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Stephanie Paeplow

Maxim Kelly marshals an army of virtual men to the alluring beats of Dense &amp; Pika in his coolly witty video for Honey.Just as the DJ production team of Alex Jones and Chris Spero (aka&nbsp;D&amp;P) hit the sweet spot between dark house and booming techno - assisted on Honey by slow-burn techno maestro Matthew Dear&nbsp;on vocals - Kelly manipulates a familiar early-CGI graphic style down a less predictable and metaphorical&nbsp;path.[imgtoken data:1]This digital army collect before the omnipotent&nbsp;decks of Dense and Pika - with the features of Jones and Spero more humanised than their acolytes. Then four horsemen carrying magnums of champagne trigger a strange effect on the rows of figures, and the end of the first phase of regimentation - to be replaced by something a bit loosier and groovier, but arguably more ominous. Now the men are suited and booted, becoming more individual, and pleased with themselves.“For Dense and Pika featuring&nbsp;Matthew Dear, I thought I would keep it simple and make the music video about everything," says Kelly - who&nbsp;worked with Barcelona-based Martes Studio on the animation.&nbsp;"It’s a creation or Genesis story in three&nbsp;minutes. From Big Bang to Garden of Eden to Apocalypse. A parable which takes us through the principal political ideologies of our times. Concluding with a compelling theme or moral: 'don’t guzzle the honey.'”

United Kingdom

Maxim Kelly

Daniella Manca

Caviar

Martes Studio

John Hassay

Dance

Dense & Pika ft Matthew Dear 'Honey' by Maxim Kelly

Dense & Pika feat. Matthew Dear - Honey (Official Video)

Ben Howard returns with the first release from his fourth album and a satirical take on the mores of the English landed classes in a widescreen comedy&nbsp;with bite directed by Cloé Bailly.For What A Day Bailly plants the viewer firmly in the English countryside, with a hunting party of shotgun-toting gentry. These increasingly drunken upper class twits are prospective Elmer Fudds, on the hunt for rabbits - which are being protected elsewhere in the field by Ben Howard himself.The fun really starts when one of the party begins to turn into one of the very creatures that he and his pals intend to fill with buckshot. Mysteriously sprouting a bunny tail, prominent teeth and floppy ears becomes increasingly difficult to hide from his boozed-up pals - leading to a shootout worthy of a&nbsp;decent Spaghetti Western.<blockquote>Ben wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties.</blockquote>“When Ben told me he wanted a dark comedy music vid for What A Day, I was just psyched," says Cloé Bailly.&nbsp;"It's my favourite genre to explore. He wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties. In his own words, it&nbsp;was a nonsense idea loosely based upon the Old English rhyme, ‘back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other’.[imgtoken data:1]"People loving to hunt just for the sake of killing, not out of necessity, might as well end up shooting each other and loving it too... But what if on top of this nature took revenge? What if the predator turned into the prey so in this case a hunter turned into a rabbit?!<blockquote>Cloé is a queen of dark comedy - I’m so grateful we got to work together on it.</blockquote>The video was actually shot in Bulgaria - in countryside&nbsp;that could pass for the rolling hills of the home counties.&nbsp;"Shooting in the Bulgarian mountains was intense but Ben, the crew and I were like kids," comments&nbsp;Bailly. "It's exhilarating to play with human emotions in a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huis_clos" target="_blank">huis-clos</a>, to imagine what people are truly capable of. And it’s always so good to see a whole crew getting on board with such a nonsense concept based on animal hysteria and group homicide. And of course, it goes without saying that having a dozen adorable bunnies around makes any shoot sweeter...”Ben Howard has added that&nbsp;“Cloé somehow transformed a basic countryside shoot ‘em up into an amazing tale of delightful retribution. Cloé is a queen of dark comedy and I’m so grateful that as friends we got to work together on it. The eclectic Bulgarian cast and crew somehow managed to pull this off in strange times, made all the more entertaining in a completely foreign language.”

Cloé Bailly

B2Y Productions

Ivan Ivanov

Nico Poulsson

Konstantin Velichkov

Alexander Trenev

Kris Lekov

Sergei Yordanov

Flaura Atkinson

Homespun

Angela Hart

Matthieu Toullet

Leianna Campbell

Micha Barban-Dangerfield

Laura Clayton

Island Records

Singer-songwriter

Ben Howard 'What A Day' by Cloé Bailly

Ben Howard - What A Day (Official Video)

Maxim Kelly teams up with South London alt-rockers Shame to create a masterful reimagining of archive footage for new single Nigel Hitter.Applying deepfake technology onto film from mid-20th century child developmental research, Kelly drops the band -&nbsp;frontman Charlie Steen,&nbsp;in particular&nbsp;- into the world of vintage equipment, whitecoated medics&nbsp;and&nbsp;lots of babies, undergoing all manner of tests and examinations. It's all part of the project led by that man who introduces the film and has his name on the front of the hospital... Nigel Hitter, MD.The effect of this clever refashioning of the past is both funny and creepy - which becomes more pronounced when the babies 'learn' to sing the lyrics of the song, and the human babies' number is increased by a painfully thin baby rhesus monkey. Now we are sliding into David Cronenberg territory of&nbsp;curious institutions, strange experiments and unfeasibly gifted toddlers.You could also argue that the video is also a kind of reflection on the past year - a relentless testing of human behaviour, where the medical profession play a prominent role. It echoes the manner in which the song, which features on the band's new album Drunk Tank Pink (out on Friday, 15th January). As Steen explains, it started life as&nbsp;the band adjusted to being locked down at home, having spent much of their adult life on tour.&nbsp;“Nigel Hitter is one of the vital organs of Drunk Tank Pink," he says. "A necessary pulse. Focused on daily routine, repetition, and how extraordinary any ordinary task seemed to me after coming home from touring. A world of percussion and joy lies within.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And Maxim Kelly was clearly inspired by the lyrics in coming up with the concept behind the video. The way he has executed that idea into the finished work - with the help of his team, including DoP Franklin Dow, editor Charlie Reddie and VFX artist RoBert Chandler - is nothing short of a marvel.

Franklin Dow

Juan Minotta

Ben Keswick

Noah Furrer

Ciprian Stroiny

Charlie Reddie

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Robert Chandler

Butterscotch Post

Fatima Ouklilane

Robby Morris

Dead Oceans

Rock

Shame 'Nigel Hitter' by Maxim Kelly

shame - Nigel Hitter (Official Video)

Maxim Kelly employs 19th century tech to create a mesmerising, appropriately-shaped video for Django Django's Spirals, the band's first new material since 2018.By recreating the Phénakisticope, a pre-cinematic invention to create 'motion pictures', Kelly has created&nbsp;a series of mandala-like circular patterns, encompassing images of Django lead singer David Maclean, that animate as they spin around. As they do so, they also replicate the spiralling effect that's referenced in the lyrics and also the music.This smart visual idea takes the viewer on a psychedelic experience that also sits perfectly with the band's canon&nbsp;of inventive visuals for their music.The single will be available to stream and download on all the usual digital platforms and also as a 10” vinyl b/w exclusive track The Ark, available from www.djangodjango.co.uk and all independent record shops.

Daphne Do

Jordan Buck

Jess Morgan

Kerry Green

Emma Friend

Michael McDuffie Finlay

Bobby Brown

Jono Yates

Nomad

Martin Goodwin

Felipe Szulc

Liv Lawton

Because Music

Django Django 'Spirals' by Maxim Kelly

Django Django - Spirals (Official Video)

Sophia Ray’s second collaboration with Ella Eyre is&nbsp;full of&nbsp;wild energy&nbsp;and a touch of the surreal, as she navigates her newfound single status and buries her negative emotions.&nbsp;The video follows Ella after a break up, where we see her take control of her life and reinvent herself. The edit rockets from one scene to the next, tracking Ella’s transformation as the&nbsp;exaggerated vignettes heighten the narrative, emphasising the artist's&nbsp;sense of empowerment.Full of wacky angles and videogame style animation, it's a contemporary take on the breakup concept, plugged in to the fast-paced social world we live in today.&nbsp;

Sophia Ray

Partizan

Mayling Wong

Joe Browne

David Calland

Ben Todd

Dan West

Damon Sewell

William Pope

Lucy Cooper

Daisy Deane

Marcia Lee

Kristina Theodoris

Kit Wells

Final Cut

Jonny Thorpe

Glassworks

Chloe Ensor

Mouthpiece

Partizan Darkroom

Ella Eyre 'New Me' by Sophia Ray

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Collard gets to grips with his inner demons in the video for Greyhound, directed by SOB. Tortured by feelings of lost love, a series of nameless characters populate his house whilst he gets caught in the middle of the chaos. Representing the inner workings of his mind, Collard battles these characters and himself, whilst trying to find answers to why he has been left alone.&nbsp;Using different aspect ratios and wild shooting styles, Greyhound is a delight to watch, and the old-school styling and art direction are the cherry on the cake. Very exciting to see, and we can't wait to see what Collard releases next.

Pulse Films

Maurizio Von Trapp

Jack Meredith

Jaime Ackroyd

Simon Lakos

James Wicks

Danny Hayward

Felix Paradza

Yulia Yurchecko

Chris Wilson

Stitch

Tim Smith

CHEAT

James Hackett

Collard 'Greyhound' By SOB

Collard-'Collard-'greyhound'-By-Sob'-by-Sob

The third video for new soul artist Collard directed by duo SOB - that&#39;s Eseosa Ohen and Joseph Shaw - is set in a lighting shop, and follows Collard on a damning descent into the depths of a sultry, sexy Hell...Described by Collard as being &ldquo;what it says on the tin&rdquo;, Hell Song, is &ldquo;me at my epitome of ecstasy and accepting the inevitable destination of hell for it, while all the while dragging an innocent but willing soul down there with me. As there&#39;s nothing tame about the production and lyrical content of Hell Song, the visual had to reflect the wildness and convey the theme of inevitable impending damnation.SOB are Collard&#39;s creative directors, as well as the directors of this and two previous videos, for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/01/collard-warrior-cry-sob/58498" target="_blank">Warrior Cry</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/05/07/collard-ft-kojey-radical-ground-control-sob/58559" target="_blank">Ground Control</a>.&nbsp;&quot;Sosa &amp; Joe decided on the visual being centred around heat and the connotations heat has with sex, passion and hell,&quot; continues Collard. &quot;Heat was the best way we could visualise the climatic rise of ecstasy, the internal burning of desire and my over healthy ambition to receive and provide sexual fulfilment.&rdquo;

Precious Mahaga

Luke Goodrich

Stefan Yap

Anthony Mchugh

Stephen Dunn

Phoebe Darling

Yulia Yurchenko

Jen Tividad

Vlad Barin

Murat Kilić

Lost Ones

Virgin EMI

Collard 'Hell Song' by SOB

Collard-'Hell-Song'-by-Sob

Ollie Wolf reworks a classic thriller trope - two strangers unwillingly handcuffed together - and adapts it into a romantic comedy, in this delightful video for Tom Walker.Wolf and his&nbsp;Oscar-winning cinematographer Michael Paleodimos, shot this video over two days on location in Southend, with his leads, Aggy Adams and Kenny Fullwood, giving winning performances as the couple who wake up after a one-night stand finding themselves in an unwelcome and embarrassing predicament.This is such a winning premise, the audience is soon deeply involved in the challenges that they have to encounter on their day together, which occasionally leads them to almost bump into Tom Walker - the UK&#39;s biggest breakout star in 2018, who started 2019 with a bang, with nominations for two Brit Awards, Best Newcomer and Best Single (for his international hit Leave A Light On).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, Ollie Wolf has recently been commissioned by The Barbican and the British Council to create a short film for their 2019 programme entitled &lsquo;Life Rewired&rsquo;. Ollie&rsquo;s film entitled &ldquo;The Last Forever Woman&rdquo; will be one of 12 that will be released each month during 2019 and focuses on the theme of age populations. 2019 is looking pretty exciting for both director and artist alike.

Ollie Wolf

Benedict Turnbull

Jonathan Sidwell

Michael Paleodimos

Katherine Burke

Samantha Coles

Amy Albertine Andrew

Aggy Adams

Kenny Fullwood

Kat Cattaneo

Relentless Records

Tom Walker 'Just You And I' by Ollie Wolf

Tom Walker - Just You and I (Official Video)

The fifth&nbsp;video by Yoni Lappin for Mura Masa is another multi-faceted portrait of London youth, this one&nbsp;based around Move Me&#39;s&nbsp;guest vocalist Octavian.As with his previous videos for the DJ/producer, like the groundbreaking <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/04/11/mura-masa-what-if-i-go-yoni-lappin" target="_blank">What If I Go?</a>, Lappin presents a distinctive&nbsp;version of East London street culture, with performance weaved into his portraits of real kids and their dress codes.

Yoni Lappin

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Monika Lenczewska

Luci Ellis

Vid Price

Trim Editing

Mia Powell

Hannah May

Mura Masa ft Octavian 'Move Me' by Yoni Lappin

Mura-Masa-Ft-Octavian-'Move-Me'-by-Yoni-Lappin

Dutch director Bram Schouw, who signed to Blink in London in January, has created an affecting and unconventional&nbsp;drama for Dutch band Haevn.&nbsp;&nbsp;When a prisoner walks through the gates of his jail to his freedom, his first thought is to see his teenage son, about to take part in a wrestling competition. Schouw makes this moment impressively real, but then the perspective appears to shift&nbsp;from the man to the boy, taking part in the wrestling match, and looking beaten.&nbsp;Without giving too much away, there is a real message to be taken from the film about&nbsp;the impact of absence and that awful pain&nbsp;of missing someone. It&#39;s also about the importance of that crucial formative relationship between father and son. And that comes across through Schouw&#39;s impressive direction of his lead actors: Douglas Russell as the father and&nbsp;Denis Bolunov as the son.

Bram Schouw

Blink

Paul Weston

Eskro Rips

Tõnis Pill

Paul Özgür

Kalvis Kulackovskis

Laur-Erik Ruus

Hendrik Saks

Kaia Tungal

Jörgen Terepson

Krislin Lainelo

Annelien Van Wijnbergen

Laurens Orij

Sam Seager

Parlophone

Bonkers Amsterdam

Saskia Kok

Richard Grewe

Deniss Bardašov

NAFTA

Haevn 'Fortitude' by Bram Schouw 

Haevn--'Fortitude-'-by-Bram-Schouw-

Tom Grennan and his girlfriend make their getaway in a cool vintage BMW in Matt Walker&#39;s video for Sober.

Matt Walker

Kode

Nathan Killham

Kevin Hasham

Wayne Bentley

Aaron Reid

Chris Hayden

Matt Wright

Martin Kloud

Koulla Sergi

Cinta Miller

Carrie Sutton

Daniel Millar

Sony Music

Sasha Moon

Tom Grennan 'Sober' by Matt Walker

Tom-Grennan-'Sober'-by-Matt-Walker

After his directing debut for Question TIme, Nathan James Tettey is back with the supercool Dave, for the far less political No Words, featuring Mostack.&nbsp;

Nathan James Tettey

Arran Green

Maggie Stanaszek

Westley Aguis

Ash Halliburton

Caroline Morin

Dirtywork

Hip Hop

Dave ft. Mostack 'No Words' by Nathan James Tettey

Dave-Ft.-Mostack-'No-Words'-by-Nathan-James-Tettey

Dave has a few questions for the new Prime Minister, and the old one, and the Leader of the Opposition, and it&#39;s riveting stuff.It&#39;s a terrific performance by Dave, a smart, sharp, angry and compassionate voice commanding a darkened studio.&nbsp;It&#39;s&nbsp;also and impressive directing debut by Nathan James Tettey, employing all his experience of making videos as a producer and commissioner for the first time from the director&#39;s chair, so the viewer&#39;s focus on this young hiphop artist and his Question Time session never wavers.

Dave 'Question Time' by Nathan James Tettey

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