The first episode of Behind the Soul, a series offering an intimate look at artists and the worlds in which they’re immersed. For this instalment Paris-based filmmaker Hugo Bembi explores the everyday gestures of dancer Jeremy Alberge as he reflects on his time the Middle East, specifically his experience with the Vertigo Dance Company in Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Directed, Produced & Edited by Hugo Bembi
Sound editing: Julien Villa
Music from the album “New Dawn” by Itamar Erez & Yshai Afterman
Thanks to: Vertigo Dance Company

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

Tons of great shots in this video by director Damien Chapelle for PROPE’s track with Echo Collective. Love the way a simple movement or prolonged hesitation completely transforms the mood. Check out “Void” above and see credits below.

Two teens in a flat.
Fire and dance spread the time.
no moon , no sun
just swoon and bun.

Directed by Damien Chapelle
DOP: Florian Berutti
Editing: Julien Ramirez Hernan
Cast: Yona and Bram
VOID on OGASM Records

This is just one of the many fantastic submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like to share with us!

Love the style of this animated short by London-based illustrator and animator Daniel Stankler. Created as his graduation film from the Royal College of Art, “Should You Meet A Lady In A Darkened Wood” mixes a classic fairytale aesthetic with a narrative analogy to modern dating and our taxidermist-esque tendency to objectify one another, collecting likes and matches, without necessarily engaging with the person at all. As Stankler explains further:

“The film was animated entirely frame by frame in Photoshop, and I took design inspiration from mid-century illustrators like Mary Blair, whose work on early Disney concept art I’ve loved for as long as I can remember. I wanted to use the Disney illustration style to highlight the ways in which the film undermines fairytale tropes — it’s dark, has a protagonist who’s also a serial killer, features a Damsel who refuses to be distressed.”

Watch above and check out the moodboard Stankler created during the early stages of the project below!

Direction & Animation by Daniel Stankler
Narration:Seb Carrington and Alice Bounsall
Music/Sound Design: Zing Audio

Daniel Stankler’s Website

Daniel Stankler on Vimeo

Daniel Stankler on Instagram

A transfixing audiovisual collaboration between London-based motion design studio Mr Kaplin and Mount Audio (previously featured here). Part of their ongoing Forms series, this instalment sees Mount Audio enlisting violinist/violist Mallory Hamm to help with “Forms VIII”‘s brooding score. The visuals are based on the idea of ‘the evolution of form’ through nature, the development of advanced technological structures and into a dystopian future.

Gorgeous visuals for Brandon Banks’ track “Blue” by Los Angeles-based director and cinematographer Jacob “Kuba” Bojsza. The song is based on Banks’ personal feelings of uncertainty, self-questioning and the need to constantly assess whether or not the path he’s on is the right one. As he explains:

“I feel stuck in a weird space where nothing is moving forward, or backward, where I’m doing things I used to dream about, but at the same time making a lot of mistakes that constantly derail my life in various ways. I had to name this weird place I constantly found, and find myself in today. The Blue is what came to mind.”

Watch above and see full credits below!

Starring:
Minji
Robb Morris
Devin Lamon
Mrs. Nicholson

Director/DP: Jacob “Kuba” Bojsza
Producers: Natalya Yonathan, Matthew Mucci, Nick Shaya
Selection MGMT: Alex Remes, Jeremy Grinberg
AP/1st AD: Matias Letelier
Cam Op/Loader: Drey Singer
1st AC: Grant Friesen
2nd AC: Amanda Petrone
2nd Unit Cam Op: Sterling Adgate
2nd Unit 1st AC: Sara Robin
Gaffer: Mario Hurtado
Key Grip: Adam Senn
HMU Artist: Fara Conley
Stylist: William Breveard
BTS: Andrea Dosuoto
Colorist: Jack Tashdjian

This video was submitted by Jacob “Kuba” Bojsza and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

An intimate documentary short by artist/director Jessica Bishopp. Created for the Barbican’s Art of Change series, and in response to the theme of identity, “Like Me” explores how teenage girls use social media to construct and curate themselves for an audience of strangers. Really appreciate the frankness of the discussion and non-judgmental tone overall. Check it out above and click here for Barbican’s full interview with Bishopp!

A gorgeously shot film for La Famille Ouellette by Montréal-based director Philippe Grenier (previously featured here). “Kaatunga” follows a young soldier who deserts a mysterious war only to face a different set of challenges — memories and secrets — on his way home.

Starring
Jules-Roy Sicotte
Kelly Caseley
Ryan McCarvill
Logan Fulford
Gordon Cobb
Pierre Lebeau
Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard
and Pascale Bussières

Written, directed and edited by Philippe Grenier
Cinematographer: Benoit Jones-Vallée
Production house: DTO Films
Producer: Mylène Levesque
Fixer: Jeff Eagar
First ac: Philippe Auger
Art direction: Mathilde Beaudoin-Tessier
Stylist: Corinne Fortin
Color grading: Simon Boisx
VFX: Philippe Toupin
Sound mixing: Jean-Sébastien Houle

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

More colourful-yet-unnerving visuals for Thom Yorke from Bristol-based artist Ruffmercy (previously featured here).

A young introvert takes a break from her solitude in this experimental fashion short by 21-year-old filmmaker Jane Inyang from Canberra, Australia.

A film by Jane Inyang
Starring Yana Edwards
DP: Samuel Vines
1st Assistant: Tahsin Rahman
Stylist: Elle Hioe

This video was submitted by Jane Inyang and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project of your own you’d like us to check out!

Nice supernatural elements in this video for Meg Myers’ track “Jealous Sea” by director Clara Aranovich (previously featured here).

A young man comes of age through an unexpectedly poetic collision of nature and a rural Suffolk speedway in this stunning short by London-based filmmaker Jon E Price (previously featured here).

Starring Arthur Salisbury
Written & Directed by Jon E Price
DOP: Joel Honeywell
AC’s. Kairo Jones & Dan Miles
Editor. Elise Butt
Casting. Gabrielle Lawrence
Styling. Jenny Gardiner
Sound Design & Mix. Jake Ashwell
Studio Producer. Antonia Vlasto
Colourist. Toby Tomkins
Post Producer. Franky Chadwick
Titles. Wild Ilk
Music by Koreless

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

Love this video for AMB and Moss Hillson’s collaborative track by directors MXWLL & William Miller. Featuring dancers Nicole Hastings and Ryan Hayes, “Spring” tells the story of two lovers stuck on a loop and animated by music. Choreographer by London-based dancer India Hope.