Elton John's classic 1972 track finally has an official music video. Majid Adin and Stephen McNally bring you a film of urgent humanity and personal longing. It draws on Majid’s personal experience as a refugee after fleeing his native Iran, travelling across Europe, spending time in the infamous Calais jungle and successfully securing asylum here in the UK.This long-awaited official music was commissioned as part of THE CUT - a global competition in collaboration with YouTube to celebrate the 50 year hit-making partnership of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.Majid’s treatment was chosen above entries from 50 different countries by a selection committee comprising illustrious talents Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and PES. Rocket Man and the other two videos commissioned in the competition, for Bennie and the Jets & Tiny Dancer premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

This is an outstanding video by Alex Amoling, for Hammock's Mute Angels, which was the winner of the Departure Films video contest in the summer of 2013. The milieu will be familiar to devotees of 2001 and Alien, but with the help of Hammock's epic post-rock sound Alex Amoling conjures something very distinctive - and highly emotional - from the painful solitude of a woman travelling through time and space, and coming to terms with her fate.And this winning entry - a reworking of his thesis film at Emerson College – not only became the official video for the track, it has resulted in him working with Hammock again, directing the video for I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things, from their new album Oblivion Hymns.

After his very impressive video for M83's Moonchild, Richard Paris Wilson has teamed with Tommy Nagle as We Are Cowboys to create another, equally impressive M83 video, for Intro. We're taken us into the dystopian existence of a young man, trapped in his apartment and under constant surveillance, and with the mundane yet ominous job of processing 'organ procurements'. But ultimately, this worm is for turning...We Are Cowboys do a very fine job creating this sci-fi version of 1984, from the art direction to the visual effects. Hard to believe this was another entry into M83's video competition on Genero.tv. - but not surprising that like Richard's Moonchild video, this has also been nominated for the platform's 2013 music video of the year.

Nils Clauss has done it again. Last year, his and Neil Dowling's entry into a Royksopp music video competition on Genero.tv - their marvellous video for Senior Living - won a competition prize, and has since gone on to be nominated at this year's UK Music Video Awards. And Nils and Neil's next project, a video for the Norwegian artist Storm Queen, is in the pipeline...

To celebrate Queen's 40th Anniversary, the band are inviting filmmakers to create a video for their 1977 song Sheer Heart Attack. Organised via Talenthouse, the competition is aimed at existing filmmakers and 'videographers', with participants invited to submit showreels showcasing their talent for the chance to be selected as a finalist, who will then be provided with the video of performance of Sheer Heart Attack in the 'Queen on Fire Live at the Bowl' film, to cut together, use as stop animation and work with their own original footage if desired. Participants will be encouraged to use their own work to create a wholly original piece of work. Sheer Heart Attack, although originally intended for the early 70s album of the same name, was actually included on the 1977 album News Of The World. The winning submission will be used as a music video and featured across Queen's social media channels. This will be the first original Queen video since 'Under Pressure' in 1999. Submission deadline information, prizes and all other details about the Sheer Heart Attack video competition is here. " + document.location.href, 600, 600); }]]]]>]]>

Alberto Gomez, born in Mexico, graduated from the Vancouver Film School two years ago. Since then he has made some independent shorts, and work for local artists through is independent brand GroovyChaos. His winning video was chosen from ten finalists by a panel of judges including creatives from Saatchi & Saatchi, Vimeo and BUG, and Moby himself. The other finalists, whose work was shown in a montage at the Cannes screening, were Frank Beltrán, David Evan Bowers, Brian McCann, Lindsay MacKay, Antonin Pevny, Oden Roberts, Martin Rodahl, Alexey Terehoff, and Roland Wittl. Gomez's winning video was the final work shown at the event. The show began with a audio-visual installation and performance by Warp artist Jamie Lidell. The visuals were created by Aaron Meyers, who developed innovative performance software, Turner Prize-nominated artist Mark Titchner and visual FX and video designers Marshmallow Laser Feast, and were produced by Juliette Larthe. Hello, Future Music Video Challenge finalists here