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Tom Sykes

In a desolate unearthly landscape an androgynous figure is locked in an unknown existential battle.The second video from Daughter's Alexis Marshall's solo debut album sees director John Bradburn explore the limits of performance in a stark liminal space somewhere between Tarkovsky, Bergman and The Lighthouse.Marshall's dramatic and increasingly intense vocal on Open Mouth is interpreted through the powerful performance&nbsp;of&nbsp;Charlie Greenwood, whose expressive face is the riveting focus of the piece.Greenwood mouths the words, but does not attempt to act as Marshall's avatar. She is&nbsp;sometimes as earnest and emotional as his vocal, other times more removed, even whimsically detached. That itself draws more attention to the harrowing roar of the singer's performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

John Bradburn

Charlie Greenwood

Sargent House

Alexis Marshall 'Open Mouth' by John Bradburn

Alexis-Marshall-'Open-Mouth'-by-John-Bradburn

A band performance through the prism of an ancient,&nbsp;glitchy, colour-corrupted&nbsp;VHS camera that&#39;s stuck on close-up mode. And that works a treat for the forbidding death metal of Conjuror.&nbsp;It&#39;s directed by Nothingness who was aiming for something &quot;inside the shell&nbsp;of a horrible 1970s European horror film you found in gutter.&quot;

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Nothingness

Ethan Roberts

Holy Roar

Conjurer 'Scorn' by Nothingness

Conjurer-'Scorn'-by-Nothingness

93 Million Miles, the directing team behind the excellent 11 minute promo for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/05/30/young-and-in-the-way-the-gathering-by-93-million-miles/" target="_blank">Young And In The Way</a>, deliver another cinematic treat with this monochrome beauty for Chicago metal merchants Chrome Waves. 
"We wanted to make a video of odd super natural terror and suburban banality, that's why there's goat skulls and shopping trolleys, demonic lights and extension leads," explains John Bradburn, one half of 93 Million Miles with Andy Paton. 
"There's something wonderful about the strangeness of the everyday British landscape that seems to get ignored," John continues. "The video was shot in Stafford and The Wirral, but this did lead us to shooting the opening scenes in a notorious dogging hot-spot, desperately attempting to ignore what was going on in the cars around us..!"

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