Meese

Daniel Wolfe

Glenn Kitson

The Shoes 'Time To Dance' by Daniel Wolfe

The-Shoes-'Time-To-Dance'-by-Daniel-Wolfe

After gripping videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/08/03/chase-and-status%E2%80%99-let-you-go-by-thirtytwo/" target="_blank">Let You Go</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/12/08/chase-status-feat-liam-bailey%E2%80%99s-blind-faith-by-daniel-wolfe/" target="_blank">Blind Faith</a>, it's perhaps no surprise that the latest Chase &amp; Status video, directed by Lindy Heymann, is an absorbing, tough, gritty drama. But it still comes as a surprise to see a music video tackle a still-taboo issue head on, and do it in a way that illuminates the subject as well as providing a hard-hitting narrative. 
But that's what this does. Lindy Heymann's video for Time is a harrowing, heartfelt, all-too-credible story of domestic violence - notably focusing on the effects of alcohol abuse on a normal family. Mainly taken from the viewpoint of a grown-up daughter - the affected bystander who represents Delilah's vocal - it shows all too convincingly show how her mother and father become locked into a cycle of behaviour with devastating consequences. 
And the ambivalent ending - before a shout-out to Refuge, the charity for victims of domestic violence - show how hard it is for that cycle to be broken... 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=lWP9VvkeTmA
Lindy Heymann talks to Promo about the making of the video for Chase and Status's Time
Promo: How did the video come about: Is this something that the band wanted to explore (and therefore part of the brief) or did they need persuading How does it link to the song
LH: I think the label had been looking for the right treatment for sometime. So I was quite late into the mix. Chase &amp; Status want to make videos that challenge their audience to think about the times we are living in. Their last two videos were very strong and got a lot of attention, so the bar was obviously quite high. The brief I got from them was fairly open - but they wanted to emphasise the hopeless aspects of love and suggested British kitchen sink drama / social realism as a starting point - and they seemed open to dealing with difficult domestic issues - such as alcoholism and violence. 
You've created a very credible scenario, which strongly links domestic violence with alcohol abuse. Did you do much research before writing your treatment
The turnaround on the video was extremely fast, so I only had five days pre-production before we shot it. So I didn't have as much time as I would have liked. But I did talk to several people about their experiences and also to Refuge. A big part of our discussion was concerned with the relationship between alcohol and abuse. Many times alcohol is a factor and although it's not a trigger for domestic abuse - other psychological factors are. Alcohol simply makes an existing situation worse - ie emotional abuse becomes physical. I was interested in taking a normal loving family where on one level they are extremely functional - the problem is something that up until now they have managed to live with. I was very conscious that I didn't want to deal in stereotypes of bullies and victims. 
How did you prepare the actors for their roles And how long did you have to shoot the video We only had a few days to cast the actors, I didn't have rehearsal time, so the casting was very important. The actors were briefed and I worked with them on some improvisation in the casting so I could see their range of emotion and whether they would respond fast to direction - this was essential as we only had two ten-hour days to shoot everything.
How much were Chase &amp; Status themselves involved in the production
I had one meeting with them beforehand, where we talked mainly about the kind of family this was. They were keen to see our choices of actors and location. I also needed to know just how far they wanted to take the violence. Everyone has different responses to what shocks them I was very keen that the power of the story lay in the emotion of the family and not through gratuitous imagery. Fortunately we were on the same page.
Music video is not normally where you see social issues explored. Did you have reservations about telling this story within the confines of the medium We all considered it to be a great opportunity - it was one of those ideal situations where everybody involved - label, band &amp; manager had their eyes wide open. I was given the freedom to make the video that I set out to and hopefully it will not only communicate beyond its remit - as well as encouraging others to push the boundaries.
It has an ambivalent ending, where the wife seems ready to forgive a remorseful husband - again - and then the daughter leaves. Are you suggesting that, in this case, the cycle of abusive behaviour is not yet broken Yes...

Lindy Heymann

Sarah Tognazzi

Paul McKee

Hello Love

David Johnson

Struan Clay

Ameena Kara Callender

Laura Lewis

Chase & Status’s Time feat Delilah by Lindy Heymann

Chase-&-Status’s-Time-feat-Delilah-by-Lindy-Heymann

To launch two new flavours of the Doritos snack, the brand's first ever global promotion is subject to this 360 degree music video featuring Professor Green's Coming To Get Me - written exclusively for the project - directed by Chris Cairns.
The promo utilises technology pioneered in Pendulum's 360º video for <a href="http://www.pendulum.com/360" target="_blank">Salt In The Wounds</a>, directed by Dan Ruttley earlier this year (and nominated for the Innovation Award at last week's UKMVAs), but this is arguably the first 'spherical video' that works on YouTube (it understandably takes a little longer to load than usual). 
And it will also be the first ever 360° video on an iPhone, downloadable as an app. The application enables users to change the direction in which they're viewing the video by moving their arms (or tilting the phone) up, down, left or right.
It's also one of a number of eyecatching music video/marketing tie-ins suddenly appearing, after the Faithless/Fiat music video/ad for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ow63I1PtmII" target="_blank">Feelin Good</a> a couple of months ago. And almost certainly the most interactive.

Chris Cairns

Martin Poyner

Rawdon de Fresnes

Hannah Edwards

Joe Randall

Production &amp; Grade

AMV BBDO

Jermey Tribe

Professor Green/Doritos Late Campaign by Chris Cairns

Professor-Green/Doritos-Late-Campaign-by-Chris-Cairns

Part four of what has become an epic, and quite possibly unprecedented series of music videos for Plan B by Daniel Wolfe. 
After Stay Too Long, She Says and Prayin', expectations for The Recluse could hardly be higher. But it delivers - and then turns it up another notch. 
This one is actually for a song that comes before Prayin' in the concept/story album that is The Defamation of Strickland Banks, but Dan and Ben Drew/Plan B have seized the opportunity to fill in the gaps with a dual narrative structure - after he enters jail for the crime he didn't commit, and flashbacks to the period when still free. 
It's great work, and Drew arguably gives his best acting performance yet. And taken with the rest... what an achievement - by everyone who's been involved in making them.

Tim Francis

Sasha Nixon

Hayley Williams

Almut Gramer

Dominic Leung

Gus Herdman

Plan B’s The Recluse by Daniel Wolfe

Are you working too hard The Ting Tings think you are. To make this point, Warren Fu, fresh from adventures with Mark Ronson, leads the previously shiny Tings into the sweaty, sexy old foundry.

Ting Tings’ Hands by Warren Fu - the director's version

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