Connie Swift directs an unfiltered celebration of womanhood in all its forms, in the promo for Skye Newman's Woman I Am. The video centres on the relationships that shape everyday life - best friends, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins - women leaned on in both the lowest and highest moments. Filmed over the weekend of International Women's Day, fans of Skye across England were captured in candid, unfiltered moments, these portraits interwoven with Skye's performance of the song to considerable effect.Having come from a photography background, it marks Connie Swift's directorial debut and the project carries a distinctly personal weight. She incorporated family and friends in the video and the journey, following a call-out to Skye Newman's fans to appear in the video. The response to be in the video was overwhelming, with over 2,000 applicants eager to take part, all fans who felt a deep connection to the track and a desire to be seen authentically on screen. So in a production driven by a female-led crew - a deliberate and integral choice - the shoot became a cross-country journey spanning cities including Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and London.With a tight, mobile setup allowing for an intimate, documentary-style approach, it's a beautifully personal and resonant project. Dovetailing Skye Newman's great performance of the song, accompanied only by piano - this girl can really sing - it is a powerful combination with the track and its themes.

Thundercat's posthumous reunion with old sparring partner Mac Miller on She Knows Too Much becomes a suitably mindblowing, ultimately poignant multi-media action-comedy cartoon directed by Léa Esmaili.In the video the pair are thrown together from their respective homes and proceed on a very trippy trip: a rhythmic, burlesque fever dream rooted in friendship, chaos and anime-inspired adventure. The video opens on Thunder and Mac living directly opposite each other, both simultaneously being kicked out by their respective girlfriends. Their belongings are hurled from windows, raining down into the street and hitting the pavement like discarded chewing gum. Just as the chaos peaks, an interdimensional portal tears open between the two houses. A 1964 Chevy Impala emerges. The doors swing open. Thunder and Mac get in. From there, reality fractures.Each time the duo fall into a new universe, the animation style transforms - shifting between 2D and 3D, and across distinct visual languages - while maintaining a singular artistic direction and pulsating rhythm throughout. Houses flip, streets morph into sprawling cities and worlds collide in a seamless ecosystem of evolving styles.A key creative focus was character design. Esmaili spent extensive time exploring how both Mac and Thundercat would appear across these shifting dimensions, crafting bold, badass interpretations that adapt fluidly to each animated universe.In this Blinkink production, Esmaili Esmaili collaborated with a roster of distinctive animation talents, including Joshua Clauss, Louise Bailly, Thomas Bertrand, Turçin Soylu, Lola Lefèvre, Tom Jeanbourquin and Valentin Gaubert, fusing their individual styles into one cohesive animated multiverse.Independent VFX studio Mathematic, a benchmark in both the French and international VFX landscape, were brought on board to help create the film’s dynamic transitions and technical wizardry, ensuring the rhythm pulses consistently even as the visual style mutates.Esamili says she is thrilled to have had the opportunity to make the video. “ [It's] a huge honour, as I grew up with these two artists and have admired their universe since I was a teenager," she says. "I wanted to create, within a single video, a fun animated moment by mixing styles either in 2D animation or 3D."Beyond that, I wanted to build a burlesque narrative around two friends who spend a completely crazy day together, tied to their friendship and to anime of this kind.”The result can only be described as a mixed-media odyssey that feels as unpredictable and electrifying as the artists themselves. It's also consistent with the pattern of posthumously released material by Mac Miller being accompanied by an animated video - including the promo for Balloonerism, which won Best Animation at the UK Music Video Awards last year.It turns out that Miller was a big fan of the Blink-produced cult series Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, and She Knows Too Much is a result of discussions over a long period between the Miller estate and Blinkink about a collaboration. “Working with Mac Miller and Thundercat was a truly special milestone for us in the studio," says Josef Byrne, Executive Producer at Blinkink. "The team felt deeply honoured and humbled especially to finally work with the Mac Miller estate.”

Rag’n’Bone Man sets off on a quest to find love - on his push-bike - in the charming and quirky video by directing duo Broken Antenna, collaborating with fellow director Tim Nathan.The video for Time To Love - the British soul singer's first collaboration with acclaimed producer Danger Mouse - follows a time-honoured narrative form - arguably the oldest of them all. Rag'n'Bone Man (aka Rory Graham) pursues his personal Iliad, where he enjoys a series of adventures, encountering a range of eccentric characters in the process. Rory takes his cue from a Tarot-reading mystic, before he sets off on his bike, following a path set out by hand-drawn map through the sun-kissed flatlands of Kent's Romney Marshes, where he meets hitchhikers, fire dancers and night fisherman - and may have found a friend. Throughout Rag'n'Bone Man cuts through with arguably his most relatable performance yet in a video. He's thoughtful, inquisitive, more soulful than ever. And it comes with a sense of humour that's exemplified by his humble and functional mode of transport, the bicycle. That encourages his fruitful interaction with the rest of the world. It's the second time that Broken Antenna have worked with Rory, following his featured role on Jam Baxter's Mask - a Chinese restaurant-set gross-out comedy. This is altogether gentler, an encouraging sign of what's to come from the artist, and a demonstration of the virtues of directors teaming up to pool their ideas. That's what happened here, as Myles and Gustav of Broken Antenna explain:“We enjoy the collaborative process of working with other directors, as it's always fascinating to see the way that they work and how they engage with the ideas and production in a different way," they say. "We are good mates with Tim and he brought up the idea of collaborating on this job with Rory, as we'd worked with him before and we thought that it would be really interesting. "We all came up with the ideas together on what was a really fast-moving production. We teamed up with DoP Thom Neal, through whom we know Tim and producer Josh Hillman who we worked with on our previous video for Rory. It had a proper collective spirit. [We] Supported one another and split the video into different scenes which we developed individually and brought our ideas back to the group and reworked them together."It was great to work again with Rory and his team and hopefully we will all be doing more together again soon.”

Jared Hogan explores all the way love can kill you in this cowboy epic for Kun.The video for soul ballad Deadman is a series of beautifully mounted setpieces where Kun is the victim of a fatal assault by pistol, rifle, sword or hand... but still keeps on playing some damn fine guitar.If his enemies don't get him, all the smoking surely will... "This was a special one with an incredible team," comments Jared Hogan via Instagram. "My ride-or-die sisters at @mrmrfilms. @88rising for always being down to push the envelope. @caixukun for his trust and hard work. @nycnycollas for literally everything. "@pezrosa for painting the most beautiful images amidst the chaos. @darcyjwallace for her incomparable choreography AND performance. @juicylames for bringing her exquisite taste and the old west out to Montenegro. @she_films for taking on this behemoth with us. @airserbia for losing (still lost) my fucking bags. That pharmacy down the street for keeping me alive. And again — @k_lamb_ and @marthamcguirk for believing in me and bringing this insanity to life."