Object &amp; Animal is a creative studio that represents a diverse collective of directors, photographers and multi-disciplinary talent. Based in London and Los Angeles, we produce independent projects and commercial work for agencies and clients worldwide. Est. late in 2018 O&amp;A has worked with A$AP Rocky, Rosalia, James Blake, FKA twigs, Madonna, Justice, Jorja Smith, ScHoolboy Q, Not3s, Blood Orange...

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The biggest artist on the planet is also no slouch when it comes to directing her own videos, as this very ambitious and stylish video proves - featuring Post Malone, and released within hours of the surprise release of Taylor Swift's new album Tortured Poets Department.&nbsp;The video pays homage to various&nbsp;film aesthetics going back a century, evoking early silent films and Tiim Burton's Gothic style - and it was shot by DoP Rodrigo Prieto,&nbsp;Oscar-nominated this year for his work on Killers Of The Flower Moon.&nbsp;It's all black and white (nearly) but it's also a Taylor Swift video through and through, complete with out of this world visuals and intimate, yet scene-stealing performances.&nbsp;Weaving a beautiful narrative between a woman locked in a surreal, asylum-like building, and the man of her dreams who fights to save her (Malone), with brief cameos from Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (from Dead Poets Society), the video is a feat, spanning several set builds and a range of standout styling moments.&nbsp;The opening two&nbsp;scenes in particular&nbsp;are an absolute knockout.Taylor does it again...&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

United States

Taylor Swift

Rodrigo Prieto

Jil Hardin

Chancler Haynes

Ethan Tobman

Anthony Dimino

Parliament

Taylor Swift Productions

Taylor Swift ft Post Malone 'Fortnight' by Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift - Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) (Official Music Video)

The Smile give a private performance to the most challenging of audiences, in Paul Thomas Anderson's charming promo for Friend Of A Friend: a class of nursery school-aged children.&nbsp;It's a brave feat, giving a surprise performance to some of the most brutal critics on Earth, who have yet to develop the social skills to hide their true feelings. In this respect, Anderson's latest video for The Smile is a wonderful experiment.The band - Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood and Tom Skinnner -&nbsp;get on with the job of performing a song which may be the their finest achievement to date. They set up shop in the school hall whilst the kids file in to the benches and then spectate, giving unfiltered reactions that range from apathetic to awestruck (usually when the lightshow begins).&nbsp;It's a wonderful visual, meditating on the relationship between musicians and their audience, and builds to a poignant, engaged finale, which will warm up even the coldest of hearts. Make sure you stay to the very end...

United Kingdom

Paul Thomas Anderson

Shirley O’Connor

Jonny Franklin

Dom Thomas

Morgan Clement

Laura Hegarty

Bugs Hartley

Adam somner

Danny Brennan

Max Brunner

Olly Driscol

Glenn Coulman

Cinelab Film and Digital

Rock

Alternative

The Smile 'Friend Of A Friend' by Paul Thomas Anderson

The-Smile-'Friend-Of-A-Friend'-by-Paul-Thomas-Anderson

A return to the music video medium by none other than&nbsp;Paul Thomas Anderson is always cause for excitement. And his latest team up with Thom Yorke, for the new release by The Smile, does not disappoint.We are in familiar territory as Anderson follows Yorke on a surreal journey through a black and white world. Actually, its&nbsp; clearly a recognisable version of&nbsp;London, one hauled from the past but still here, more than ever.Its cozy and bleak, with shafts of humour as Thom, our inimitable guide, seeks a bit of colour and finds - well, lots of versions of himself...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

Arthur De Borman

Scott Wright

Katie Kennedy

Adam Somner

Charlie Wyldeck

Paul Wheeldon

Sekani Doram

Lucie Blundell-Jones

Andy Jurgensen

Jodie Davidson

XL Recordings

The Smile 'Wall Of Eyes' by Paul Thomas Anderson

The-Smile-'Wall-Of-Eyes'-by-Paul-Thomas-Anderson

Andrew Thomas Huang returns to music videos with a beautifully crafted promo and a thrilling shift in visual style for multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and vocalist&nbsp;Alexandra Drewchin - aka Eartheater.&nbsp;Boasting a late 90's aesthetic, with the sensibility of cosmetics and fragrance&nbsp;commercials of the period, the&nbsp; visual for Crushing sees the artist explore a decadent mirrored room, interspersed with unique performance vignettes. Snapshots of a narrative - which involve the artist form glassware, drink from it and then shatter it with her voice - adds to the considerably alluring atmosphere.&nbsp;&nbsp;Huang captures&nbsp;the laidback, transcendent feel of the track, and with the camera constantly moving, never quite revealing a single portrait of Eartheater until late in the piece, the video maintains its sense of&nbsp;mystery and excitement throughout.&nbsp;Video screens of HD footage of Eartheater, video frames&nbsp;within frames, and terrific&nbsp;stylised cinematography by Laura Merians Goncalves eightens this feeling of&nbsp;otherworldliness.It's visually breathtaking, as one would expect from this masterful director, but also a real departure from his previous work. It's also&nbsp;confident enough to end the piece with a section of BTS video revealing a moment in its making. That simply adds to the magic.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Grace Surnow

Natasha Newman-Thomas

Andrew Thomas Huang

Ade Macalinao

Laura Merians Goncalves

Alex Brinkman

Sharla Cipicchio

Tavio

Multi Instrumentalist

Eartheater 'Crushing' by Andrew Thomas Huang

Eartheater-'Crushing'-by-Andrew-Thomas-Huang

Aidan Zamiri directs a stripped-back studio promo for&nbsp;Yung Lean X Bladee.Taking things back to basics - and with a very nostalgic&nbsp;monochromatic aesthetic - the video for Victorious focusses purely on performance, with some abstract creative flourishes peppered throughout.&nbsp;Using quick cutaways and minimalist art direction to flesh out the visual style, the video is less eccentric than much of Zamiri's music video work, but just as captivating and well executed.&nbsp;

Louis Simonon

Jake Hunte

Aidan Zamiri

Lucy Bradley

Jake Hunter

Ella Knight

Rose Esme Lucas

Sam Rawlings

Saskia Dixie

Jack Foster

Pundersons Gardens

World Affairs

Yung Lean X Bladee 'Victorious' by Aidan Zamiri

Yung Lean x bladee - Victorious

Amber Grace Johnson reunites with Jorja Smith to direct a&nbsp;breathless, Paris-set&nbsp;promo for Go Go Go.&nbsp;Opening with a heartbreaking realisation that her boyfriend is being unfaithful, we follow Jorja out the door and into a taxi, shot in a series of ambitious, innovative FPV drone shots.&nbsp;The unusual perspective is exciting and cinematic, and this style continues throughout the video, as she heads to the club to drown her sorrows.&nbsp;It's colourful, eclectic and completely fresh - much like the direction of Jorja's new sound. A must-watch, packed full of captivating visuals and a confident performance.&nbsp;

Denisse Jimenez

Sarah Dambielle

Amber Grace Johnson

Alex Chamberlain

Patrick Allard

Gaul Porat

Anais Maurette

Chiao Chen

Forager

Mikey Pehanich

Jorja Smith 'Go Go Go' by Amber Grace Johnson

Jorja-Smith-'Go-Go-Go'-by-Amber-Grace-Johnson

Aidan Zamiri's second video for Tiberius b takes their vibrant persona to the streets, with the Welsh singer-songwriter demonstrating a decidedly unique method of transportation.&nbsp;Following the eye-catching&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/04/28/tiberius-b-jetski-aidan-zamiri/81310">Jetski video</a>, where their energetic display was interrupted by a flock of pigeons inside their flat, this one has the artist on London's late night streets, performing HHB under the golden haze of streetlights and distant fluorescents.[imgtoken data:1]Until stopping to relieve themselves. And then after peering into the resulting yellow puddle, Tiberius b takes&nbsp;a dive... emerging into a public fountain.This iconoclastic device allows Zamiri&nbsp;moves the action from one vignette to the next. It also brings the video the director's characteristic visual flair and cheeky wit to the fore.And it shows again Tiberius b's willingness to explore concepts that would definitely deter others - whether it's getting up close and personal with bodily fluids or being on the receiving end of pigeon poo... &nbsp;&nbsp;

Jack Appleyard

Hamish Wirgman

Jonjo Lowe

James Robertson

Tiberius b 'HHB' by Aidan Zamiri

Tiberius b - HHB

Róisín Murphy self-directs the beautiful promo for Fader,&nbsp;set against the backdrop of Murphy’s hometown of Arklow, County Wicklow.In the video, we see a street parade pass&nbsp;through the town, with&nbsp;Irish dancers, majorettes, Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and a brass band in tow. And Roisin herself joins the parade, weaving between the participants, perfomring the song.Shot in striking black and white, the video has a&nbsp;nostalgic feel, and given the full-circle nature of the filming location,&nbsp;fits in perfectly with the concept.&nbsp;This is a true celebration of people and place. You can see the radiant joy in every frame, and given Murphy's full creative direction of the piece, can tell just how how much of a personal achievement the final video is to her.And as she explains, the parade was all her own doing.[imgtoken data:1]"This idea came to me partly in reaction to making such surreal and ‘other’ imagery for the album artwork, and partly in response to the track itself," she has explained. "I felt I needed a totally authentic space in which to perform Fader. The song is about life and death and music - and so I went home to where it all started for me.&nbsp;"Just as in the music there’s a huge HipHop influence on the video, and for me to have the sheer front for that, it needed to ring true. And so my home town, Arklow was in fact, the only option."It was a huge task to take on, connecting with local government councillors because we had to close the road and then, with local groups of all kinds, musicians, dancers, scouts, majorettes, farmers, fishermen etc and much of my family..."Doing something like this is a massive responsibility and it threatened to overwhelm me at times. But on the day we had Hollywood sunshine and just an incredible sense of goodwill. The people of Arklow made me so proud. It truly turned out to be one of best days of life.”And arguably one of the best videos of her illustrious career...&nbsp;

Róisín Murphy

Megan Lee

Electric Theatre Collective

Ross McDonnell

Izzy Graham

Steve Battle

Paula Stewart

Andrew Freedman

Donnacha Brady

Ciara McIlraith

Jp Quill

Roman Bugovskiy

Ciara O’Donovan

Lisa Redmond

Michelle Grimes

Padraig Conaty

Dave Davis

Harriet Cawley

Marsheen

750MPH

Róisín Murphy 'Fader' by Róisín Murphy 

Róisín Murphy - 'Fader' (Official Music Video)

Aidan Zamiri coaxes a mesmerising&nbsp;rock 'n roll performance from London-based Welsh singer-songwriter Tiberius b&nbsp;in the&nbsp;video for Jetski... featuring pigeons.&nbsp;In&nbsp;a barely furnished&nbsp;apartment, Tiberius b recounts the lyrical journey of meeting someone at a party&nbsp;and the chaos&nbsp;that ensues, in a unabashed display of raw power and sexuality. From them lying on the bare wood floor to writhing on the sofa,&nbsp;Zamiri's fluid camera captures their antics, then introduces the presence of their band, adding to the sense of dangerous immediacy.Then things get really messy, as a pigeon appears in the ruckus, followed by another and then a whole flock, doing what pigeons do...&nbsp;&nbsp;a surreal moment to underline the emotion. That suits the track's enigmatic&nbsp;style, and&nbsp;Aidan Zamiri's love of blending fashion aesthetics with off-the-wall ideas.&nbsp;It's another smash from the director, in the arresting lo-fi manner he has brought to his recent work for FKA twigs ad Jockstrap. One that you won't be able to scrub from your mind anytime soon.&nbsp;

Tom Viney

Rosie Brear

Alex Miguel-guerreiro

Rob Daglish

John O’Riordan

Punderson Gardens

Ethan Skaates

Digital Orchard

Tiberius B 'Jetski' by Aidan Zamiri

Tiberius b - Jetski (Official Video)

Amber Grace Johnson reunites with Jorja Smith to direct a stunning&nbsp;promo for Try Me.&nbsp;Shot in the south of France, the video is a powerful portrait of the artist, who rises from the darkness to fight for her life and what is hers.&nbsp;Boasting a series of stunning locations - including the deserted amphitheatre in Arles in Provence - the video explores themes of strength, reclaiming independence and owning one's power, visualised through a handful of abstract vignettes, where a conflict takes place between Jorja and a male adversary in a choreographed series of moves akin to a bullfight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jorja Smith is beautifully complex throughout;&nbsp;starting from a somewhat defeated, crawling motion&nbsp;to facing off her&nbsp; adversary - played by Andrea Bouothmane - in an increasingly disdainful, effortless manner. Her journey is visualised masterfully&nbsp;by Johnson, returning to collaborate with the singer following the videos for Be Honest and Come Over.&nbsp;With a completely unique spin on a classic theme, it's a video that&nbsp;demands your complete attention from start to finish - and&nbsp;will no doubt create a buzz around awards season.[imgtoken data:1]“The idea started from the human need we all have to defend ourselves from the pressures of the world," Amber Grace Johnson has explained. "In the most basic terms, the life of an artist can, at times, feel like a fight for your life. Your art consumes you, consoles you, and acts as a lifeline, and when you release it to the world it can feel dire, when exposing yourself so vulnerably."Originally, I was thinking back to a text exchange with my twin sister who shared some words during a time I needed most. Comparing our lives to being bullfighters, she reminded me that life is a fight and we cannot and will not fall off the bull… we must stay on the bull.”

Erin Corrian-Alexis

Diego Vega

Andrea Bouothmane

Jorja Smith 'Try Me' by Amber Grace Johnson

Jorja Smith - Try Me

Matt Copson directs a dreamlike&nbsp;tour de force&nbsp;for&nbsp;Caroline Polachek - a&nbsp;mesmerising blend&nbsp;of evocative cinematography&nbsp;and surreal art direction for Smoke, with&nbsp;Polachek's performance as the glue that connects the ambitious concept.With an otherworldly, mountainous terrain as a backdrop, we see the artist scale through the location, whilst the video is overlaid by patterns and textural projections.&nbsp;The video pays homage to different eras of music videos, whilst being imbued with a sci-fi-esque aesthetic that oozes retrofuturistic vibes.&nbsp;It's standout work that leans into Polachek's transformation as a genuine alt-pop star.&nbsp;

Matt Copson

Kate Duncan

Steve Morgan

Studio Augmenta

Dylan Hageman

Alt Pop

Caroline Polachek 'Smoke' by Matt Copson

Caroline Polachek - Smoke (Official Video)

<h3>A legal drama involving feuding rock legends? We all want to watch that. Well, Aidan Zamiri got in there first, before the streaming giants or anyone else. We asked him how he did it.</h3>It's one of the most interesting, enjoyably witty and cameo-filled music videos of the year so far, for one of the finest British alt-rock bands right now. Aidan Zamiri's video for English duo Jockstrap's Greatest Hits is a super-hip satire about&nbsp;a 'trial of the century' featuring the legal wrangles of two ageing rock stars,&nbsp;with a gallery of fascinating characters captured in the glare of wall-to-wall TV coverage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We recently talked to Aidan about the video, and discovered the project emerged from the mind of bandmember Georgia Ellery, and found its way to the screen courtesy of proper legal advice - and a willing cast of dozens, including a few of the band's and Aidan's friends...[vidtoken data:0]<blockquote>It’s loosely based on an imagined future where Georgia and Taylor become nightmarish rock legends.</blockquote>How did the project start? Were you familiar with Jockstrap before hearing Greatest Hits? How much was this a collaboration with the band?I’ve been a massive fan of the band for a while - their music feels so refreshing. We’d met briefly in the past and Georgia had also worn a couple outfits made by my girlfriend Paolina Russo for her stage costumes. When they reached out, I was really excited to work on this with them.The project was really collaborative from the jump - the band approached me with the idea of doing an absurd TV trial. Together we developed it and had massive help from Jean Lee who plays the judge in the video. She’s a real life barrister and helped us make sure that everything we were doing was (loosely) accurate in a real-world court setting.Tell us more about the band's original idea of the TV trial...Georgia had written an amazing storyline for the video which laid out a lot of the plan ahead of time. It’s loosely based on an imagined future where Georgia and Taylor from the band become nightmarish rock legends.The thing that felt really interesting about the setting of a court trial is the idea of spectacle. From the high-profile legal battles that we’ve seen in media, these cases are less about the truth and justice and more about PR and popularity. For us, that became a really interesting idea to play on.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>Everything we were doing was largely accurate in a real-world court setting.</blockquote>And when did you come up with the terrific method to tell the story? Did that come with the High Court battle idea, or later (or before)? What were your main references?We were aiming for absurd characters within a realistic setting. There’s a lot of reference to Court TV and legal YouTube channels and paparazzi videos. This sense of ‘reality’ helped give a lot of context to what we were doing without us having to explain too much.Also, as we’re used to seeing imagery like this in real life, it meant that we could push the edit quite far and make it feel pretty stylistic as the video progresses.&nbsp;Talking of characters, how did you cast your main protagonists, Princess Julia and Joe Foley?Funnily enough I’ve known princess julia since I was around 19 or 20, but this was the first thing we’d ever filmed together.A lot of the casting came from friends and fans of the band. Julia and John were pretty much confirmed when Georgia wrote the initial storyline - it was always gonna be them. We’ve also got a lot of fun cameos throughout the video giving witness testimonies or legal advice.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>High-profile legal battles we’ve seen in the media are [often] less about truth and justice and more about PR and popularity.</blockquote>As I mentioned, Jean the judge is a real barrister - and so was Nick who played Julia’s barrister. There’s a fair few music industry legends that some people might spot. These characters really added to the ‘reality’ of it all.&nbsp;When and where did you shoot the video?We shot the video in Bethnal Green Town Hall - an old town hall that’s been turned into a hotel, but they’ve kept a lot for he original fixtures and rooms from the before it was renovated.We shot the video around mid-October 2022 and thankfully we managed to squeeze in some extra shooting time with John and Julia in order to film their nefarious 'evidence'&nbsp;which was to be used against them in court.Did this feel like a departure from things you’ve done before? Or a natural step on from being ultra-resourceful with your series of videos for Fka Twigs' Caprisongs, etc.?This felt somewhat new as it was a lot more narrative-driven than some of the more performance-based videos I’ve done in the past.That being said, we’ve got a team that I’ve had the pleasure of working with a lot over the past year or so. We’re all really on the same page so it was pretty streamlined despite having to pull out all the stops on our resourcefulness.&nbsp;• Aidan Zamiri is a director and photographer represented by <a href="https://objectanimal.com/">Object &amp; Animal</a>

"The band approached me about doing an absurd TV trial" - Aidan Zamiri on making Jockstrap's Greatest Hits video

Jockstrap - ‘Greatest Hits’ (Official Video)

Lucy Sandler directs an emotional one-take promo for LA-based indie pop duo Ill Peach.&nbsp;It's strikingly simple in concept - a one-take, upside down shot&nbsp;of vocalist&nbsp;Jess Corazza hanging off of a sofa - but breathtakingly&nbsp;executed.&nbsp;With a million emotions contained in her tearful composure, Corazza's performance is the sole focus&nbsp;of the video, and it's impossible to take your eyes off of her.To contain this performance within such a limited - yet beautiful - idea is a stroke of genius, and Sandler does a top-notch job at creating not just a video, but a piece of art.&nbsp;

Lucy Sandler

Joey Fitzsimmons

Hayden Mason

Drew Allen Weaver

Benjamin Steen

Mike Howell

Ryan Ross

Indie pop

Ill Peach 'Heavyweights' by Lucy Sandler

Ill-Peach-'Heavyweights-'-by-Lucy-Sandler

Aidan Zamiri takes an iconoclastic leap into new territory, and shows that the stuffy British legal drama is ripe for reinvention in his wonderful video for indie duo Jockstrap.The video for the band's splendid Greatest Hits takes on a familiar story throughout&nbsp;pop and rock history, when fame and success leads to in-fighting, legal wrangling, and ends up in court in a blaze of publicity.&nbsp;The genius&nbsp;of the video is how Zamiri gives this story a properly rock 'n roll treatment.Princess Julia - DJ, writer,&nbsp;"beloved mother of London’s underground" (The Gentlewoman), whose first video appearance was in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI" target="_blank">Visage's Fade To Grey</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;and actor John Foley are superbly cast as&nbsp;the feuding rock couple at the centre of the story, around whom a courtroom epic plays out,&nbsp;delivered through the prism of a lo-fi, trashy, surreal&nbsp;version of&nbsp;Court TV.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;As a continuous scrolling news tickertape relays details of the somewhat incomprehensible legal&nbsp;case, witnesses arrive and testify and legal&nbsp;officials of the courtroom&nbsp;mouth lyrics of the song. And the portrait by the courtroom artist bursts into full&nbsp;animation.With an unfeasibly large cast of characters and cameos - including Don Letts as a witness and Jamie xx on a legal team - this is&nbsp;a satire on fame and media frenzy that&nbsp;hits the mark without ever losing&nbsp;its sense of fun or cool.In fact, in our judgement, it's supercool.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ella Woollgar

Sofia Wilkinson-Steel

Rose Lucas

Connor Adam

Benjamin David

Grace Sinnott

Lucy Wei

Alex Poles

Rough Trade Records

Princess Julia

John Foley

Jockstrap 'Greatest Hits' by Aidan Zamiri

Aidan Zamiri and&nbsp;Yuma Burgess co-direct the mesmerising visual for FKA Twigs' latest release.&nbsp;In the video, we see the artist perform in front of camera, as the image is perpetually distorted and warped through an AI algorithm, making full use of Burgess' speciality as a visual artist.&nbsp;The resulting effect is a trip head-first into the uncanny valley, as different details of Twigs' face and body distort into something otherworldly and surreal, creating a haunting yet strangely engrossing effect.&nbsp;

Stefania Lucchesi

Matthew Josephs

Yuma Burgess

Tom O'Driscoll

Kash Powell

Rio Sreedharan

FKA Twigs 'Pamplemousse' by Aidan Zamiri, Yuma Burgess

FKA twigs - pamplemousse

Shygirl heralds the release of her debut album Nymph with a delicious slice of steamy suggestiveness, directed by Diane Kunst.Blane Muise aka Shygirl finds herself playing out various erotic fantasies with her ideal man in a lakeside cabin for Shlut, with Kunst establishing the atmosphere through the setting, art direction and Maximilian Pittner's marvellous cinematography - and most of all the inimitable presence of Shy herself.And this is the censored version...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Affa Osman

Nell Kalonji

Diana Kunst

Ludwig Ljung

Pine

Maximilian Pittner

Adam Holmstrom

Joel Rostmark

Pol Agustí

Virginie Moreira

Luz Giraldo

Dance

Hip Hop

Shygirl 'Shlut' by Diana Kunst

Shygirl - Shlut (Official Video) [Censored]

Andrew Thomas Huang directs a brilliantly arresting promo for Björk's Ancestress, exploring&nbsp;the idea of death and the rituals we partake in at the end of our loved one's lives, and pays homage to&nbsp;Björk's mother, who passed away in 2018.In stark contrast to the hypnotic, fungi-inspired video for her previous release, this concept is a visualisation of catharsis, a goodbye that only Björk - and her creative collaborators - could create, something&nbsp;raw yet breatktakingly abstract and artistic.She leads a funeral procession of mourners through amazing Icelandic landscapes, her face shrouded by a veil, establishing a tone and atmosphere which is virtually operatic.&nbsp;For Huang, who has memorably collaborated with&nbsp;Björk on several videos, including Mutual Core and The Gate, this sees him forego use of VFX for an entirely cinematic approach, but with its use of colour, costume, choreography and sheer scale this is still so characteristically his work.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Upon release, Björk put out an Instagram post about her struggle with attending funerals, and how her idea of rituals have always been different to tradition.&nbsp;"When the soul sets off, it needs to be outside so there is room for how enormous it becomes when it merges with the elements," she says.This video represents&nbsp;an idealistic send-off from her own perspective, and is heart-wrenchingly beautiful in every way. Truly outstanding work.&nbsp;

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