Ricky Allen directs a very silly and highly enjoyable promo for Trampolene, featuring an older man with a complete aversion to doing the washing up.Allen takes a comedic, absurd concept and runs with it, creating something surprisingly stylish and engrossing. It's a refreshing and unexpected comic idea that suits the yearning music, which is built on the foundation of two strong performances - from Taryn Kimber and Ray Bull.The director is also keen to stress, perhaps a bit too forcefully, that the story is not autobiographical."All characters appearing in this work are fictitious," he says. "The man being allergic to washing up has no resemblance to the director (me) or his life. In fact, [the director] loves washing up, absolutely adores it, especially all the lovely dirty plates, sponges, and other ‘apparatus’ used to clean the dishes. You could not get him to wash up more."Any comparisons to the director will be met with a lawsuit for defamation of character, but more importantly, he will be upset. Because he loves washing up. Please don’t forget that. He’s actually just ordered a second serving of washing-up liquid. So fresh and so clean. That’s him. Ol' Ricky Washing up boots.......yeah."

A small family gathering descends into madness in Swedish directing duo BABYBABY's promo for Superintendent McCupcakes.In the video, McCupcakes (real name Tony) loses consciousness and is brought back, time and time again, to an increasingly weird and uncomfortable reality, with the help of a trigger-happy paramedic armed with defibrillators.The desaturated, filmic aesthetic contrasts the absurd mayhem of the concept, and the ending scene feels more suited to a contemporary horror chase scene than a music video - and that's the brilliance of the video."It’s been years since we made a music video, and the ideas were starting to pile up," say BABYBABY. "So we wrote a script with everything we were into at the moment: Dutch techno subcultures, yuppies, 90s IKEA catalogs, awkward family photos, smiling people crawling, smiling people running, smiling people sliding off sofas, etc, etc."The label said 'great, you go do your thing'. And so we did."

Directing duo Pantera - that's Pato Martinez and Francisco Canton - have directed a series of wonderfully zany mini-films to tease French musician Jacques' new album Ordinary Victories. The nine-minute epic introduces us to the artist - and his distinctive hairstyle - as his head opens up to reveal a smorsgabord of weird and wonderful influences.Pantera and Jacques have released the project in chapter form, which serve up individual moments from the album within a surreal drama, and that also serves the wonderfully absurdist quality of their collaboration. We follow Jacques through Parisian streets, a journey exporing the inside of his trouser pocket and into a shallow grave - and that's just scratching the surface... Whimsical, delirious and eccentric, this is a brilliantly-made piece of work by Pantera - produced by the team at SOLAB in Paris - and a very promising introduction to the artist and his unique aesthetic.

Max Siedentopf's new music video for Keinemusik takes the German pun of the 'ear worm' to a whole new level.Director and artist Max Siedentopf is known for his conceptual, whimsical and refreshingly humorous work, and this video delivers the same idiosyncratic energy we have grown to love. Whilst the lyrics are about love, Siedentopf spins the concept in a completely different direction, and what seems to be taken out of context remains in the memory like a good catchy tune.We open on a bald, middle-aged man ready to feed his pet gecko, before a worm squirms its way into his ear. The man immediately loses his mind, smashing through the wall to the next apartment and flopping over the balcony, falling and bouncing off of a car. As he swivels and gyrates down the street - much like a worm would - passers by also start to lose their minds, as their bodies distort, crush and amalagamate. Shot in Berlin on 16mm, the scenes look weird but cinematic, and build to an absolutely oddball climax.