DMND CLR founder Dijian Eccles and Andre Reid come together to co-direct a beautiful short film for Loski's Music, Trial and Trauma. This film is based on Loski’s rise in music, and the backstory of him growing up in South East London, Kennington; a fast-paced environment affected by poverty, crime and violence.Despite the wrong choices the protagonist makes, he’s always aware of an ideal lifestyle, and dreams of one day making it out through music. Despite his intentions, however, it’s never that easy….Strikingly emotional, the video is beautiful, brutal, heartbreaking, but eventually optimistic - and a true tour de force from two masters of their craft.

A woman goes on a journey of escape and self-discovery, in Sebastian Whyte's powerful visual for Ben Marc. The video for Breathe follows the main character - played by Sherelle Johnson - as she travels from the city to the countryside and back. Filmed in London and South East England, this was initially inspired by the road movie genre and it works both as an engaging short film and a music video, anchored by strong performances from its cast."Originally, the plan was to have a couple on the run as the main focus," says Sebastian Whyte. "However various constraints and actors dropping out meant that we had to tweak the narrative. Then I became fascinated with the idea of a single female protagonist, who is fragile and vulnerable, yet strong, singleminded and independent."In a strange way, her semi-meditative journey of discovery mirrors the evolution of the film's narrative. And throughout the driving force is Ben's beautifully epic soundtrack."

Dumas Haddad directs a conceptual short film for Lola Young's new EP, entitled After Midnight.Haddad's film is a visual showcase of several different tracks, all corresponding with different times in the early morning. It's also a journey through a whirlwind of raw emotions. Beautifully constructed and cut together - with Haddad working as both director and editor - the video represents a sense of polarity, both in subject matter and more literally in the visuals; inside vs outside, restrained vs free, love vs loss. A terrific piece of art, tied together with powerful spoken-word poetry from Thea Gajic.

Jordan Hemingway directs a very creepy short film for The Horrors' new single Lout. Starring acclaimed makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench, the short but sweet concept depicts Ffrench's transformation into a convulsing, undead state, reminiscent of zombie film 28 Days Later. Presented without any kind of narrative or structure, the video is a taste of what to expect from the upcoming EP, and a rather fascinating piece of standalone content.And there are echoes of Chris Cunningham's 2006 video for the band's Sheena Is A Parasite, featuring Samantha Morton undergoing a similarly terrifying transformation.

Jonatan Egholm Keis directs a tour de force of love and obsession, in this fateful vampire tale for Drew Sycamore. Inspired by the Twilight teen flicks and old school Hollywood portrayals of the pale Count Dracula, the promo is a short film turned music video, which was shot across more than seven locations in Denmark – including an abandoned hospital and a 1430s monastery. DoP Robin Holtz infuses the cinematography with indulgent colour palettes and richly textured compositions, interweaving experimental camera movement with more traditional setups.Capturing a perfect blend of nostalgia and vibrant snapshots of modern vampire lore, Keis' directing anchors the sprawling concept with a sense of intimacy and danger, which is perfectly interpreted and performed by Sycamore.

The Gasser Brothers explore human consciousness through the power of choice, in the music film Eclipse. Interpreted by Yao Dapre Nicol and musically sculpted by Dutch electronica duo Weval, the film exposes a man’s evolution and personal growth towards awareness, offering a visual contrast between light and darkness, movement and paralysis, life or death. Interweaving lo-fi stock footage and breathtaking live action, the concept is a hypnotic trip through time and space, with arresting performances and stunning cinematography, care of DoP Fabio Gasser.

Canadian filmmaker Jonathan Desbiens aka Jodeb has directed this intense, increasingly disturbing short film and music video for French producer Point Point's Life In Grey. Posturing at first as a dance film, or perhaps a love story between a dance tutor and her student - its beautifully shot by Kristof Brandl in the fashionable 1:1 ratio – Life In Grey soon turns into a story of darkness and horror that can make a viewer jaw-clenchingly queasy.The film starts with a dance rehearsal where a young, lynx-eyed dance teacher attends closely over a group of limber female dancers. Then it cuts to the whole group, including the teacher, bonding at a lakeside house, and the teacher's role in the subsequent partying revealing her as a sexual predator. But what happens next is a shock - the teacher has planned a spectacular choreography of death, using the girls as her peons. Not so much blurring as removing the lines of what's real and what's imagined, its a notable change of style from Jodeb's previous music video work. He told i-D, "[It's] a narrative about the Y generation, about how people can become desperate about creating the perfect piece of work, the ultimate fulfillment in the eyes of others. The obsession of a promised, expected fulfilling life."