Director of Photography

Will Gething

Two lovers flee a dystopian surveillance state and head for the hills in&nbsp;Benjy Kirkman's promo for legendary rock outfit Garbage.The video for There's No Future In Optimism is a cinematic, retrofuturistic vision - shot in Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands -&nbsp;boasting a grungy monochromatic cinematography and grade to&nbsp;match the defiant thrust of the song's lyrics.&nbsp;Using 16mm zooms and handheld camerawork director Kirkman and DoP Will Gething thrust the viewer into the&nbsp;world of the artistic young couple's shoes as they flee the concrete city, tracked by CCTV cameras.&nbsp;Retro-futurism and a return to nature is at the forefront of this creative, with a visual aesthetic that gels with the dark glamour of the band's classic videos of the Nineties.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]“I love the title," says Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson, of the song - which comes from the band's forthcoming 8th album.&nbsp;"The band sent it to me and I was like, 'This is great. I’m keeping that.'&nbsp;But the lyrics are an action against that title. Because if we allow our fatalism or our negativity to really take over, we will crumble. It’s about a city, in my case, Los Angeles, but it could be anywhere where bad stuff is happening."After the George Floyd murder, which is one of few things in my life that I wish I’d never seen: I was changed entirely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. In Los Angeles there were huge protests and a lot of upheaval after that. Above our house in Hollywood, there were helicopters all day long, for days on end. It was really precarious, chaotic and terrifying.”&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Keiss Marshall

Honor Anderson

Detroit Law

Benjy Kirkman

Kat Tweedie

Kitty Mcmurdo-Schad

Kit N Kat Productions

Graham Pritz-Bennett

Luke Coulter

Nico Biarese

Paolo Falcioni

Kala Williams

Mv Brown

Dan Mitchel

Work Editorial

Lois Chapman

Coffee & TV

Rock

Garbage 'There's No Future In Optimism' by Benjy Kirkman

Garbage - There's No Future In Optimism (Official Music Video)

A video game becomes a twisted virtual nightmare in Conall O'Brien Y2K cyberpunk-themed promo for Pèpè Elle and Bailey Ibbs.In a distorted otherworld full of sinister adversaries, we follow a protagonist entrapped in a nightmare realm, fighting his way to freedom.&nbsp;The minacious visual is layered with abstract textures and elements which blur the line between reality and fiction, amalgamating in several chaotic yet absorbing set pieces.&nbsp;

France

Alice Secchi

Conall O'Brien

Théophile Brunet

George Drake

Elliot Jackson

LemÁine

Judas Companion

Vesper4__

Zac Campbell-muir

Ed Chappell

Adam Mears

No.8

Stewy Zq

Maddie Fiedler

Cat Zauner

Jackson Wright

Dmitri Dudin

3 Feet Deep Records

Electronic

Pépé Elle 'Twisted (Bailey Ibbs Remix)' by Conall O'Brien

Pépé-Elle-'Twisted-(bailey-Ibbs-Remix)'-by-Conall-O'brien

Marc Klasfeld proves his mastery of the pop video medium with this slick and sexy video for Mabel.It features several well-designed, colour-coded setups - expertly shot by DoP Will Bex -&nbsp;as Mabel seductively changes from pink-blonde in a mirrored room, to tough black bob with her pals in a dance sequence. Hypnotically appropriate for the lustful yearning at the heart&nbsp;of Mad Love.

Marc Klasfeld

Kareem Adeshina

Greatcoat Films

Simon Oxley

Joseph Daly

Chris Malin

Will Bex

Fran Weston

Onkar Narrang

Benny Casey

Claudia Wass

Jon Dobson

Wash

Las Bandas Be Brave

Semera Khan

Universal

Mabel 'Mad Love' by Marc Klasfeld

Mabel-'Mad-Love'-by-Marc-Klasfeld

Luke Davies decided against getting&nbsp;all counterintuitive when it came to Piers James&#39;s Samurai. And that&nbsp;was a smart move. Instead he&nbsp;made the most of the opportunity presented by the songtitle.But as he explains, filming a samurai&nbsp;on Margate beach has its hazards...&nbsp;