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The sixth and final instalment of our Videos Of The Year for 2024 includes more from Fontaines D.C., James Blake and Charli XCX - all previously featured in the list this year - plus Sabrina Carpenter, A$AP Rocky and Tierra Whack.
Taken from hundreds of videos featured on Promonews in the past 12 months, we have organised the full Videos Of The Year list in alphabetical order by song title (here it's S through to Z).
And as before, this last batch includes work includes links to the original stories about the videos in Promonews, and to the profile pages of the directors and featured site sponsors.
The video itself is remarkable, founded in gritty cinematic realism but operating on a different level - Irish magic realism? Then it turns out the video has achieved something that is arguably unique, infiltrating other videos (by Aube Perrie and others). Crazily good.
Fashion photographer and director Charlotte Wales creates a Hell of a London high street for French singer Crystal Murray's sashay in a well-aimed swipe at smallmindedness and herd mentality in modern Britain - and a nod to a 90s classic.
It took a long time for its release - it was shot in Kyiv before the War in Ukraine began in early 2022 - but it was worth the wait for this surreal masterpiece.
Channeling the iconic Robert Zemeckis film Death Becomes Her, Dave Meyers directs a eye-poppingly gory - yet still sweet and quite short - video for Taste, with Wednesday star Jenna Ortega perfectly cast as Sabrina's nemesis.
James Blake's surprising gift for comedy is given full rein in The Reids' video that begins as biting satire on current music biz obsessions before the hapless Blake embarks on a full pelt action comedy - with surreal touches.
The video has a great simple idea at its heart, providing a 'wow' moment during an intimate performance. It just had to be executed perfectly and Jake Erland and Olivia Dean did exactly that.
Tierra is transformed into a giant inflatable floating above her hometown of Philadelphia - recreated in impressively realistic 3D animation - before coming to a brutal demise. Delightful and horrifying in equal measure.
Taken from a live session that appears to have taken place in the middle of an animation, Humby's latest Molten Jets project is an ambitious marriage of technology, creativity and performance, resulting in one of the most original live videos of the year.
TORSO place Charli in a space that works really well for her: fast-moving action, treading a line between glamour and outrage, humour and danger, as she tussles with her POV fan-cum-assailant through Charles De Gaulle airport.
Broken Antenna reunited with the redoubtable Baker and Ezra Collective's Armon-Jones to make not just a promo for their reggae-flavoured collab but an informative short doc about gentrification in London's East End.
Thrilling car action and stunts meets social documentary in the Kurdistan region of Iraq for BIJI - the musical project of Kurdish/Swedish artist/actor Robin Naziri and director/music producer Frost which uses hiphop and other traditions to highlight the Kurdish situation.
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