Dilly Gent. Sometimes a producer, mostly a Creative Director and always a fixer, her M.O is best defined as that of a vision crafter. Early on, she gained a reputation for her ability to match the right people with the right project. She’s been the secret sauce behind many of them – often steering artists in the right visual direction, and inspiring others to take up a path that rings more true to them. Dilly spent 17 years as Radiohead’s Creative Director, earning a Grammy Nomination for the feature length documentary “Meeting People Is Easy”. Dilly discovered her deep love and concern for the environment, while working with Al Gore; pushing her to create projects designed to deliver a green message through music and film. Founded Son&amp;Heir in 2018 to support some of the most creative talent and to be able to run low budget productions as some of the most creative artists don&#039;t have the most cash :) dilly@sonandheir.com 323 868 5586

Dilly Gent at Son & Heir

Creative Director

Son & Heir

Creative collective Maschima direct an out-of-this-world epic for legendary outfit Tears For Fears' latest album.&nbsp;Consisting of four tracks from Songs From A Nervous Planet, the video follows an interconnected narrative exploring dreams, memories, space travel and the planet we inhabit.&nbsp;Across the four songs Maschina contrast the beauty of the natural Earthbound world - represented by a young woman in sun-dappled California, on a beach, among sunflowers, captured in warmly glowing film footage - with the crisp, VFX-fired wonder and beauty of space exploration.[imgtoken data:1]In the third and fourth songs,&nbsp;the two elements come together: the Astronaut (the title of the second song) crashes back to Earth. Then the woman, her growing son&nbsp;and the wandering space traveller finally encounter each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a collective, Maschima encompass a range of visual skillsets, and they are on full display here. Spanning animation, live action, graphic design and more, it's a momentous achievement and a truly international effort. And the music is pretty damn great too: Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal is still capable of writing big Beatles-esque pop tunes.[imgtoken data:2]"We've all been fans of Tears For Fears since we were kids," explain Maschima. "This video series gave us the opportunity to craft a cinematic story that unfolded over four episodes - like creating a miniature TV show.&nbsp;Writing and building the narrative as we went, all while collaborating with an artist we deeply admire."The directing team describe themselves as 'an international art collective' with a shifting membership and .&nbsp;[imgtoken data:3]"We have known each other for ages, working in secret, building worlds under countless names and aliases - for projects both mainstream and underground," they continue. "Individually, we direct, shoot, edit, paint, compose, sculpt, build, destroy, and rebuild. Together, we are a multi-limbed beast with many brains but one mind."One of the members connected to Dilly Gent, working as creative director and commmissioner for Tears For Fears on the Songs From A Nervous Planet visuals."As longtime fans, we knew this was the perfect moment to finally come together - a filmmaking Voltron, fully assembled."

United Kingdom

Maschima

Dilly Gent

Dilly@sonandheir.com

Faith@sonandheir.com

Renee Kester

Bodhi Martinez

Concord Records

Tears For Fears 'Songs From A Nervous Planet' by Maschima

Tears-For-Fears-'Songs-From-A-Nervous-Planet'-by-Maschima

Picking up where the video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/01/09/christian-lee-hutson-strawberry-lemonade-waley-wang/79881" target="_blank">Strawberry Lemonade</a> left off,&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson&nbsp;hitchhikes back to LA, in Waley Wang's quirky road trip performance video for State Bird.&nbsp;We see Hutson don a disguise and hop into the back of a U-Haul, sharing the ride with a couple of enamoured hitchikers, who passionately kiss as he delivers his deadpan performance without a care in the world.&nbsp;From the grey, desaturated streets of New York to the warm glow of LA, the video is anchored by a sense of transition in both location and mindset, perfectly visualised through the attentive&nbsp;colour grade and gentle cinematography.Great work again from Waley Wang and team, which when paired with the first video, encapsulates a poignant and unusual emotional journey.&nbsp;

United States

Waley Wang

Amanda Austin

Mayur Patankar

Amaal Mustafa

Alexey Kosorukov

Sashank Sana

Zoe Donahoe

Anti- Records

Musician

Christian Lee Hutson 'State Bird' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "State Bird"

Waley Wang directs a stirring promo for&nbsp;Christian Lee Hutson, which sees the singer-songwriter and bandmates&nbsp;perform on a 360 degree rotating platform, in the centre of Washington Square Park in New York.&nbsp;The elevated&nbsp;live performance of Strawberry Lemonade subtly transforms into a melancholy of recalled memories and mourned connections, with the location of the rotating platform moving uptown to Central Park, and&nbsp;leading into the guitar solo section.&nbsp;Balancing a clever central concept with an unexpected flourish of abstract narrative, the video emanates a bittersweet vibe, which runs straight through the track - which was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst&nbsp;- and the visuals.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Daisy Wang

Aileen Wu

Ben Goelz

Jo Gennett

Rahul Sharma

Peter Harrison

Maria Matarrese

Olaf Woldan

Maria Carretero

NiceShoes

Christian Lee Hutson 'Strawberry Lemonade' by Waley Wang

Christian Lee Hutson - "Strawberry Lemonade"

'Fitz'&nbsp;dances through downtown Los Angeles - sending shockwaves of brightly-coloured energy through a group of BMX bikers, bandmate Noelle Scaggs and other dancing passersby - in Jamie Thraves scintillating video for 123456.Ofir Shoman - aka Blottermedia - created the 'energy' animation that passes like a bodypopping-inducing&nbsp;energy current through the cast.