Director

Charles De Meyer

Charles De Meyer directs the debut music video for his musical alter-ego The Chuck,&nbsp;putting him simultaneously behind and in front of the camera for the very first time.The video was shot during a recent trip to Los Angeles, where he met a bunch of&nbsp;young talent who enthusiastically came on board to help him out with this low-budget, toy-instruments performance video.Boasting an idiosyncratic style, peppered with strange props and art-direction elements, the video is a charismatic intro to the project, and a brilliant showcase of De Meyer's talents.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;“I had met Cameron Thistle – who plays the drums in the video – at one of his gigs in a bar in West Hollywood," the director explains. "I was so impressed by the band he shares with his brother Devin (aptly named the Thistle Brothers) I wanted to propose my services as a director should they need a video, but instead asked him to feature in one of mine a week later. He graciously agreed; his contribution lifted the result above and beyond my expectations! That was such a cool experience."De Mayer's output of music videos over a number of years includes acclaimed clips for the likes of Shinedown, Gojira, Amon Tobin, Raveyards, invariably incorporating&nbsp;inventive VFX. - but the video for Mind Over Matter marks a tonal swerve from his previous work.[imgtoken data:2]"The video is something quite different from what I'm usually accustomed to making, my work mostly being known for atmospheric and moody narratives, which attracted more projects in the same vibe," he confirms. "This time around I wanted to make things more light-hearted, a bit absurd, funny without it being a gag-reel."The brief I gave myself was: 50% cool, 50% ridiculous. I hope it shows! I did try to stay on brand by sprinkling just enough VFX to keep people guessing."

Carter Nowak

Las Bandas Be Brave

HK Corp

Chuck Eklectric

Leslie Yang

Justin Perez

Charlie Capp

Lorne Hiltser

David Gitlis

Ariel Lonstein

Cameron Thistle

Kasie Renee Yu

The Chuck 'Mind Over Matter' by Charles De Meyer

The-Chuck-'Mind-Over-Matter'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Charles De Meyer explores the lives of Brazil’s indigenous tribes, in his latest visual for Gojira.&nbsp;The powerful video for Amazonia features a dynamic performance&nbsp;- shot by De Meyer - interwoven with footage shot by multiple filmmakers, including&nbsp;Vincent Moon, Hauxplay, Jennifer Kumiko Hayashi, and Midia Ninja.&nbsp;Presenting an unfiltered representation of the struggles and hardships the tribes are forced to endure, the video and track are a call for unity, backed up by an initiative the band have set up.&nbsp;As Charles De Meyer explains below, as part of a larger&nbsp;fundraising campaign,&nbsp;proceeds from Amazonia&nbsp;will benefit The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), an organisation that&nbsp;advocates for the environmental and cultural rights of indigenous Amazonian tribes&nbsp;"who have suffered immensely - victims of deforestation, land loss, forced labor, violence, and harassment."

France

Joao Vinhas

Maximiliaan Dierickx

Daniel Foeldes

Xavier Dockx

Chris Brown

Roadrunner Records

Benjamin Honoré

Vincent Moon

Sven Joukes

Heavy Metal

Gojira 'Amazonia' by Charles De Meyer

Gojira-'Amazonia'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

French metal gods Gojira spend a night at&nbsp;the museum with mind-bending results, in Charles De Meyer's promo for Born For One Thing.&nbsp;The video follows a security guard who chases a shapeshifter through the winding corridors of the sprawling museum, after the character takes a weird little pill.&nbsp;The hallucinatory aesthetic bleeds into the cinematography, as DoP&nbsp;Maximiliaan Dierickx focuses on rotating camera moves and abstract transitions, building an abstract maze with no way out.&nbsp;It's an explosive return for the group, who release their first album in five years in April.&nbsp;

Octopods

Sébastien Vrydaghs

Florent Bagard

Andrea De Keyzer

Daphné Durieux

Duncan Russell

Metal

Gojira 'Born For One Thing' by Charles De Meyer

Gojira-'Born-For-One-Thing'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Electronic music legend Amon Tobin and Belgian director&nbsp;Charles De Meyer go back a long way - since the video for Esther's in 2009. And their latest collaboration, for&nbsp;Vipers Follow You, is as distinctive as their previous work.It's a&nbsp;surreal and atmospheric road-trip, by a father and his young, Rubik cube-playing son, who discover the countryside around them acquiring a strange and ominous nature. With expert pacing De Meyer creates a creeping sense of disconnect with reality, with surreal creations revealing themselves across the Flemish countryside.&nbsp;

Belgium

Patricia Motte

Hanse Cora

Alex Beyne

Antoine Gilleman

Amon Tobin

Nomark

Alternative

Electronica

Amon Tobin 'Vipers Follow You' by Charles De Meyer

Amon-Tobin-'Vipers-Follow-You'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Brutus get lost in a statuesque performance deep in the archives of a museum in the video for &#39;All Along&#39;.Belgian VFX maestro Charles De Meyer directs this clip, in which Brutus&#39; intense performance is contrasted with some surreal CGI. Shot in The Royal Museums for Arts and History of Brussels, the video sees the band play amongst towering Hellenic sculptures that morph, float, and shatter. An atmospheric and intense performance video.

Sander Vandenbroucke

Burning Reel

Soheila Sadraee

Boris Godfroid

Jannes De Leest

Ken Sody

Milo Cosemans

Sophie De Meyer

Brechje Depourcq

Walter Van Cleynenbreugel

ADULT

Rock, Indie Rock

Brutus 'All Along' by Charles De Meyer

Brutus - All Along

Last year, directly after signing to Burning Reel,&nbsp;Charles De Meyer directed his first Circa Waves video, for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/10/27/circa-waves-so-long-charles-de-meyer" target="_blank">So Long</a>. This time around, he has paired up with the Liverpudlian indie-rockers for their track&nbsp;T-Shirt Weather. The video, a&nbsp;colourful concept performance piece, executes a simple idea remarkably well.&nbsp;Shot by Jon Iles, it&nbsp;captures the nostalgic theme of the song as the band plays on a&nbsp;giant, revolving slide-carousel as&nbsp;vintage home movies are projected onto the scene.&nbsp;Revolving&nbsp;in space,&nbsp;the band gives a frenzied, high-energy&nbsp;performance,&nbsp;in and out of&nbsp;the paths of projected light, resulting in an array of fantastic, glowing silhouettes&nbsp;and prismatic broken beams.&nbsp;In keeping with Circa Waves&#39;s&nbsp;energetic&nbsp;indie-rock beat, the video&#39;s edit (by Charles himself) is welcomely&nbsp;frenetic,&nbsp;keeping the viewer engaged till the end.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Janna Bartlett

Cal Gordon

Jonathan Sidwell

Jon Iles

Tom Walden

Rik Burnell

Guy Thompson

Glassworks

Marisa Garner Associates

Ailsa Robertson

Indie, Rock

Circa Waves 'T-Shirt Weather' by Charles De Meyer

Belgian director Charles De Meyer is known for his mastery of CGI and VFX, but for his&nbsp;first video after signing to Burning Reel in the UK for Circa Waves&#39; So Long he opts for a more in-camera FX approach to capture&nbsp;the energy of the track.It&#39;s all about the different camera speeds he employs&nbsp;- which turns the band members into furious bundles of animation as they perform the song.

Jonathan Iles

Toby Tomkins

Circa Waves 'So Long' by Charles De Meyer

Circa-Waves-'So-Long'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Wim Reygaert&#39;s video for The Subs&#39; Concorde is &#39;based on a true dream&#39; and you can believe it. High-cheekboned beauty&nbsp;Stéphanie Crayencour encounters skipping gangsters,&nbsp;a girl vomiting 3D shapes, and is&nbsp;stalked by her lugubrious co-star Jean-Pierre Castaldi,&nbsp;on her way from the film set&nbsp;to her trailer. Maybe its punishment for wearing a fur?As stylish, cool and sexy as you&#39;d expect from the man who directed&nbsp;the superb&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/11/07/radio-soulwax-dave-wim-reygaert-%E2%80%93-special-screening-curzon-mayfair-november-13th" target="_blank">Bowie tribute Dave, for the Radio Soulwax project</a>.&nbsp;

Wim Reygaert

Caviar

Koen Timmerman

Yves Verstraete

Mark Pozlep

Lisa Lapauw

Geert De Wachter

Audrey Dierckx

Lynn Bernaerts

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Stéphanie Crayencour

Sofie Hoflack

Forever

The Subs 'Concorde' by Wim Reygaert

The Subs 'Concorde'

Charles De Meyer, the director and animator also occasionally known as&nbsp;Chuck Eklectric, has created a intriguing video for Swiss DJ Deetron&#39;s Rhythm - featuring&nbsp;vocals by Ben Westbeech (Breach) - which charts the crucial moments in the lives of a couple in the aftermath of a huge fight.Heartbreak threatens to become more than metaphorical - and Charles peppers the live action drama with different animations of the human heart under serious stress.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Toon Vandenbranden

Chuck Eklectric / Wrong

Pedro Cabanas

Laura Van Maaren

Wrong (be)

Tim Beuckels

Musicman Records

Dance

Deetron 'Rhythm' ft Ben Westbeech by Charles De Meyer

Deetron-''rhythm'-Featuring-Ben-Westbeech'-by-Charles-De-Meyer

Awesome visual effects work by Belgian CGI master Charles De Meyer for Raveyards' Remember, following thee passage of a businessman on a street who happens to undergoing a remarkable and painful transformation, to the general indifference of passers-by... 
"The band wanted a story and look that was creepy and dark, so I focused on conveying a mood and a feeling rather than tell a "proper" story," Charles explains. "The lyrics speak of painful memories, and what stood out for me was that notion of incessant pain that slowly builds up. We tried to do something very visceral, but without resorting to gore. I honestly am not much of a horror-film fan." 
Its the first video by Charles (aka Chuck Eklectric) since his tour de force of photorealistic CGI for Amon Tobin's Esthers a couple of years back, and he will shortly be represented by Monodot's new label, Wrong. More information on that coming soon...

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