Bohdan Rohulskyi directs a gritty promo for Rami Kallas. Shot in Kyiv, the video is a high contrast fever dream, exploring various characters through an abstract lens, and ends with a completely unexpected, offbeat climax. "Black and white picture, high contrast and film grain - that's what we used in this project!"We filmed this music video one year ago, for my friend Rami Kallas and with my friends, in Kyiv. They were an awesome two days."Beautifully lensed by DoP Nikita Khatsarevich, the video is a breathtaking display of the creative talent in Ukraine, and refreshingly different from the video landscape right now.

Samuel Bradley directs a enigmatic promo for The 1975, with creative direction by Patricia Villirillo, taking inspiration from cinema's greats - from Ingmar Bergman to Anton Corbijn.The first release from new album Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the video presents an ambiguous black and white concept, with giant balloons, teenage violinists and a whole host of eccentric characters. Shot on film, the abstract vignettes feel vintage and experimental, and the cinematography acts as the glue that binds the divergent ideas together. The beauty of videos like this is the search for meaning and understanding, and the different interpretations each viewer will make, but one thing's for sure - it's great to have the group back.

Following her music videos for All The Good Times and title track Big Time, Kimberly Stuckwisch's short film to accompany Angel Olsen's new album tells the whole story - and features a dynamic performance from the singer-songwriter.The storyline for the short film - also called Big Time - was inspired by a dream Olsen had about time travel shortly after her mother's death. The videos for All The Good Times and Big Time are accommodated within its structure, with their contrasting styles brought together into a coherent whole.As Olsen's attempt at escape a failing relationship via a road trip hits the buffers, she descends to the dreamworld of a bar where time travel is possible, and time itself is fluid. The linking device is a lightbox she carries around with her. It then becomes the focal point in the third part of the film, for the song Through The Fire.The piece is punctuated throughout by phone conversations and recordings - including a real answerphone message from Olsen's late mother. It's a device through which the director and artist articulate the weight of life's most important relationships. And not for the first time, Angel Olsen carries these emotional issues with a compelling screen performance. She is not only an excellent singer-songwriter - and these three songs are powerful - but also a proper actor. "When I approached Kimberly Stuckwisch about making these videos, I thought it would be cool to include the storyline of one of the dreams I’d had, and really use it as a way to tell the story of the songs," Olsen explains. "Kimberly added dialogue and events to create a story arc around my dream, to give it a thicker plot, using the music videos within and creating a larger film."The themes of love, loss and processing one's past are aspects that really appealed to Stuckwisch in the preparation and making of the film. "It's a story that targets deep-rooted complexities," says Stuckwisch. "Such as how our unconscious deals with repressed sexual identity, the hardships of letting go of our past selves in order to step into self-actualization, and the guilt we hold when dealing with loss."For one reason or another, we all have parts of ourselves that we struggle to forgive as well as a part of ourselves we are afraid of exploring or that we think society won’t like—so we push those parts down into our unconscious psyches, into the shadows. This is the story of drowning in those fears before releasing your light."

Didirri takes a spiritual journey in W.A.M. (Bill) Bleakley's touching promo for Begin Again. We see the artist drive to a nondescript roadhouse in Victoria, Australia, and meet a burly man who takes him to a lake, immersing him in the water for a faux-Baptism of sorts. The concept is open for interpretation, but explores themes of reinvention and leaving past behaviours behind.The filmic aesthetic and unhurried pacing allows the narrative to unfold in an organic way, and the gentle, intimate performances from both characters elevates the emotional quality of the video.