Andre Muir returns to collaborate with R&B singer-songwriter Ravyn Lenae with a restrained but emotionally-charged portrait of movement, intimacy and self-possession.Captured in cool tones, natural light and dreamlike interiors and exteriors, the video for Handle finds Ravyn in a liminal space that feels both grounded and surreal. The people who populate the area with her become her community, expressed through an explosive dance routine that takes us out of the dream-state for a while and adds to its emotional weight.The visual is also a departure from the previous collaboration between Muir and Lenae in 2024, on the UKMVA-nominated video for One Wish, which took a nostalgic trip through the artist's past to great effect. Here she is presenting a different aspect of her personality - in fact, she is more centre stage: assured and self-possessed, enigmatic and deeply human.In that respect, this video - the first from her forthcoming new album Blue Island - makes an important statement about Ravyn Lenae's evolution as an artist.

Willy Hajli & Poeta Visual direct a thought provoking promo packed with stunning portraits and compositions for Brazilian artist Abibi Bakila aka BK. The video for Castles and Ruins depicts the artist ten years on from the release of his landmark debut album. The film is a metaphorical essay on history and identity, rendering BK's trials and cosmology through multiple points of views: a dancer rhythmically conjuring protection, a warrior in eternal conflict with others, and a pregnant mother imagining the life her son will one day lead.The monochromatic presentation and focus on atmosphere perfectly suit the concept, with superb cinematography by DoP Rafael Mattar elevating the visual even further.

Charli XCX revels in an increasingly hellish Fashion Week in a scintillating spectacle created by director duo TORSO.With much of the same frenetic energy and brilliantly chaotic choreography in TORSO's previous collaboration with Charli, the terminal and runway at Charles De Gaulles airport in Von Dutch is replaced by another type of runway here. It's an end-of-days fashion show where Charli is the primary and often only runway model. The film opens with an appearance from former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, setting the tone immediately: “Fashion won’t save us. But let’s go on the runway and walk.” A manifesto-like statement that captures the video’s intention.The camera drifts somewhere between fashion documentary and pop nightmare, following Charli through a series of saturated tableaux populated by models, stylists, photographers and figures from across the fashion industry. TORSO build on the aesthetic they previously developed for Von Dutch; SS26 is shot like an adrenaline-fuelled sprint, blurring the line between fashion performance, cultural satire and dystopian pop fantasy. Between tense backstage moments, couture silhouettes, orchestrated chaos and blinding camera flashes, Charli moves through a world where glamour becomes a survival mechanism. The aesthetics of Fashion Week are transformed into a fully apocalyptic spectacle. And she is the star of the show, walking a fine line between celebration and mockery...

Olivia Rodrigo has brought esteemed director Cat Solen back to music videos, to work with her creative director Jaime Gerin on a beautifully handcrafted, mixed-media video for ‘the cure’.In fact, the dazzling promo featuring a cardboard hospital and stop-animated wool-yarn brings Solen full circle, to where it all started for her.The video finds Rodrigo in the starched uniform of a mid-century nurse, in the hallways of this old-fashioned hospital. She is in a cycle of unhappiness, experimenting on blackened hearts and enduring spells of unraveling, the wool that issues from her body quaintly yet disturbingly resembling spurts of blood.Blending live action with tactile art direction, stop motion and VFX, this a breathtakingly singular vision, which originated with Gerin's original idea and drawings.The recruitment of Solen, the director of hugely imaginative yet sensitive videos for the likes of Bright Eyes and CSS in the Noughties, and more recently for Tierra Whack - often incorporating animation with live action in the process - is a something of a masterstroke. As a result, the video feels like a breath of fresh air for Olivia Rodrigo."When asked if I wanted to work with Olivia, I probably said 'of course!' before they finished the sentence," says Cat Solen. "What I couldn't have anticipated was how immediately I connected to Jaime's concept and boards."I'd started my career with a fully embroidered stop-motion video for Bright Eyes in 2002, and here I was, nearly 25 years later, being asked to pick up thread and yarn again for a gorgeous, heartbreaking mixed-media concept for one of the biggest pop stars in the world."One of my favorite things about directing is collaborating with a writer on a concept that sounds impossibly surreal, and Jaime's was full of that. When I met her, I immediately thought she was fantastic, funny, and sharp. The video was complicated - which made it challenging - but working with Jaime made it fun and exciting the whole way through.”A real feat of traditional handcraft meeting contemporary technology, and totally absorbing throughout.