Six storming individual performances are highlighted in Grajper's mesmerising series of visualisers for rock 'n' roll legends The Rolling Stones new album Foreign Tongues."For these visualisers, we were searching for the emotional space each song could live in rather than illustrating the lyrics," says Grajper."I wanted to capture people in quiet, private moments where something might have just changed in their lives, a breakup, losing a job, or simply the way they behave when no one is watching, while leaving enough room for the viewer to bring their own interpretation to each story."

David Arthur directs a wild, offbeat promo for Scottish alt-rock veterans Arab Strap. Having worked with the iconoclastic duo on Strawberry Moon a couple of years ago, the video for Glamour Magick brings the same sense of B-movie, body horror fun. It follows a beard-stroking ASMR livestreamer - played by the band's Aidan Moffatt - who dodges payment for cosmetic surgery, setting off a chain of cult-like rituals and events. Suddenly his serious cosmetic surgeon - with the band's Malcolm Middleton playing her ginger wigged assistant - turns out to have a sideline in Satanism and whilst in post-op bandages, important parts of Aidan start falling off. Its a darkly comic tale, showcasing a classic stream of consciousness rant from Moffatt on the indignity of ageing in the track, and also David Arthur's strengths in terms of storytelling and character-building, as also seen recently in his video for Songraes."I was so pleased to be asked to work with Arab Strap again - but when I heard this new track I was a bit intimidated," he reveals. "It’s so hilarious, pacy and full on lyrically, I realised the video had to be pretty wild…"The band said 'wild sounds good'. So with the concept for this I leaned into the song’s main theme of the absurd things some people do to try to delay the ageing process, with some satanism and voodoo thrown in the mix…"I still can’t quite believe the duo’s openness to being put in ridiculous situations most indie pop stars wouldn’t touch in a million years. Having done a lot of work as an editor on music videos over the years, I know how precious some bands can be and Arab Strap are unique in this way. I kept expecting Aidan to say 'I’m not sitting on a toilet' or 'I’m not crawling up those stairs,' but that never happened and Malcolm would often say: 'anything for the shot'."Producer Niamh West helped put together a team that I think took us to another level in terms of putting money on-screen. It was my first time ever working directly with a production designer. Usually that is me running around with a bag of stuff borrowed or picked up second hand, and Rhianonne Stone was amazing, every daft thing I asked for she sorted from a red light mask, to surgical tools, to a life-sized skeleton with a grey beard…"Similarly with our costume designer Holly Firkins: she jumped at the chance to make our glorious demonic Highland cow mask, and she made the costumes really pop with suggestions like red gloves for the surgical outfits and many other details that really added a lot.Brooklyn Harnish our hair and makeup also did amazing things styling Malcolm’s cheap wig, the makeup for actor Jenny Ryan and crafting a low-budget bloody eyeball for us."Working with cinematographer Darren Hercher is one of the great pleasures of me trying my hand at directing in these short form projects. He’s a filmmaker too, from a documentary background, so he’ll frequently see unscripted details like when Aidan was taking selfies on his phone whilst he had full bandages on between takes, which fitted with the character Aidan was playing. Darren will also indulge my random ideas like getting him on the surgery bed shooting upwards while our ‘surgeons’ loomed over him and lumps of fake flesh were thrown around, or rigging the camera inside a bin."The grade for this was beautifully executed by colourist Iain Pennington and he really elevated the whole thing with added texture, shaping and subtle colour work."Brilliant, inspired work and another standout video from the creative team.

Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor’s second video for The Rolling Stones turns the smouldering chemistry between Anya Taylor-Joy and Charles Melton into an intense, abstract dance routine.Barrett and Taylor - the longtime directing partnership previously known collectively as Us, now working under their own names - are back with The Stones following their 2020 video for Scarlet. That was fronted by Paul Mescal, dancing with himself in an empty hotel. Now for Jealous Lover they have created a riveting neo-noir dance piece, shot by Larkin Sieple and choreographed by Wynne Holmes and starring two more A-list actors - who are dancing against each other. In this new Stones song (from album Foreign Tongues) Mick Jagger rekindles the spirit of Some Girls-era Stones in his vocals. And in true Jagger fashion, the lyrics are basically a warning to a partner who asks too many questions. This becomes the jumping off point for the to-and-fro between Taylor-Joy and Melton, whose simmering conflict begins as they arrive at an LA motel. then explodes through the building and forecourt.It's a ferocious and passionate pas de deux - with the actors literally bouncing off each other - which then expands as Taylor-Joy 'splits' into several people, represented by four similarly blonde-haired dancers. That's the additional twist that takes the video to the next level. "We had the idea very early on," say Barrett and Taylor. "We responded pretty directly to the lyrics and to what Mick had briefed. We loved the idea of creating a very abstract dance that almost felt like a fight. There was no dialogue, just pure expression through movement."This fit with the ethos of the campaign for the new album, as Emily Jeffery, the project's creative director, explains. "The Foreign Tongues campaign has been creatively centred on the universal language of movement, music and expression. For Jealous Lover, the band were clear that dance should be at its heart, built around an incredible lead couple," she says."The challenge was then where does it go after that, how do we connect to the track. We spoke a lot about the complexities of a relationship. Capturing a universal feeling of suddenly not recognising your partner during a disagreement, the different parts of a person you love all the same. Framed through a Pina Bausch-inspired choreography…the guys totally nailed it.“Barrett and Taylor reveal that their biggest challenge was the lack of time we had with their Taylor-Joy and Melton ahead of the shoot."In a way, it helped that we weren’t creating a traditional piece of choreography," they comment. "We wanted something that felt much more instinctive and emotional. Even so, we still needed to develop the movement beforehand because we only had the two of them together for a single day."We really lucked out finding Wynn Holmes, our choreographer. Her experience and calm nature made the whole process feel effortless. We knew Anya had a background in dance, so she picked things up incredibly quickly. Charles just has this infectious enthusiasm and such a natural physicality."Honestly, the two of them were a dream team. They had such great chemistry that, on a very tight shooting schedule, they made our job a whole lot easier."Kirsten Cruickshank, director of creative production on the Jealous Lover video, adds: "The particular detail that struck me when Chris and Luke took us through their idea for the first time, that gave me that adrenaline rush of knowing 'this is it', was a line from the lyrics pulled out and placed centre page: 'You're clinging like ivy, You're choking a tree' over a motion background of movement and bodies that lucidly represented exactly what we were hoping to achieve. "The whole team at Academy were incredible. Medb, Lexi, Lola and Luke spent a bit longer away from home than they'd originally anticipated but the sense of team never waivered. Chris and Luke were an absolute dream to go on this journey with. Can't thank them enough."