Colourist

Sylvain Canaux

Love leads the way in&nbsp;AB/CD/CD's phenomenal promo for Dermot Kennedy's Kiss Me.&nbsp;Lying in the bed of a truck hurtling down an empty stretch of desert road, we see Kennedy and his love interest locked in an embrace, as the vehicle proceeds to break up around them.&nbsp;Boasting seamless VFX work and an absorbing concept, it's an instantly iconic visual, that delivers on the action but never forgets the beating heart of the story.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Carlos Gambao

Jocelyn Corona

AB-CD-CD

Lola Idounda

Sam Davey

Polly Millner

OB Management

La Pac

Katie Dolan

Denis Guth

Jerome Denis

Anna Roudaut

Simon Donnellon

Diana Titaferrante

Vincent Fleischmann

Digital District

Valeria Horne

Island Records

Alex Chamberlain

Habitant

Dermot Kennedy 'Kiss Me' by AB/CD/CD

Dermot-Kennedy--'Kiss-Me'-by-Ab/cd/cd

Beki Mari directs a dazzling live video&nbsp;for Glass Animals' sleeper hit phenomenon Heat Waves, shot at the Dreamland theme park in Margate for the band's recent guest spot on&nbsp;The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.Glass Animals' frontman Dave Bayley roams the Americana-style park, which is buzzing with light and colour but deserted save from his performing bandmates - which also shares the name with the album (released in 2020) from which this huge hit came.&nbsp;Mari has made extensive use of FPV drone technology&nbsp;to create a dizzying camera moves around Bayley while he performs. It's a very successful conceptualisation of the nostalgic world evoked by the song, and beautifully executed.There is also a tinge of loneliness to the concept, highlighting the absence of crowds and collective fun due to the Covid-19 lockdowns, during which this was filmed - epitomised by the atmospheric shot of Bayley's walking among&nbsp;the huge letters of the Dreamland sign.

Xander Mitchell

Thomas Liam Davis

Beki Mari

Ruth Parrish

247 Productions

Gordon Goodwin

Richard Buffy Dunton

John Pryer

George Doherty

Mark Pickard

Cara Mcdaniels

Republic Records

Glass Animals 'Heat Waves' (Live for The Tonight Show) by Beki Mari

Glass Animals – Heat Waves (Live On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

Beki Mari directs a brilliant performance of It Gets Dark by Sigrid on The Late Late Show with James Corden."Paying homage to a classic rock and roll performance, it’s an idea of extreme contrasts; of black and white, futuristic, raw energy," says Mari. "We play with this stark simplicity and thus light becomes our point of difference."The deceptively simple concept - consisting of a performance in a white cyc studio - emanates huge amounts of energy, elevated by Sigrid and her&nbsp;band's riotous&nbsp;performance and the dramatic lighting cues.&nbsp;"We used a mix of programmed and handheld light to dramatically change the space; from bouncing bright white light to suddenly being plunged into darkness," continues Mari."The effervescence of this contrast&nbsp;then careers us into&nbsp;a new wildness; flashing spots and a drenching of sensory blue until we land softly, sinking into prismic, celestial sparkle - created using mix of handheld foil, laser mirrors and an Astroraggi."Those elements all combine to showcase&nbsp;a stellar performance by Sigrid, reminding us why she is one of today’s most exciting pop stars.

Macy Dingle

Ahida Agirre

Phil Penfold

Thomas English

Sam Savile

Abbi Yardley

Rob Hawkins

Gabriella Floyd

Island Records UK

Sigrid 'It Gets Dark' (Live) by Beki Mari

Sigrid: It Gets Dark

Beki Mari directs a sensual promo for&nbsp;Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell, produced by 247 Productions.&nbsp;The video for&nbsp;This Foolish Heart Could Love You is&nbsp;curated in partnership with the Musée Rodin in Paris, and features two dancers in place of the artists themselves -&nbsp;Marie-Agnès Gillot, who also choreographed the piece, along with her male counterpart from L’Opera Garnier,&nbsp;Germain Louvet.Dressed in&nbsp;archive pieces by Japanese Designer Issey Miyake, the video externalises the romantic themes of the track, and the dancers take inspiration from the breathtaking art that surrounds them, bringing to life the sculptor August Rodin's work, as if to ‘flip the switch’ on who is the muse and who is the artist.&nbsp;"Some of our most powerful memories are re-lived through music which is why it is so vital to film-making," says Beki Mari.&nbsp;"Music inspires movement both externally and internally and in this piece, surrounded by some of the worlds greatest sculptures, we project ourselves through this combination of movement and song in order to dream through the romance, ending in the slow stillness of silence."For me, the fascination of creating films is this ability to conceive or birth a kind of visual language which is understood uniquely, each time it is played."&nbsp;

Germain Louvet

Marie Agnes Gillot

Fiona Omnes

Murray Rose

Cheyne Tillier Daley

Helene Orjebin

Max Mitochine

Alexandre Bloch

Lea Sassine

Camille Arnaud

Decca Records

Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell 'This Foolish Heart Could Love You' by Beki Mari

Melody Gardot, Philippe Powell - This Foolish Heart Could Love You

Directing duo&nbsp;AB/CD/CD&nbsp;explore the relationship between human and machine in their new video for French electronic artist Delaurentis.A young woman becomes the flamboyant&nbsp;conductor of an airborne squadron of drones, in a mesmerising confluence of stylish cinematography, choreography and visual effects for Unica's Cloud. As the power dynamic moves towards the girl - played by&nbsp;Helena Olmedo Duynslaeger - it brings a riveting spectacle, with the overriding sense that this could quickly become destructive.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The machine and the place of the human body is a central issue in the work of the directing team who had already explored it with their short film&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/353217130" target="_blank">Server Room</a>,&nbsp;and commercials such as 'Age of Experience' for&nbsp;Samsung.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;

France

Laetitia Snaoui

Mathieu Perez

Sander Vandenbroucke

Nina Trubert

Martin Grillet

Lucas Pommier

Penelope Hemon

Alya Derris

Anouk Haïf

Saint Louis

FIRM

Celine Marsais

Helena Olmedo Duynslaeger

Very Content

Forever

Zelie Deletrain

Alternative, Electronica

Delaurentis 'Unica's Cloud' by AB/CD/CD

Delaurentis-'Unica's-Cloud'-by-Music-Video-Directed-By-Abcdcd-(franz-Ferdinand-And-Lily-Allen's-Clippers)

Camille Dauteuille and Clément Dozier - aka AB/CD/CD - return to music videos with a real bobby dazzler for indie vet Tim Burgess's Empathy For The Devil.And as the songtitle suggests, this provides an intriguing twist on our usual take on The Horned One, in an ambitious narrative featuring Charlie Cattrall as a mischievous but surprisingly mortal&nbsp;Beelzebub.This particular Devil, somehow&nbsp;called up to Earth by a bride on her wedding day, and causing a right royal ruckus at her party, is an attention seeker&nbsp;with some underlying behavioural issues. Burgess provides a watchful eye over him, as we find out about the unhappiness behind his naughtiness, and his true role is revealed.&nbsp;This devil is a whipping boy for human frustration and frailty - and Burgess is able to show him sympathy, and possibly empathy too.Produced and shot in Belgium, photographed by DoP Sander Vandenbroucke (in 1.666 ratio),&nbsp;this freewheeling comic fantasy&nbsp;works really well with the&nbsp;jaunty folk-rock of Empathy Of The Devil.&nbsp;And with their background in conceptual, visual effects-based work, it also serves notice that&nbsp;AB/CD/CD have come of age as exciting&nbsp; storytellers.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Jelle Robbeets

Hamlet

Jason Felstaed

Pim Verhaert

Malko Van Den Borre

Kristof Collier

Elodie Rassel

Editors, Paris

Saint Louis Post House

Anika Mottershaw

Bella Union

Thomas Landeloos

Ruben Goots

Charlie Cattral

Rock

Tim Burgess 'Empathy For The Devil' by AB/CD/CD

Tim Burgess - Empathy For The Devil (Official Video)

Sigrid teleports between daytime reality and nighttime craziness -&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;rollerskating ghosts, a party-riot, and escaping from a marching band in a supermarket - in French directing duo AB/CD/CD's&nbsp;effervescent, vibrantly&nbsp;inventive&nbsp;video for Sucker Punch.The directors - that's Camille Dauteuille and Clément Dozier - were inspired by the eclectic nature of Sucker Punch to dispatch Sigrid into a series of mad adventures when daylight literally switches off. And then, with more brilliantly executed&nbsp;transitions, she gets thrown into her next daytime scene.While DoP Rob Witt's superb photography makes&nbsp;her larger than life,&nbsp;the art direction involved bringing in some distinctly&nbsp;Norwegian features to give Sigrid a taste of her homeland - like jumping through her own-branded taco boxes to escape that marching band. And it culminates in a swirl of tiny vignettes where she&nbsp;actually throws punches and turns into two animated avatars - including a seriously powerful 'anime' Sigrid. It's a knockout.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Ailsa Vanessa Tapping

Sasha Nixon

Savvas Stavrou

Chris Malin

Oliver Waters

Rob Witt

Emily-jane Robinson

Max Openshaw

Matt Allsop

Nathan Matthews

Emma Rose Mead

Theo White Wine

Maria Asadi

Lucy Vick

Tianès Montasser

Editors

Mathematic

Laurence Lelong

Raimbaut Gaffier

David Knight

Sigrid 'Sucker Punch' by AB/CD/CD

Sigrid - Sucker Punch (Official Video)

The growing sense that Héloïse Letissier, aka Christine and the Queens, aka &#39;Chris&#39;, is an artist apart from all the others, marching to her own tune, is strengthened by this collaboration with Colin Solal Cardo for the video for Doesn&#39;t Matter.It begins with her lying flat out on a deserted carpark, as if she has fallen from the heights of her previous video for Girlfriend. But from that prone position, she then demonstrates her strength, sensitivity, sense of fun, and her fighting spirit, as over the next few minutes we see a relationship played out&nbsp;through choreography.Working with with dancer&nbsp;Romain Guillermic, Chris gives a performance of remarkable physicality and charisma, and unbound by traditional conventions of feminity within music videos. As Solal Cardo explains below, that was exactly the objective, and the result is genuinely groundbreaking.The video is here in&nbsp;both the English-language and French-language versions of the song.&nbsp;

Colin Solal Cardo

Christophe Abric

La Blogothèque

Slavica Depikolo

Julien Véron

Just-aurel Messonnier

Paul Thomas

Paul Texier

Xenia Settel

Hugo Lemant

St-louis

Nicolas Rochette

Leo Verdier

Romain Guillermic

FRIEND

Louise Gabet

Because Music

Christine and the Queens 'Doesn't Matter' by Colin Solal Cardo

Christine-And-The-Queens-'Doesn't-Matter'-by-Colin-Solal-Cardo

Christine and The Queens - Doesn't matter (voleur de soleil)

On a movie set, a guy in a space alien mask waits for his big scene to start shooting - and AB/CD/CD begin to blur the parameters of movie-reality, in their stylish video for French artist DeLaurentis.The video for A Big Part Of A Big Sun plays with the viewer&#39;s perceptions in a very alluring way, where at first you&#39;re watching some kind of low-budget sci-fi&nbsp;movie being made - very satisfying in itself &ndash;&nbsp;but then in a rather surreal twist, the making of the movie becomes the movie itself. And then, arguably, it becomes the making of the movie again.The simple, powerfully visual elements involved here - the movie set, the eyes behind the alien face, the young girl with the chrome-silver gun - end up delivering a sad poignancy that works beautifully with DeLaurentis&#39;s haunting alt-pop.

Laurent Perreau

Melanie Le Portier

Elodie Tahtane

Laetitia Locci, Cathy Lantuejoul

Alexandra Patry

Gopal Puntos

Cathy Lantuejoul

Alternative

DeLaurentis 'A Big Part Of A Big Sun' by AB/CD/CD

Delaurentis-'A-Big-Part-Of-A-Big-Sun'-by-Ab/cd/cd

Set in a not-so-far away future, on a distant Earth-like planet, three teens embark on a journey that leads to a once in a lifetime experience, in Lisa Paclet&rsquo;s video for Darius.The underlying coming-of-age narrative accompanies stunning visuals and otherwordly effects (courtesy of Parisian post-production house, Saint-Louis), and the film&#39;s&nbsp;themes of adventure and overcoming fear was inspired by the director&#39;s own &#39;cliff-jumping&#39; in her youth, as well as&nbsp;the optmistic energy of Darius&#39; track Lost in The Moment.The heroine, played by fresh-faced Raph (nominated for the 2017 César awards &laquo;Most Promising Actress&raquo; category), encites the viewer to take the leap as well and lose themselves in the music.

Lisa Paclet

Cédric Barus

Camille Semprez

Frenzy Paris

Elsa Rakotoson

François-charles Le Goff

Pascal Salafa

Romain Alary

Vincent Flornoy

Jean Charline Tomilson

Edouard Mailaender

Wassila Kailali

Jean-marc Raygade

Mathieu Caulet

Yves Bosson

Paul Verdet

Raph, Rio Eap

Emmanuel Barron

A63/Roche Musique

Darius ft Wayne Snow 'Lost In The Moment' by Lisa Paclet 

Darius-'Lost-In-The-Moment-Feat.-Wayne-Snow'-by-Lisa-Paclet-

Franz Ferdinand reunite with AB/CD/CD for the title track&nbsp;from the forthcoming new album, and move to the next level.The mesmerizing video for Always Ascending showcases the band&#39;s new line-up with a video that never stops moving, firstly around the band, and then, appropriately enough, continuously&nbsp;upwards, revealing new combinations of the band in performance.It&#39;s Paris-based directing duo&nbsp;AB/CD/CD&#39;s first video since joining <a href="http://forever-pictures.com/" target="_blank">Forever</a> for UK representation, joining up again with Forever EP Sasha Nixon,&nbsp;and it&#39;s their second project with Franz following the acclaimed video for Johnny Delusional.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Franz frontman Alex Kapranos says: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re happy to now be Always Ascending on the screen, with AB/CD/CD capturing the mood of the song and likenesses of the band in perfect detail. This is pretty much a typical Sunday afternoon round at Franz Ferdinand&rsquo;s flat.&rdquo;

Mickael Lafont

Gary Brocaud

Kaname Onoyama

Samantha Lanteri

Lucille Durez

Marc Marborough

St Regis

St Louis

Laurence Lelong, Editors

John Moule

Domino Recordings

Franz Ferdinand 'Always Ascending' by AB/CD/CD

Franz-Ferdinand-'Always-Ascending'-by-Ab/cd/cd

French Directing duo Allen &amp; Smithee have created a sunny, seedy&nbsp;summertime scene in their NSFW video for Alexandre Chatelard.Focusing on a set of retired married couples baking away on an idyllic beach, all seems to be ticking over nicely until one fellow&nbsp;notices&nbsp;three sexy denim-clad mermaids washed up on shore.With nothing but good intentions (obviously)&nbsp;the man&nbsp;attempts to&nbsp;revive these topless sirens from the sea and, of course, abandons his&nbsp;unimpressed yet immaculately dressed wife&nbsp;to play a nice game of volleyball. It&#39;s the classic holiday story you hear about year after year.Of course, like any holiday, nothing good can last forever and this lovely (albeit quite sexist) time gets cut abruptly short and leaves our hero&nbsp;looking a tad foolish. It&#39;s a very funny video with a combination of camera movement and facial expressions being utilised masterfully in order to sell some great visual punchlines.

Allen & Smithee

Soldats

Matthieu Gazier

Alexandre Chatelard 'Lenny Kravitz' by Allen & Smithee

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