Commissioner

Scott Wright

As their long-awaited new album ROMANCE is released, comes another&nbsp;remarkable Fontaines D.C. video - and another tour de force by Luna Carmoon.The director who made her music video debut with&nbsp;the intense drama of <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/08/fontaines-dc-heres-thing-luna-carmoon/87678" target="_blank">Here's The Thing</a> (after her acclaimed feature debut Hoard) quickly returns to duties with the Fontaines with an extraordinary piece of work for In A Modern World: a surreal comedy-drama, featuring an incredible central performance&nbsp;from Ewan Mitchell (House of the Dragon, Saltburn) - as a character engaged in the netherworld of a very niche, indeed bizarre and&nbsp;dangerous sport.&nbsp;It's car-jitsu - jiu-jitsu, within the interior&nbsp;of a car. Invented <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1f7r0cfaXc" target="_blank">just a couple of years ago, in Chicago</a>, Mitchell's character is the protagonist through which Carmoon explores an absurd yet compelling experience. At first, its just the raw, explosive physicality involved of clashing bodies within a ridiculously small space - which is surprising and hugely intense&nbsp;in itself.Then the director adds another dimension to the&nbsp;brutal clash of bodies - what is happening outside the car, the voyeuristic relationship of passers-by who become the audience to Mitchell and a succession of combatants, a kind of sexual frisson that is created through the intensity of the action. The parallels with another in-car activity is undeniable.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;Fight Club&nbsp;crossed&nbsp;with dogging.&nbsp;Horrible, painful to watch yet hilarous, it's mesmerizing stuff, a fever dream. And it's hard to undersell how good Mitchell is in this. Or how impressive it is in terms of the vision and world creation by Carmoon. Just great.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Sofia Sacomani

Lewis Walker

Coralie Rose

Luna Carmoon

Chris Murdoch

ProdCo

Jack Hamilton

Theo Hue Williams

Callum Anderson

Jack Meredith

Ellen Aman Jones

Lucy James

Charles Stanley

Natasha Lawes

Joseph Taylor

Trim Editing

Andi Chu

Electric Theatre Collective

Ewan Mitchell

XL Recordings

Fontaines D.C. 'In The Modern World' by Luna Carmoon

Fontaines-D.c.-'In-The-Modern-World-'-by-Luna-Carmoon

Filmmaker Luna Carmoon, the director of well-received feature debut Hoard, now&nbsp;unveils her debut music video for Fontaines D.C. - where she brings a modern twist to cult classics The Craft and The Lost Boys.In the Here's The Thing video, Grace Collender plays a girl ostracized by her peers during a community dance competition. After a humiliating fall on stage, she finds herself entangled with a group of outsider girls who begin to infiltrate her life and dreams. The narrative unfolds with elements of supernatural intrigue, as these enigmatic girls lead our protagonist into a world of chaos and rebellion.With rich cinematography from Antoine Cormier, Carmoon creates an unsettling, gripping atmosphere. The haunting, smog-filled settings evoke the suspense of 80s Giallo films, while the characters’ distinctive, alt-inspired wardrobes draw from grunge and goth aesthetics. And the&nbsp;influence of films like The Craft and The Lost Boys is evident in the way Carmoon portrays the bond between the outsider girls, with the lead character’s transformation from outcast to a powerful, defiant force driving the story forward.It all leads to an explosive climax, dovetailing with another banging Fontaines track from their forthcoming album Romance.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Antoine Cormier

Oscar Stewart

Noreen Khan

John Lowe

Hermes Contreras

Tom Nowell

Echo Seireeni

Max Cookward

Road Casting

Grace Collender

Rock

Fontaines D.C. 'Here's The Thing' by Luna Carmoon

Fontaines D.C. - Here's The Thing (Official Video)

Alice Kunisué&nbsp;directs a wonderfully eccentric promo for Peggy Gou.&nbsp;The video for Lobster Telephone is the director's first promo with ProdCo, having recently signed with them for representation in the US and UK, and Kunisué's vision for the visual brings an otherworldly, playful vibe to complement the track.&nbsp;Opening with six guys magically popping out of the water, they awkwardly dance to the beat before spotting Peggy and becoming instantly mesmerised.&nbsp;From there, it's a trippy fever dream with lobster claw accessories, vibrant bouncy balls and a heavy dose of contemporary surrealism.&nbsp;“I think anyone who meets Peggy feels instantly charmed and entertained by her wit and humor," comments&nbsp; Kunisué.&nbsp;"It just came very naturally to bring that playful aura into a story.”

Teresa Montanuy

Carolina Galiana

Alice Kunisué

Blanca Cividanes

Javi Vázquez

Guiseppe Favale

Verónica Palés

Marc A. Martinez

Lucas Cuevas

Alberto Ojeda

Dani De Juan

Adrian Rodriguez

Andrea Campillo

Elena Marín

Hyungsun Ju

Patrick Glatthaar

Pepa Perea

Dylan Edwards

Mykyta Bereg

Cabin Edit

Church

Disguys

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Dance

Peggy Gou 'Lobster Telephone' by Alice Kunisué 

Peggy-Gou-'Lobster-Telephone'-by-Alice-Kunisué-

Fontaines D.C.'s self-directed video for Favourite interweaves&nbsp;home video archive of the five band members with lo-fi footage of their recent trip to Madrid to brilliant effect.Madrid is&nbsp;a city that the band have multiple personal connections to, as the place guitarist Carlos O’Connell was born and grew up in and the city the band used as a base for their first ever tour. But the recent footage of the band in the Spanish capital&nbsp;works as a support to even more personal content - home video footage of each of the band&nbsp;at different stages of childhood.&nbsp;It's an impressive document of the group showing their affection for each other, in their own unsentimental&nbsp;fashion.[imgtoken data:1]"We worked with Gwen Ghelid, who edited the Starburster video, and did an incredible job again editing this video for us too - he nailed it first time," says Scott Wright, head of creative at XL Recordings. "The video captures something special about the band’s friendship, and their wider relationships with family, those here and departed. It’s joyful, celebratory, and enhances those qualities in the song."Fontaines D.C's Connor Deegan, who co-produced the video with Wright, adds: “This video is a reminiscing of the past; of each other’s childhoods we didn’t know. We explore where we came from, and who on some level, still are. I see a lot of familiar faces being pulled, and the antics these lads are undertaking in their videos are so disarming and vulnerable to see. I am at times reminded of boyish mannerisms that they’ve grown out of in the time I’ve known them - and some that they haven’t."I feel their souls there. I would like this video to serve as a way of honouring our friendships, and moving from that, the relationships we hold dear. Our mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers. Those who we still have, and those we have sadly lost. We haven’t lost that connection to each other, and are not afraid to come of age again, holding on to romance in a sometimes trying world.”&nbsp;

Ireland

Oliver Whitworth

Fontaines D.c.

Conor Deegan

Mons

Gwen Ghelid

Collectiv Paris

Indie

Fontaines D.C. 'Favourite' by Fontaines D.C.

Fontaines D.C. - Favourite (Official Video)

Romy teams up with acclaimed&nbsp;Aftersun director Charlotte Wells for the video for Always Forever, the singer's interpolation of Donna Lewis's Nineties hit I Love You Always Forever, produced by Fred Again.Two dancers in a darkened room are revealed to be in a mirrored space, intercut with Romy's performance in the same space, in&nbsp;Wells's music video debut, which also pays homage to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqdWTeXWvOg" target="_blank">the video for Lewis's original</a>.&nbsp;For the full story about the making of the video, read <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/62718/1/the-story-behind-romy-s-new-video-always-forever-charlotte-wells-director" target="_blank">Laura Malloy's feature for DAZED</a>, where Wells reveals she was also inspired by watching Texas videos from the 1990s ("I spent a week watching music videos from 1996 and 1997 which is really an assured way to put anybody in an excellent mood," says Wells). And Romy responded to the calm assurance of Sharleen Spiteri in those videos for her own performance.&nbsp;

Charlotte Wells

Adele Romanski

Martha McGuirk

Clive Olamiju

Young

PASTEL

Celia Rowlson-Hall

Emma Portner

Caetlyn Watson

Gregory Oke

Arthur De Borman

Eve Ashwell

Jo Barker

MrMr

Rosie Brear

Simon Donnellon

Ina Luders

Vlassis Skosis

Alex Hudson

Noah Furrer

Charlie Fitzjohn

Digital Orchard

Romy 'Always Forever' by Charlotte Wells

Romy – Always Forever (Official Music Video)

Fontaines DC are back - with an extraordinary, thought-provoking&nbsp;video by Aube Perrie.&nbsp;The video for Starburster opens with vocalist Grian Chatten dressed as a football referee, heading out for a kick about, until the ball rolls under a garage door.&nbsp;From there, we see Chatten morph into dozens of different characters - from the whimsical to the straight up creepy, with a special shout-out to the gimp suit and a horrifying prosthetic mask.&nbsp;In a frantic blur of strange little vignettes, we see the artist interact with his bandmates and random people, backdropped by the eerily quiet landscapes behind him. There is also a real sense that somehow Chatten has wondered into other worlds, and we are finding out about those worlds from his perspective, before quickly moving on.&nbsp;The use of an inhaler puff to break up the structure, is also very effective device to highlight the&nbsp;fragmented, almost unreadable nature of the narrative.&nbsp;A truly inspired, almost bizarre&nbsp;visual that earns its status of one of the most surreal clips of the year so far. It's also arguably Aube Perrie's strangest video yet - and that comes as the biggest compliment.&nbsp;

Aube Perrie

Two Happy

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Elena Argiros

Fin Mulligan-Wild

Christopher Ripley

Mathieu Perez

Glassworks

Hands 

Antfarm Film Services

Molly Singer

Danny Usman

Chris Sarginson

Ruta Staseviciute

Ellie Walker

Helena Smythe

Jonny Thorpe

Mark Hellaby @ 750mph

Alternative

Fontaines DC 'Starburster' by Aube Perrie

Fontaines D.C. - Starburster (Official Video)

A return to the music video medium by none other than&nbsp;Paul Thomas Anderson is always cause for excitement. And his latest team up with Thom Yorke, for the new release by The Smile, does not disappoint.We are in familiar territory as Anderson follows Yorke on a surreal journey through a black and white world. Actually, its&nbsp; clearly a recognisable version of&nbsp;London, one hauled from the past but still here, more than ever.Its cozy and bleak, with shafts of humour as Thom, our inimitable guide, seeks a bit of colour and finds - well, lots of versions of himself...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

Paul Thomas Anderson

Shirley O’Connor

Object & Animal

Bugs Hartley

Jonny Franklin

Dom Thomas

Morgan Clement

Laura Hegarty

Katie Kennedy

Adam Somner

Charlie Wyldeck

Paul Wheeldon

Sekani Doram

Lucie Blundell-Jones

Andy Jurgensen

Jodie Davidson

The Smile 'Wall Of Eyes' by Paul Thomas Anderson

The-Smile-'Wall-Of-Eyes'-by-Paul-Thomas-Anderson

Peggy Gou's summer anthem gets an appropriately sun-kissed visual courtesy of Somesuch director Thomas Hardiman, filmed on location in Ibiza.A playful mix of performance, choreography, gorgeous vistas of one of the loveliest places anywhere, in the video for (It Goes Like) Nanana Hardiman allows Peggy to find her groove, at the centre of the glamourous party, but not always the centre of attention.Shot by Nikita Kuzmenko, edited by Thomas Grove Carter and graded by Myles Bevan, it's a very&nbsp;sophisticated and aspirational addition to the classic Ibiza-set video.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Thomas Hardiman

Peggy Gou

Alex Chamberlain

Somesuch

Saskia Whinney

Georgina Fillmore

André Reid-McKinley

Diego Contreras

Michelle Cheung

Blake John Wood

Lorena Anabel Maza

Shon Ju

Patrick Galtthaar

Nikita Kuzmenko

Archil Siradze

Ali Copland

Eva Hrabovska

Grace Snellock

Thomas Grove Carter

Myles Bevan

Studio RM

Cinelab Film and Digital

Peggy Gou '(It Goes Like) Nanana' by Thomas Hardiman

Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana - Official Video

Dexter Navy presents how Sampha is touched with a special kind of magic in the video for Only.The acclaimed singer-songwriter begins bending reality when&nbsp;he studies a book titled LAHAI - the name of his forthcoming, long-awaited second album - and then ponders his reflection. When he ventures into the outside world he finds himself capable of all kinds of otherworldly powers, sometimes struggling to control them.A number of magical moments arrive in an understated fashion - which seems a perfectly pitched visual metaphor for Sampha's talent. And it makes it more impressive with every viewing.

Dexter Navy

Happy Place

Tara Razavi

Paul Guilhaume

Jeff Vine

Sarah Asmail

Maggie Curwin

Zoe Liang

Verity May Lane

Marq Rise

Lauraine Bailey

Steve Cameron

Kharmel Cochrane

No.8

Matt Turner

Absolute

Soul

Sampha 'Only' by Dexter Navy

SAMPHA [ONLY]

Jocelyn Anquetil directs a whimsical promo for the return of Archie Marshall, aka King Krule.&nbsp;The video for Seaforth opens with a montage of sleeping faces, including Marshall's own, before the illusory setting is washed away in a dusty haze. There is the dreamlike sensibility of a number of previous, supercool King Krule clips - but what follows in Seaforth is a definite sea-change.From Archie pondering the world on a sandy beach and in his country cottage, the focus switches to two Labrador dogs - mother and cute puppy -&nbsp;and their encounters with the human world. And the absurdity of it - cute pets in a King Krule vieo - is what makes the&nbsp;viewing experience so fun.&nbsp;Shot in&nbsp;both HD and lo-fi Mini DV, the video has a random, nostalgic aesthetic, and makes very good use of dog footage. We can only suspect that the experience on-set wasn't quite as laidback and charming as the final result...[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

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