Aminé and his crew go rural in the video for “Campfire” featuring Injury Reserve. Self-directed by Adam “Aminé” Daniel.

Love video collage technique used in this video for Gaz Coombes’ track “Walk The Walk” by Los Angeles-based writer/director Najeeb Tarazi.

An aspiring journalist’s school project inadvertently sparks a campus-wide craze in this short film by Simon Dymond (previously featured here). Based on a true story and adapted from “Are You A Member Of Wash Club?” which aired on BBC Radio 4 podcasts Short Cuts and Imaginary Advice.

Directed by Simon Dymond
Written by Ross Sutherland
Produced by Lauren Parker
Executive Producer Jessica Loveland
DoP – Karl Poyzer
1st Assistant Director – Laura Roe
Editor – Stef Hrycyk
Production Design – Luke Hicks
Original Music – Jeremy Warmsley
Location Sound – Adam Fletcher
Colourist – Kraig Winterbottom
Audio Post – Susan Pennington @Spool Post.
Costume Design – Chloe Crabtree & Rebecca Fowler
Hair & Make Up – Emma Roberts
Production Manager – Emily Stubbs
Project Mentors – Ben & Chris Blaine
Created with the support of Creative England & BFI.Network.

Starring:
Tom Blyth
Terry Haywood
Robert Francis-Muller
Tiger Cohen Towell
Molly Coffey
Charles Evans
Joe Stone
Bradley Badder
Lucy Manning

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

Another great video from Janelle Monáe. Directed by Emma Westenberg. “PYNK” offers up a vibrant celebration of self love and sexuality. Check out more of Monáe’s recent work here if you haven’t already!

A lonely man sparks a different kind of office romance in this great video for Lava Fizz’s track “Youth Is Dead” by filmmaker Javier Mazuelas from Balearic Islands, Spain.

Director / Writer – Javier Mazuelas
Production Manager – Mar Pérez
Producers – Álvaro Iglesias & Elena Falcones
Cinematographer – Enrique Vidal
Gaffer – Edu Biurrun
1st A.D. – Dani Torrejón
Script – Natalia Vicente
Art – Carmen Alemany
Make-up – Xisca Covas
Stylist – Carolina di Leo
Stylist Assistant – Victoria Osuna
Editor – Javier Mazuelas
Cast – Alex Tejedor & Bàrbara Nicolau
Prod. company – Solworks Films

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

A beautifully shot piece by Los Angeles-based cinematographer and director Cleon Arrey. Structured like the push and pull of Jazz music, “Two Parts Black” offers an experimental expression of blackness and the dual-life black bodies assume in the world. As Arrey shared with us:

“The film depicts this duality in two parts through my own perspective and environment. The first part is the exploration of the world beyond my mother’s comfort, which is inverted, windowed and uncertain; it’s the space my body occupies. The second part is a celebration of the world my mother and aunties created for me, it’s dream-like, it’s the desert and it’s my home.”

While clearly emerging from a very personal place, the intimacy and honesty of Arrey’s portrait is directed outward as the film is ultimately about the passing on of knowledge and experience to a future generation. Or, in his words, the hope that the film “will teach my nieces and nephews, as they age, that their bodies are magical.”

Director/Cinematographer: Cleon Arrey
Writer/Subtitles: Talia Arrey
Art Direction/Photography: Cheyna Carr
Choreography/Dancer: Irene Ashu
Make-up Artist: Ise Tatyana
Camera PA: JP Kouri
SFX: Bob House

Cast:
@joey_te27
@gaelsfitness
@cinnamonthehacker
@mayachizam
@akankejay
@j._grimes
@egyptianvudu
@twatyana
@housr

Cleon Arrey’s Website

Cleon Arrey on Vimeo

Cleon Arrey on Instagram

A funny little animation for a fake business idea by Dan Hales. Money Surprise offers to send your own money back to you as a way of recreating the feeling of finding forgotten money in your pocket.

A tension-filled short by Paris-based director ALIX for Gracy Hopkins’ album For Everyone Around Rage.

Directed by ALIX
Written by Gracy Hopkins
Photography: Balthazar Lab
Focus Puller: Joséphine Drouin-Viallard
Grading: Arthur Paux
Editor & VFX: Bissane Kim
Producer: Nassim Gouaini
Co-producers: Guillaume Jal & Alex Tee-Jay Ozil
Production Manager: Julie Peloso
1st AD: Bastien Janik
Prod Company: Sanning Films / Le Sofa

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

Polish photographer/director Bartek Wieczorek and cinematographer Kajetan Plis express their shared love of film stock in this video for Baasch’s track with Mary Komasa. Shot in 16mm.

More great work from New York City-based director Kyle Thrash (previously featured here), this time for the band Rainbow Kitten Surprise from Boone, North Carolina. Part-documentary part-music video, “Hide” follows four drag queens in Louisiana as they share who they are with the people in their lives (some for the very first time).

So many gorgeous shots in this poetic meditation by London/Los Angeles-based director and photographer Savanah Leaf. Speaking to two specific cases that changed the culture of the South — the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin — “The Ayes Have It” offers a mixed-race woman’s perspective on racial discrimination and justice in America.

A film by Savanah Leaf
Executive Producers: Todd Boss, Egg Creative, Claire McGirr
Producer: Edward Freeman
Director of Photography: Joel Honeywell
Editor: Pete Fullarton
In Association with: Stink Films

“The Ayes Have It,” a poem by Tiana Clark. ©2012 Tiana Clark. Used by permission. This poem first appeared in Raven Chronicles.

Story by Savanah Leaf

Starring:
Ayesha McMahon
Isiah Chambers
Ajani Johnson–Goffe
Olivia Bright
Harry Tibble
Connie Freeman
Skyla Wilson
Ayaana Aschkar-Stevens
Mulan Itoje
Pippa Christian
Laurence Sessou
Jason Ryall
Victoria Blauss

Voiceover: Malina Tirrell

Casting by:
Savanah Leaf
Tytiah Blake

Assistant Director: Sophia Dembitzer
First Assistant Camera: Andrew Bradley, Ondrej Rybar
Second Camera Assistant: Carmen Pellón Brussosa
Steadicam Operator: Jake Whitehouse
Camera Trainee: Kairo Jones, Vivien Goddard-Stephens
Gaffer: Ben Miller

Art Department: Georgia Charter
Hair: Susy Etionsa
Make-Up: Yvette Francesca
Stylist: Sophia Dembitzer
Associate Producer: Andrew Levene (Stink Films)
Colorist: Oisin O’Driscoll (The Mill)
Producer: Dan Kreeger
Sound Design: Ben Chick
Foley Editor: Sophia Hardman
Re-Recording Mixer: Will Miller
Voiceover Recorded by Warren Latimer
Voiceover Directed by Alison Leaf
Music: “_____45______” by Bon Iver
Written & Preformed by Michael L Lewis, Justin Deyarmond, Edison Vernon
Courtesy of Jagjaguwar
Musical Consultant: We Are Theordore

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

A fun horror throwback with a feline twist by Minneapolis-based filmmaker Chris Jopp. “Meow” follows a young woman, a cat and a series of strange, and increasingly bloody, occurrences.