Post Producer

Sean Ewins

For their previously unreleased song Follow Me Around, Radiohead have a wonderful new video by directing&nbsp;duo Us -&nbsp;Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor - starring Guy Pearce. He plays the hapless victim of a particularly tenacious insect - and we, the viewer,&nbsp;are that pesky bug.&nbsp;A simple idea is transformed by Barrett and Taylor's brilliant employment of up-to-the-minute tech. And indeed, minute tech: the entire video is shot on a&nbsp;tiny drone&nbsp;that speeds through London streets, and through tiny spaces, and finds its way to Pearce's East London home - where the relentless attack&nbsp;by the bug begins. Everything we see comes from insect-POV, as we witness Pearce's increasing desperation and panic.[imgtoken data:1]Us were inspired to look through the mini-critter's eyes, having spent a summer combatting mosquitos. They were also inspired by&nbsp;footage of tiny drones that can go through anywhere at speed.&nbsp;With the brilliant casting of Pearce, Barrett and Taylor have also elevated the concept further, adding a level of ambiguity&nbsp;where surveillance, paranoia and the humble mosquito meet.&nbsp;The formatting of the camera was made to emulate both the period of the song, with its lo-fi 420p resolution, and also the idea of surveillance cameras, as well as the erratic and somewhat flailing camp of vision one imagines a mosquito’s to be. Married with Guy Pearce’s outstanding acting, the sparse visuals are meant to make the viewer feel as uncomfortable as the character on the screen.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]And why is Pearce being targetted?&nbsp;We really can only guess, as the one thing we cannot see is the attacker itself - is this actually an insect, or perhaps another form of Bug...It is of course perfect for the lovely song Follow Me Around, a live favourite which dates back to the era of OK Computer,&nbsp;that Radiohead are only now releasing, on the new Kid A/Amnesiac sessions project. This one goes direct to the pantheon of great Radiohead videos.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Us (Chris Barrett & Luke Taylor)

Medb Riordan

Georgina Smith

Academy Films

Maurizio Von Trapp

James Sharpe

Molly Manning Walker

Bill Rae Smith

Mark Connell

Katie McGoldrick

Terry Grisdale

Joe Guest

Final Cut

Simone Grattarola

Time Based Arts

Mishaal Memon

Guy Pearce

Scott Wright

Mouthpiece

XL Recordings

Rock

Alternative

Radiohead 'Follow Me Around' by Us

Radiohead-'Follow-Me-Around'-by-Us-(chris-Barrett-&-Luke-Taylor)

Samuel Douek directs an empowering promo for Little Mix's Love (Sweet Love).This is Douek and the&nbsp;group’s third collaboration, celebrating ten&nbsp;years of Little Mix, and is the title track from their&nbsp;forthcoming album.The concept was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite art movement and the lesser known Sisterhood that romanticised nature and emboldened women through painting.“I wanted to celebrate Little Mix as the regal queens they are; unimpressed by a cohort of Knights that vie for their attention,” explains Douek.&nbsp;The opulent promo is shot in a spectacular orangery-style space, adorned with a mesmerising selection of plants, whilst the styling and makeup create a fantasy world that really bring the track to life.&nbsp;This is one of the first films to come out of CAMP Productions, recently founded by Douek and executive producer Francesca Woods.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Samuel Douek

Joseph J Goldman

CAMP 

Francesca Woods

Hugo Holford

Yasmin Godo

Carlos Varon

Anil Duru

Patrycja Cygan

Steve Cameron

Furmaan Ahmed

Zack Tate

Aaron Carlo

Cassie Lomas

Vanessa Reynolds

Edit Egg

Myles Bevan

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Kat Catteneo

Sony Music

Jamie McFarland

Mona Leanne

Hila Karmand

Grant Sandy Phillips

Little Mix 'Love (Sweet Love)' by Samuel Douek

Little-Mix-'Love-(sweet-Love)'-by-Samuel-Douek

James Bay keeps watch over&nbsp;an old-school high street video shop, where he reminisces about a past&nbsp;love, in&nbsp;Jake Jelicich's absorbing video for Alesso &amp; Marshmello's Chasing Stars.&nbsp;As Bay plays 90s and 00s VHS tapes&nbsp;on analogue TVs dotted around his cosy store, Jelicich switches between the warmth of&nbsp;the singer's performance and glitchy tape footage, replaying transitionary memories of time gone by. It works really well in creating a sentimental and nostalgic sensibility around the song.[imgtoken data:1]Then as light is revealed behind the VHS shelves, Bay eventually breaks free of the four walls of the store, and suddenly he is on a beach with his old love. It's all made possible by Jelicich and his team having custom-built the video store, with terrific attention to detail for memorabilia of the period, in a studio. Then they headed for Margate to shoot that crucial end sequence.With a winning performance from James Bay,&nbsp;the video fittingly pays homage to a wide array of 90s/00s films, including Empire Records,&nbsp;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Interstellar&nbsp;and The Ring. Above all,&nbsp;Jelicich has paid homage to the late, lamented&nbsp;video store itself - and done a really splendid job.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jake Jelicich

Frankie Willcock

LEZ Creative

Mary Calderwood

Sophia  Dembizter

Gabriel O’Donohoe

Adam Singodia

Karl Hui

Nina Mangold

Albie Ball

Bobbie Cousins

Karen Clarkson 

Charlie Cullen

Mahalia Mensah

Marisa Garner Associates

Colin Wyatt

Capitol Records

Electronic

Alesso & Marshmello ft James Bay 'Chasing Stars' by Jake Jelicich

Alesso & Marshmello - Chasing Stars ft. James Bay (Official Video)

Zak Abel shares the love in B2's fun-filled promo for Be Kind.&nbsp;The breezy video takes place on a beautiful day in the middle of a luscious green field - not a world away from the iconic Window XP desktop background - and features a flurry of feel-good movement and performance.&nbsp;Different characters pop up in mini-vignettes, before forming a dynamic ensemble for the climax, whilst Abel sings through a vintage microphone dangling from offscreen.[imgtoken data:1]

Ben Pengilly

Dmnd Clr

Dijian Eccles

Danny Rumbelow

Arran Green

Natalie Anderson

Kashmir Wickham

Ayse Gonen

Max Ferguson-Hook

Andre Reid-McKinley

Gary Kent

Zak Abel 'Be Kind' by B2

Zak-Abel-'Be-Kind'-by-B2

Bailey Tom Bailey explores isolation and human testing in his sci-fi inspired visual for Miya Miya.&nbsp;Opening in a nondescript testing facility, vocalists Gini and Jordan are sealed within perspex containers, under watch by an unknown captor. After being liberated from captivity, they meet a worse fate on their escape.&nbsp;Striking and well&nbsp;executed, the location anchors the haunting aesthetic, a clandestine and clinical space in which unimaginable horrors await an unlucky few.&nbsp;The video mixes body horror and sci-fi with a vein of dark humour.

Bailey Tom Bailey

Kieran Nolan Jones

Hellmouth Pictures

Simon Stolland

Josh Higgins

Vianney Kernanet-huggins

Nico Sadori

Lucy Rebecca Baxter

Melanie Kyle

Vicious Viscous

Lewis Crossfield

Security Guard: Dave Edwards

John Moule

Alacran Group

Miya Miya 'Cold Blood' by Bailey Tom Bailey

Miya-Miya-'Cold-Blood'-by-Bailey-Tom-Bailey

Paul Mescal makes an emotional call to his girlfriend at the beginning of the video for The Rolling Stones' Scarlet, directed by Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor - aka Us.&nbsp;So far, so Normal People.&nbsp;But then we notice that Mescal is living in the lap of luxury. In fact he has the run of Claridge's Hotel, no less.&nbsp;After leaving a half-drunken love note to his girlfriend, Mescal&nbsp;(the sensitive Connell&nbsp;in TV hit&nbsp;Normal People) spins this previously unreleased track from The Stones' early '70s&nbsp;album&nbsp;Goat's Head Soup,&nbsp;proceeds to drink his body weight in whiskey, dance cheesily in the mirror, have an emotional breakdown and trash the hotel room.&nbsp;And then he heads down to the hotel lobby - which is even grander than the one in that other famous deserted hotel video, Weapon Of Choice.&nbsp;The video was made under social distancing guidelines, and clearly it could not have happened at any other time - and probably for no other band in the world. It's certainly a treat for the growing legion of the Mescal fans - and for fans of Barrett and Taylor too.

Gemma Priggen

Benji Edwards

Mauro Chiarello

Barney Batchelor

Stephen Finberg

Sara Sensoy

Lucie Blundell-Jones

Supple Nam

Ellie Johnson

Tenthree Editing

Paul Mescal

Semera Khan

Polydor

The Rolling Stones 'Scarlet' by Us

The-Rolling-Stones--'Scarlet-'-by-Us-(chris-Barrett-&-Luke-Taylor)

George Gretton is waiting in isolation in&nbsp;Imogen Harrison's video for Grey / Blue,&nbsp;a visual which extends the downbeat themes of the track very effectively.Gretton wanders out from his flat into dark&nbsp;London streets on his own, and DoP&nbsp;Simon Plunket keeps things hazy and slightly underexposed, creating a surreal yet dreamlike atmosphere in this portrait of bleak longing.&nbsp;

Imogen Harrison

My Accomplice

Simon Plunket

Blaine Pearson

TenThree

Times Based Arts

George Gretton  'Grey / Blue ' by Imogen Harrison 

George-Gretton--'Grey-/-Blue-'-by-Imogen-Harrison-

Sinead Harnett's song Leo Bear is all about her beloved nephew, describing the&nbsp;special connection that they both share. The video, directed by photographer/filmmaker Rosie Matheson and Sinead herself, was shot on a mix of iPhone, digital, Super8 and VHS.The film examines the connection between people and places through intimate portraiture and creative visual narrative. Through the medium of real film, Sinead and Rosie have been able to connect with their subjects in both and authentic and nostalgic way.

Rosie Matheson

Sinead Harnett

Untold Studios

George Harper

Sinead Harnett 'Leo Bear' by Rosie Matheson & Sinead Harnett 

Sinead-Harnett--'Leo-Bear'-by-Rosie-Matheson-And-Sinead-Harnett-

Anthony Byrne&#39;s intense video for Hozier draws us into the depths of a bizarre and disfunctional relationship, that takes place at a eery Gothic dinner party.With a very creepy leading man (played by Hozier himself) having psychological control over his female dinner guest, a cycle of obsessive love, control and hysteria plays out - with a gruesome, fiery climax.It&#39;s a mesmerising psychological drama, with elements of dance, in which the tension between the pair is ratcheted up in Chris Roebuck&#39;s masterly edit.

Anthony Byrne

Fred Bonham Carter

Jess Wylie

Ellie Phipps

Mark McPadden

Si Bell

Leighton Spence

Roland Phillips

Ollie Whickman

Ruth Crawford

Hannah Hopkins

Narad Kutowaroo

Nathalie Eleni

Chris Roebuck

Anya Taylor-Joy

Rubyworks

Singer-songwriter

Hozier 'Dinner & Diatribes' by Anthony Byrne

Hozier-'Dinner-&-Diatribes'-by-Anthony-Byrne

An absorbing&nbsp;romance, with ups and downs as befitting the title of Naughty Boy&#39;s returning single, from Daniel Brereton.Shot in bustling Morocco, Brereton&#39;s love story unfolds to the evocative vocals of Emeli Sandé on Bungee Jumping. Cultural differences between the boy and girl are revealed, and treated in a realistic way, with strong characterisation, and excellent performances from Ruby Barker and Haroun Cherkaoui.Ultimately the strength of the piece lies in how it stresses that the bonds of love are stronger than anything, in a sophisticated rather than superficial fashion. And that makes it a&nbsp;very rewarding watch.

Daniel Brereton

Alexa Haywood

Joel Honeywell

Eve Carreno

Jill Wignall

Jo Apps

Jack McGinity

Ruby Barker

Haroun Cherkaoui

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Dance

Naughty Boy ft Emeli Sandé 'Bungee Jumping' by Daniel Brereton

Naughty-Boy-'Bungee-Jumping'-by-Daniel-Brereton

Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell&#39;s video for the title track from the Arctic Monkeys&#39; album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino continues on the theme of their first for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/05/15/arctic-monkeys-four-out-five-ben-chappell-aaron-brown" target="_blank">Four Out Of Five</a>, taking into deep into Alex Turner&#39;s conceptual idea for the album - the slightly barmy retro-glamour of&nbsp;the eponymous Tranquility Base.So here&#39;s Turner in his domain, an eerily deserted Vegas of the past, always immaculate in a series of dazzling outfits - and&nbsp;often required to pick up a phone at a moment&#39;s notice...

Ben Chappell & Aaron Brown

Rich Hutchins

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Michael Mackey Valentine

Matt Cronin

Tim White

Doug McCafferty

Arctic Monkeys 'Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino' by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell  

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Official Video)

HMLTD are being hailed in some quarters as the UK&#39;s most thrilling new band, and their theatrical mix of glam and goth becomes a rich source of inspiration for Ilona McIlwain in her first video for the band.McIlwain portrays HMLTD frontman Henry Spychalski like a consumption-flecked Romantic poet in a crumbling English pile, accompanied by pouting fellow bandmembers and haunted by memories, in the deliciously atmospheric mini-epic for the sprawling Satan, Luella and I.It&#39;s McIlwain&#39;s full debut in music videos, following her impressive crossover into directing with the film of <a href="http://promonews.tv/videos/2017/04/20/fujiko-nakaya-x-min-tanaka-x-ryuichi-sakamoto-ilona-mcilwain" target="_blank">Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya&#39;s installation at Tate Modern</a>&nbsp;earlier this year,&nbsp;and suggests an exciting future lies ahead.&nbsp;

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