Nice little twist to this video for James Arthur written and directed by Andzej Gavriss (previously featured here). Starring Tom Felton and Rachel Kim Cross, “Empty Space” follows the self-destructive path of a man haunted by his past.

Writer & Director: Andzej Gavriss
Executive Producer: Carla Mooney, Delwyn Mooney
Production Company: Cardel
Producer: Delwyn Mooney, Carla Money, Timon Birkhofer
DP: Nick Bupp
Production Designer: Julija Fricsone Gavriss
1st ad: Mike Roque
Wardrobe: Chloe & Chenelle Delgadillo
Hair & Make-up: Laura Raczka
Service Company: Father & Sun
Editor: Niles Howard
Colourist: Aubrey Woodiwiss
Grading Company: Carbon VFX
VFX: Thomas Bailey
Stunts: Ian Eyre

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An ambitious stop-motion clay animation for Montréal-based band Florda by Milan-based artist Gaia Alari. Told through small flashes like old slides, “Brave Little Soldier” spans the entire lifetime of a clay boy, from the beginning of his life to the end. As Alari shared with us:

“while time passes by, technology gets more and more important and normalised in the daily routine, yet somehow humans keep running in circle.”

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Tons of lovely shots in this fashion film for Stieglitz by director Nick Harmsen of Amsterdam-based Since ’88 and cinematographer Douwe Hennink. Shot on the island of Karpathos in Greece, see full credits below. You can also click here to check out Harmsen and Hennink’s previously featured collaboration, “Morocco,” if you haven’t already!

Concept by Douwe Hennink & Nick Harmsen
Production company: Since ’88
Client: Stieglitz
Model: Danika Pienaar

Directed by Nick Harmsen
DP: Douwe Hennink
Producer: Daan Dagevos
Edit: Nick Harmsen & Douwe Hennink
Colorist: Erik van den Heuvel
Music: Joris Titawano
Sound Design: Gijs Domen & Jits Vlaar
Voice: Dusty

Thanks to:
Pien Stieglis
Fauve Bouwman
De Grot
Camalot

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A young car wash attendant struggles to make a living in this video for London band Another Sky by Lebanese-American director Najeeb Tarazi. Set in Los Angeles, where Tarazi is based, “Chillers” stars Jonni Truelove, a non-actor street cast from within the cycling community. Prioritizing a lead with a true ease and intimacy with his bike, Tarazi further explains:

“People think of LA as a car city but there is a huge population of young people who rely on bicycles to get around. The band and I felt that it would be a striking contrast to set a song about the hollow striving of Hollywood to a video about a broke young man who works at a car wash and dreams of fixing his bike.”

Check out “Chillers” above! Full credits below.

Cast
Jonni Truelove
Lauren Anderson
Thomas Wilhoit
Morgan Gruer
Alex Loynaz

Directed & Edited by Najeeb Tarazi
DP: Boyd Hobbs
1st AC: Justin Watson
Color: Kristopher Smale @ MPC LA
Co-produced by Thomas Wilhoit & Tiziano Tucci
Representation by Las Bandas Be Brave
Production Company: More Media

Special Thanks
Los Feliz Hand Car Wash
Carine Tarazi
Alex Mirecki
Jenna Frazier
JP Bolles
Michael Langan

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Nice mix of Super8 loops and 35mm Kodak Gold stills in this video for MEI’s track “Hurrygirl” by London-based director Tom Ringsby (previously featured here). Cinematography by Henry Gill.

Two friends’ attempt to escape The Apocalypse doesn’t quite go as planned in this comical short by writer and director Zeke Farrow. Combining the most dramatic circumstances imaginable, with a group of people completely incapable of dealing with it, the idea for the film emerged from actual conversations between Farrow and his friends back in December 2016. As he recalls:

“Trump had just been elected and it was Christmas party season in Los Angeles! High anxiety was in the breezy desert air. As I caught up with friends and acquaintances over eggnog and bourbon, the conversation kept turning to Apocalypse escape plans. What will we do? How will we get out of LA? Where will we meet? Whose car will we take? The more I had the conversation, the more outlandish the plan I would suggest. This was the seed of the idea for Ride or Die – a super awkward social situation which was a reasonable inevitability given drunken Christmas party hypotheticals.”

Watch above and see full credits below!

Cast:
Zeke Farrow
Christine Woods
Arturo Ortiz
Kristin Slaysman
Tess Niedermeyer

Written & Directed by Zeke Farrow
Produced by Zeke Farrow, April B. Russell, Mark Winters
DOP: Sinziana Velicescu
Production Designer: Joel Rock
Edit: Jules Nurrish
Sound Design: Michael Kross
“Ride or Die Theme Song” by Jason Coulliard & Dustin Stale Cracker

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A short musical fashion piece from Los Angeles-based artist vōx and director Grant Spanier of DAD® (previously featured here). Emerging organically through a sense of mutual admiration, the collaboration resulted in the short film as well as an accompanying series of still photographs. As Spanier states:

“Her aesthetics visually and sonically is so beautiful to me… sort of intimidating and inviting all at once. And I had a vision for the intersection of the themes and aesthetics of our work. At that meeting point — between warm filmic nostalgia and her cool elegance — these images were born. The short film portion features music from vōx and was shot on super 8mm film. The photos were all shot on 6×6 120mm film. This is the first collaboration of many between us, I hope.”

Directed by Grant Spanier
Model: vōx
HMU: Danielle Katherine
Assistant: Lizzie Steimer
Wardrobe: Kinkshame Heathcliff
Music: vōx

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Stunning work by directing duo Ed Braun and Justo Dell Acqua (aka WACHO) from Argentina. Created for Paris-based producer Ateph Elidja, “Burn October” tells the story of life, death and grief in a small Polish settlement in the Argentinean jungle. As Braun shared with us:

“Misiones Province is located in the far north of Argentina, inside the Amazonian jungle. It shares borders with Brazil and Paraguay. All through the second half of the 20th century a lot of Ukrainian, Polish and German families arrived to this area creating colonies and small villages scattered through the jungle, area of the aborigine guarani tribe. In this condition they generated a hybrid culture. We wanted to explore this very improbable culture, especially the idea of death and after-life.”

Watch “Burn October” above. Credits below.

Starring: Pablo Mirwald (Vikingo)
Director: WACHO (Ed Braun & Justo Dell Acqua)

Production (France) : Noside
Production (Argentina) : Pantera & Co
Executive producers: Morgan Prêleur, Rémi Sello, Manu Aguer y Brian Kazez
Dop: Adolpho Veloso
AD: Anabel Leandro
Line Producer: Alberto Ortiz Basualdo
Label commissionner : Pierre Durand
Art Director: Valentina Luppino
Costume Design: Ivi González
Make Up & Hair: Lucrecia Fontana
Casting: Laura Andino
Focus Puller: Diego Mendizabal
2nd Assistant : Francisco Rosso
Gaffer: Juan Pablo Causse
Prop Manager: Lucas Amado
2nd AD: Lucia Lalor
P.A: Heidi Giel
Grading House; BLEACH Sao Paulo
Film Sound Design: Manuel De Andres (Papamusic)
Trailer Sound design: Mateo Yaya (IXYXI)

“BURN OCTOBER” music by Ateph Elidja
Peermusic France / ARMA

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Lovely shots in this video for singer-songwriter Halima’s track “If Love Was Green” by New York City-based director Nina Gofur.

“The concept behind the video is mimicking the stages of turning into a butterfly. You start out bare, in a cocoon and slowly grow into this very beautiful and elusive creature. That is how I see Halima, and other womxn as well. Carrying on our shoulders the power passed down by the generations of womxn before us. In this video, Halima’s Great Great Grandmother’s hands move her into a realm of self discovery and empowerment.”

Watch above and see full credits below!

Featuring Kamau Wainaina & Elizabeth Smith

Directed by Nina Gofur
Producer: Will Frank
Co-Producer: Kylan Tyng
Director of Photography: Isabella Tan
Production Designer: Sonya Stepanova
Assistant Director: Emily Gurland
1st AC: Tommy Chan
2nd AC: Ward Kamel
Gaffer: Ben Davis
Key Grip: Rony Portillo
Stylist: Elena Lark
Makeup: Kamala Johnson
Hair: Monet Jeffries
Insect Wrangler: Dominique Kaplowitz
Editor: Lily Newton
Color: Alexia Salingaros

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A brilliant set of numerical observations by New York City-based designer and animator Gung-Kai Koo. Inspired by all the interesting shapes we encounter on a daily basis, Koo draws attention to the shape of numbers through a series of 40 animated gifs. As he explains:

“By living in NYC there are different kinds of people with different personalities, careers, tastes and lifestyles. I started making numbers design with illustrations of different character’s close-up while observing the variety of the people and surroundings in the city”

Directed by Gung-Kai Koo
Design & Animation: Gung-Kai Koo
Music & Sound: Zing Audio
Additional Music Editing: Gung-Kai Koo

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A wonderful portrait of Los Angeles-based artist Jen Stark by director Ross Haines (previously featured here). In honour of Stark’s new collaboration with Vans for their Customade project, Haines highlights Stark’s interest in fractal imagery, mimetic topographies and sacred geometries through a psychedelic projection display in Joshua Tree National Park. Watch above and see full credits below!

Featuring Jen Stark
Directed by Ross Haines
Sr. Producer: Nate Rogers
Sr. Art Director: Shawn Knight
Sr. Art Director: Ako Jefferson
Creative Director: Matt Even
Project Manager: Kylie Robertson
Producer: Vannie Ly
Production Coordinator: Alex Johnson

Production Co: A-Frames Creative
DP: Chris Zam
AC: John Braderic
Projection Mapping: Cutmod
Sound: Reza Moosavi
Photographer: Tobin Yelland
Original Music: Greg Kuehn @ Peligro
PA: Alex Myers
Hair & Makeup: Golden Shyne
Editor: Bryan Avila
Color: Derek Hansen @ The Mill

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Great look to this video for SG Lewis by director Harvey Pearson (previously featured here). The second part in a trilogy of films for Lewis’ album “Dusk, Dark and Dawn,” check out “Dark” above. You can also click here to see “Dusk,” if you haven’t already!

Starring:
Matilda Lowther
Jayshaun Shaffer
Sebastian Sacco

Directed by Harvey Pearson
DP: Hunter Daly
Producer: Georgia Woolley
Production Company: Villager
1ST AC: Paolo Arriola
Colourist: Rush Wardell @ Electric Theatre
Casting: Tallulah Bernard
Edit: Harvey Pearson
Commissioner: Emily Sonnet
Label: PMR/ Virgin EMI
Fixer: Volt Mediafix
Lab: Kodak London

Thanks to:
Cathy Pierce & Panavision Hollywood
George Rymsey @ Panavision UK
Kodak UK
Antoine Bal

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