Director's Representation

Leethal Reppin

LAUZZA brings PinkPantheress into his universe, and into her own fairy story&nbsp;for Close To You.In the video Pink is a girl from the time of Grimm's fairytales. She opens a big book of stories to observe a pop-up world of young love under a castle - and then creates a world beneath of playing card-inspired graphics, where Pink becomes its harlequin-dressed queen.Not surprisingly, LAUZZA's style, with its focus on the rapid development of ideas, dominated with retro 2D and 3D graphics and DIY production feel,&nbsp;is a snug fit with the mix of immediacy and subtle complexity in PinkPantheress's music. Its totally absorbing and delightful - and brief.It also represents the next step of the LAUZZA masterplan, with Pink arguably being the highest profile artist so far to have their video be released on his YouTube channel. So it could be a significant breakthrough&nbsp;in recognising the importance of&nbsp;British&nbsp;music video directors in the careers of artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Lauzza

Klevis Krasniqi

COMPULSORY

Chris Toumazou

Kiran Mandla

Kadri Mahmoud

Ella Griffith

Max Elliot

Imran Malik

Sabih Mahmood

Connor Hall

Fred Gowers

Nielsan Bohl

Selected Works

Hara Spyrou

Simon Donnellon

Milena Agbaba

Joy Adenuga

Jaz Lanyero

Sian Rowe

PinkPantheress 'Close To You' by LAUZZA

PinkPantheress - Close to you

KLVDR returns to music videos with a slick and steamy vehicle for Nigerian-American singer Davido's collab&nbsp;with R&amp;B star&nbsp;Victoria Monét.It's the first video by KLVDR since the landmark <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/09/27/stormzy-mel-made-me-do-it-klvdr/78544" target="_blank">Stormzy video for&nbsp;Mel Made Me Do It</a>&nbsp;two years ago, and the promo for Offa Me is a technical feat, as well as a suitably classy celebration of the artists and the song.Shot by US cinematographer&nbsp;Franklin Ricart, it involves layers of camera movement, including revolving camera heads and motion control shots, to reinforce the steamy Afrobeat rhythm of the&nbsp;track.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

KLVDR

Tara Sheree

Collin Druz

freenjoy

Nathan Scherrer

Kat Cattaneo

Michael Lewin

Franklin Ricart

Sean Bankhead

Evan Coniglio

Thomas Sigurdsson

John Richoux

Davido ft Victoria Monét 'Offa Me' by KLVDR

Davido - Offa Me (Official Video)

Sinclair Bryant directs a striking&nbsp;promo for Australian-British singer-songwriter and producer Charlotte Plank, diving into a world of mannequins and frozen poses.&nbsp;Leading an all-female team of HoDs - including&nbsp;Chaimuki (DoP), Naomi Feld&nbsp;(set designer), Elle Fell (stylist), Shani Mushington&nbsp;(HMU) and Sidney Williams (editor) - Bryant's video for Candy Stores is&nbsp;an editorial-style vision blurring&nbsp;the line between the artificial and the real.[imgtoken data:1]As the track builds, the magical candy store comes to life, in a surrealist twist on suburban bliss, where the bright polish of a 1950's dreamscape gives way to a darker undercurrent. With&nbsp;Plank as both performer and observer of the phenomenon, the female mannequins begin to stir.The mannequins were cleverly portrayed by a cast of real people, made possible by the work of the hair and make-up team, who crafted striking looks. It's bold work, elevated by the cast's commitment to their characters and an inspired use of styling and makeup.&nbsp;

Naomi Feld

Darcy Wallace

Micayla Myles

Morgan Faverty

Elle Fell

Sinclair Bryant

James De Winton

ZUKUNFT

Joanna Szyczewska

Massimo Filipi

Chaimuki

Amber Felix

Joe Mulvihill

Luke De Borde

Danni Baxter

Shani Mushington

Sidney Williams

Cabin Edit

Thomas Kumeling

DOMA

RCA Records

Kate Kidney-Bishop

Janina Zais

Dance

Charlotte Plank 'Candy Stores' by Sinclair Bryant

Charlotte-Plank-'Candy-Stores'-by-Sinclair-Bryant

Sophie Jones turns up the heat as Obongjayar performs toxic love song Sweet Danger, and takes turns on a mechanical bull with a range of characters who represent the sexy chaos and unpredictability of life.The scenario sees the charismatic singer sharing an abandoned hotel with a bevy of partygoers from different scenes, including greased-up female bodybuilders (very in, see the recent video for Bbyafrika).Things get sticky, sweaty and sexy, but always&nbsp;stylish, in Sophie Jones's first video at her new home Somesuch.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Sophie Jones

Rowan Mackintosh King

Somesuch

Jack Exton

Laura Drault

Georgina Fillmore

Coco Marinese

Maddy Williams

Theo Lalic

Peoplefile

Benjamin Jonsson

Julian Lalinde

Greg Probert

Paolo De Battista

Samuel Overs

Feranmi Eso

Athena Paginton

Shunsuke Meguro

Amie Harfield

Zeynep Ağcabay

Purple Martin Studio

Tim Smith

Jai Durban

Rascal Post

Obongjayar 'Sweet Danger' by Sophie Jones

Obongjayar-'Sweet-Danger'-by-Sophie-Jones

Sau Ali follows up the fiery promo for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/03/18/highlyy-im-ok-sau-ali/90405" target="_blank">I'm OK</a> with a vibrant sequel for More Parties.&nbsp;Moving to&nbsp;the back of a tour bus with her friends, some music and all of the good vibes, the video is a breezy celebration of life with a simple yet absorbing concept.&nbsp;Boasting frantic yet intimate camerawork and a cycling colour wheel of lights, it's a feel-good visual anchored by Highlyy's playful performance.&nbsp;

Sau Ali

Kemi Anna Adeeko

Chiara Mannarino

Pavilion Works

Maxim Elliot

Matt Butler

Kieran J Poynter

Walid Chaib

Tom Walder

Film SFX

Nzimah Akpan

Highlyy 'More Parties' by Sau Ali

Highlyy - More Parties

Lauzza takes South London rapper Jim Legxacy back to school in his latest retro-inspired&nbsp;greenscreen epic.For the track Father, Jim Legxacy's journey on the bus to school is the jumping-off point into a cartoonish, primary colour version of reality. It's another exercise in slick invention from Lauzza, with a trademark lo-fi sensibility.&nbsp;Bus seats become school chairs and desks in a clever transition as the action moves to the classroom before cut-out animation takes over in a consistently imaginative vehicle for Legxacy's performance.&nbsp;As with all his recent output, this is hosted on Lauzza's own YouTube channel. And there's also additional material for his growing band of admirers, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6fD1udYFPhI" target="_blank">BTS of the shoot</a> and more on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wehW6CubdTo" target="_blank">the VFX work</a>.[imgtoken data:1] &nbsp;

Sabih

Kadri Mahmoud,

Oana Gavrila

Kare Temison

Worlds End

Gumskool

Jim Legxacy 'Father' by Lauzza

Jim Legxacy - father

Highlyy gets her fiery vengeance in Sau Ali's explosive promo for I'm OK.&nbsp;We see the Afrobeats artist&nbsp;in the middle of a rural English landscape, performing by an abandoned Range Rover. Then Ali ties her past and present together, as&nbsp;memories of Highlyy's ex and his new lover taunt her as she looks through the glass of the car.Then it all kicks off. In a cathartic rage, Highlyy smashes the car up with a baseball bat,&nbsp;eventually setting the whole thing ablaze.&nbsp;With inspired cinematography and SFX work&nbsp;- using shattered glass and punched-out holes for fresh perspectives - together with the artist's strong central performance it's a captivating watch.&nbsp;

Giovanni Palmer

Highlyy 'I'm OK' by Sau Ali 

Highlyy - I'm OK

Avesta Keshtmand directs a high-energy promo for singer Mychelle.&nbsp;The video for Sweet Nothings opens with a quote: "Today I've decided to put my energy into the things that make me happy."&nbsp;This title screen is swiftly followed by the camaraderie of a women's football match, following the players from the changing rooms to the pitch, tied together by a celebratory, feel-good vibe.&nbsp;It's an inspired concept, given Mychelle also has a huge interest in football and sport, and blends the different worlds in a fresh, energising way.&nbsp;Lovely work.&nbsp;

Avesta Keshtmand

Joel Honeywell

Elsa Grace

Zoe Gunn

Kev Corry

The Assembly Rooms

Sharon Chung

Wash

Erin Corrian-Alexis

FAMM

Zee-Ayy

Abbey Valentina

Tom Chesterman

Working Studios

Joel Rosenberg

Tom Nowell

Manni Kaur

Mychelle 'Sweet Nothings' by Avesta Keshtmand 

Mychelle - Sweet Nothings

DEV directs a breezy performance promo for Fly Anakin and his collaborators Quelle Chris, $ilkmoney &amp; Big Kahuna OG.&nbsp;The video for My N***a is a sun-soaked, laidback journey into Anakin and the featured artist's everyday lives, interspersed with playful performance vignettes.&nbsp;With a few softly surreal moments and a bunch of inspired art direction - namely the hand-sprayed graffiti backdrop that accompanies the exterior performance setups - it's a fresh visual and a great&nbsp;collaboration.&nbsp;

Tashi Bhutia

Mark Gower

Nathan R. Smith

Showtime

Fly Anakin ft Quelle Chris, $ilkmoney & Big Kahuna OG 'MY N***A' by DEV

FLY ANAKIN - MY N*GGA ft. Quelle Chris, $ilkmoney & Big Kahuna OG (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

India Harris returns to direct her fourth video for Confidence Man - and this time it's a joyous spin of unfettered chaos and camp&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;Eliza Rose.The video for I HEART&nbsp;YOU follows Eliza&nbsp;and CM's Janet on a typical day in the recording studio, before switching to&nbsp;a garage where the two battle it out amongst the mud.Off-kilter angles and strobing lights bring the party vibes to the concept, which moves at light speed through vivacious vignettes.&nbsp;It's just as playful as the previous&nbsp;three video collabs between the band and India Harris - which began with <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/08/08/dj-seinfeld-ft-confidence-man-now-u-do-india-harris/82744" target="_blank">Now U Do</a> over a year ago&nbsp;-&nbsp;the&nbsp;visual is an inspired match to the upbeat track, and cements the group's ever-growing&nbsp;status in the dance-pop&nbsp;space.[imgtoken data:1]

Ellie Koslovsky

Ellie Walker

India Harris

Wojciech Czarkowski

FRIEND

Louis Danckwerts

Esteban Gimpletewicz

Natasha Duursma

Nicole Hartley

Henry Richmond

David Sluszny

Rowan Hutchings

Milo Brown

James Tilyard

Angelica Wolanska

Chrissy Hutton

Dasha Taivas

Carina Etae

Society

John Alexander Lowe

Polydor

Confidence Man ft Eliza Rose 'I HEART YOU' by India Harris

Confidence-Man-'I-<3-U'-by-India-Harris

Croydon&nbsp;rapper Pozer joins the Lauzza cinematic universe - as the central character of a London version of Grand Theft Auto.It's a great idea, brilliantly achieved in Lauzza's distinctive style combining admirable attention to detail, including ample&nbsp;self-promotion,&nbsp;with a determinedly&nbsp;lo-fi&nbsp;finish. A thoroughly enjoyable action-packed thrill ride, from the street to the heist to the payoff - followed by a trademark end-title sequence with BTS of the greenscreen shoot.&nbsp;Another quality production from the London-based director who's growing body of promos - for YT, Fimiguerro, Niko B and more -&nbsp;&nbsp;appear on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LAUZZA" target="_blank">his own YouTube channel</a>&nbsp;rather than the artists', in the fashion of&nbsp;US director Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade platform. You can only do that if you're as talented as Lauzza.[imgtoken data:1]

Flynn Studholme

Brandon Quan

Oli Phillips

Tekin Emir

Daryon Impey

Mony

Ken Psalms @ Worlds End

Pozer 'Habits' by Lauzza

Pozer - Habits

<h3>The award-winning&nbsp;French director - who has joined the roster at FRIEND - on success at the Berlinale, shooting her KUKII promo in Cairo and approaching music videos as experiments in filmmaking.</h3>A French-Chilean director based in Paris,&nbsp;Tohé Commaret has found acclaim in short films and music videos that seamlessly fuse elements of documentary and fantasy in a distinctive, signature style. With her short films 8 and Because of (U),&nbsp;Commaret blends the mundane and the hallucinatory, and raw emotion meets sensory exploration. Her work has been featured in international festivals and galleries, including the Berlinale.Towards the end of last year she brought her vision into the realm of music video, with promos for Egyptian/Iranian artist Kukii and French singer Oklou's collab with Swedish rapper Bladee.&nbsp;Her own gallery show has just opened (Feb 17th) at the&nbsp;Foundation Pernod Ricard in Paris.&nbsp; &nbsp;"We’re absolutely delighted to welcome Tohé to the FRIEND roster," says Luke Jacobs, the company's MD.&nbsp;"Her unique ability to blend the real and the fantastical aligns perfectly with the bold, innovative projects we’re passionate about."And we were delighted to find out more about Tohé, via the Snapshot Q&amp;A...&nbsp;Name: Tohé CommaretBirthday: 23/07/1992Where did you grow up? Vitry-sur-Seine, a&nbsp;suburb of ParisPlace of further education and course (if any)? Beaux-Arts Paris and Le FresnoyWhere do you live now? Paris<blockquote>We should consider music videos more as artistic objects and experiments by the artist.</blockquote>Name a film or video or other creative work that had a huge influence on your career choice? The work of David Lynch, Alice Rohrwacher, Luis Buñuel, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul is very important to me.What were the important first projects for you, in terms of a learning experience and getting noticed, or a foothold in the industry?&nbsp;I think it was when my film 8&nbsp;was taken to the Berlinale and won multiple awards.[imgtoken data:1]Above: still from Tohé's award-winning short film '8'Best film(s) you saw last year?&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6041312/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520human%2520surg" target="_blank">The Human Surge</a>, directed by&nbsp;Eduardo Williams.Favourite song/album/music artist in the past year? Trip9love - Tirzah, DJ KitFavourite music video/videos in the past year?&nbsp;Husky - Necro (World Of Flies, God Of War), directed by Ataka 51.[vidtoken data:0]What was (or usually is) your favourite night out last year? HeartBroken- Sacho at Petit BainIn terms of the music video-related jobs of the past year or so, what were the most rewarding creatively, and why?I loved doing KUKII's Rare Baby&nbsp;video in Cairo, Egypt. I discovered an incredibly rich country and culture, and the architecture made me feel like I was in a science fiction movie at every turn. The sounds and colours of this place also inspired me a lot, everything is very dense and rich.[vidtoken data:1] And then working with Oklou and Bladee [on the <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/02/14/oklou-ft-bladee-take-me-hand-toh%C3%A9-commaret/90096" target="_blank">Take Me By The Hand&nbsp;video</a>] was very easy. I’m incredibly grateful because I was given almost total creative freedom.Post-production was a huge part of the process. We were basically like teenagers, glued to our screens 24/7, eating in front of our computers to deliver everything on time and at the highest quality. The entire team - editing, color grading, VFX, and even the cinematographer - was deeply involved, which created a real sense of fusion and intensity between us. We spent a lot of time searching for the right shapes and forms."[vidtoken data:2]What are your favourite other (non-mv) projects of the past year or so?&nbsp;Organizing a collective nap and listening session with my friends.What’s the most surprising thing that’s happened last year? Kali Malone concert in a churchYour top suggestion to change and improve how the music video industry works?&nbsp;Consider music videos more as artistic objects and experiments by the artist, rather than just advertisements made quickly and without thought.What are you looking forward to for 2025?&nbsp;Making a feature film.•&nbsp;Tohé Commaret is based at FRIEND in London for UK representation; contact Lee Fairweather at Leethal Reppin for music video enquiries, and info@friendlondon.com.&nbsp;

Tohé Commaret

THE SNAPSHOT Q&A: Tohé Commaret

Хаски - Некро (Мир мух, Бог войны)

KUKII - Rare Baby (Official Video)

Oklou - take me by the hand ft. Bladee (Official Video)

Bedroom take Teddy Swims from a lonely drink at a&nbsp;bar to an otherworldly therapy session and beyond in the hugely imaginative and&nbsp;atmospheric promo for Guilty.&nbsp;Diving into personal truth of the US singer, the video follows Swims' through his subconscious, as he tries to declare his love but always having something&nbsp;that stops him.&nbsp;Spanning surrealist landscapes and liminal rooms, it's a video that hops between reality and fiction&nbsp;with stylish flair.&nbsp;Fresh, evocative and unpredictable, it's another banger from Bedroom.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]