Dreamy visuals for The Marías’ track “Only In My Dreams” directed by Los Angeles-based cinematographer Ian Lipton. Produced by Carlotta Harlan.

An intense video from director Rianne White for “Lord” by Young Fathers (previously featured here). Of the video’s central motif, the Scotland trio’s Graham ‘G’ Hastings has said:

“Kayus brought a rocking horse into the studio one day. God knows why. After we wrote the song, Ally sat on it, took his top off and started riding majestic. Then we thought, why not?”

Director: Rianne White
Producer: Rianne White & Freak Films
DOP: Archie Short
1AD: Evangelos Polychronopoulos
Gaffer: Nuno Rodrigues
Production Assistant: Izzy Gibbs
Editor: Rianne White
Colour: Archie Short
Aerial: Sam Short
Horse Wrangler: Mandy Peden
Rain Design & Prod: Great Brink
BTS: Mark Chong

This video was submitted by White and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

An experimental piece by Andriy Baglay, a film student from Lviv, Ukraine. “Acedia” offers a brief-yet-powerful glimpse at the danger of not caring.

An elaborate animated short written and directed by Pablo Calvillo of Mexico City-based MaliArts. Set in a dystopian future where all books are banned and burned for fuel, humans have transformed into illiterate cockroaches with little hope of freedom save for a small group of exiles known as The Inksect.

Written & Directed by Pablo Calvillo
Line Producer: Rachael Byrne
Executive Producer: Miguel Anaya
Pikes´ Voice: Fabrina Melon

This video was submitted by Calvillo and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Bristol-based filmmaker Theo Watkins helps singer-songwriter Fenne Lily create a post break-up ‘f**k you’ video for her track “Three Oh Nine.” As Watkins shared with us:

“Utilizing a non-linear structure, we took conventions and aesthetic cues from old exploitation revenge flicks of the 70’s and 80’s, while trying to humorously subvert them.”

Directed by Theo Watkins of Old Rope Films
Cinematographer: Jamie Harding
Editor: Theo Watkins
Colour: Ryan Berger
Concept: Fenne Lily
Film supplied by Frame24 and processing and scanning by Kodak London.
Shot on Bolex Rex-5 on 16mm 250D/500T

A very pink, love-themed ident for MTV by Los Angeles-based artist Kirsten Lepore (previously featured here).

Fantastic visuals for Bipolar Sunshine’s track “Major Love” by London-based filmmaker and photographer Hamish Stephenson.

Directed by Hamish Stephenson
Art Direction by Bevan Agyemang
Cinematography by Giacomo Lacchini
Concept + Creative Direction by Kazim Rashid

Love this minimalist animation by Alessandro Novelli of Barcelona-based Newgold. “Lights” plays with size, space and perspective to explore the slightly somber theme of the choices we make and what is lost as we fit ourselves in to a particular kind of life. As Novelli explains it:

“The short film talks about how during life we start adapting to the surrounds and we slowly morph into something different from our original self, we adapt to conditions, jobs, people, over-structures, and slowly we fade away.”

Direction & Design: Alessandro Novelli
Animation & Cleaning: Alessandro Novelli, ínes Teixeira.
Music & Sound Design: Simon Smith and BCNsound.
Translation: Valerie Joubert.
Special Thanks: Giulia Arantxa Novelli, Laura Sofia Gonçalves

This is just one of the many wonderful submissions we’ve received this week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Nice video for DORJ’s track “Thunder” by London/Tel Aviv-based director Amiel Kestenbaum and Raphael Kadishzon. Shot in two days and one night, with nothing more than a camera and an LED light, the diverse series of vignettes explore themes of self-discovery, love and acceptance.

Shot, Directed & Edited by Amiel Kestenbaum & Raphael Kadishzon
Music by DORJ
Produced by Shuz
Mix & Master by Noam Levinberg
Grading: Omri Peled
After Effects: Ori Burg
Production Assistant: Brigitte Liu (Boo)
Special Thanks :
Jungle studio Nir elbaz/ Ariel Cohen/ Bazil the dog

Lyric video for U2’s track “American Soul” by broken fingaz crew. After receiving the request from Universal to produce an animation in just one week, Tant, Deso, Kip & Unga rose to the challenge! As they shared with us:

“We weren’t sure if it was even possible but of course we said yes. As we are all in different places at the moment, we shot it in Haifa, London and Rajasthan. We teamed up with Adme the genius who we worked with for most of our videos, and shot it all in an intense 4 days, completely DIY”

Watch the video above and click here to check out their previous work if you haven’t already!

A classic sci-fi love story impressively executed by Los Angeles-based writer and director Ryan Weatrowski. Based on a project initially developed while still a film student, Weatrowski decided to revisit the project which follows two artificial humans, created with malicious intent. As he shared with us:

“Originally, it was a 15min narrative that was never shown beyond the classroom. Recently, I was inspired by composer Mica Levi and her evocative soundscapes, (specifically her collab with Oliver Coates in ‘Barok Main’) to re-cut the footage into an entirely different experience.”

Watch “Blank Bodies” above and check out some behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot below!

Written & Directed by Ryan Weatrowski
DoP: Marz Miller
Producer: Daniel Chang
Music: Barok Main – Mica Levi & Oliver Coates
Sound: Anuar Yahya
Sound Mix: Carlos Gonzalez & Roberto Solano
VFX: Nathan Strong
Matte Painting: Eddie Mendoza
Art: Kaeleigh James
Key Makeup: Dre Ronayne
Wardrobe: Tim Nguyen
Props: DL Lee

Starring:
Woman – Lauryn Holmquist
Man – Malcolm McCarthy
Sybll – Kristine Lorenz
Rudolph – Gordon Johnston
Flevvey – Iris Karina
Victor – Stephen Bartlett

Ryan Weatrowski’s Website

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Fun video from Dutch director Femke Huurdeman of CANADA for “Química” by Colombian band Bomba Estéreo (previously featured here).