Commissioner

Scott Wright

Under the creative direction of Jonathan Glazer, a unique and powerful document of the lives of children living in the midst of war has been created for the new War Child album HELP(2) - by handing cameras to the children themselves.Children from&nbsp;several conflict zones - Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen and Sudan - were given small cameras by local War Child representatives to record their everyday lives, and show us the world from their perspective. The results has become a very moving and thought-provoking document of the lives of these and other children living in these conditions - of which <a href="https://www.warchild.org.uk/" target="_blank">War Child</a> now estimate could be 20% of the global population of children.&nbsp;Directed by Billy Boyd Cape and edited by Thomas Grove Carter, the footage has been organised into a visual accompaniment to Olivia Rodrigo's contribution to <a href="https://warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2" target="_blank">HELP(2)</a>, her cover of The Magnetic Fields'&nbsp;The Book Of Love.<blockquote>What they did with the cameras was up to them.</blockquote>The album is a sequel to the original&nbsp;HELP&nbsp;album, recorded in support of War Child on a single day in 1995, under the auspices of Brian Eno; thirty years later,&nbsp;HELP(2)&nbsp;was&nbsp;brought to life through a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, recorded predominantly across one week in November 2025 under the stewardship of producer James Ford.As with&nbsp;the original, HELP(2) features a stellar cast of musicians. And in addition, this project is creative directed by renowned filmmaker and Academy Award winner Jonathan Glazer, working with Academy Films, overseeing the filming and art direction for the project.[imgtoken data:1]Working with his regular collaborator Mica Levi, Glazer came up with the concept&nbsp;“By Children, For Children”. And in addition to The Book Of Love video, children were invited into the&nbsp;sessions at Abbey Road Studios to film the recording of the album without restrictions.&nbsp;“We handed cameras to kids so we could see what they see - the world through their eyes," Glazer has commented.&nbsp;"We wanted to remove the adult hand and the adult world around them - the conflict, the injury and the war."What they did with the cameras was up to them, we just encouraged them to play. What we got back was the purest form of their energy, joy and truth. It gives us a chance to not only witness, but experience their innocence, joy and resilience.”<blockquote>We built complex briefs, then progressively simplified them... children filming children. No adults in sight. No conflict. Only play.&nbsp;</blockquote>Billy Bod Cape adds: "So much of our industry is about defining the final product in the first meeting. But this was one of those rare creative endeavours where none of us knew exactly what we were making until it was finished."The aim of the project was to bridge the gap between the HELP(2) album and the children War Child works to support every day. It began with Glazer having one clear idea: let’s change the perspective - from observing the children to the children showing us what they observe. Flip the idea of a charity film on its head, and remove the adult hand in the process.[imgtoken data:2]"As we followed that thread, the video evolved with each conversation. We worked closely with War Child, and then with different fixers and production companies in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and Yemen - each working under the most difficult circumstances imaginable."We built complex briefs, then progressively simplified them until we found the very core of the idea: Children filming children. No adults in sight. No conflict. Only play. A journey from home, out to a place where they can feel safe and free.[imgtoken data:3]"We began work on the project long before any of the album had been recorded, so we didn’t know which track the video would use. But upon hearing Olivia Rodrigo’s beautiful rendition of The Book of Love&nbsp;in the studio, it became clear it was the right choice for us."As we walked into the editing room, we had to begin the filmmaking process again - a new process of writing, discovery and refinement. Moving through hours and hours of footage to find the core of the childhood experience, and the connective tissue between these children’s lives that captures their innocence, purity, joy and resilience."<blockquote>It felt as though they were a single group of children.</blockquote>Editor Thomas Grove Carter adds that receiving the rushes felt like a privilege."The children filmed unguided by adults, and what they sent us was rough, precious and delicate footage," he says. "We didn’t want to force a narrative or a point of view onto the edit. Instead, we tried to observe what they had given us and do justice to their naivety and joy."Their shots were meandering, curious and playful. Watching them, it felt as though they were a single group of children, separated only by an accident of birth.&nbsp;That became the guiding idea for the edit. To find moments of connection and build the shots into a shared, childlike point of view. A camera move that begins in Ukraine and ends in Gaza. A giggle in Sudan becoming a squeal in Yemen.[imgtoken data:4]"We began to think of Olivia’s gentle song almost like a score for the film. It gave the images space to breathe, allowing the children’s rhythm to guide the pacing of the edit. Eventually building into a shared moment of playful transcendence."Billy Boyd Cape concludes that the purpose of the film is to&nbsp;reveal the reality of these childrens' lives in a way that&nbsp;engages viewers - so that they want to help.&nbsp;&nbsp;"So much footage of war makes us cover our eyes - it forces us to look away," he says.&nbsp;"The hope with this film is the opposite - that we look, and cannot look away. Finding so much to love, cherish and protect. No child should ever be part of war. Ever."

United Kingdom

Billy Boyd Cape

Jonathan Glazer

Academy Films

Medb Riordan

Steve Overs

Kishan Patel

Storytailors

Radioaktive Film

The Tribe Group

Thomas Grove Carter

Trim Editing

Noreen Khan

Polly Kemp

Dominic Phipps

Company 3

Toby Aldridge

War Child Records

Olivia Rodrigo 'The Book Of Love' by Billy Boyd Cape | 'The hope with this film is that we cannot look away.'

A startling introduction to Glasgow-based electro producer and DJ KAVARI by artist and director Game Nova.Creating a very distinctive world of transgression, the visual for Iron Veins is a darkly haunting piece, featuring the artist and fellow performers in a monochromatic montage of water, blood and cake, and&nbsp;a highly creative array&nbsp;of fetish-inspired costumes.&nbsp;Instantly rousing, the video is both enigmatic and provocative, offering a glimpse into an underground culture embracing trangressive acts through artifice and symbolism. It's unlike anything else out there - and well suited to&nbsp;the nightmarish soundscapes in the track.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;

Game Nova

Artem Litvenenko

Steklo Production

Mikhail Pashkulsky

Ekaterina Malysheva

Evgenii Chydnykh

XL Recordings

KAVARI 'Iron Veins' by Game Nova

Kavari-'Iron-Veins'-by-Game-Nova

Described by Romy as a "proudly queer love song", the track is backed by a video, which is directed by her creative and life partner Vic Lentaigne.Speaking in more detail about Love Who You Love, Romy said: "I wanted to write a song that not only celebrates and uplifts love, [but also] calls for change. The history of resilience and togetherness in the face of unbelievable challenges within the community is so powerful. Personally, finding friends, family and people I look up to and learn from through queer clubbing has made me feel so much less alone and braver in so many aspects of life."These experiences and the people I've met, continue to be so inspiring to the music I'm making, and this song intends to be a love letter of visibility and pride. No one can take the love you feel away from you – it's yours."

Marco Turcich

Simon Donnellon

Nathan Henry

Vic Lentaigne

Nycollas Abreu

MrMr

Riaz Ahmed

Beatriz Sastre

Martha McGuirk

Katie Lambert

Rose Esme Lucas

Beau Pritchard-James

Raul Menendez

Robyn Skead

Charlie Fitzjohn

Tamara Ishida

The Assembly Rooms

Simona Cristea

Coffee & TV

Young

Dance

Romy 'Love Who You Love' by Vic Lentaigne

Romy-'Love-Who-You-Love'-by-Vic-Lentaigne

Having directed the first video in the Romance album campaign for Starburster, Aube Perrie reunites with Fontaines D.C, to close it.We once again encounter the figure in the green tracksuit — a double of band frontman Grian Chatten — first seen in Starburster sneaking his way into various music video shoots. This time, he heads to a Fontaines D.C. concert to watch the band play, determined to slip into the backstage area.The video unfolds as a kind of pursuit: Aube Perrie himself is&nbsp;in the video, setting&nbsp;up an array of cameras — GoPros, handhelds, unexpected angles — like a network of surveillance designed to catch this elusive gatecrasher in the act. His intrusion turns into a filmed game of hide-and-seek, veering between fleeting appearances and a face-to-face with the singer himself.Visually, the aesthetic is deliberately grainy, evoking analogue textures and the rough edges of 1990s video formats. This raw quality, combined with the energy of the live show and glimpses of the band on tour in legendary venues, creates a hybrid form: part candid documentary, part playful fiction.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Aube Perrie

Millie O'Brien

Jake Gabbay

Elena Argiros

Louis Barron

Christina Ivanova

Gwen Ghelid

Frame 23

Jonny Thorpe

Primary

Makemake

Orlando O'Mahoney Morris

Ellie Walker

Alex Zhao

Erfan Saadati

DIVISION

Fontaines D.C. 'Desire' by Aube Perrie

Fontaines-D.c.-'Desire'-by-Aube-Perrie

Luna Carmoon completes her trilogy of videos for Fontaines D.C., ingeniously uniting the leading protagonists of the Hoard&nbsp;director's two previous videos for songs from the band's acclaimed album ROMANCE - and themed to match the album's title.'Martin' (played by Ewan Mitchell) enters the chemists for the meds to treat the wounds incurred during the brilliant <a href="https://staging.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/23/fontaines-dc-modern-world-luna-carmoon/87842" target="_blank">In The Modern World </a>video, when he sees 'Spider' (Grace Collender), working there as a sales assistant, after her witchy exploits in the mesmerizing <a href="https://staging.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/08/fontaines-dc-heres-thing-luna-carmoon/87678" target="_blank">Here's The Thing</a> promo.And it really is love at first sight for both of them.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Luna Carmoon

Chris Murdoch

ProdCo

Theo Hue Williams

Ian Pons Jewell

Zico Judge

Jaime Ackroyd

Nellie Heron-anstead

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Rock

Fontaines D.C. 'It's Amazing To Be Young' by Luna Carmoon

Fontaines DC - It's Amazing To Be Young (Official Video)

Ed Morris directs a haunting promo for&nbsp;Everything Is Recorded, featuring&nbsp;Mary In The Junkyard's Clari Freeman-Taylor.The video for Swamp Dream #3 transports viewers to a desolate, otherworldly landscape where the line between music and emotion blurs. The video follows a stoic figure - vocalist Clari Freeman-Taylor - trudging through a muddy dirt track in the middle of a vast, barren field, carrying a small 1980s television.On the TV screen, a vibrant, expressive version of Clari’s face sings, juxtaposing her impassive expression as she presses forward. Connected to a long extension cable, the TV mirrors the tension in the track as the cord stretches to its breaking point.The textural, abstract aesthetic has hints of expressionism and experimental cinema, which creates an anachronistic, pensive atmosphere. Freeman-Taylor's performance is suitably stoic, and the inclusion of two versions of her - the TV and 'real life' ones - adds an intriguing visual hook.&nbsp;Lovely work.&nbsp;

Elena Isolini

Douglas Miller

Ed Morris

Riff Raff Films

Tom Nowell

Peter Bishop

Natalie Arnett

Precious Mahaga

Franky Stone

Mike Linforth

Liam Reardom

Rebecca Luff

Work Editorial

Black Kite Studios

Richard Fearon

Jakob Thorlhallssan

Everything Is Recorded ft Mary In The Junkyard 'Swamp Dreams #3' by Ed Morris

Everything-Is-Recorded-Ft-Mary-In-The-Junkyard-'Swamp-Dreams-#3'-by-Ed-Morris

Fidel directs a fluid, retro-fired visual for British artist Jim Legxacy's sweet, garage-influenced track from his anticipated Black British Music mixtape.The video for aggressive captures Jim in everyday situations and an atmospheric performance set-up, driven by a powerful edit. There's a distinct nod to the origins of UK Garage with Jim favouring 90s football shirts, and viewed&nbsp;through the screen of the iconic Blackberry.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Amanda Jenkins

Fidel

Zion Roache

CURATED LONDON

Dylan Whatley

Steve Cameron

Alex Stanley-Ruthven

REPmedia

Mic Grant

Simon Oxley

Jordan Rowley

Max Elliot

Arthur Attenborough

Conrad Bohl

Avenues

Nielsan Bohl

Jim Legxacy 'Aggressive' by Fidel

Jim-Legxacy-'Aggressive-'-by-Fidel

As their long-awaited new album ROMANCE is released, comes another&nbsp;remarkable Fontaines D.C. video - and another tour de force by Luna Carmoon.The director who made her music video debut with&nbsp;the intense drama of <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/08/fontaines-dc-heres-thing-luna-carmoon/87678" target="_blank">Here's The Thing</a> (after her acclaimed feature debut Hoard) quickly returns to duties with the Fontaines with an extraordinary piece of work for In A Modern World: a surreal comedy-drama, featuring an incredible central performance&nbsp;from Ewan Mitchell (House of the Dragon, Saltburn) - as a character engaged in the netherworld of a very niche, indeed bizarre and&nbsp;dangerous sport.&nbsp;It's car-jitsu - jiu-jitsu, within the interior&nbsp;of a car. Invented <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1f7r0cfaXc" target="_blank">just a couple of years ago, in Chicago</a>, Mitchell's character is the protagonist through which Carmoon explores an absurd yet compelling experience. At first, its just the raw, explosive physicality involved of clashing bodies within a ridiculously small space - which is surprising and hugely intense&nbsp;in itself.Then the director adds another dimension to the&nbsp;brutal clash of bodies - what is happening outside the car, the voyeuristic relationship of passers-by who become the audience to Mitchell and a succession of combatants, a kind of sexual frisson that is created through the intensity of the action. The parallels with another in-car activity is undeniable.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;Fight Club&nbsp;crossed&nbsp;with dogging.&nbsp;Horrible, painful to watch yet hilarous, it's mesmerizing stuff, a fever dream. And it's hard to undersell how good Mitchell is in this. Or how impressive it is in terms of the vision and world creation by Carmoon. Just great.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Sofia Sacomani

Lewis Walker

Coralie Rose

Jack Hamilton

Callum Anderson

Jack Meredith

Ellen Amann Johns

Lucy James

Charles Stanley

Natasha Lawes

Joseph Taylor

Andi Chu

Electric Theatre Collective

Ewan Mitchell

Fontaines D.C. 'In The Modern World' by Luna Carmoon

Fontaines-D.c.-'In-The-Modern-World-'-by-Luna-Carmoon

Filmmaker Luna Carmoon, the director of well-received feature debut Hoard, now&nbsp;unveils her debut music video for Fontaines D.C. - where she brings a modern twist to cult classics The Craft and The Lost Boys.In the Here's The Thing video, Grace Collender plays a girl ostracized by her peers during a community dance competition. After a humiliating fall on stage, she finds herself entangled with a group of outsider girls who begin to infiltrate her life and dreams. The narrative unfolds with elements of supernatural intrigue, as these enigmatic girls lead our protagonist into a world of chaos and rebellion.With rich cinematography from Antoine Cormier, Carmoon creates an unsettling, gripping atmosphere. The haunting, smog-filled settings evoke the suspense of 80s Giallo films, while the characters’ distinctive, alt-inspired wardrobes draw from grunge and goth aesthetics. And the&nbsp;influence of films like The Craft and The Lost Boys is evident in the way Carmoon portrays the bond between the outsider girls, with the lead character’s transformation from outcast to a powerful, defiant force driving the story forward.It all leads to an explosive climax, dovetailing with another banging Fontaines track from their forthcoming album Romance.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Antoine Cormier

Oscar Stewart

John Lowe

Hermes Contreras

Echo Seireeni

Max Cookward

Road Casting

Grace Collender

Fontaines D.C. 'Here's The Thing' by Luna Carmoon

Fontaines D.C. - Here's The Thing (Official Video)

Alice Kunisué&nbsp;directs a wonderfully eccentric promo for Peggy Gou.&nbsp;The video for Lobster Telephone is the director's first promo with ProdCo, having recently signed with them for representation in the US and UK, and Kunisué's vision for the visual brings an otherworldly, playful vibe to complement the track.&nbsp;Opening with six guys magically popping out of the water, they awkwardly dance to the beat before spotting Peggy and becoming instantly mesmerised.&nbsp;From there, it's a trippy fever dream with lobster claw accessories, vibrant bouncy balls and a heavy dose of contemporary surrealism.&nbsp;“I think anyone who meets Peggy feels instantly charmed and entertained by her wit and humor," comments&nbsp; Kunisué.&nbsp;"It just came very naturally to bring that playful aura into a story.”

Teresa Montanuy

Carolina Galiana

Alice Kunisué

Blanca Cividanes

Javi Vázquez

Guiseppe Favale

Verónica Palés

Marc A. Martinez

Lucas Cuevas

Alberto Ojeda

Dani De Juan

Adrian Rodriguez

Andrea Campillo

Elena Marín

Hyungsun Ju

Patrick Glatthaar

Pepa Perea

Dylan Edwards

Mykyta Bereg

Cabin Edit

Church

Disguys

Peggy Gou 'Lobster Telephone' by Alice Kunisué 

Peggy-Gou-'Lobster-Telephone'-by-Alice-Kunisué-

Fontaines D.C.'s self-directed video for Favourite interweaves&nbsp;home video archive of the five band members with lo-fi footage of their recent trip to Madrid to brilliant effect.Madrid is&nbsp;a city that the band have multiple personal connections to, as the place guitarist Carlos O’Connell was born and grew up in and the city the band used as a base for their first ever tour. But the recent footage of the band in the Spanish capital&nbsp;works as a support to even more personal content - home video footage of each of the band&nbsp;at different stages of childhood.&nbsp;It's an impressive document of the group showing their affection for each other, in their own unsentimental&nbsp;fashion.[imgtoken data:1]"We worked with Gwen Ghelid, who edited the Starburster video, and did an incredible job again editing this video for us too - he nailed it first time," says Scott Wright, head of creative at XL Recordings. "The video captures something special about the band’s friendship, and their wider relationships with family, those here and departed. It’s joyful, celebratory, and enhances those qualities in the song."Fontaines D.C's Connor Deegan, who co-produced the video with Wright, adds: “This video is a reminiscing of the past; of each other’s childhoods we didn’t know. We explore where we came from, and who on some level, still are. I see a lot of familiar faces being pulled, and the antics these lads are undertaking in their videos are so disarming and vulnerable to see. I am at times reminded of boyish mannerisms that they’ve grown out of in the time I’ve known them - and some that they haven’t."I feel their souls there. I would like this video to serve as a way of honouring our friendships, and moving from that, the relationships we hold dear. Our mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers. Those who we still have, and those we have sadly lost. We haven’t lost that connection to each other, and are not afraid to come of age again, holding on to romance in a sometimes trying world.”&nbsp;

Ireland

Oliver Whitworth

Fontaines D.c.

Conor Deegan

Mons

Collectiv Paris

Indie

Fontaines D.C. 'Favourite' by Fontaines D.C.

Fontaines D.C. - Favourite (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;