Head of Music Videos & Special Projects at Prettybird UK 

Producer

Chris Murdoch

Elliott Gonzo and Justin Du Pre co-direct an eerie dystopian promo for&nbsp;Vintage Culture &amp;&nbsp;MAGNUS.The video for Nothing Ever Changes explores a futuristic universe dominated by AI,&nbsp;predicting a Brave New World of human-tech hybrids.Infused with haunting representations of the world we live in, mixed with liquid 3D textures and uncanny transformations, the video is an enigmatic fusing of technology and society. Ending on a mysterious note, it's a powerful visual that really packs a punch.“In my latest project, I explore a dystopian future where young adults are ensnared by a world increasingly dominated by technology, their city transforming into liquid metal - a potent symbol for AI's unchecked proliferation, akin to opening Pandora's box," explains Gonzo.&nbsp;"The story culminates as each character is inexorably coated in liquid silver, illustrating the inevitable assimilation with the technology they sought to escape."This piece was made with extensive CGI work and no AI was involved in the filmmaking process. Massive love to the incredible team for pulling this one out of the bag!”[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Elliott Gonzo

Justin Du Pre

Mouthpiece

Prettybird

Myles Bevan

Studio RM

John Hassay

Vintage Culture, MAGNUS 'Nothing Ever Changes' by Elliott Gonzo & Justin Du Pre 

Vintage Culture, MAGNUS - Nothing Ever Changes (Official Music Video)

Charlotte Plank and her crew bring the rave with them on a night out in Ben Cole's video for the BRIT-nominee and UK breakthrough dance artist.The frenetic video for Rage - one of Charlotte Plank’s most-anticipated records prior to its release - matches the song’s fast-paced high energy.“When writing Rage, I was heavily inspired by sounds from Pendulum and The Prodigy," Charlotte Plank has explained.&nbsp;"I wanted the hypnotic, almost nursery rhyme-like vocal melody to captivate and hit the itch inside your brain. In that moment when you’re coming up in a rave and everything’s melting away around you, a certain song or sound almost steadies you, pulling you back in, injecting you with energy, riling you up to go for the rest of the night.”Director Ben Cole shot in some eclectic locations across London, capturing an authentic sense of the city’s frenetic nightlife - and it features an unexpected narrative twist at its finale.“This film is a little nod to the endless overlapping stories found on a London night out, and that communal hunt for the rave," says Cole. "There is spontaneity to it all. Thank you to my local kebab shop for letting 50 kids rave to drum and base!”

Aliou J

Lucy-isobel Bonner

Ben Cole

Lottie Lindsay-Beavan

Lea Ogunlami

Mat Nolan

Sam E. H. Hooper

Jen Sims

Orlando O’mahoney

Natalie Brown

Rebecca Knox

Sam Hardy

Nielsen Bohl

Jake Evans

DOMA

Black Butter

Zooey Gleaves

Lee Sharrock

Juliette Larthe

Fiona Bamford-Phillips

Shani Mushington

Afsha Kabani

Myuji Sato

Charlotte Plank 'Rage' by Ben Cole 

Charlotte Plank - Rage (Official Video)

Elliott Gonzo directs an atmospheric promo for North London rapper Korby.The video for Feel My Face presents a montage of introspective vignettes, using everyday locations as a platform for hazy, dreamlike performance shots.&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Charlie Knight leans into a naturalistic aesthetic with the cinematography, which feels&nbsp;both intimate and elevated at once.&nbsp;Anchored by Korby's confident yet understated performance style, the video is a dazzling introduction to the artist, who no doubt has big things coming his way.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Scarlett Anderson

Spoon Studios

Jonny Boomer

Charlie Knight

Sarah Dines

Alasdair Baines

Ernst

Lewis Jones

Korby 'Feel My Face' by Elliott Gonzo

Korby-'Feel-My-Face'-by-Elliot-Gonzo

Jim Longden directs his first music video since signing to Prettybird UK for&nbsp;Jaxxon D Silva,&nbsp;featuring the artist playing&nbsp;an imprisoned character in a brick-lined cell, talking to his alter ego, and then assuming numerous more intriguing personalities.Surreal and eccentric in its concept, the visual for Crack In The Mask features a frantic blend of hypnotic characters&nbsp;and vignettes, in a&nbsp;clash of music video and horror film aesthetics.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;"This was my second time directing Jaxxon on screen," explains Longden. "Similar to the first time last year in Don't Look At Me, it was a bizarre, peculiar and outlandish experience. But we managed to get it done due to the two of us being strict, quick and having rehearsed and argued our thoughts for a few days before the shoot."Having the test of creating a film or video in just one room is a test I had always wanted to face. I am pleased with the outcome, and my respect for filmmakers like Sidney Lumet, which has already very high, has grown even more."

Sofia Sacomani

Jim Longden

Bobby Goulding

Jack Exton

Samuel Barnham

Jonny Lewis

Michael Mroczek

Jasper Levine

Matt Turner

Cleopatra Records

Absolute Post

Jaxxon D Silva 'Crack In The Mask' by Jim Longden

Jaxxon D. Silva - Crack in the Mask (Official Music Video)

Elliott Gonzo directs an cinematic promo for Tom Walker, where a young man discovers&nbsp;a burning easel in the middle of the forest.&nbsp;The video for Burn sees the character - played by Joshua James Smith - overcome with emotion as he watches the mysterious painting on the easel engulfed in flame.&nbsp;Then, foreshadowing the events to come, he is struck by lightning, before the entire forest starts to burn around him.&nbsp;Interspersed with high-energy performance sections, the video burns brightly across its&nbsp;two and a half minute runtime, before building to a fiery climax.&nbsp;With an earthy colour palette and frenetic cinematography, the video is beautiful to look at, and the balance of abstract narrative and performance checks all the boxes.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

Johnny Savage

Charlie Morris

Kat Cattaneo

Conrad Reid

JP Garcia

Sam Barnham

Sebastian Joly

Deniz Yildiz

Rory Thomas

Alex Gregory

No.8

Jakob Thorshallsson

Joshua James Smith

Sony Music

Indie

Tom Walker 'Burn' by Elliott Gonzo

Tom-Walker-'Burn'-by-Elliott-Gonzo

Paloma Faith ushers in a brand new era in Theo Adams' explosive promo for How You Leave A Man.&nbsp;Shot in Warsaw, the video depicts&nbsp;Paloma as an enigmatic screen siren,&nbsp;cruising through a nocturnal city-scape, in a beautifully lit, cinematic portrayal of empowerment.Building to a strobe-lit, frenetic climax, the video is a perfect showcase for Paloma Faith's talent as a performer and actress - and proves she isn't afraid to push the boundaries and reinvent herself on her own terms.[imgtoken data:1]“Directing Paloma's first video in three years has been an absolute joy," says Theo Adams. "I've known Paloma since I was 16, when we were both performing in back rooms of East London clubs in ludicrous regalia and buckets of fake blood. I want to thank her for putting her trust in me now all these years later and delivering the raw, cathartic, and explosively powerful performance this video needed - just as she did all those years ago."I put Paloma and the entire crew through some Herculean conditions, filming in the rain, thunder, lightning, and freezing temperatures while speeding down Warsaw's city streets in the middle of the night for hours on end. But we all had the best time!”&nbsp;

Jurek “johnny” Włodarczak

Harriet Cawley

Cassidy Conway

Theo Adams

Paweł Chiczewski

Minka Farthing-kohl

Robert Sarek

Michał Guga

Tomasz Sternik

Piotr Podsiadło

Kacper Tereba

Zuzanna Markiewicz

Dave Davis

Marsheen

Joseph Bicknell

Company 3

Lucky Luciano Pictures

Max Colt

Marcin Nowak

Airy

Guy Common

Louis Byrne

Theo TJ Lowe

Mark Hellaby @ 750mph

Paloma Faith  'How You Leave A Man' by Theo Adams

Paloma-Faith--'How-You-Leave-A-Man'-by-Theo-Adams

PinkPantheress heads out on a Mayfair shopping expedition with some best pals in Sophie Muller's video for Mosquito - the follow-up to global smash The Boys A Liar Pt.2.&nbsp;The track sees PinkPantheress embark upon a stylistic shift as she takes her customary opulent vocals layered over a drum and bass beat and fuses them with a colourful Noughties R&amp;B aesthetic.The video also puts a contemporary twist on a '00s music videos, as&nbsp;she explores some of London’s most renowned shopping locations such as New Bond Street, Tiffany, Fendi, Liberty, and Royal Arcade - accompanied by her girlfriends: Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton), India Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte), and Yara Shahidi (black-ish).

Alison Dominitz

Simon Donnellon

Milena Agbaba

Sophie Muller

Leo Olesker

Robbie Ryan

Chris Kelly

Josh Brooks

Rory Power

James Lahaise

Dionne Smith

Danielle Kahlani

Warner Records

PinkPantheress 'Mosquito' by Sophie Muller

PinkPantheress - Mosquito (Official Video)

PRETTYBIRD’s Kelvin Jones has directed a cinematic music video for M Huncho’s latest single Of Course. Shot on location during wild weather in Hastings, which Jones has lensed with an aesthetic that evokes Midwest America, a humorous narrative runs through the promo, based around central character ‘The Plug’, played by the artist.Kelvin Jones explains: “It was a privilege to work with Huncho on this video, he was so easy to work with. He originally hit me up for the job and it was a no brainer, he trusted my creative vision to create something he was more than happy with. We had a weather warning on the first day and we couldn’t move the shoot, so we was hit with heavy rain and terrible wind, and we was in Hastings so the intensity of everything was worse."So pickup day here we come, and on the second we ended up leaving with the scenes we wanted but under a different scope. We used a vast array of lenses for different purposes because I was searching for a lens that had a lot of character. However, we only had our main lenses on the main shoot but we couldn’t get them on our pickup day, so we ended up shooting on Arri’s Signature Primes and the ANGÉNIEUX ZOOM LENS.”

Macy Trieu-Dingle

Ruby Diamond

Kelvin Jones

Matthew Nolan 

Matthew Hoosh

Enrique Soares Da Silva

Kimane Erskine

Manu Amler

Riccardo Angei

Megan Lee

Electric Theatre Collective

Andrea Bazzi

Gwen Ghelid

Grime

M Huncho 'Of Course' by Kelvin Jones 

M Huncho - of course (Official video)

Joseph Wilson heads to Margate to create a Super 8mm-shot melodrama inspired by&nbsp;Anna Nicole Smith, in the video for indie-pop combo Autoheart.With a narrative inspired by the late Anna Nicole Smith’s relationship with 89 year old J. Howard Marshall when she was in her mid-20s, the video for Juggernaut features 'Fancy Shews!', aka drag performer Georgie B, as 'Vicky', who disconsolately wanders through the English seaside resort clutching an urn of ashes of her boyfriend - played (in flashback scenes) by 90 year old Margate legend Maurice Morris.Wilson's association with Georgie B stems from them both working as drag performers, performing at Queer club nights including&nbsp;Sink the Pink&nbsp;and The NYC Downlow&nbsp;at Glastonbury. Wilson got his start as a&nbsp;director documenting East London's eclectic&nbsp;Queer club scene - his inaugural documentary project Drag is my Ecstasy, was an acclaimed portrait of underground drag collective ‘Sink the Pink - and&nbsp;Georgie worked as stylist on the previous Wilson-directed video for Autoheart. According to Wilson, she was always going to be the star of this one.[imgtoken data:1]“When I was approached by Autoheart to direct the video for Juggernaut, they had only one request: base the storyline around Georgie B aka Fancy Shews! She had done the styling for our last collaboration for the I Know That He Loves Me&nbsp;video in 2021 and they had become fans."I’ve performed with Georgie for the past 10 years at Queer club nights&nbsp;and most recently travelled to Australia to perform in a cabaret about a failing 18th Century Mollie House with our Drag Mum, A Man To Pet. Georgie played Princess Seraphina and had size ZZ boobs… the biggest breastplate size you can get! We joked about using them for the video but it actually became the starting point to the idea. A few days later the plot came together."'I knew that we would set each other free’ was a line that felt like it needed a good juxtaposition, which led me to think of Anna Nicole Smith who married 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall when she was 26. I spoke to the band about the idea and we started researching Anna Nicole and the way she and many famous women are vilified in the media. We agreed on the idea and ‘Vicky’ - Anna Nicole Smith’s real name was Vickie Lynn Hogan -&nbsp;was born."We did some make up tests with MUA Guy Common and played around with some forehead prosthetics and enhanced cheekbones. I wanted Vicky to appear demonic – a literal manifestation of the demonisation of women. And despite looking like a monster from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we would see that she was vulnerable, emotional and devastated at the loss of her great love."[imgtoken data:2]Above: Joseph Wilson (right) with Maurice Morris (left) and Fancy Shews! aka Georgie B (centre)&nbsp;on set on Juggernaut videoWilson chose Margate as the shoot location for the PRETTYBIRD-produced shoot, because of the British roots of the band and an affinity with Margate, the home former hometown of his grandma, which he describes as the ‘Kent Riviera’, and where he remembers her going for walks along the seafront with her then 85-year-old boyfriend."When casting Marshall we were put in touch with 90 year old Margate legend Maurice Morris, who has lived in Margate his entire life. He was so wonderful to work with and feel really privileged to have met him. He was completely speechless when he first saw Georgie as Vicky! Throughout her life people doubted Anna Nicole’s feelings for Marshall, assuming she was a gold digger, and she was constantly asked about it."She was judged, ridiculed and abused for the way she looked. She always said she loved Marshall, despite the age difference, and that he was the only man who ever made her feel loved. ‘I feel euphoric in your arms tonight/As I’m magnified, I feel alive’. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for?”

Fancy Shews!

Joseph Wilson

Benjamin Leggett

Jack Hamilton

Fiona Bamford-philips

Charlie Killick

Dan Huntley

Orlando O'Mahoney Morris

Alison Martin

Cinelab Film and Digital

Alternative

Autoheart 'Juggernaut' by Joseph Wilson

Autoheart - Juggernaut (Official Music Video)

Following the glamorous promo for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/03/01/jessie-ware-pearls-sophie-muller-theo-adams/80564">Pearls,&nbsp;</a>Sophie Muller and Theo Adams reunite with Jessie Ware, this time with Róisín Murphy along for the ride, for the Freak Me Now video - and it's a hoot.&nbsp;Featuring a feverish blend of disco aesthetics and hypnotic editing, the video sees the two artists in their element, bringing a sense of theatrical splendour to the performance vignettes.&nbsp;And by the sounds of it, as they talk about their collab below, Jessie and&nbsp;Róisín had lots of fun on the shoot.It's a vibrant mash-up of colour and patterns - bringing the vid for Deee-Lite's classic Groove Is In The Heart to mind - with an unabashed sense of fun and playfulness to boot.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>We had mad fun dressing up on the day of the video. It was fashion chaos!!</blockquote>“It is a huge honour to have the queen of disco, Róisín Murphy on Freak Me Now,"&nbsp;Jessie Ware has commented. "I messaged her hoping she may think about doing a collab with me and before I knew it, she’d gone straight into the studio and recorded all her vocals for the track and sent them over to us. I have admired her work for so many years and respect her so much. To have her on one of the most fun tracks on That! Feels Good! Is amazing."I still can’t quite believe we are on a track together and have done a bonkers video together. She is graceful, she is generous, she is pioneering, she is Róisín Murphy and she is on Freak Me Now!” And Róisín Murphy has added: “Jessie is just brilliant, a super talented songwriter and an amazing singer. She’s truly beautiful but she’s also very funny and never takes herself too seriously. We’ve been talking about working together for a while. When she sent me ‘Freak Me Now’ I just adored it and felt it was perfectly right for me to be on the song."We had mad fun dressing up on the day of the video. It was fashion chaos!! Like a high class jumble sale, behind the scenes. We laughed at our ridiculousness and we were very silly all day! Just love her and loved everything about working with her.“

Lola Chatterton

Ailsa Robertson

Joe Sherno

Thomas English

Josey Jacobs

Andy Hill

Aaron Champion

Ross Kwan

Eamonn Hughes

Francesca Thompson

Andrew Gallimore

Time Based Arts

Ross McDowell

EMI Records

Ruth Wardell

Disco

Jessie Ware ft Róisín Murphy 'Freak Me Now' by Sophie Muller & Theo Adams

Jessie Ware, Róisín Murphy - Freak Me Now (Official Music Video)

Jade Ang Jackman directs a breezy throwback promo for Priya Ragu's banging summer anthem.&nbsp;With a beat inspired by UK Garage, the track exudes nostalgic charm, and Jade Ang Jackman mirrors this sensibility in the visual aesthetic.&nbsp;We see the artist drive around the city with careless abandon, linking up with friends and toying with the possibility of romance - in an easy fashion.&nbsp;There's dancing, flirting and plenty of laughs, and in this respect it pays homage to the music video style of the early noughties - simple concept packed full of fun vibes, leaving any angst and worry firmly in the rearview.&nbsp;

Troy Smith

Ana Gonzalvo

Neesha Champaneria

Jade Ang Jackman

Alex Cullen

Kai Blamey Nguyen

Carmen Du Preez

Jamie Monks

Fabio Olgiati

Lea Aubigne

Lake Sanu

Rob McGuire

The Assembly Rooms

Jon Dobson

Wash

Warner Music

Theresa Adebiyi

Garage

Singer songwriter

Priya Ragu 'Easy' by Jade Ang Jackman

Priya Ragu - Easy (Official Video)

GAIKA trawls through criminal records, footage and photos in the search for his ideal accomplice, in Jade Ang Jackman's enigmatic promo for Lady, featuring bbymutha.&nbsp;The distorted black and white video has a gritty 90s aesthetic, blending raw textures and fluid visual effects to create something unique and striking.&nbsp;The abstract chronology and focus on character feels almost film trailer-like in its execution, boasting masterful fight choreography, stirring portraiture and a breathless edit.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;“Having known Gaika and his music for a while, I love how his politics is always infused with his beats. It goes without saying that it reminds me of groups like Wu-Tang Clan which feels like the most iconic union of Black and East Asian culture which relates to our respective cultural backgrounds.&nbsp;"Hearing LADY, it reminded me of Blade and Kill Bill so I wanted to create some larger than life characters and movement sequences that felt like a contemporary take on that fused with the trademark digital weirdness / CCTV / state surveillance edge that feels like a creative thread of GAIKA’s too."With bbymutha’s wicked lyrics about Harley Quinn, I really wanted to draw on that energy to craft some female villains.”

Eleri Shone

Lloyd Rubio

GAIKA ft bbymutha 'Lady' by Jade Ang Jackman 

Chris Murdoch

Producer

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