Director of Photography

Steve Chivers

Maroon 5's Adam Levine takes a hallucinatory drive through a fantasy LA skyline, in Sophie Muller's promo for Beautiful Mistakes.&nbsp;Falling somewhere between an&nbsp;LSD trip and a lucid dream aesthetically, the hyper-saturated backdrops provide a dreamlike playground where anything can happen - be it flying unicorns, cereal rain or a fly-in visit from featured artist Megan Thee Stallion.&nbsp;Balancing Steve Chivers' glossy camerawork with increasingly surreal visual effects, Muller ensures the focus remains on the artists and their performance throughout.&nbsp;

United States

Sophie Muller

Grant Jue

Prettybird

Candice Dragonas

David Cho

Andrew Coffing

Rudy Salas

Jeff Lynn

Louis Weissman

Annie Sperling

Matt Goldman

Ingenuity

Jared Shelton

Michelle An

Carla Aviles

Hip Hop

Maroon 5 ft Megan Thee Stallion 'Beautiful Mistakes' by Sophie Muller

Maroon-5-Ft.-Megan-Thee-Stallion-'Beautiful-Mistakes'-by-Sophie-Muller

A mere twenty-seven years since they last worked together, Sophie Muller directs Shakespears Sister. And it&#39;s a total joy.&nbsp;The reformation of Siobhan Fahey with&nbsp;Marcella Detroit, a partnership that ended very publicly in 1993, is&nbsp;one of the unlikeliest of reunions in pop. So with her music video directing superpower on full blast, Sophie Muller does not skirt around this elephant in the room. She makes all those decades of bad blood and animosity the theme of the video. The result will make you feel very good, for all kinds of reasons.And crucially and quite rightly, Sophie references her own role in their&nbsp;original success. She directed three huge videos for Shakespears Sister back in the day. This one begins with a&nbsp;meeting in a deserted bar in Joshua Tree (who&#39;s the owner? who&#39;s the guest? the truth is blurred) where the black-garbed Siobhan and Marcie&nbsp;recall their past through a fleeting flashback of old Muller-directed videos - such a brilliant move - and then go on to deal with a few &#39;issues&#39;...&nbsp;From there, they exist within and without a new version of their old Shakespears&#39; Sister world - now Westernized, for the country and western-influenced All The Queen&#39;s Horses,&nbsp;and lit and photographed as Muller often did back in the early 90s, like old-time Hollywood movie stars, by DoP Steve Chivers - another&nbsp;crucial figure in the visualisation of the band.Muller flits between humour and seriousness with the relationship between the pair. A sense that Fahey is the one that must ask for&nbsp;forgiveness, but Detroit wavering between that and anger. We&#39;re totally in music video world, but you can also totally believe in these ladies, and their real and fluctuating relationship.And there are also cameos from friends and collaborators, adding another&nbsp;layer -&nbsp;Morgan McMichaels from Ru Paul&#39;s Drag Race&nbsp;(Marcy met Morgan for the first time when he was performing as Marcy herself at a drag night in LA and they have since become friends) and Nick Launay, who produced this new track. Absolutely marvellous stuff.[imgtoken data:1]

United Kingdom

Judy Craig

Shakespears Sister 'All The Queen's Horses' by Sophie Muller

Shakespears-Sister-'All-The-Queen's-Horses'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller achieves appropriate scale to visualise London Grammar&#39;s Big Picture, capturing the band&#39;s performance of the&nbsp;second single from their upcoming new album against a magnificent&nbsp;big night sky.

Wondros

Vern Moen

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Ministry of Sound

Sony Music

London Grammar 'Big Picture' by Sophie Muller

London-Grammar-'Big-Picture'-by-Sophie-Muller

Director Sophie Muller has been very busy as of late (as usual). After&nbsp;shooting a live&nbsp;music&nbsp;video for Gwen Stefani&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/02/18/gwen-stefani-make-me-you-live-video-sophie-muller" target="_blank">Make Me Like You</a>&nbsp;at the Grammy&#39;s -&nbsp;a world first&nbsp;-&nbsp;the&nbsp;pair of&nbsp;long-term collaborators&nbsp;have teamed up again, this time for a high fashion treatment for&nbsp;Stefani&#39;s new song&nbsp;Misery.&nbsp;Featuring nine costume changes,&nbsp;a trio of&nbsp;backing&nbsp;dancers&nbsp;and an&nbsp;industrial warehouse setting, Sophie Muller once again brings Stefani&#39;s glamorous,&nbsp;heavy-hearted&nbsp;musical vision to life.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Danilo

Gregory Arlt

Rob Zangardi

Mariel Haenn

Tristan Saether

Tommy Labuda

Gwen Stefani 'Misery' by Sophie Muller

Gwen Stefani - Misery

Dom Hawley and Nic Goffey&nbsp;have made some great videos for&nbsp;The Chemical Brothers. Now they&#39;ve made another one.Featuring Sonoya&nbsp;Mizuno, with choreography by Wayne McGregor, this stands up there with Setting Sun, Hey Boy Hey Girl and Believe. It&#39;s a beautiful thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

DOM&NIC

John Madsen

Ailsa Robertson

Wayne McGregor

Sonoya Mizuno

The Mill

Rick Woollard

Ed Cheeseman

Tony Rapacciou

Tara Stift

Fiona Fellows

Steve Elgar

Ben Gill

Outsider

Dance, Alternative, Electronica

The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck 'Wide Open' by Dom & Nic

The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open (feat. Beck)

Sophie Muller shows how you achieve&nbsp;that widescreen spectacular&nbsp;great outdoors scale without actually leaving the studio in her video for One Republic&#39;s footstomping Love Runs Out. Another winner.

Joseph Uliano

Andy Coffing

Garret Curtis

Steve Francis

Richard Lasalle

Marjan Malakpour

Pamela Neal

Kathy Jeung

Black Dog Films

Andrew Ibea

Interscope Geffen A&M

Fatima Robinson

One Republic 'Love Runs Out' by Sophie Muller

One-Republic-'Love-Runs-Out'-by-Sophie-Muller

Taken from his Paradise Valley album, John Mayer&#39;s duet&nbsp;with Katy Perry on Who You Love,&nbsp;is partnered by this romantic&nbsp;promo by Sophie Muller.Muller&#39;s video sees couples riding mechanical bulls in slo-mo, including&nbsp;Mayer and Perry who saddle-up in front of a backdrop of falling fireworks and display very believable chemistry...

Henry Arce

Columbia Records

Brian Younce

John Mayer Feat. Katy Perry 'Who You Love' by Sophie Muller

Sophie Muller has started the year in storming fashion. Closely following her Katy B video for Crying For No Reason (co-directed with Ross McDowell) comes her video for the most notorious pop performer of 2013 (male category).&nbsp;Perhaps not surprisingly, her video for Robin Thicke&#39;s Feel Good&nbsp;is a rather less provocative than Blurred Lines. And could Robin be slightly sending up his louche ratpack persona with this stagey setting with numerous leggy dancing girls? It&#39;s intercut with brief shots of a more troubled character...

Jackie London

Melinda Kelly

Interscope Records

Joe Uliano

Adam Cowan

Sunset Edit

Robin Thicke 'Feel Good' by Sophie Muller

Sophie Muller directs the new video for Alicia Keys in this striking Americana-influenced, vivid promo for the title track and first single of her Girl On Fire album. 
With Alicia looking stunning, the promo is filled with exaggerated colour to great 'comic book' effect and some neat Mary Poppins-style stop motion housework...

Jacob Swan Hyam

Rob Hunter

Paul Ghirardani

David Rogers

Ross McDowell

Dave Blacker

Miranda Joyce

Samantha Lecca

Alicia Keys 'Girl On Fire' by Sophie Muller

Oil Factory Inc

Lisa Campbell Demaine

Sarah Remetch

Charles Varga

Victoria Adcock/Ivy Jarrin

Sophie Muller @ Sunset Edit

Ross Anderson

Cheryl Cole’s Promise This by Sophie Muller

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Brian Burton (aka Dangermouse) and James Mercer (of The Shins) find themselves On The Road, armed with torches, having strange, emblematic encounters in a dreamy, picaresque tale of confusion and despondency.
An excellent, mystifying intro to Mouse and Mercer's collaboration Broken Bells, directed by Muller, shot by Chivers, commissioned by Gent, and filmed on some kind of camera in Labec, California.

Dilly Gent

Broken Bells’ The High Road by Sophie Muller

After making a big noise in the press at the end of last year, this long-awaited new material from Sade sees the singer teaming up with her old friend Sophie Muller on the cutting-edge Soldier Of Love. 
Shot on a big stage with huge back projections - brilliantly shot as ever by Steve Chivers - Sophie turns in a classy, excellent promo for the first important comeback of 2010.

Rob Small

Factory Films

Alison Dominitz

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Mike O'Keefe

Sade’s Soldier Of Love by Sophie Muller

Watch: <a href="http://www.factoryfilms.net/music-director/sophie-muller/i-dont-believe-you">here</a>

Sunset Post

Pink’s I Don’t Believe You by Sophie Muller

Watch: <a href="http://www.flynnproductions.com/music/director/sam_brown/1335/full/">here</a>

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