Producer

MrMr

Katie Lambert directs a delightful romantic fantasy for the return of electro-pop artist Shura.&nbsp;In the video for World's Worst Girlfriend, Shura is at home in her pjs,&nbsp;playing Warhammer and very much in her own world. She's not paying much attention to her long-suffering girlfriend - but she dreams of doing much better.Lambert sends Shura out&nbsp;of her everyday domestic setting, into her dreamscape: a Warhammer-inspired world where&nbsp;she is a somewhat hapless medieval knight,&nbsp;battling through the forest all in the name of saving her fair lady.[imgtoken data:1]It's a great device that works wonderfully&nbsp;well due the production values that makes the blue-tinged knight's world as convincing as the modern world - the budget is clearly all on the screen. And it also works due to Shura's excellent performance of her role as a very imperfect partner-cum-determined heroic figure.&nbsp;Really nice work from an all-female team, led by Lambert who is now really finding her feet as a director. She unapologetically&nbsp;embraces a proper feelgood ending, a Happy Ever After - which&nbsp;makes you want to watch it again.

United Kingdom

Esme Gartside

Taise Kerr

Dan Kreeger

Isabelle Cooke

Katie Lambert

Callum Anderson

Hands 

Charlie Relph

Charlotte Croft

Martha McGuirk

Lou Macnamara

Rebecca Richards

Esther Collins

Anya Mcdevitt

Eden Read

Assembly Rooms

Daniela Rotaru

Time Based Arts

Melina Grace Bryant

Electro-pop

Alt-Pop

Shura 'World's Worst Girlfriend' by Katie Lambert

Shura-'World's-Worst-Girlfriend'-by-Katie-Lambert

Rich Brian lives life in isolation, in the promo for Little Ray Of Light - the first in Jared Hogan's series&nbsp;for songs from the Indonesian rapper's new album Where Is My Head?Under the watchful eye of CCTV cameras, we open in a world that looks much like ours, whilst Brian spins on a roundabout.&nbsp;Pulling out, we notice the artificial boundaries enveloping this space, the naturalistic elements clashing with artificial intention. This is a The Truman Show situation.With a gritty, dystopian aesthetic and an otherworldly feel throughout, the pensive concept is elevated by lingering, mysterious camerawork and an uncanny vibe.

Indonesia

Por Pongsan Thawatwichian

Jo Phuwanet Phumithawon

Jared Hogan

Isaac Bauman

Rosie Brear

Cherdpong Laoyont

Tae Suzuki

Cole Borgstadt

Dante Pasquinelli

Ethos Studio

Denis Reva

Indochina Productions

Hip Hop

Rich Brian 'Little Ray Of Light' by Jared Hogan

Rich-Brian--'Little-Ray-Of-Light'-by-Jared-Hogan

Jared Hogan directs an enigmatic album trailer for Rich Brian's third album Where Is My Head?, giving viewers an insight into what is to come from the whole video campaign.&nbsp;Shot in&nbsp;Bangkok, in close collaboration with Indochina Productions, the video world is a dark Truman Show-esque compound, where Maestro Brian overlooks his empire.&nbsp;A marriage of digital and organic vignettes set the scene for the visual, with glimpses of a haunting, dystopian underworld contrasted by dreamy, lingering narrative.&nbsp;It's a&nbsp;beautiful, evocative vision and a captivating look at what lies ahead.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Lark

88 Rising

Rich Brian 'Where Is My Head?' (album trailer) by Jared Hogan

Rich-Brian--'Album-Trailer'-by-Jared-Hogan

Bobby Gillespie walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick's Droogs in Douglas Hart's video for Primal Scream.The video for The Centre Cannot Hold sees Gillespie strolling&nbsp;through the concrete walkways of the Thamesmead Estate, location for some iconic scenes in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, clad&nbsp;in distinctive black cape and hat.LIke the location, Gillespie is unmistakeable - and appears to have&nbsp;wandered into the place from another late 60s or early 70s Brit movie - Witchfinder General perhaps. It's a very effective combination and the result from Hart - not only a&nbsp;longtime collaborator of Gillespie, but also an original member of Primal Scream - is stylishly cinematic.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Douglas Hart

Juliette Larthe

Pure Phase

Jos Bitelli

Hollie Mapp

Jamie Cobb

Lydia Simpson

Laura Dominique

Gully

Luis Reggiardo

Primal Scream 'The Centre Cannot Hold' by Douglas Hart

Primal Scream - The Centre Cannot Hold (Official Video)

Romy teams up with acclaimed&nbsp;Aftersun director Charlotte Wells for the video for Always Forever, the singer's interpolation of Donna Lewis's Nineties hit I Love You Always Forever, produced by Fred Again.Two dancers in a darkened room are revealed to be in a mirrored space, intercut with Romy's performance in the same space, in&nbsp;Wells's music video debut, which also pays homage to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqdWTeXWvOg" target="_blank">the video for Lewis's original</a>.&nbsp;For the full story about the making of the video, read <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/62718/1/the-story-behind-romy-s-new-video-always-forever-charlotte-wells-director" target="_blank">Laura Malloy's feature for DAZED</a>, where Wells reveals she was also inspired by watching Texas videos from the 1990s ("I spent a week watching music videos from 1996 and 1997 which is really an assured way to put anybody in an excellent mood," says Wells). And Romy responded to the calm assurance of Sharleen Spiteri in those videos for her own performance.&nbsp;

Charlotte Wells

Adele Romanski

Clive Olamiju

Young

Scott Wright

PASTEL

Celia Rowlson-Hall

Emma Portner

Caetlyn Watson

Gregory Oke

Arthur De Borman

Eve Ashwell

Jo Barker

Simon Donnellon

Ina Luders

Vlassis Skosis

Alex Hudson

Noah Furrer

Charlie Fitzjohn

Digital Orchard

Dance

Romy 'Always Forever' by Charlotte Wells

Romy – Always Forever (Official Music Video)

A woman in a pink stretch limo, living her best life...Juno Calypso's video for the brilliant Beth Gibbons is deeply enigmatic, with serious David Lynch vibes.

Juno Calypso

John Moule

Dasha Deriagina

Ailsa Aikoa

Alternative

Beth Gibbons 'Lost Changes' by Juno Calypso

Beth Gibbons - Lost Changes (Official Video)

Oscar-nominated director Colm Bairéad directs an evocative promo for PJ Harvey, featuring acclaimed actor Ruth Wilson.&nbsp;The video for Seem An I features Wilson, running across a rural field&nbsp;in slow motion. A simple but strong&nbsp;idea, from the director of Irish language drama&nbsp;The Quiet Girl,&nbsp;nominated for Best Film in a Foreign Language at&nbsp;the Academy Awards in 2023, that is invested with mystery and drama by the presence of Wilson.And while the reasons for her flight&nbsp;are left to the viewer's imagination, the urgency and camerawork complements the power in Harvey's music, and builds to a powerful cliffhanger ending. Breathtaking work.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Lane Casting

Gus Sharpe

Colm Bairéad

Ella Woolgar

Kate Mccullough

Freddie Wright

Sara Faulkner

Homespun

Ruth Wilson

Partisan Records

PJ Harvey 'Seem An I' by Colm Bairéad

Pj-Harvey--'Seem-An-I-'-by-Colm-Bairéad

Vic Lentaigne combines&nbsp;a supercool nightclub scenario with heartwarming romance starring Maisie Williams, for Romy's fabulous She's On My Mind.&nbsp;The video begins with Romy performing the track among the throng on a crowded dancefloor, as a group of partygoers enter the club - and then flashes back in time to the build-up to this big night out, and how Maisie's character falls for another girl in the group, and their tentative moves to connect.&nbsp;It all builds to a moment and big emotional rush as the pair finally get together on the dancefloor. Vic Lentaigne, Romy's wife and creative director, weaves a sweet&nbsp;and believable falling-in-love narrative into a neon-hued disco aesthetic with a super-hip&nbsp;cast of clubbers.Great work from all the cast, as well as Maisie Williams - and that&nbsp;means that all Romy does is perform this absolute banger of a track.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Vic Lentaigne

Nycollas Abreu

Rose Lucas

Beatriz Sastre

Abi Hurcomb

Matty Mancy

Tamara Ishida

The Assembly Rooms

Myles Bevan

Studio RM

Catharina Scarpellini

Beau Pritchard James

Romy 'She's On My Mind' by Vic Lentaigne

Romy - She's On My Mind (Official Video)

Katie Lambert captures Georgia on a night out, and caught in 'WhatsApp Hell' in her vibrant video for&nbsp;Some Things You'll Never Know.&nbsp;&nbsp;Georgia is driving around London, hanging out&nbsp;with friends whilst&nbsp;being sucked into a WhatsApp conversation with some guy who is sending mixed messages. The messages are then added to the fabric of Georgia's world, with text encroaching upon&nbsp;on the road, on her car&nbsp;and in different locations across the video.It's cool and conceptual, but it's also&nbsp;about the emotion of Georgia's performance. And the video - DoP'd by director Douglas Bernardt - just looks great.[imgtoken data:1]

Martha Howe

Oliver Whitworth

Frankie Noller

Douglas Bernardt

Joshua Jacobs

Matteo Zenini

Bean Harvey Williams

Jamie Oliver Lai

Ciaran Turner

Andi Chu

Electric Theatre Collective

Mikko Ruostila

Domino Records

Georgia 'Some Things You'll Never Know' by Katie Lambert

Georgia-'Some-Things-You'll-Never-Know.-'-by-Katie-Lambert

Rosie Brear orchestrates&nbsp;a madcap road trip&nbsp;for&nbsp;new 'supergroup' FIZZ.Teaming up with bandmembers&nbsp;Orla Gartland, Greta Isaac, Dodie and Martin Luke Brown, Brear&nbsp;lays the foundations to the wacky world of FIZZ, taking the band down a surreal rabbit hole on a wild road trip to find Fizzville, in the High In Brighton promo.It's an eclectic, colourful trip with tentacle hands, monster feet and a random roadside café, and it's impossible not to fall in love with everything about it.&nbsp;And it looks like this is merely a taster of what's to come, and if future visuals are anything like this, it's going to be a rip-roaring good time.&nbsp;

Matty Mancey Jones

Pierre B

Ella Marafini

Olivia Jessop

Mia Maxwell

Frankie Willcock

Tom Thain

Rik Burnell

James Duddy

Wolf Wasserman

Nicolas Di Matteo

Guiseppe Stelitano

Georgia Hope

Maud Barry

Final Cut

Decca Records / Universal Music Group

Bedroom Pop

Supergroup

FIZZ 'High In Brighton' by Rosie Brear

Fizz-'High-In-Brighton'-by-Rosie-Brear

Pip Blom stalks the object of her affection - fairground worker&nbsp;Alex Kapranos, taking a break from&nbsp;Franz Ferdinand frontman duties - in MrMr's charming video for the Dutch indie quartet who share the name of their lead singer.Or is she? Things take a turn when someone else enters the fairground scenario and then a trip to the dodgems leads to a fortuitous collision...[imgtoken data:1]"This video encapsulated all of our favourite things. Rides, unrequited love and the flexibility of gender. If I had a pound for every man I’ve stalked around a fun fair I’d have maybe two, maybe three pounds," says MrMr's Katie Lambert on Instagram."[Pip Blom] really brought it performance wise on this video in less than ideal conditions and so a mega well done to her and also a huge thank you to dreamboat&nbsp;[Alex Kapranos]. Thank you to the small but mighty team on this."

Len Blanco

Olivia Awuor

Adam Barnett

Sunjna Mullick

Joel Rosenberg

Patrycja Cygan

Chris Wilson

Felipe Szulc

Nomad Editing Company

Indie Rock

Indie

Pip Blom ft Alex Kapranos 'Is This Love?' by MrMr 

Pip-Blom-Ft.-Alex-Kapranos-'Is-This-Love?-'-by-Mrmr-

Lava La Rue self-directs the video for new track Renegade, channeling iconic Japanese kids Tv in an actual model village.Inspired by 70's Ultraman Taro episodes, Lava premieres their new alter-ego Starface, in an action packed battle between two giant creatures.Equal parts Power Rangers, Star Trek and sleepy English village, the video boasts&nbsp;a mish-mash of otherworldly vignettes, excellently blended together with a stylish sense of whimsy.&nbsp;The hypnotic, psychedelic backdrops and exquisite art direction are the cherry on top of a fresh, exciting concept, and an excellent introduction to Lava's new character.&nbsp;

Troy Smith

Charlie Morris

Lavaland

Rae Lemeshow

Piero Cioffi

Ella Woollgar

Josh Jacob

Joel Spence

Dorothy Iskrzynska

Clump Collective

Jenny Simmons

Jenny Glynn

Alex Gregory

No.8

Greedy Goons

Stephanie Burrell

Josh "stolen Nova" Landau

Eddie Lopes

Luca Caruso

Aaron Baksh

Dirty Hit

Lava La Rue 'Renegade' by Lavaland

Lava-La-Rue-'Renegade-'-by-Lavaland

Elsa is stuck in an unhealthy relationship from which she longs to escape, in Leo T Buckley's heartwrenching promo for As You Please.&nbsp;At the height of an explosive argument, time stops and the artist takes her chance, running through pedestrians, cars and cyclists all frozen in time - only to end up exactly where she started.This vicious,&nbsp;Groundhog Day-style cycle&nbsp;plays out twice before she finally finds solace.With a gentle touch and evocative, poignant narrative elements, Buckley has created a painfully relatable promo that offers an optimistic glimmer of hope at the end.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Talent Talks

Lisa Fox

Elsa 'As You Please' by Leo T Buckley