So many great ideas packed into this subtle sci-fi short by South Korean director Jude Chun. “The Time Agent” follows a man attempting to alter a single event in his past without disrupting the future courses of anything (or anyone) else. Like a Murakami novel — lovely attention paid to routine, meal prep and quiet moments of solitude.

A brutal Fight Club-style brawl takes an unexpected turn in this video for dylAn’s track “42” co-directed by Noah Kentis and American Millennial’s Ben Tan and David Altobelli (previously featured here).

Directed by David Altobelli, Noah Kentis & Ben Tan
Cinematographer: Jacob “Kuba” Bojsza
Makeup: Shelby Smith
Gaffer: Tristen Aghajanian
Key Grip: Marcus Soto
Color: Jack Tashdjian
Sound Design: Kentis Sound and Coffee

Cast:
dylAn
Malik Shakur
Satchel Freiberger
Ashland Anderson
Gabe Plaza
Ben Tan
Sam Tan
Noah Yesa
Alexander Chavez
Louis Licata

Song produced by Yesa

Some lovely and hauntingly vague visuals for Slowdive’s track “Don’t Know Why” by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Grant Singer (previously featured here).

San Francisco-based filmmaker David Dutton takes on Stranger Things for his 8-Bit Cinema series (previously featured here). Season 2 of the real Stranger Things is out on Netflix today!

A compelling video for Bonobo’s track with Rhye by Los Angeles-based director Spencer Creigh. “Break Apart” features three young couples alone in a hotel room for 24 hours without the use of phones, television or other electronic distractions. Through the observation of each couple’s quiet moments together, the viewer is forced to reflect on their own voyeuristic participation in videos like these that are only able to capture authentic moments of intimacy through a clear invasion of privacy.

Artist Andrew Thomas Huang teams up with motion capture company Noitom, choreographer Nina McNeely and fashion designer Ashley Eva Brock for a series of experimental loops. Originally projected separately in a gallery exhibition, check out all 9 vignettes from Huang’s self-described “sci-fi Fraggle Rock-inspired trash opera” above! You can also check out Huang and McNeely’s other recent work for Björk’s “The Gate” here, if you haven’t already.

Spoon honours their graphic designer fans with a photoshop-frenzied video for “Do I have to Talk You Into It” by director Brook Linder (previously featured here).

Directed by Brook Linder
Producer: Frances Capell
Executive Producer: Evan Cohen
Production Company: treeboy pictures
Director of Photography: Frank Mobilio
Assistant Camera: Steven Doyle
Gaffer: Chris Walters
Hair/Makeup: Candice Birns
Animation: Adam Padilla, Jack Wagner
Photo Editors: Anthony Isaac, Vlad Sepetov, Kelsie Pickle
Color: Kaitlyn Battistelli

Trippy video by director Alice Lowe (Prevenge) for the Trentemøller remix of Toydrum’s track with Joel Wells. Shot on an 8 x 4 foot set using practical effects, “Void & Form” pays homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey with Kate Dickie (aka Lysa Arryn from Game of Thrones) starring as a distressed astronaut trapped in a kaleidoscopic nightmare.

Love the video for Heartstreets’ Kaytranada-produced track “Blind” by director Zacharie Lavertu. Fantastic work by Montréal-based cinematographer Ariel Méthot-Bellemare. There’s something so striking about seeing horses in urban settings (kinda like this)!

Directed by Zacharie Lavertu
Production: Marc-Antoine Legault and Anthony Martino-Maurice of Collection Spéciale
DOP: Ariel Méthot-Bellemare
Assitant camera: Véronique Dagenais
Production Designer: Laura Lemelin-Rainville
Stylist: Marianne Dubreuil
HMUA: Ashley Diabo
Editor: Louis Chevalier-Dagenais
Color grading: Christobal Cortez
Gaffer: Louis Turcotte
Still photography: Vinna Laudico

Starring:
Heartstreets (Gabrielle Godon, Emma Berger-Kovacs)
Jean-Philippe Lefrançois
Blaise Émard
Shawn Lajoie

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

A great little piece for The School of Life’s latest lesson about nagging by UK-based animator Steve Kirby (previously featured here).

Designed, Directed, Animated & Produced by Steve Kirby
Written & Narrated by Alain de Botton
Sound Design by Trevor Richardson / Sonosanctus
Additional Animation by Andrew Embury
Client: The School of Life

A simple concept for AlanMichael’s track with Carlo Alexander, beautifully executed by Jay Salbert. As the Washington, DC-based director and editor shared with us: “We wanted to showcase the performances of the artists, so we shot the video in one take without relying on any editing.”

Directed by Jay Salbert
Director of Photography: Ryder Haske
1st Assistant Camera: Hadi Dimachkieh
Dolly Grip: Christian Jones
Producer: Ian Fay
Production Assistant: Ives Salbert, Rob Gifford, Catherine Wallwork
Special thanks: Uptown Art House and Cathi Wallwork

The fun split-screen intro to innovative New York City-based director Colin Read’s skate film Spirit Quest.