Creative collective Maschima direct an out-of-this-world epic for legendary outfit Tears For Fears' latest album. Consisting of four tracks from Songs From A Nervous Planet, the video follows an interconnected narrative exploring dreams, memories, space travel and the planet we inhabit. Across the four songs Maschina contrast the beauty of the natural Earthbound world - represented by a young woman in sun-dappled California, on a beach, among sunflowers, captured in warmly glowing film footage - with the crisp, VFX-fired wonder and beauty of space exploration.In the third and fourth songs, the two elements come together: the Astronaut (the title of the second song) crashes back to Earth. Then the woman, her growing son and the wandering space traveller finally encounter each other. As a collective, Maschima encompass a range of visual skillsets, and they are on full display here. Spanning animation, live action, graphic design and more, it's a momentous achievement and a truly international effort. And the music is pretty damn great too: Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal is still capable of writing big Beatles-esque pop tunes."We've all been fans of Tears For Fears since we were kids," explain Maschima. "This video series gave us the opportunity to craft a cinematic story that unfolded over four episodes - like creating a miniature TV show. Writing and building the narrative as we went, all while collaborating with an artist we deeply admire."The directing team describe themselves as 'an international art collective' with a shifting membership and . "We have known each other for ages, working in secret, building worlds under countless names and aliases - for projects both mainstream and underground," they continue. "Individually, we direct, shoot, edit, paint, compose, sculpt, build, destroy, and rebuild. Together, we are a multi-limbed beast with many brains but one mind."One of the members connected to Dilly Gent, working as creative director and commmissioner for Tears For Fears on the Songs From A Nervous Planet visuals."As longtime fans, we knew this was the perfect moment to finally come together - a filmmaking Voltron, fully assembled."

Love really hurts in Bradley & Pablo's promo for Jennie & Dominic Fike.The darkly comedic video for Love Hangover begins with May December and Riverdale actor Charles Melton’s character giving a eulogy at Jennie’s funeral, before her coffin is lowered into the grave.Using vignettes to portray an undeniable attraction to someone who’s both toxic and intoxicating, the video launches into the full backstory of events that led up to the funeral.Jennie and Charles Melton are seen on numerous dates in different settings, all of which end with fatal incidents for the former. From drive-in Kaiju's to a pesky olive determined to choke her, the video allows Jennie to showcase her comedic chops to brilliant effect.If you've never seen a K-Pop megastar hurtling towards death by bowling pin machine, this is the video for you.

Directing collective Ataka51 have created a short musical film featuring the artist Izzy Spears which is a remarkable tour de force of imaginative VFX-powered fantasy.Storms devour buildings and ancient skeletons, dolls come to life and fall apart, and a city is filled with living mannequins in Burn, a piece that acts as a eclectic showcase of the vision and VFX skills of the Paris-based trio - who melted singer Reeve before our eyes in the Melt On You promo last year.Created in collaboration with Georgia Pendlebury, Florence Tétier, and the Jean Paul Gaultier archive collection, the directors - Dimitri Gorbaty, Sergei Medvedev and Alexander Epikhov - invite the viewer into a world of wonder, and it is a spectacular achievement.Demonstrating technical mastery in CGI puppeteering, the result was achieved with the use of miniatures, analog film photography and groundbreaking 3D rendering."[The video] is inspired by The Wizard of Oz, and together with Izzy Spears’ romantic lyrics, we ask the question: what is fake and what is real [and] does it matter?" explain Ataka51."We envisioned our own magical realm - a contemporary kitsch universe of pink posters, white teeth, and fake furniture, where beauty and reality blur in an enchanting and unsettling Neverland."

Dylan White directs an animated promo for Samantha Whates & Ida Wenøe, appropriately dedicated to the old-school landline telephone, in its late 20th century variety.The video for Bless The Telephone is inspired by retro phones, their outlandish designs and oversize keypads, which create the colourful melding of optimism and melancholia we recognise in obsolete tech.Inspired not only by the handsets themselves, but also British and Danish design, and the vintage posters of Per Arnoldi, the video weaves organic textures with hyper-vibrant linework, creating a fresh and absorbing vision. A lovely piece of work, with an unusual yet brilliantly-suited concept.