Creative Director at Partisan Records

Commissioner

Theresa Adebiyi

Will Dohrn's searingly intense video for IDLES employs a brilliant visual device to tell several parallel stories of life on the edge in modern Britain.It's so rare to see something which takes the familiar and bring a completely fresh, and instantly identifiable perspective. This is one of those occasions, as Dohrn's camera effectively becomes each protagonist, looking downwards at their own right hand as they go about their daily business.Against the incendary aggression of WAR, the director cuts kinetically between the stories, but building up a tapestry of gritty lives, grim outlooks and, as the camera spirals upwards in the final stage, human tragedy.You will need to watch again (and again) to discern each progression - and that is a key element to the success of this thrilling video which is, conversely also immediately impactful. With an execution as strong and inventive as the concept, it's certainly up there as one of the best music videos of the year so far.

United Kingdom

Will Dohrn

Mel Giles

Ground Work

Aaron Z. Willson

Tara Sadeghi

Pete Wade

Henry Russell

Yan Murawski

Alexandra Toomey

Rebekah Roy

Tim Smith

CHEAT

Partisan Records

Harry Wheeler

Rock

IDLES 'WAR' by Will Dohrn

Idles-'War'-by-Will-Dohrn

Michel Gondry returns with brother Olivier to bring some magic to the world of music video. And the wonderful&nbsp;surprise it is a political satire in childlike cartoon form for the corruscating rock of Bristol band IDLES.Michel and Olivier have visualised IDLES'&nbsp;frontman Joe Talbot's scathing portrait of English village life in Model Village, and Michel in particular has returned to his roots with a burst of childlike imagination delivered in a genuinely DIY fashion, in a wonderfully homespun but ultimately hugely powerful&nbsp;lockdown project.Produced by Partizan in collaboration with WePresent&nbsp;- the editorial&nbsp;platform of WeTransfer, which<a href="https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/idles-gondry-model-village/" target="_blank"> premiered the video with an extensive piece on its making</a>&nbsp;- Michel has drawn, cut-out and stop-frame animated&nbsp;his own paper version of Talbot's Model Village. Olivier then&nbsp;added CG enhancement and post,&nbsp;so that it becomes something akin to&nbsp;a pop-up children's book.[imgtoken data:1]If Talbot's sketch&nbsp;of smallmindness and bigotry in the small town&nbsp;where he grew up&nbsp;can be regarded as a&nbsp;swipe&nbsp;at the&nbsp; mindset&nbsp;of&nbsp;Brexit England (and&nbsp;Wales), the Gondry approach lifts it onto another level. This village is populated by pig-people, dominated by the local bully, fuelled on drink, pills and weapons. But there is a beacon of hope:&nbsp;an adventurer-astronaut who aims to escape the confines of the village.&nbsp;Talbot's characteristic vocal&nbsp;delivery works remarkably well with the visuals, which sway between&nbsp;from elements of social comment and&nbsp;surreal flights of fancy.&nbsp;Meanwhile, the element of satire feels like this is the Gondrys paying homage to the great Eastern European animators like Jan Svankmeyer who Michel has venerated since his teens.&nbsp;Watch the Behind The Scenes video, including clips from the directors' Zoom meeting with Joe Talbot at the start of the process, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXRa9JZfUQ&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank">here</a>.Talbot studied Film at university a decade ago, and has been a Gondry fan for a long time. He told WePresent: “Michel’s work is handmade and it's human and that's something that our society pushes against: you need to be perfect. You need to look perfect and everything needs to be seamless and strong. But actually, vulnerability and naivety are strengths. To be vulnerable and to be naive is to have empathy. And so, to empathise with your adversaries and allow yourself to be naked on film or on record is a really strong thing to do. It liberates you and it also liberates your audience. That's something that I hope that IDLES can do, and that Gondry's been doing for years.”[imgtoken data:2]Also speaking to WePresent, Michel Gondry added: “Olivier and I were excited to work on this because we use completely opposite techniques.&nbsp;I work with a primitive system of cutting paper and moving it under the lens frame by frame. Olivier then transforms it by morphing, warping and CGI. Basically, in the first part we try to illustrate the lyrics as close as possible, to create the world, and then in the second half...they go to the moon.”Ultimately the message of Model Village chimes with Michel Gondry's own creative&nbsp;credo: nothing is more important than freedom of individual expression. And for him the&nbsp;best way to&nbsp;channel that freedom is through childlike wonder.

Michel Gondry

Olivier Gondry

Raffi Adlan

Partizan

Mayling Wong

Debo (J. DeBartolo)

Jake Schwartz

Valerie Pirson

Matt Osborne

Josh Falcon

Mouthpiece

IDLES 'Model Village' by Michel Gondry & Olivier Gondry

IDLES - MODEL VILLAGE (Official Video)

Fontaines D.C. bassist Connor Deegan III remotely directs the cinematic visual for I Don't Belong.Capturing a lonely intensity&nbsp;through the cinematography, the visual explores&nbsp;the connection between the safety of being on land and the relative risk and unknown nature of the water, which is a metaphorical riff on the song's lyrics.&nbsp;Vocalist Grain Chattan's performance starts inland, on a large field backdropped by a massive windmill. By the end of the video, he is enveloped by the water, the journey of the track coming to a close, completely consumed by his inner thoughts and anxieties.GRIAN CHATTAN:&nbsp;"This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you. We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-Big [opening song on first album&nbsp;Dogrel], which is why we put it as the first song on the new album. This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it's also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness."One verse is about a soldier who has his bravery commended by his country, but throws his medal down and refuses to accept the commendation. He sees it as a hijacking and commodification of his principles. The other verse is about someone causing a ruckus in a bar, refusing to be enticed by any sort of friendliness and kindness, wanting to remain in the wrong corner.&nbsp;"I had a few cans before I recorded the vocals, I wanted it to sound like I was playing the role of embittered barfly and feel like the soundtrack of someone swaying themselves home after a cold night out - full of principles but surrounded by nobody."&nbsp;CONOR DEEGAN III:&nbsp;<blockquote>The idea was to use the limitations to our benefit. To try to match the emotional feel of the song but without being heavy-handed.</blockquote>"We had a whole different video shoot planned in London, then all the restrictions hit so we had to figure out how to do something remotely from back home in Ireland. The idea was to use the limitations to our benefit. To try to match the emotional feel of the song but without being heavy-handed. Telling a visual story parallel to the lyrics."I remotely directed the video from Co.Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, where I am from. It was shot on location on the east coast of Ireland, in Skerries, where Grian is from."Grian’s character goes on a walk, passing by all these places. He’s telling us this dramatic story that slowly grows as the verses go on. At the start you do and you don’t really get a sense of the anxiety or negativity to come. It’s buried under the surface. At the end he submerges himself, completely consumed by his inner thoughts finally coming out into the world."

Ireland

Conor Deegan Iii

Hugh Mulhern

Albert Hooi

Noel Murphy

Post-Punk

Fontaines D.C. 'I Don't Belong' by Conor Deegan III

Fontaines-D.c.-'I-Don't-Belong'-by-Conor-Deegan-Iii

Rob French keeps things fast and furious for Idles'&nbsp;titanic anthem Grounds, shot in an English town at dawn during lockdown.Joe Talbot takes the wheel of his car and storms through the town's deserted streets, captured by French in a modest nod to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYOMFayruw" target="_blank">Rendezvous, Claude Lelouch's classic race through early morning Paris</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Frontman Joe Talbot says of “Grounds”: “We wanted to write a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief - a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in. We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band, armed with a jack hammer and a smile. We wanted to make the sound of our engine starting. So we did. Thank you."

Rob French

Jonesmillbank

Idles 'Grounds' by Rob French 

Idles-'Grounds'-by-Rob-French-

Hugh Mulhern focusses entirely on a band performance that appears to be beamed in from a TV studio from the distant past, in his video for Fontaines DC's Televised Mind.The&nbsp;approach to the video was clearly dictated by quarantine conditions, but this singleminded, Twilight Zone-style&nbsp;aesthetic gels with the mesmerizing intensity of the track.It's a complete contrast to Mulhern's previous video for the title track from the Dublin's much-anticipated first album, A Hero's Death, which features Aiden Gillan in carefully constructed&nbsp;narrative. But it works a treat.&nbsp;

Fontaines D.C. 'Televised Mind' by Hugh Mulhern

Fontaines-D.c.-'Televised-Mind'-by-Hugh-Mulhern

Aiden Gillan plays an old-school&nbsp;TV chat show host who is feeling his age -&nbsp;and possibly losing his marbles - in&nbsp;Hugh Mulhern's video for Fontaines D.C.'s A Hero's Death.Gillan is, of course, a master of playing characters who are not heroes, but the opposite - or at least,&nbsp;complex and compromised individuals,&nbsp;driven by their ambition. Much is the same here, as he inhabits the role of self-satisfied TV star&nbsp;Georgie Barnes, who experiences a Groundhog Day-style repetition of the moments&nbsp;in the lead-up to a&nbsp;broadcast&nbsp;where Fontaines D.C. are scheduled to guest.When he visits the green room to meet the band, their&nbsp;failure to bond&nbsp;triggers a nightmarish descent for Barnes. Each time the meeting is repeated, it gets worse, and his world becoming weirder, more hostile. And Gillan's portrayal is so good it makes it possible for to almost feel sympathy for this character who is getting his comeuppance.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Aaron Mcenaney

Motherland

Anna Harrison

Eoin McLoughlin

Stephen Mccarthy

Lauran Kelly

Aidan Gillan

Fontaines D.C. 'A Hero's Death' by Hugh Mulhern

Fontaines-D.c.-'A-Hero's-Death'-by-Hugh-Mulhern

Jack Whiteley and Joe Wills get together to conflate the worlds of videogaming, cosplay, and classic disco, to create something really special for Little Dragon.It all starts with a teenage girl rushing into her bedroom to get&nbsp;stuck into her favourite online video game&nbsp;- which introduces us to fantastically off-the-wall real-life cosplay characters, in a country house retrreat, and the fictional Bodins Castle, where all manner . It's there that her blue garbed, pointy chinned avatar&nbsp;meets &lt;lil dragon&gt;, and plenty more intriguing characters (with the occasional 3D figure mixed in with the real).&nbsp;They connect - and then later on the castle dancefloor.With fantastic attention to layers of detail,&nbsp;Whiteley and Wills bring brilliant costume design, makeup, VFX and choreographu&nbsp;- and make regular returns to the charming young player, to create a superbly imaginative&nbsp;soufflé for Little Dragon's Lover Chanting.Brilliant stuff, for a&nbsp;fantastic song, which is&nbsp;taken from their brand new ‘Lover Chanting’ EP which is set for release digitally on 9th November with a special 12” black vinyl release scheduled for 16th November.

Jack Whiteley

Joe Wills

Leah Draws

Rattling Stick

Emma Wellbelove

Chanel Parkinson

Isusko Garcia

Bart Sienkiewicz

Matt Choules

Joel Rainsley

Sets Appeal

Taff Williamson

Natasha Lawes

Paul O’reilly

Homespun

Jessica Vile

Framestore

Jeb Hardwick

Chloe Hayward

Ninja Tune

Alternative

Dance, Pop, Disco

Little Dragon 'Lover Chanting' by Jack Whiteley & Joe Wills

Little Dragon - Lover Chanting (Official Video)

A &ldquo;trippy ode to awkwardness and all things nervous&rdquo;, Hugo Jenkins&#39; video for Maribou State&#39;s Nervous Tics is a thoughtful and stylish&nbsp;exploration of neurosis and suppressed emotions.Each scene exploring the different ways that fear and nervousness can manifest themselves in the body and also in the imagination. &ldquo;Repeated cuts are used to reflect on how repetitive and jarring nervous thoughts can be&rdquo; says Jenkins, &quot;Interrupting the flow of the film in the same way this kind of internal monologue might interrupt a moment of calm.&rdquo;The song itself is about &quot;the low-lying panic of modern life&rdquo; explains vocalist Holly Walker, &quot;We&rsquo;re all on our phones getting terrible news headlines vs. hyperreal Instagram images livestreamed into our brains, and it&rsquo;s making us jumpy. This song is the realisation that no amount of mindful breathing or downward dog can replace some good old fashioned human contact and emotion.&rdquo;

Hugo Jenkins

Nancy Ryan

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Casey Levie

Joel Honeywell

Kairo Jones

Mike Smit

Jess Newby Vincent

Phoebe Walters

Envy

Peter Burch

Dance

Maribou State ft. Holly Walker 'Nervous Tics' by Hugo Jenkins

Maribou-State-'Nervous-Tics-(feat.-Holly-Walker)''-by-Hugo-Jenkins

Oscar Hudson returns with his first music video since winning Best Director at the UK Music Video Awards last year, and delivers another gem of in-camera visual effects ingenuity for Young Fathers, shot on a Scottish moor, where all manner of odd things are happening.Now available everywhere, following its Apple Music exclusive, Hudson&#39;s video for Holy Ghost uses thermal image technology to combine a video with a breathtaking look, together with a slow release&nbsp;of dark humour. It&#39;s also a&nbsp;performance video, involving lipsync and choreography,&nbsp;executed over a vast expanse of land - all captured&nbsp;on one camera.&nbsp;That was a rare,&nbsp;high-powered military thermal camera, which led the footage to look infra-red&nbsp;- or as&nbsp;&nbsp;Young Fathers&rsquo; Graham &lsquo;G&rsquo; Hastings has dubbed it: &ldquo;Shot in Infra-Dead&trade;&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;and zooming in onto a distant hillside&nbsp;where some very strange things seemed to be happening. As Oscar Hudson explains below, finding the camera and then using it for the purposes of making a music video was a very unusual experience.Shot on location in Perthshire in Scotland, Holy Ghost is a technical marvel, combining cinematography, survelliance and choreography to unique effect. Most importantly, a wicked sense of humour runs through it, from the opening (non-infrared) shot, to the last.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Oscar Hudson

Maurizio Von Trapp

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Rob Rowles

Stuart Cadenhead

Sean Hind

Laura Strong

Linzi St Clair

Ian Tod

Tamara Yazbek

Hilaire de Cacqueray

Chris Anthony

Ben Stell

Paul O’Brien

Omar Akkari

Tim Greenwood

Young Fathers 'Holy Ghost' by Oscar Hudson

Young Fathers - Holy Ghost (Official Video)

For the second collaboration between Salomon Ligthelm and Young Fathers (following <a href="https://vimeo.com/217809089" target="_blank">Mr Martyr</a>)&nbsp;the director was inspired by the track to create a world where dictators behave like spoilt little children, throwing tantrums because things aren&rsquo;t going their way.Sorry, that is the real world. In this case, Ligthelm actually turns our terrifying leaders into children - a great device at the heart of a stirringly satirical and&nbsp;highly entertaining interpretation of the track Toy.&ldquo;The tone of the track is so visceral and abrasive, which I think marries the political subject matter perfectly,&rdquo; says Ligthelm. &ldquo;Looking at the political climate of our time, I&rsquo;d say truth is certainly stranger than fiction.&rdquo;With a wonderful cast of youngsters playing the nasty rulers, great locations, lovely photography (DoP Steve Annis give it a classic look) and a fine edit by Dan Sherwen, this is a very strong addition to the excellent campaign of videos accompanying the new Young Fathers&#39; album, Cocoa Sugar.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Salomon Ligthelm

Sorcha Bacon

Stink Films

Katie Lambert

Alex Jefferson

Bryony James

Steve Annis

Eira Wyn Jones

Josephine Theime

Alex Gibbon

Lucie Red

Emma Lipop

Dorita Nissen

Dan Sherwen

Final Cut

Daniel DeVue

Glassworks

Victoria Waterhouse Taylor

Mark Harris / Sacha Danjou/ Zach Zombek

Sarah Boardman @ Hands

Convoly

Josh Brooks

Sasha Robertson

Young Fathers 'Toy' by Salomon Ligthelm

Young-Fathers-'Toy'-by-Salomon-Ligthelm

Jack Whiteley&#39;s new video for Young Fathers presents itself initially as a recognisable sub-genre of the medium - beautifully-shot, tastefully art directed, evocative and &#39;artistic&#39;. And then it begins to strip away at the artifice.Whiteley&#39;s video for In My View is a meta-satire&nbsp;that like others of it&#39;s ilk&nbsp;works on at least a couple of levels - not least in presenting Young Fathers in a fascinating&nbsp;light. It coincides with the announcement of the band&#39;s third album, and makes you want to hear it.&nbsp;

Tiwi Magwenzi

Andy Orrick

Allanagh Spratling

Will Jasper

Rina Yang

Katie Molins

Sonia Rodriguez

Ben Manwaring

Cynthia Lawrence-John

Freddie Stopler

Chris Roebuck

TenThree

Toby Tomkins

Absolute Post

Geri Krasteva

Zdravko Stoitchkov

Young Fathers 'In My View' by Jack Whiteley

Young-Fathers-'In-My-View'-by-Jack-Whiteley

Greg Barnes&#39; &#39;live&#39; music video for Romare&#39;s Come Close To Me starts with his pitch on the phone to the artist to win the video - an enjoyable, hopefully satirical exchange that does for music video directors what Glengarry Glen Ross did for real estate salesmen.&nbsp;But it&#39;s obvious&nbsp;that after the 80s&#39;tastic performance video with hipper-than-thou VHS look, Greg really wants to shoot Romare in his gorgeous Triumph Spitfire. Or is it a Mazda?&nbsp;

Greg Barnes

Kiran Mandla

COMPULSORY

Romare 'Come Close To Me' by Greg Barnes

Romare-'Come-Close-To-Me'-by-Greg-Barnes

Dan Emmerson collaborates with Actress in the high-fashion dystopian video for X22RME.The clip follows a figure in a welder&#39;s mask as he wanders through a brutalist world of minimalism, sculpture, football pitches and models on pedestals. The finished piece is a haunting exercise in style and communication.

Dan Emmerson

Peter Arboine

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Denna Cartamkhoob

Tim Nash

Ed Hubert

George Phull

Ema Tiller Cordy

Sophie Amber Small

Caitlin Curran

Mia Howe

Jackson Payne

Santiago Morgan

Ben Crook

Somesuch

Arthur De Borman

Electronica

Actress 'X22RME' by Dan Emmerson

British rapper Roots Manuva is on the loose&nbsp;in this comic video for Crying, directed by Helmi.Groceries spill on the ground, crowds disperse in sheer terror, strollers are left to roll down stairways, and&nbsp;grown men and women cry in their hiding spots as Manuva walks past. And despite all the spine-chilling disruption,&nbsp;all the rapper wanted was to pick up some&nbsp;morning cereal at his local supermarket. And even more absurd is the ending when his fearsomeness gets out of his control and&nbsp;takes a supernatural&nbsp;life of its own...

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