Directing duo Pantera - that's Pato Martinez and Francisco Canton - have directed a series of wonderfully zany mini-films to tease French musician Jacques' new album Ordinary Victories. The nine-minute epic introduces us to the artist - and his distinctive hairstyle - as his head opens up to reveal a smorsgabord of weird and wonderful influences.Pantera and Jacques have released the project in chapter form, which serve up individual moments from the album within a surreal drama, and that also serves the wonderfully absurdist quality of their collaboration. We follow Jacques through Parisian streets, a journey exporing the inside of his trouser pocket and into a shallow grave - and that's just scratching the surface... Whimsical, delirious and eccentric, this is a brilliantly-made piece of work by Pantera - produced by the team at SOLAB in Paris - and a very promising introduction to the artist and his unique aesthetic.

David M. Helman directs a superb study of interconnected lives for American Football's cover of Mazzy Star's classic Fade Into You. Focused on a series of captivating vignettes, the video for Fade Into You captures transitionary moments in seemingly random characters' lives. But then the scenes reveal themselves to be like beads on a chain: a background character in a scene moves centre stage into the next one, then passing the baton onto the next character.Helman's method - each scene is a beautifully-shot portrait, with a slow zoom moving closer to the characters - is a wonderful device to create a sense of a narrative, but also hint at something rather more profound. Reality and a touch of surreality sit side-by-side, mirroring the serendipitous nature of life and who we meet on our journeys. This is terrific work, that lingers long after watching - the sign of a very good video indeed.

Dave Meyers directs a high-concept fairytale fantasy for Megan Thee Stallion's team-up Dua Lipa.Based on a concept by Megan Thee Stallion, the video follows two men as they wander into an otherworldly forest, before encountering the artists as you've never seen them before. Dark, sultry and enigmatic, the pair are introduced in the throws of a chaotic abode, which has gyrating legs for doors and a neverending spiral of spiky teeth lining the walls inside. The video only gets more absurd and visually complex from there, and the sheer scale of the concept - and the staggering amount of VFX work - pays off in an explosion of glossy set pieces and first class performances. It's jawdropping work - but that is what we have come to expect from the remarkable Dave Meyers and the brilliant team around him.

Francis Wallis directs a playful performance promo for Kawala, featuring the group in a perpetually expanding universe of parallel rooms and scenarios.The video boasts a fun, conceptual aesthetic which more than lives up to the name of the track, inspired by the Droste effect. It's put to excellent use here, with a contemporary, slick twist, which feels suited to the cinematic world built within the video. With a trippy edit and brilliant performances all-round, the concept has the right balance of effects and live-action, and feels really fresh. "The lyrical content immediately made me think of the Droste-style effect, which is basically the effect of a picture recursively appearing within itself," explains Wallis. "Creating this visual landscape for our chorus meant that we could repeat our scenes rhythmically, bringing a hypnotic sense of repetitiveness within our variations that felt perfectly suited to this track."Most importantly this felt like a great way to highlight that sense of disorientation and at times claustrophobia that often comes when relationships are on the rocks or at the end of their course in the way that Jim sings about."

Jay Green returns with a mind-bending promo for rising underground star Fly Anakin. The hypnotic performance video for Class Clown features swirling cameras, vibrant lights and otherworldly effects, following the artist as he drives around the city with a small crew late at night. The trippy aesthetic perfectly suits the innovative soundscapes in the track, and Anakin's potent delivery ties together the menagerie of conceptual imagery on-screen. Breathtaking work.

Balan Evans directs an impressive promo for Irish rock band Just Mustard's Still. Shot entirely in-camera without any visual effects, the video focuses on a close-up eyeball which reflects a series of abstract projections and patterns, and Just Mustard's lead singer Katie Ball. Haunting, unsettling and impossible to turn away from, Evans's video is smart and beautifully executed, creating an enigmatic atmosphere that is utterly absorbing.

Silence directs a wonderfully offbeat promo for Priya Ragu. In the playful yet surreal video for Illuminous, Priya is depicted as four different characters, each of whom abstractly represent Priya's personality, strength, humour and confidence.The film depicts the artist as a champion in a flurry of conceptual vignettes - a leader addressing her army, a success-obsessed bodybuilder, a warrior on her motor war horse, and a regal goddess supported by her Tamil procession.It's a brilliant showcase of Ragu's multifaceted skills as a performer, and the sight of her head on a greased-up bodybuilder's torso might just be the most uncanny thing you see all week...

Bailey Tom Bailey explores an obscure underground gambling ring in his promo for Folly Group. The video for I Raise You (The Price Of Your Head) starts normally enough - with a simple performance in a gloomy garage - but when two of the band members decapitate the other pair, things start to go South.The two heads are pitted against each other, forced bite and fight their way out of the situation, until the tables are turned. With a deadpan vibe and hilarious performances, the video is an amusing yet absurd way to spend four minutes - and the music is pretty damn good too.