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Zack Spiger

The Director's Cut of Marc Oller's video for Arlo Parks' Weightless arrives, and adds weight to the symbolism around a story of a&nbsp;couple falling out of love.Oller employs powerful visual metaphors to tell the tale, which are given free rein in this version: Arlo in a car with no driver, a house breaking apart, cars crashing, and perhaps most powerfully of all,&nbsp;a wild horse having escaped from its captor, running free&nbsp;in the city.Within these scenes, Parks herself comes across strongly, performing the song which is the first release from her forthcoming album, My Soft Machine - the anticipated follow-up to her Brit and Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed In Sunbeams.[imgtoken data:1]Shot in Serbia last December, Oller says that ‘’we followed the brief of how a lover gets tethered to the idea of someone, either to how good it felt at the beginning or how close things are to looking up, whilst also wanting to present Arlo in a way that her fans had not seen before." He adds that this presented various challenges on the shoot, particularly due to bad weather affecting the production."We had to recreate the exact same room we were shooting in an apartment, then wreck it with a bulldozer," he says. "The construction team was outstanding."[imgtoken data:2]So was the horse, called Asa - who is a magnificent presence in the video, captured wonderfully by DoP Zach Spiger and his team. "Asa was a great actress - we all fell in love with her and she actually made our lives easy," says Oller. "Unfortunately, it was raining heavily and the shoot was constantly interrupted by the storm. This tightened our schedule and we had to sacrifice many shots that we had planned on shooting."&nbsp;Shot on film, which also presented challenges in terms of finding the right kit for "an old school kind of shoot", Oller adds that he was supported by both familiar and new collaborators to achieve his goals.[imgtoken data:3]"They were all amazingly talented and invested in the project," he declares. "Zack Spiger is an old collaborator - we shot a short film back in the day when I lived in Tokyo; Vicki Viñas is one of my longest time collaborators and she’s an outstanding art director and has the best taste; Alberto Ojeda is one of the best steadicam operators in Spain; and Ana Cano is my oldest collaborator and my ‘go-to’ for hair and makeup."And I loved working with our new Head of Music Videos at CANADA, Callum Harrison, who always challenged me to keep pushing the boundaries of creativity and was a great support."[imgtoken data:4]

Serbia

Marc Oller

CANADA

Callum Harrison

Sara Renteria

Anna Bacardit

Débora Zhang

Vicki Viñas

Lane Casting

Fouad Gaber

William Kjarval

Cyber Few Good Men

Vuk Marjanovic

Lewis Munday

Emilie Louizides

Natalia Vega

Ana Cano

Alberto Ojeda

Arlo Parks 'Weightless' (Director's Cut) by Marc Oller

Arlo Parks - Weightless (DC)

Being both super-cool and completely grounded is not easy but Oscar Boyson hits the sweet spot in his video for the returning Phoenix, plus Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, for Tonight.Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars and the rest of the band are in Paris, of course, while Koenig is hanging out in Tokyo. The screen is split throughout to accommodate footage from both cities, including performances from the artists. It's smoothly cosmopolitan, with simple visual tricks bringing the two elements together, and the cinematography by DoP Zack Spiger is marvellous.The way its made also gives the sense of work being done, and the song actually being created. It's artful but it also feels authentic.

Oscar Boyson

Dasha Deriagina

Object & Animal

Pelican Paris

Twin Brains Films

Dom Thomas

Ella Toal Gangar

Nate deYoung

Keith Jonson

John Moule

LightIron

LOYAUTÉ

Phoenix ft Ezra Koenig 'Tonight' by Oscar Boyson

Phoenix - Tonight featuring Ezra Koenig (Official Video)

French director Arnaud Bresson brings a new eye to London life for the debut single of Ama. It's called Monochrome, but this is far from it.It's a special day for the young singer, who is perparing for a special, unconventional&nbsp;ceremony of love - even, perhaps, her wedding. That brings a very cool and colourful aesthetic to her neighbourhood.

United Kingdom

Arnaud Bresson

Théo Gall

Division

Jerôme Franck

Florie Vitse

Charlotte James

Yorgos Lamprinos

Vincent Amor

OB Management

Dirty Hit

Jake Whitehouse

Soul

Ama 'Monochrome' by Arnaud Bresson

Ama-'Monochrome-'-by-Arnaud-Bresson

Sing J Lee takes us on a journey to Hong Kong in his latest promo, which features men-of-the-moment Migos in some very eye-catching suits. The hip hop trio ooze style as they play poker with Pharrell in their very own Chinese restaurant, and show off their kung fu skills when they have a face off with their rivals.Taking inspiration from his childhood and putting a modern twist on old kung fu movies, Sing has created a promo with a narrative that is both fresh and unique. And of course, no kung fu movie would be complete without a thrilling action sequence...Speaking about the music video after its release, Sing said: &quot;A diet of three years work experience in my parent&#39;s Chinese takeaway and censored Bruce Lee movies finally paid off.&quot;

United States

Sing J Lee

Quavo

Sylvia Zahary

Partizan Darkroom

Whitney Jackson

Ryan Beck

Houmam Abdallah

Capitol Records

Migos 'Stir Fry' by Sing J Lee & Quavo

Bagarre&#39;s&nbsp;Béton Armé addresses the terrorist attacks on France in the past two years. Helmi&#39;s video for the track, a colourful lo-fi spoof of fashion and perfume ads, is a celebration of life.

France

Helmi

Clémence Cuvelier

Benjamin Zorilla

marion brillouet

Jeanne Ader

Roxane Faure Huet

Machine Molle

Bagarre 'Béton Armé' by Helmi

Bagarre - Béton armé (Clip officiel)

Sing J. Lee is in the middle of a hot streak right now, with this stylish video for Raye following on the heels of his work for Kasabian and Halsey.The hyper-real, accelerated and vibrant clip follows two different versions of Raye as they embark on two very different nights out. With split-screen being used to full effect, on top of a heap of head-spinning cuts, the video feels stylized, dizzying and euphoric with both versions of Raye and her friends celebrating with a raucous, messy energy that comes from a night of unexpected twists and turns.A combination of great animation and graphic design flourishes really helps Sing to put his own personal stamp on this clip.

Sing J. Lee

Ailsa Vanessa Tapping

Claire Stubbs

Leo Green

Daniel Castro Garcia

Thomas Nicholson

Stephanie Kennedy

Nathan Matthews

Lucy Cooper

Richard Sloan

Lan Nguyen-Grealis

Final Cut

Lewis Crossfield

Absolute Post

Kate Desmond

Zee Stoitchkov

Undercranked

Emily Ann Sonnet

Polydor

Raye 'The Line' by Sing J. Lee

New video for Olsson directed by A Nice Idea Every Day, is an edit-heavy piece with various videos playing out within the same frame, photographed by the excellent Zach Spiger.

A Nice Idea Every Day

Malvine Stecher

Agile Films

Mutter & Vater

Ulrike Stockhausen

Vivien Weyrauch

Olsson ft. Mapei  'Hold On' by A Nice Idea Every Day

Olsson-Feat.-Mapei--'Hold-On'-by-A-Nice-Idea-Every-Day

American born, Paris-based director Zack Spiger has created this video for San Cisco&#39;s Magic,&nbsp;who sums it up as &quot;what happens when Nosferatu and Lolita went to the beach.&quot;With this highly unusual romance as a&nbsp;start, Spiger&nbsp;imagined a series of situations that could happen if these two&nbsp;iconic&nbsp;characters were in a love affair, and combined them with his excellent sense&nbsp;of cinematography, recording&nbsp;beautiful shots&nbsp;on&nbsp;Kodak film. The result is a sunny vampire romance set in some great Australian locations.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Rob Livings

Nicolas Tiry

SOLAB

Ashleigh Maclean

Freena Hamilton

Hossein Khodabandehloo

Jake Shannon

George Davis

Sacha Szwarc

Coralie Duarte

Reepost

Claire Maclean

Benjamin Goakes

Colonel Blimp

San Cisco 'Magic' by Zack Spiger

SAN CISCO - Magic

Together with his gorgeous Ibiza-shot piece for The Dove &amp; The Wolf, Zack Spiger has also directed and photographed this spot of American gothic for middle-aged West Virginian&nbsp;alt-country discovery Stone Jack Jones and his track Red Red Rose.It&#39;s also&nbsp;shot on film - 16mm and 35mm Kodak motion picture film to be exact &ndash; enabling a look and&nbsp;atmosphere appropriate&nbsp;to the black-garbed, gun-toting Stone Jack. He&#39;s so cool he can arrange to have a couple of horses come and wake him from his afternoon nap...&nbsp;

Jeffrey Stanfill

Carylon Allan

Stone Jack Jones 'Red Red Rose' by Zack Spiger

Zack Spiger went to Ibiza to shoot a NOWNESS-commissioned film for The Dove &amp; The Wolf&#39;s The Words You Said, and the upshot is a&nbsp;stunningly beautiful video - arguably one of the most seductive videos ever made on the island.&nbsp;The director-cinematographer&nbsp;has created an&nbsp;impressionistic story of a boy&#39;s infatuation for a girl -&nbsp;who&#39;s a dead ringer for the girls&nbsp;in The Dove &amp; The Wolf, who also feature. And <a href="http://www.nowness.com/day/2014/9/12/4139/the-dove-andthe-wolf-the-words-you-said?icid=previously_home" target="_blank">as Zack tells NOWNESS</a>, to make this look so gorgeous&nbsp;took hours waiting for the right light conditions and making his own custom-built tank for the underwater shots.He also shot it on Kodak motion picture&nbsp;film, and if this is a celebration&nbsp;of the beauty of the Belearics, it&#39;s also a shining example of the unique quality of film.&nbsp;

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