Director

Scott Cudmore

The second NERD video &ndash; or &#39;Tutorial&#39;&nbsp;&ndash; directed by Scott Cudmore and Todd Tourso. Like the first it centres on phenomenal dancer Mette Towley, but the video for 1000 is more controversial, diving headlong into the polarised politics of the United States.&nbsp;Clearly influenced by the work of Arthur Jafa - the great Jay-Z 4:44 video, for example - and Beyoncé&#39;s Formation, it starts with clips of news footage - clashes between white nationalists and left-leaning protesters - in a seemingly&nbsp;unmediated way.&nbsp;There follows&nbsp;a break in the track to include a monologue by Mike Tyson at his boxing peak.Thought-provoking stuff, although it may not be entirely clear what message we&#39;re supposed to take from this Tutorial. &nbsp; &nbsp;

United States

Todd Tourso

Good Company

Phi Hollinger

Brian Welsh

Jonathan Lia

Stacey Thiel

Malik Sayeed

JaQuel Knight

Brandon Mendez

Mette Towley

Shirley Kurata

Olive Meyer

Tina Martinez

Taylor Ward

Dave Hussey

Company 3

Andrew Illson

Lock It In

NERD & Future '1000' by Scott Cudmore & Todd Tourso

N.E.R.D & Future - 1000 (Video)

&#39;Tutorial No.1: Lemon&#39; begins with Rihanna shaving the head of dancer Mette Towley. After that, the video heralding the return of Pharrell Williams&#39;s band N.E.R.D. (with Ri-Ri) is all about Towley.Todd Tourso and Scott Cudmore direct Towley&#39;s riveting performance,&nbsp;in contrasting sequences shot in LA and New York. And it&#39;s photographed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Malik Sayeed, and choreographed by&nbsp;JaQuel Knight, both veterans of Beyoncé&#39;s Formation video.&nbsp;

Bryan Norvelle

N.E.R.D. & Rihanna 'Lemon' by Todd Tourso & Scott Cudmore 

N.E.R.D & Rihanna - Lemon

Now this is what we like to see. Scott Cudmore creates an intense, joyous, and eccentric video for Leslie Feist that feels like a return to the form of the singer&#39;s videos of a decade or so ago. With added Jarvis Cocker.Feist&#39;s videos for 1,2,3,4, My Moon My Man, and others directed by Patrick Daughters&nbsp;are ten years old now - from another era almost &ndash;&nbsp;but they helped introduce more contemporary dance styles into music videos. Cudmore&#39;s video for Century follows that tradition, but there&#39;s also another level of gritty seriousness, to reflect the current age.Feist is confronted by her opponent and alter-ego, in the shape of singer and actress Maria Doyle Kennedy, and each of the dancers in Feist&#39;s gang has their equivalent in Kennedy&#39;s. They square up to each other, under a freeway flyover, and then engage in a dance battle -&nbsp;choreographed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%A9mie_Lafrance" target="_blank">Noemie Lafrance</a>.Century reflects our harsh, combative society, damaged by social media abuse - but it&#39;s not all intense grimness. The iconoclastic mischievousness is encapsulated by the sudden and incongruous&nbsp;appearance of Jarvis Cocker in the final act, intoning about more important matters, in his trademark fashion. What an experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;

France

Nicole Powell

Katy Maravala

Revolver Film Company

Richard Cureton

Luc Frappier

Peter Hadfield

Alan Kelly

Rico Moran

Nick Petrie

Noemie Lafrance

Sarah Millman

Amanda Wood

Clinton Homuth

Alter Ego

Claudine Baltazar

Jason Bourke

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Feist ft Jarvis Cocker 'Century' by Scott Cudmore

Feist - Century

Scott Cudmore teams up with Holy Fuck to tell this slight reworking of a Biblical Epic.Based on the story of David and Goliath, we follow David as he brings home his trophy, Goliath&#39;s head, much to the delight of the local villagers. Except that the local villagers, in this case, are the residents of modern day LA. The story quickly morphs into a sprawling character study on the trappings of fame, with David carrying the head with him to all manner of parties and social gatherings. And over 12 minutes we watch the rise, and fall, and rise of a familiar character in a new context.Stylistic choices such as the use of various camera formats, coupled with the strange-yet-perfect bright blue letterboxing throughout and the headache-inducing strobing over the end credits (you&#39;ve been warned) make this an unique longform&nbsp;video piece.

Canada

David Viste

Pablo Berron

Isaiah "Z" Fortajada

Tom Gillis

Shaun Mayor

Julien Janigo

Nikki Parish

Mark Villalobos

Jake Owens

Dustin Blackburn

Revolver Films

Holy Fuck 'Neon Dad' by Scott Cudmore

Holy Fuck - Neon Dad (Official Video)

A live performance with a stilted and discomfiting audience makes for some surreal and awkward viewing in this clip for Snowblink, directed by Scott Cudmore, continuing his run of&nbsp;bleak, darkly comedic, highly cinematic music videos.Gorgeous settings and excellent costume offer the illusion that this wealthy family&nbsp;seem functional. But the moments in between the actions in this video show cracks in the family facade. Footage of avalanches physically tearing into a family portrait make the tense awkwardness of the performance seem almost unbearable, and yet there are moments so darkly absurd here that you can&#39;t help but laugh.

Part & Parcel Co.

Christopher Lew

Michael Narimalla

TJ Richardson

Tom Rivet

Charles Hutchings

Muska Zurmati

Matthew Bianchi

Allison Sharp

Snowblink 'How Now' by Scott Cudmore

Snowblink - How Now (Official Video)

Toronto-based&nbsp;Odonis Odonis&nbsp;have released this dark and dystopian visual for their track Needs, directed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Scott Cudmore, which&nbsp;is&nbsp;equal parts&nbsp;gripping, thought-provoking and&nbsp;unsettling.Driven forward by destructive and&nbsp;libidinous forces&nbsp;but with no formal narrative structure, the clip is made up of striking&nbsp;glimpses into lurid&nbsp;scenarios, with plenty of creeping&nbsp;zooms into the grimacing faces of&nbsp;powerful white men. &nbsp;Scott explains, &quot;&ldquo;For me, this is a video about oppression, objectification, commodification - old, entitled white men. It&rsquo;s about them and the system of oppression and exploitation that they&rsquo;ve created to serve their, well&hellip; needs.&quot;&quot;I&rsquo;m looking at this through the lens of science fiction but I wanted to depict that power structure breaking down. Breaking down internally. There&rsquo;s clearly no linear narrative and you are free to think of that aspect in any way that you want, but each image is a depiction of this breakdown and of repression, exploitation and finally, desperation.&quot;

Rob Allan

Thea Hollatz

Natalia Zurawska

Ashley Hallihan

John Ker

Julian Samuals

Bryan Angarita

Adam Belyea

Jeff Kaczmarek

Gary Nicolucci

Piper McCutcheon

Jade Woo Giroux

Odonis Odonis 'Needs' by Scott Cudmore

Odonis Odonis - NEEDS (Official Video)

There&#39;s a lot happening in this short film by Scott Cudmore. A cinematic visual accompaniment to Wintersleep&#39;s Amerika is a multi-faceted vision of an all-too-close-to-home sociopolitical&nbsp;dystopia, with a weakening of the human condition&nbsp;and a biblical apocalypse colliding with one another in a disquieting and harrowing beauty.The video deviates from a normal &#39;rock&#39; video by favouring slower pacing and delivering a feeling of menace and foreboding from multiple isolated narrative perspectives.&nbsp;The payoff is a gut-punching set of gorgeous visuals that demand you sit and watch for the entire length of nearly seven minutes. The final lines of dialogue damn near killed me...

Jason Aita

James Gilchrist

Mark Martin

Lisa Vanderwyk

Jacob Owens

Scott Frettwell

Dine Alone Records

Wintersleep 'Amerika' by Scott Cudmore

Wintersleep - Amerika (Official Video)

Scott Cudmore follows up his previous video for Harrison ft.&nbsp;Clairmont The Second&#39;s<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/03/09/harrison-ft-clairmont-second-it%E2%80%99s-okay-i-promise-scott-cudmore" target="_blank"> It&rsquo;s Okay I Promise</a>, with an equally&nbsp;inspired and original&nbsp;punk rock clip&nbsp;for Canadian alternative rock band&nbsp;Dilly Dally.It&#39;s a special, tongue-in-cheek&nbsp;little video&nbsp;full of personality, and follows lead singer Katie Monks hanging&nbsp;out at her&nbsp;friend&#39;s studio. Heavily grunge in spirit,&nbsp;the singer&#39;s disillusioned groans&nbsp;are met with&nbsp;subtitled grumbling such as&nbsp;&#39;spent all my money last night,&#39;&nbsp;&#39;weather still sucks outside&#39; and &#39;music videos are bullshit.&#39; It might have come off as one big&nbsp;stoner moan&nbsp;if it didn&#39;t feel so warmly familiar, humorous,&nbsp;honest and&nbsp;relatable.&nbsp;

Dilly Dally 'Snakehead' by Scott Cudmore

Dilly Dally - Snakehead

Scott Cudmore has put together this seven minute&nbsp;post-modern video-within-a-video&nbsp;for Canadian hip hop artist&nbsp;Harrison that, once it gets going,&nbsp;follows rapper&nbsp;Clairmont The Second as he winds through a large recreation centre.Following him through spaces which suit different purposes -&nbsp;hallways,&nbsp;support group meeting areas, party rooms, a stage area &ndash; we pass idle extras, camera crews, and girls capturing him on small handheld cameras, peppered&nbsp;with a few strange scenes and characters... It&#39;s an audacious&nbsp;experiment that really comes off.

Jennifer Millington

Vivian Lin

Natalie Mcansh

Caitlin Wright

Quewin Warnasuriya

Toronto Sound

Kailee Clayton

Oliver Welton

Mike Yablonski

Evan Ciniello

Bryan Brooks

Sam Lebel-Wong

Tony Ranieri

Todd Thompson

Jeff Chapman

Harrison ft. Clairmont The Second 'It’s Okay I Promise' by Scott Cudmore

Harrison - It's Okay I Promise ft. Clairmont The Second (Official Video)

DJ Fresh and High Contrast have paired with director&nbsp;Scott Cudmore - taking a turn at solo directing after his run of fine videos with Michael Leblanc &ndash;&nbsp;for&nbsp;How Love Begins featuring Dizzee Rascal. It&#39;s&nbsp;a line-blurring pastiche of 80s sexy fitness videos and crime movies.The fun-loving piece sees Spandex-wearing dancers, the ones we&#39;ve seen once or twice before, finally&nbsp;break the confines of their aerobics video and old-shaped TV,&nbsp;happily invading scenes straight out of a cop drama, thrusting away in the police station,&nbsp;court and&nbsp;jailhouse, to the confusion of the actors.Back on the old TV, Dizzee also makes a typically charismatic&nbsp;cameo&nbsp;as a mouthy&nbsp;newsreader. And you may still may be inspired to jog off all those Christmas pies.

United Kingdom

Addy Chan

Rory Halsall

Caroline Clayton

Ministry of Sound

Marielle La Rue

Jessica Jerome

Michael Narimella

Anita Toth

Cait Mizzi

Anya Shore

Danny Luizinho

Rohan Painter

DJ Fresh & High Contrast ft. Dizzee Rascal 'How Love Begins' by Scott Cudmore

DJ Fresh x High Contrast ft. Dizzee Rascal - How Love Begins (Official Video)

Michael LeBlanc and Scott Cudmore&#39;s&nbsp;video for Spoon&#39;s Inside Out,&nbsp;the lead-off track from the critically-acclaimed They Want My Soul,&nbsp;is a delicious stream of unconsciousness, where Spoon frontman Britt Daniel plays spectator in his own dream, rolling from domestic serenity to bank robbery to violent wedding, and onwards.After their work in the past few months for Timber Timbre, Belle &amp; Sebastian and more, it simply affirms&nbsp;LeBlanc+ Cudmore as one of the most creative and prolific outfits currently working in music video.&nbsp;

Leblanc + Cudmore

Brendan Brady

Michael Leblanc

Erika Lobko

Spoon 'Inside Out' by LeBlanc + Cudmore

SPOON "Inside Out" official video

Michael LeBlanc and Scott Cudmore continue on their fine run of music video work with this compellingly lurid affair for&nbsp;METZ&#39;s&nbsp;The Swimmer &ndash; a bleak, very dark comedy, with an effective punk aesthetic, and a gif-style visual conceit.Following an&nbsp;anxiety-ridden man caught in the midst of&nbsp;a&nbsp;mysterious and dire situation, the video&#39;s&nbsp;non-linear narrative lets the viewer&nbsp;piece together the connections between some rather unsettling&nbsp;scenes - including a baptism that takes place in his bathroom, and a mafia-style beating at the behest of his erstwhile nearest and dearest.&nbsp;Nasty - but also very good.

Carlos Bustamante

Giselle Garcia Castro

Jocie Gammage

Sub Pop

METZ 'The Swimmer' by LeBlanc + Cudmore

METZ - The Swimmer [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

After their recent videos for Timber Timbre and Alt-J, Michael Leblanc and Scott Cudmore are definitely on a roll. Their&nbsp;intriguing video for Belle &amp; Sebastian&#39;s Party Line -&nbsp;taken from their forthcoming new album Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance &ndash; is fine indeed. It tells the story of a girls&#39; infatuation for a young man in at least two distinct styles, giving it a different interpretation each time, to reveal more of the narrative.Scott wrote this, and Michael photographed it - in two wildly contrasting formats -&nbsp;and its dreamlike quality is emphasised by what happens on the dancefloor: a sort of Northern Soul&nbsp;ballet, choreographed by&nbsp;Robert Binet.It all leads to a poignant&nbsp;moment which is very Belle &amp; Sebastian...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Trisha At Alter Ego Post

Michael Heathcote

Justin Lovell

Matador Records

Belle & Sebastian 'Party Line' by Leblanc + Cudmore 

Belle-&-Sebastian--'Party-Line'-by-Leblanc-+-Cudmore-

Directed by Scott Cudmore (The National, Great Lake Swimmers), this intimate, simple and clutter-free promo for Timber Timbre highlights the vast introspection and sensitivity of the track, beautifully shot by Michael Leblanc.

Scott Cudmore Film

Lisa DiQuinzio

Timber Timbre’s Demon Host by Scott Cudmore

Promonews Podcast

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