Production Company

Sweetshop

Canadian filmmaker Nathan Boey, aka BOEY, has created a mind-blowing experimental visual for the track DImensions by Pixelord, while alpha-testing and exploring AI video program Sora’s robust model and toolset.The video is composed entirely of 'blends'&nbsp;based on AI 'post-photography'&nbsp;work created over the past two years. The imagery focuses on combining disparate and mundane visuals to force new connections and ideas, where the viewer floats through various dimensions.Having studied film and animation at&nbsp;Concordia University in Montreal, the director has&nbsp;fully embraced AI, pushing creative boundaries through various tools, models, and techniques to explore how to express ideas with this new visual language. He is also one of the creators and contributors to AI OR DIE - the first full AI-generated sketch comedy series. &nbsp;

Nathan Boey

Pixelord 'Dimensions' by Nathan Boey

Pixelord - Dimensions (Sora AI)

Dominican/Brazilian artist&nbsp;Jarina De Marco and her pal Mediopicky embrace&nbsp;the power of the humble potato in the highly entertaining video directed by US directing duo MAMA.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the video for Pelame La Papa, we're thrust into a crowded factory floor, where the purpose of the potato-based activity on the production line looks rather shady. And that's confirmed when one of the hamzad-suited factory workers takes a lick of a partly peeled spud.&nbsp;That prompts an immediate reaction of involuntary spasms, quickly followed by more workers taking a lick and succumbing to the same&nbsp;jerky movements - falling under the spell of the poundingly propulsive track.Soon Jarina and Mediopicky appear - in&nbsp;giant potato costumes. And while the factory is raided by two cops who themselves succumb to the frenzy, and lead a&nbsp;dance routine of hypnotised workers, the pair make off with the ill-gotten gains.&nbsp;It's a video that is as relentlessly energetic as the track and as daftly addictive, expertly mounted and beautifully executed by MAMA - that's Mark Potoka and Matt Starr Spicer, who have already built a reputation with their creative commercials involving bold comedic worlds teetering on the edge of chaos.They recently joined <a href="https://thesweetshop.tv/notes/mama-joins-the-sweetshop" target="_blank">The Sweetshop</a> for representation in UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

MAMA

Joey Fitzsimmons

Damian Acevedo

Clint Kasparian

Osha Matte

Carl Swanberg

Keith Wager

Melissa Murdick

Genna Mironi

Rustin Knudtson

Edward Flores

Randy Baublis

Cabin Edit

Greg Scruton

Dimitri Zola

Trafik

Caviar

Jarina De Marco ft Mediopicky 'Pelame La Papa' by MAMA

Jarina De Marco - Pelame La Papa (Official Video)

New electro-pop singer-songwriter&nbsp;Reeve. makes a highly memorable impression in Ataka51's darkly arresting&nbsp;promo for Wax On You. She melts before our very eyes.The video opens with the artist sitting on the side of a bathtub, dripping with a mysterious substance. Is she melting? Is it acid? The clue is in the songtitle.As Reeve's wax-like body begins to break down, chunks of flesh disappearing and becoming displaced, the video takes a surreal, body-horror-esque turn. It's transfixing rather than stomach-churning, beautifully haunting in its presentation.&nbsp;This is a striking vision by Ataka51 - the four-person&nbsp;'displaced&nbsp;video/film collective' now based in Paris - which&nbsp;dives into uncanny territory with fearless abandon. A brilliant feat of VFX which also augments a powerful performance from this new artist.&nbsp;It's safe to say that the imagery here will stick&nbsp;in your mind long after watching.&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

France

Vanessa Schonwald

Liza Vsegdarada

Anya Kalinina

Ataka51

Ulysse Ancele

HENRY

Jason Fenestre

Sergei Medvedev

Hugo Diaz

Auréliane Bonnefoy

Adam Gulbol

Eliott Hernandez

Henri Cosson

Sophia Gunev

Julie Hervieu

Nikolai Vavilov

Lola Bellini

Orage Studio

Flavio Fernandes

Savoir Faire / Animal63

Electronic

Electro-pop

Reeve. 'Wax On You' by Ataka51

Reeve. - Wax on you (Official Video)

Jim Hosking delviers a deliciously daft, and ultimately joyous expression of female bonding for Warpaint's Hips.This has a quality of offbeat humour all of its own, based around the superb casting of this video and a terrific use of a classic English seaside location. Great stuff.&nbsp;“Hips has a scuttling intensity to it, it sounds like someone desperately trying to find something - or at least that’s what it seemed to me," explains Hosking. "I listened to it&nbsp;repeatedly and kept seeing women searching for each other in a seaside town. Ideas present themselves and it’s not about logic or reason, it’s about emotion. And here the&nbsp;emotion suggested identically dressed women finding each other in the English town of Southend-On-Sea.““The track seemed to have its own secret language and I wanted the women in the video to seem to have their own secret language too.”&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jim Hosking

Tuli Litvak

Morgan Whitlock

David Maart

Morgan K Spencer

Sophie Daniel

Sarah Scott

Sam Mukherjee

Deniz Yildiz

Devan Clarke-Sheward

Elyse Raphael

TenThree

Vic Parker

Raised By Wolves

Beast Casting

Lesley Beastall Casting

Warpaint 'Hips' by Jim Hosking

"Hips" Official Video

A struggling&nbsp;artist, working alone in an empty&nbsp;country house, becomes obsessed by a golden mask&nbsp;- in Alexander Brown's video for Claptone's Just A Ghost.&nbsp;As the artist becomes increasingly haunted, in his dreams and otherwise, by the appearance of&nbsp;a mysterious masked man and his party&nbsp;guests, Brown concocts a swirling fever dream of a narrative, filled with glimpses of trangressions and tangled visions.The video is for a track from the often-masked dance producer, featuring the&nbsp;unmistakeable voice&nbsp;of Seal, returning after a six year absence.&nbsp;It was shot, appropriately enough, in the house where they filmed that latterday Hammer horror classic The Woman In Black.Alexander Brown tells us about the experience of making the video.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>I saw this as an origin story... in which Claptone could comfortably inhabit as a character.</blockquote>What kind of brief did Claptone give you and what were your immediate thoughts when you saw it? When Claptone approached me, the brief was fairly loose. Basically, I could pitch anything, but the focus was to make sure Claptone the character wasn’t mishandled.I sort of saw this as an origin story, not really explaining Claptone, but making the video feel like a story in which Claptone could comfortably inhabit as a character - much in the same was Daft Punk were always viewed as robots, or Gorillaz record at Kong studios. I wanted it to feel like Claptone had a reason for being in this world. I wanted the Claptone mask to be a character itself, a sort of presence in the house.When I wrote the idea, it was the middle of winter, in the middle of lockdown, and I guess the video was riffing on the idea of memories of how much fun it was having parties, being social, and how winter can feel so isolating. Initially, I had the idea of a butler left in a mothballed country house - sort of inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains Of The Day - someone who has been left behind and finds himself reflecting on times gone by.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>I wanted the Claptone mask to be a character itself, a sort of presence in the house.</blockquote>Claptone liked the idea but didn’t want to have someone look like his servant, so we developed the idea into a struggling artist going through a creative block. This was great because it gave him something to do apart from polishing the silverware - though I still think that would have been fun too.Tell us about filming. How was this shot? We shot this in the same house that the 2011 movie The Woman in Black was shot. The house has been renovated over the last three years and a lot of it was a building site, but we were very lucky to have the access. We shot it all in one day, which was a testament to the wonderful crew. We had a great second unit to pick up some of the scenes, as there was just too much to cram in. We had a great team thanks to Ellis [Fox, producer].[imgtoken data:3]What do the masks signify? The masks don’t really signify anything. Claptone wears a mask to DJ, and I wanted him to have some friends who felt as though they occupied the same astral plane as him. I wanted the video to have a Stanley Kubrick feel - Eyes Wide Shut being an obvious reference - but beyond that, I think I just wanted Eduardo (the hero) to feel out of place at this gathering.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Alexander Brown

Ellis Fox

Elle Lotherington

Pieter Snyman

Sam Kinsella

Bernin Isaac

Maria Camilla

James Duffy

Luke Wentzel

Fin O Sullivan

Reggy Brown

Ellie Walker

Coco Hirani

Rich Woolway

Homespun

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

John Moule

Justin Edmund-White

Dance

Claptone ft Seal 'Just A Ghost' by Alexander Brown

Claptone - Just A Ghost (Official Video) ft. Seal

A man&nbsp;finds himself in an upside-down world, in Alexander Brown's mesmerizing video for Sub Focus and Wilkinson.Employing spectacular drone footage of Canary Wharf in London and a clever use of Steadicam, Brown&nbsp;toys with the viewer's experctations and sense of visual perspective, in a slow-motion rollercoaster where Down is usually Up, and vice versa - and is occasionally vertigo-inducing.Brown's approach - which originated as a lockdown video idea and evolved as film limitations eased - is well suited to this dreamy dance track, with its lyrical references to gravity. Our hero - dancer Mikey Boats - appears to be unbound by such things.&nbsp;

Theo Youngstein

Sam Care

Avner Shiloah

Toby Tomkins

CHEAT

Mikey Boats

Sub Focus & Wilkinson 'Air I Breathe' by Alexander Brown 

Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Air I Breathe

People are rendered monumental,&nbsp;and moments of a life are examined in forensic detail,&nbsp;in Alexander Brown's mesmerising video for&nbsp;Los Angeles' duo Sym Fera.Brown employs a distinctive camera technique, using close focus&nbsp;lenses,&nbsp;to pass across the human body as if it's&nbsp;a landscape, and effectively freeze time. It is a process that allows him to&nbsp;investigate the brutal moments in a character's history&nbsp;that helped to turn him into the unflinching monster&nbsp;he has become.&nbsp;

United States

Adam Nelson

Carolyn Pedrossian

ABPC.UK

Alternative

Sym Fera 'Little Things' by Alexander Brown 

little things

A woman drags an injured companion through an alien landscape in&nbsp;Dylan Pharazyn's video for Metz.&nbsp;In Blind Youth Industrial Park, the pair are tracked by a squad of armed soldiers in pursuit, using an anachronistic device that displays the characters in a chromatic, almost heat-vision style map.&nbsp;Wonderfully bold and cinematic, the video is a short film in itself, building to an action-packed climax and intriguing twist.DoP&nbsp;Adam Luxton builds upon the tension and unease of the concept through the repeated use of&nbsp;static wide shots, showing there is no way out and the journey is boundless (and most probably futile).&nbsp;Art directors&nbsp;Nic Macallan and&nbsp;Svet Mateev also do a phenomenal job at making the unusual feel real, with custom props and carefully considered outfits which elevate the alien concept.&nbsp;

Canada

Dylan Pharazyn

Greta Cervin

Brett Mills

Tanya Stone

Adam Luxton

Roger Feenstra

Louie Cassells

Niall Mueller 

Nic Macallan

Olivia Dobson

The Machine Room

Stuart Bedford

Sub Pop Records

Svet Mateev

Punk rock

Metz 'Blind Youth Industrial Park' by Dylan Pharazyn

Metz-'Blind-Youth-Industrial-Park'-by-Dylan-Pharazyn

Alexander Brown has done the sensible thing during lockdown. The director has up-sticked back to the family farm, to spend some quality time with his folks.So at the moment, he's spending&nbsp;time restoring the old VW Camper, and devouring the latest Hilary Mantel on audiobook. When he's not worrying the sheep, that is...What were you working on before the lockdown? Having finished my video for Orlando Weeks' Blood Sugar (below) I had just started pre-production on a music video for a US band, to be shot in London. . In the end we decided to put production on hold until after&nbsp;lockdown ends as it was a video requiring people and costumes. I’m now living in the country with my mum and dad. It’s kinda like the Darling Buds of May, but with a lot more shouting.[vidtoken data:0]What are you working on now? I’m currently working on a book design for an upcoming history of the band Idlewild. In my spare time, I’ve turned my attention to restoring my 1972 VW&nbsp;camper van while the sun is shining. The upside of being a director, is that being out of work for months on end is hardly a novel situation. I always have a slew of projects waiting for my attention. The only difference is there’s nothing to pitch on.<blockquote>The thing that makes quarantine so novel, is that everyone else is in the same boat with you instead of paddling alone.</blockquote>What's the most surprising, or least predictable thing, that's happened to you during quarantine? I think being in quarantine has made me value space and being more self-sustainable. I suppose&nbsp;that’s entirely predictable… It’s made me learn how to use a sewing&nbsp;machine and a shepherd's crook, is that better?My mum has a field full of lambs that are doing their best to get infections, so a good hour of my day is spent chasing them around like an idiot trying to&nbsp;catch the ones with squinty eyes. Pro tip - shepherd’s crook makes all the difference.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>A good hour of my day is spent chasing them around like an idiot trying to&nbsp;catch the ones with squinty eyes.</blockquote>What's the favourite part of your daily routine? When I feel like&nbsp;I’ve achieved something. It&nbsp;doesn’t always happen.Are things getting harder/better/staying the same? I think things are getting harder now. At first, I liked everything being put on hold, but at this point it’s becoming tedious as the people around me succumb to cabin fever.What have you learned about yourself during quarantine? That I can prepare a meal for five people every night quite comfortably. Though it means I&nbsp;don’t&nbsp;have time for much else. I think quarantine is a fantastic opportunity to learn new skills and apply&nbsp;yourself - the real challenge is maintaining interest and dedication.Best meal you have eaten/are regularly cooking... We made a&nbsp;great&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/lomo-saltado-beef-stir-fry" target="_blank">Lomo Saltado</a> a few days ago. Delicious comfort food from Peru.Best thing you’ve watched, or heard, while on lockdown? I’ve been&nbsp;thoroughly enjoying listening to the&nbsp;audiobook of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Mirror-and-the-Light/dp/B07VMFYFQ1" target="_blank">Hilary&nbsp;Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light</a>. It’s something like 36 hours long, so I was hoping it would take me through lockdown. But alas, I may get to the end and need to find something else.[imgtoken data:2]How's your Work/Life balance at the moment? After being freelance for 14 years, you get used to the fallow weeks and months. Most of the time, it feels like&nbsp;you’re never quite busy, nor do you ever stop working. It’s a strange twilight state of mind where every day is like a holiday, but one where&nbsp;you’re constantly thinking, sketching, pitching,&nbsp;planning and stressing over one thing or another. The thing that makes quarantine so novel, is that everyone else is in the same boat with you instead of paddling alone.• Alexander Brown is a director at <a href="https://www.thesweetshop.tv/uk/director/alexander-brown/" target="_blank">Sweetshop in London</a>. His latest video&nbsp;for Orlando Weeks is one of our <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/playlists/videos-month-april-2020/64640" target="_blank">Videos of the Month</a> for April.&nbsp;

Quarantine Q&A: Alexander Brown, Sweetshop

Orlando Weeks - Blood Sugar

Nicolas Jack Davies got into directing video remotely by Zoom almost before everyone else, with Marcus Mumford. And he thinks that staying home has had a beneficial effect on his working habits. He also gets to watch lots of telly with his kids - even if that sometimes leaves him in tears...What were you working on before the lockdown? Commercials in the UK and the States - both postponed. Both picking up when we’re out the other side of lockdown apparently… fingers crossed.What are you working on now? Just shot a lockdown video for Marcus Mumford, which was a challenge, but fun to pull off. Seems like ages ago now as so much of this style has found its way to our screen so quickly, but it felt genuinely exciting (if that’s a suitable word for these times) to try and pull something like that off without leaving the house![vidtoken data:0]I’ve been working&nbsp;on a feature doc about the bands At The Drive In and The Mars Volta, and the two central figures of those bands Omar and Cedric. Fortunately, a huge part of it is editing pre-existing footage from the last 25-30 years, so it can be managed at a social distance. So far at least!What's the most surprising, or least predictable thing, that's happened to you&nbsp;during quarantine? Most surprising is how much having a (unavoidably) strict routine has had a positive effect on my work. I’m the most disorganised person and spend my workdays rambling from production offices to edit houses, so to have a routine and a consistent place of work has really benefitted me. The least predictable thing is trying to handle my kids at the same time as working - a total minefield.What's the favourite part of your daily routine? Having lunch with everybody in the house.<blockquote>I’m definitely in that camp of people who’ve started to have genuinely weird vivid dreams.</blockquote>Are things getting harder/better/staying the same? The first four weeks felt okay I suppose - as long as we stayed healthy - but there’s no doubt it has started to get harder. The anxiety around what’s happening out in the world and the constant information and updates and news is draining for everybody, I’m sure.That said It’s interesting seeing many people adapt to this new normal. And it does feel weirdly normal now. Although I’m definitely in that camp of people who’ve started to have genuinely weird vivid dreams. Last night I entered drug rehabilitation with the 80s/90s professional wrestler <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q">Macho Man Randy Savage</a> after being arrested repeatedly for driving down a one-way street the wrong way.What have you learned about yourself during quarantine? That in normal daily life, I don’t talk to my friends and family nearly enough about their lives.[imgtoken data:1]Best meal you have eaten/are regularly cooking (send photo, if poss!) I went through a phase of making soups because we fucked up the veg order twice in a row! But I’ve developed a pretty mean bean chilli, and my BBQ skills have improved tenfold.Best thing you’ve watched, or heard, while on lockdown, and why? And the&nbsp;worst...? The best?&nbsp;The first two episodes of The Last Dance on Netflix got me hooked in. I watched Big Hero Six with my youngest son and cried my eyes out twice.[vidtoken data:1]The worst? Sorry to say, but Paul McCartney on that Together At Home live mega-cast doing Lady Madonna - just didn’t do him any justice at all.How's your Work/Life balance at the moment? Not bad. The thing that probably makes me feel unbalanced the most is how much I love having time alone on a commute. Not because I’m away from everybody, but because it’s a transition between work/home and back again that’s kind of special. I’m totally freelance and I might think differently if I was 9 to 5 to same place every day - but my best thinking happens in that time.• Nicolas Jack Davies is represented for music videos and commercials at Sweetshop. Watch his reel <a href="https://www.thesweetshop.tv/uk/director/nick-davies/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Nicolas Jack Davies

Quarantine Q&A: Nicolas Jack Davies, Sweetshop

Marcus Mumford - You'll Never Walk Alone

Disney's Big Hero 6 - Official US Trailer 1

Faced with the issues of enforced quarantine in making his video for Marcus Mumford's version of You'll Never Walk Alone, Nicolas Jack Davies turned to Zoom - possibly before most of us had heard of it -&nbsp;and&nbsp;pioneered some principles of the current phase of remote directing. Crucially&nbsp;the end result,&nbsp;with Mumford performing with Reuben James from their respective homes, has real emotional impact.Mumford's recording of the classic song - best known for its associations with&nbsp;Liverpool FC - preceded the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, and its purpose was always to support causes close to his heart: The Grenfell Trust and War Child UK. But the fact that Mumford and James had to rig up the camera set-up themselves, as per the directions of Davies and DoP Edgar Dubrovskiy, certainly adds another layer of purpose to the project.It was also made feasible by Davies' longstanding relationship with Mumford, that goes back to the very early days of Mumford &amp; Sons, and resumed last year after a long hiatus with the music video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/12/10/mumford-sons-blind-leading-blind-nicolas-jack-davies/62296" target="_blank">Blind Leading The Blind</a>, from the band's recent album Delta.&nbsp;Dubrovskiy also worked on that video, as did editor Liam Bachler, who does a fine job here with the ebb and flow of the creative process, where the usual separation&nbsp;of 'BTS' and 'video' disappears.

Edgar Dubrovskiy

Liam Bachler

Philip Bolland

Factory

Island Records

Rock

Marcus Mumford ft Reuben James 'You'll Never Walk Alone' by Nicolas Jack Davies

Faced with the demands of the Covid-19 lockdown, Orlando Weeks and director Alexander Brown have created an 'iso video' that embraces lo-fi experimentation with wonderfully hypnotic results.Brown sent the ex-Maccabees bandmember a Canon 5D (maybe the one he used when he was launching his directing career a decade ago) for him to self-shoot his performance of Blood Sugar. He has taken that footage and run it through circuit mixers to create distorted visual effects. Weeks's head has become a disembodied graphic form, composed of lines of light, sometimes a sort of inverse sillhouette, other times a face caught in chiaroscuro-profile.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is Brown's first video since his <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/01/26/james-blake-if-car-beside-you-moves-ahead-alexander-brown/51519" target="_blank">James Blake video for If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead</a> - another fascinating exercise in visual distortion. The current situation may have instigated it, but like his Blake video the results of the experimentation are not just lockdown-specific. They work entirely on their own terms.

PIAS

Indie

Orlando Weeks 'Blood Sugar' by Alexander Brown

A&nbsp;young woman, making sound field recordings, disturbs dark forces, and undergoes a mysterious transformation, in Dylan Pharazyn's unsettling video for New Zealand alt-rock band Wax Chattels.Pharazyn's&nbsp;skilfully draws a sense of dread from the suggestion of narrative, the contrast between the vulnerable sound recordist&nbsp;and her crusty alter-ego, the use of occult-like symbols, and the stark surroundings, bleached out and&nbsp;forbidding&nbsp;in black and white.An atmospheric&nbsp;tale of otherworldly darkness, where the shocks are saved to the end.

New Zealand

Emma Mortimer

Hellen Robinson

Michael Paletta

Miten Raichura

Spencer Locke-bonney

Helen Young-loveridge

Stu Bedford

Crystal

Wax Chattels 'Career' by Dylan Pharazyn

Wax-Chattels-'Career'-by-Dylan-Pharazyn

Marcus Mumford delivers the emotion at the heart of his band's new track Blind Leading The Blind through a cathartic performance on the drums, in this&nbsp;intense yet reflective video directed by Nicolas Jack Davies.Shot whilst the group were on tour in Bangkok, the industrial&nbsp;laundry setting works perfectly, ensuring Mumford's performance is&nbsp;the sole focus for the duration of the video.&nbsp;Edgar Dubrovskiy's use of super-slow motion creates snapshots of the action - shot on a Phantom 6K -&nbsp;allows the viewer to ponder these heightened emotional moments and the setting. And the further use of strobe lights creates a frenetic and exaggerated energy which Marcus Mumford thrives in. And ultimately this is all about Mumford's powerfully physical yet emotional&nbsp;performance.The video is the result of a renewed collaboration between Mumford &amp; Sons&nbsp;and Davies - formerly of directing duo Fred &amp; Nick, who directed much of the band's visual output&nbsp;for their first two albums. Having shot the band performing the track at ACL in October, Davies has now directed a strongly cinematic accompaniment to this powerful track&nbsp;- pure&nbsp;in its concept, and executed very well indeed.[imgtoken data:1]

Anson Gil Mercado

Laura Geagea

Thanadet Pradit

Tenthree Editing

David Knight

Alt Rock

Mumford & Sons 'Blind Leading The Blind' by Nicolas Jack Davies

Mumford-&amp;-Sons-'Blind-Leading-The-Blind'-by-Nick-Davies

Are you afraid of leaf blowers? You might want to give them a wide berth after watching Enemies. Dylan Pharazyn directs this love panic attack for Aukland punk outfit Miss June.In a labyrinthine stadium, a young couple are terrorised by a workforce of prowling strangers. Harmless at first, these intruders creep closer in rapid-fire visions. But in the free-fall of a tempestuous romance, the couple quickly forget them, and are cursed to repeat the same mistakes time and again.Pharazyn’s video has both a punk energy and the ruthless pace of a contemporary slasher.&nbsp;Editor Lucas Baynes borrows a strobing effect from the horror genre, creating a world that oscillates between reality and paranoid delusion.

Australia

Kelly Chen

Sarah Hallman / Esther Sanchez

Tony Lumsden

Molly Scott

Katie Melody Rogers

Lucas Baynes

Fergus Rotherham

Machine Room

Matt Sunderland

Emily Laurich

Nzonair

French Kiss

Noise Punk

Punk

Miss June 'Enemies' by Dylan Pharazyn

Miss-June-'Enemies'-by-Dylan-Pharazyn

James Blake&#39;s new track, featuring astonishing cut-up vocals from Blake, has inspired a brilliant visual accompaniment&nbsp;from his longtime collaborator Alexander Brown.Under Brown&#39;s auspices, Blake takes to the wheel of a 1991 Corvette for a night-time drive through LA. And just as Blake experiments with his sound, Brown disrupts the realism of Blake&#39;s drive, subtly distorting and vibrating as well as speeding up&nbsp;the footage, and orchestrating light to match the music. The result is completely mesmerizing.Blake and Brown go back a long way - all the way to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isIABK-0ohQ">The Wilhelm Scream</a>, seven years ago. But this takes their creative partnership to a new place altogether. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Laura Thoel

Semera Khan

Marco Grey

Polydor

James Blake 'If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead' by Alexander Brown

Up and coming singer Y.A.S goes vogue in this fashion shoot-inspired video by Youness Benali for Chasing The Dragon.Y.A.S (aka Yasmin Setarreh) says: &quot;The shots, different styles and colours, movements and editing dynamics demonstrate the inside of my mind and how chaotic and obsessed it became.&rdquo;

Youness Benali

Y.A.S  'Chasing The Dragon' by Youness Benali 

Y.A.S - CHASING THE DRAGON

On a recent shoot in Tokyo director Noah Conopask was inspired by &quot;everything I was seeing around me visually - the streets, the people and the fashion.&quot; He also&nbsp;learned about a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo that let off deadly sarin nerve gas in Tokyo&rsquo;s subway system two decades ago.&quot;It made me think of Dylan Thomas poems about life and death. It was something I wanted to bring to life cinematically. I had a vision of a few of the cult members walking around Tokyo. Staking out the attack, the way thieves would a bank heist.&quot;

Noah Conopask 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Noah Conopask

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