Editing company

Speade

Will Hooper directs a thrilling&nbsp;performance video for Bree Runway's Ape Shit, with a proper nod to old-school Missy Elliott.&nbsp;Cycling furiously through a selection of set pieces, we see Bree confidently embody several characters, with sharp styling and tight art direction, switching the usual clichés on their heads to create something fresh and unique.Will Hooper and&nbsp;art director&nbsp;Laura Little channel&nbsp;a Nineties/Noughties vibe into the set design and props, whilst DP Stefan Yap&nbsp;matches the aesthetic by utilising multiple&nbsp;formats, including night-vision and lo-fi digital cameras. It's&nbsp;an unabashed, hypnotic journey, with editor&nbsp;Sam Allen setting a breathless pace from the beginning.At only two and a half minutes, Hooper packs a huge amount into the runtime - a&nbsp;dynamic and high-energy promo in his trademark style, that boosts the buzz and mystique around the dynamic Ms Runway.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Will Hooper

Eleri Evans

Blink

Laura Northover

Harry Hardwick

Ty Hack

Stefan Yap

Benjy Kirkman

Jomar O’Meally

Danny Hayward

Laura Little

Holly Adamthwaite

Marvin Francis

Tony Kent

Sam Allen

Kirsty Oldfield

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Tamara Mennell

Virgin EMI

Hip Hop

Bree Runway 'Ape Shit' by Will Hooper 

Bree-Runway--'Ape-Shit-'-by-Will-Hooper-

Declan Mckenna performs in a fluffy cloud like world that descends into glitchy chaos in Will Hooper's video for Beautiful Faces.&nbsp;Opening with a studio setup of Declan and his band, the utopian visuals are crammed full of colour and anachronistic styling. Within moments, the video is glitching with odd frames spliced between shots, the dreamy aesthetic slowly corrupting and morphing into something unusual.&nbsp;Utilising AR technology, the visuals become more and more CGI-driven,&nbsp;the artist's likeness bending, transforming and flying through the sky. Reminiscent of a fatal computer error in&nbsp;The Sims,&nbsp;the characters melt into the walls, duplicate and bend their limbs into unhuman form.This balance of live action and visual effects is an interesting&nbsp;departure for Will Hooper - who's last&nbsp;released video is a <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/10/16/slaves-one-more-day-wont-hurt-will-hooper/61400" target="_blank">furiously intense&nbsp;video for Slaves</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;topped off with a confident and assured performance from McKenna.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Rosie Brear

Paul Weston

Rachel Bashford

William Pope

Michael Darlington

Jackie Tyson

Michael Lewin

Marcus Albertsen

Josh Brooks

Alfie Dwyer

Jack Stone

Cinelab Film and Digital

Indie

Rock

Declan McKenna 'Beautiful Faces' by Will Hooper

Declan-Mckenna--'Beautiful-Faces-'-by-Will-Hooper

Neck your pint. Snap your pool cue. Are you seeing red yet? Then you’re ready to watch Will Hooper’s furious fever dream for Slaves.One More Day Won’t Hurt is the punk duo’s missive on a very specific kind of geezer — a “small town thug” banging his chest and necking lines outside your local. In the violent visual, Will Hooper skewers toxic masculinity with a bloody broadside of images: skin, nails, collisions, slops and viscera.This represents a brave and abrupt shift of gear for Will Hooper, he of domestic wit and charming homemade props. The young director is the current darling of slacker rock. In his frequently hilarious videos for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/07/24/idles-colossus-will-hooper/54240">Idles</a>, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/23/marika-hackman-im-not-where-you-are-will-hooper/58874">Marika Hackman</a>, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/10/31/our-girl-being-around-will-hooper/55765">Our Girl</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/03/13/apre-gap-year-2008-will-hooper/57748">APRE</a>, Hooper settles on a distinctly millennial sense of apathy and malaise. But in his latest video, the anger is uncomfortably tangible. It’s as if Slaves, Hooper and you, the viewer, are all thinking of the same person.<blockquote>The video aims to evoke the chaos of a violent nightmare.</blockquote>The video was shot by Jamie Harding on Super-16mm, Mini DV and a variety of “silly and wonderful” cameras including an Infrared Cam — in moments, you are literally seeing red. Sam Allen’s gonzo edit is a highlight, building to a climax so fervid they needed to add a leisurely credits sequence, if only to allow the ringing in your ears to subside."The vid aims to evoke the chaos of a violent nightmare," Hooper explains. "A feverish vision of toxic masculinity that feels like metal pins through flesh whilst necking a pint of Red Bull."Job done. &nbsp;

Jamie Harding

Dan Moran

MPC London

Punk

Punk rock

Heavy Metal

Grime

Slaves  'One More Day Won't Hurt' by Will Hooper 

Slaves--'One-More-Day-Won&#039;t-Hurt-'-by-Will-Hooper-

After the success of their video for Black Star Dancing, Dan Cadan and Jonathan Mowatt (aka Scully) whirl us into '60s and '70s psychedelia for their next outing for Noel Gallagher.It's&nbsp;a trippy throwback, with Noel and the band give a headlining performance of This Is The Place, intercut with lo-fi graphics and old-school TV reels. A thoroughly immersive transporting&nbsp;to the colours and chords of a halcyon age...

Dan Cadan

Jonathan Mowatt

Matt Clyde

Tonic

Beth Montague

Spencer Wilson

Niels Johansen

Gary Davies

Amy Brandon

Rich Woolway At Speade

Rankin Film

Ignition Records

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'This Is The Place' by Dan Cadan and Jonathan Mowatt

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - This Is The Place (Official Video)

Tom Hardiman - the director formerly known as Dear Mr Quistgaard - mixes the lyrical and bucolic with a twisted visual conceit for Mura Masa and vocal collaborator Clairo - who delivers her wistful performance on a vehicle speeding through countryside.

Tom Hardiman

Alex Chamberlain

Somesuch

Saskia Whinney

Harry Wheeler

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Doug Mcguinness

George Dyson

Olympique

Dance

Mura Masa ft Clairo 'I Don't Think I Can Do This Again' by Tom Hardiman

Dream-team Bree Runway and Fred Rowson continue their ambitious collaboration with this second, pointed foray into the world of 'Crackney'.Runway has never suffered fools gladly. Her short visual canon is reliably barbed and political. We first encountered her in <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/09/26/bree-runway-what-do-i-tell-my-friends-fred-rowson/49791">What Do I Tell My Friends</a>, in which the singer murdered an abusive fashion photographer and desecrated his corpse. This, her first collaboration with Rowson, was a caustic piece of wit in 2017 that anticipated the #MeToo campaign.Two years later, for Runway’s latest project, the two have developed the cartoonish, satirical world of Crackney. Their magical realist conception of London is a springboard for criticisms of culture and the city, in which dark skin-tones are a profitable commodity and Runway doppelgängers run amock.Big Racks takes aim at rigged capitalism and white gatekeepers of industry. Gentrifiers, procedural bureaucrats and trendy columnists who feel entitled to a piece of Runway (“I must touch your hair!”) This episode hones in on a beauty tycoon character we met in <a href="http://https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/29/bree-runway-2on-fred-rowson/58936">20N</a>. This time, the businesswoman is&nbsp;trying to secure a patent on her home brewed ‘Be Runway Body Spray’. Leading with the headline,<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/02/revealed-the-stark-evidence-of-everyday-racial-bias-in-britain"> “57% of ethnic minorities feel they have to work harder to succeed in a British workplace”</a>, the video skewers&nbsp;the myth that hard work is the only factor at play in personal success. Even with a fistful of cash, she can only secure a deal with a literal paper bag over her head.The video benifits from some hyperactive, mixed-format photography by Stefan Yap. And a fresh, comic&nbsp;book colour palatte, for which we can thank stylist&nbsp;Holly Adamthwaite and colourist&nbsp;Edwin Metternich. Spiky politcal satire rarely looks so fun.

Fred Rowson

Ghandi El-Chamaa

Ellie Britton

Tom Allan

Stephen Dunn

Kieran Brown

Lucie Red

Paige Cole

Ben Crook

Edwin Metternich

Glassworks

Chloe Ensor

Martha Kinn

Contemporary R&B

Trap

Bree Runway ft Brooke Candy 'Big Racks' by Fred Rowson 

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RVBBERDUCK reunites with KSI and Randolph - and the talented and feisty Talia Mar - as they go through life&nbsp;wearing balaclavas.And in this case, life really does mean life...&nbsp;

RVBBERDUCK

James Cross

After Party Studios

Alice Pitt-carter

Affy Robani

Olan Collardy

Jomar O'Meally

Dave Allen

Jess Morgan / Jam Studio

Mekel Bailey

Hayley Adams

Richard Woolway

Ruth Wardell

Wayne Bentley

Matt Alsop

KSI & Randolph ft. Talia Mar 'Real Name' by RVBBERDUCK

Ksi-&-Randolph-Ft.-Talia-Mar-'Real-Name'-by-Rvbberduck

Fred Rowson and Bree Runway revive the collaboration that began with&nbsp;2017&rsquo;s&nbsp;What Do I Tell My Friends? (where&nbsp;Bree murders a fashion photographer and twerks over his dead body) with an&nbsp;ambitious new project starting with this video for 2ON. &nbsp;After his work on the last Years &amp; Years&rsquo; release, Palo Santo, Bree asked Fred Rowson to take on the role of Creative Director. This time, Bree wanted something much larger in scale - a satirical concept based around her experiences growing up in Hackney, coming from a Ghanaian family, and finding that the darkness of her skin tone was the source of bullying and commentary throughout her childhood.From these painful beginnings, Bree and Fred created a cartoon world - Crackney - in which the concept of skin tone is malleable, in which Bree is a fashion tycoon, with her office based in her real-life living room, running a business that sells Be Runway Body Spray - a spray that turns the wearer into, of course, Bree Runway.With a set of references spanning from Aqua&#39;s Barbie Girl video to Twin Peaks, via Mortal Kombat, Bree and Fred created a colourful, heightened visual world which link narratively her social media presence, the songs themselves, the stills and EP artwork - shot by Charlotte Rutherford - and the two music videos, written and directed by Fred. Fred and Bree are planning to extend the concept to Bree&rsquo;s live shows in the future.

Julie Hoult, Leomie Francis Anderson,  Richard Myers, Rebecca Morrison, Taneisha Bodmer

Bree Runway '2ON' by Fred Rowson 

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Max Siedentopf&#39;s completely out-there, live-action-cartoon approach gets full rein to express itself in this enjoyably bonkers video for US electro-DJ Gommi.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#39;s a&nbsp;stop-motion piece where a middle aged, clock-watching salaryman - played by Gommi himself&nbsp;- utterly loses his grip on reality, as he waits for his tedious&nbsp;9-5 day to end, imagining all sorts of weird stuff in the process. It&#39;s a full-on psychotic episode, to match the lyrics of Gommi&#39;s banging tune Psychosis.Maybe its a bit of a Marmitey approach, but&nbsp;Siedentopf command of a wonderfully nutty visual language is a joy to these jaundiced eyes. And, frankly, thank the lord for a new dance producer with a properly daft sense of humour.

Max Siedentopf

Kate Brady

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Alex Moffat

Marcus Domleo

Thomas Wooton

Saul Harris

Shaun Fenn

Tors Beedles

Lisa Chau

Steve Warne

Ethan Wigfield

Heavyweight Records

Electronica

Gommi 'Psychosis' by Max Siedentopf

Brothers Loral and Ronnel Raphael &ndash; aka Sons of Raphael &ndash; deliver a fully-fledged modern epic in the shape of new single A&nbsp;Nation of Bloodsuckers.&nbsp;The video, directed by Loral with cinematography by&nbsp;Manuel Alberto&nbsp;Claro&nbsp;(Melancholia, Nymphomaniac), invites us to inhabit multiple-overwhelming&nbsp;realities.&ldquo;Here is a refusal to see violence and tenderness as binary,&nbsp;but painfully and tightly interwoven - just like the God we worship who could be both&nbsp;a warrior as well as a&nbsp;nurturing mother,&quot; explain the brothers Raphael.&nbsp;&quot;Exploring the paradox of human faith, Sons of Raphael give us an unusual invitation&nbsp;to break out of false self-hood, with a yearning for authenticity.&quot;

Loral Raphael

Joel Spencer

LEZ Creative

Mary Calderwood

Andrew Potter

Manuel Alberto Claro

Malte Huebner

Darren Ladbury 

Yan Murawaski

Matt King

Natsumi Ebiko

Anete Salinieka

Jack McGinity

Time Based Arts

Markus Lundqvist

Because Music

Sons Of Raphael 'A Nation Of Bloodsuckers' by Loral Raphael 

Sons of Raphael | A Nation of Bloodsuckers

Over the first two videos of the new album campaign Fred Rowson has explored the alternate universe that powers Years &amp; Years&#39; new album Palo Santo - released today (July 6th). And now, following <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/03/12/years-years-sanctify-fred-rowson" target="_blank">Sanctify</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/05/16/years-years-if-youre-over-me-fred-rowson" target="_blank">If You&#39;re Over Me</a> comes the accompanying short film - also named Palo Santo - that brings it all together.In fact, this beautifully made short sci-fi drama, shot in Thailand, really is what the campaign is all about. It adds&nbsp;a new dimension to the story more broadly touched upon in the videos, of human enslavement by android masters, to provide round-the-clock entertainment.&nbsp;At the heart of it is Olly Alexander&#39;s role as entertainer-in-chief in this android world Palo Santo, and the prize property&nbsp;of an android apparachnik and ringmaster - a subtle and sympathetic&nbsp;characterisation by the Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm.[imgtoken data:1]The previous videos are abbreviated in the film to give more room to&nbsp;the narrative, while&nbsp;there are some surprising cameos - the ominiscient voice that directs life in Palo Santo is provided by none other than Dame Judy Dench; there&#39;s also an appearance by Ben Whishaw.&nbsp;It looks stunning, courtesy of photography by DoP Jaime Feliu Torres, and superbly edited by Sacha Szwarc at Speade.&nbsp;Written by Alexander and Rowson - who have a long association of working together - the pace of Palo Santo never drops, as it flips seamlessly&nbsp;between character interplay&nbsp;and performance set-pieces, taking in moments of humour and pathos. It becomes&nbsp;a genuinely emotional ride. Ultimately it&nbsp;shows what an accomplished director that&nbsp;Fred Rowson has become.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Corin Taylor

Jack Bingham

Jaime Feliu Torres

Inthira Sawantrat

Siranat Ratchusanti

Nick Royal

Emma Croft

Maxine Crew

Aaron Sillis

Jacob Holme

Indochina Productions

Simon Nicholas

Mutita Na Songkla

Atchariya Pinitsanpirom

Oliver Whitworth

Sacha Szwarc

Lewis Crossfield

Alex Bingham

Semera Khan

Polydor

Years & Years 'Palo Santo' by Fred Rowson

Years & Years - Palo Santo (Short Film)

With Years &amp; Years&#39; concept-led second album&nbsp;Palo Santo on the way, the second video by Fred Rowson is the next episode&nbsp;in the story of Y&amp;Y&#39;s Olly Alexander as a captive human performer&nbsp;in a world dominated by androids.After his unveiling as a prize exhibit in Sanctify, Olly becomes&nbsp;the star of an elaborate cabaret, where humans must perform continuously for their android masters, in If You&#39;re Over Me. As the song progresses the routines become increasingly spectactular - and we also glimpse life backstage.Clearly there&#39;s some kind of history between Olly and one of his fellow dancers...&nbsp;

Richard Grewe

Years & Years 'If You're Over Me' by Fred Rowson

Years-&-Years-'If-You're-Over-Me'-by-Fred-Rowson

Yungen reunites with Oliver Jennings for the follow-up to smash hit Bestie, heading over to Riviera Maya in Mexico for a delightful change of scenery.And Jess Glynne comes along for the ride too, to perform the vocals on Mind On It in some beautiful tropical locations.

Oliver Jennings

Alasdair Mitchell

Partizan Darkroom

Joe Browne

Luke Goodrich

Ed Hubert

Richard Savage

Philip Hambi

Claire Stubbs @ Mouthpiece

Elizabeth Doonan

Yungen ft Jess Glynne 'Mind On It' by Oliver Jennings  

The final instalment of Zhang + Knight&#39;s Vertigo&nbsp;trilogy for Eden, Float depicts the breakdown of a young couple&rsquo;s relationship after a supernatural encounter with a meteor.&nbsp;Their third video for the Irish singer-songwriter is also the third video that&nbsp;Zhang + Knight&nbsp;(the directing monicker of duo Hannah Palumbo and Linden Feng) have created with FRIEND, and happily coincides with the announcement of their <a href="http://friendlondon.tv/directors/zhang-knight#cat-musicvideos" target="_blank">joining&nbsp;the London-based production company</a>.Luke Tierney, head of music video at FRIEND says: &quot;We&rsquo;re delighted to sign Zhang + Knight, our first music video signing in two years! I&rsquo;ve been a long time fan since watching their ATO music video they shot in China. As hard working as they are talented, it&rsquo;s easy to see why they were nominated for Best New Director at the UKMVAs after only one year in the industry. Super excited for what&rsquo;s next.&quot;&nbsp;

Zhang + Knight

Dasha Deriagina

Eden 'Float' by Zhang + Knight - now signed to FRIEND

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