A woman gets swept up into a world of pelicans and chaos in this video for Rubblebucket’s track “Annihilation Song” by Los Angeles-based animator/director Amanda Bonaiuto. Love her style so much — click here to check out previous posts of Bonaiuto’s work, if you haven’t already!

Really enjoy the purposeful chaos of this video for Interpol’s track “If You Really Love Nothing” by Bahraini director Hala Matar. Starring Kristen Stewart and Finn Wittrock.

A charming animation with surprising depth by Tisha Deb Pillai of Vancouver-based studio Good Bad Habits. “If You Fall” tells the story of a young girl learning how to ride a bicycle as her family struggles to adjust to non-traditional parental roles at home.

A stunning video for Conner Youngblood by long-time collaborator Oslo/LA-based director Johannes Greve Muskat. Shot on location in a Ukrainian willow forest outside Kiev, “Cheyenne” captures the physical manifestation of heartbreak in one solemn shot.

Directed by Johannes Greve Muskat
Exec. producer: Conner Youngblood
Exec. producer: Olga Belich
Line producer: Anastasia Grigorash
Steadicam op: Anton Lukashenko
PA: Anna Tsilitsinska
Stylist: Ksenia Kornitskaya
1st AD/focus puller: Anastasia Kulikalova
FX crew Ukraine: Shvets Oleg, Orlov Artem, Nazarenko Alexander

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

Great video for J Bengoy by Burlington-based director Kayhl Cooper. Shot in two days in northern Vermont with a two-person crew, “Armchair” brilliantly explores the track’s themes of apathy and ending up nowhere. While borrowing a broken-down armchair from a friend, and towing it around in the back of a pickup truck sounds fittingly tedious, the project was, ironically, an invigorating break from the daily pressures and mind-numbing work Kayhl was struggling under at the time. As he explained further to us:

“The band originally sent me this song in the winter of 2017. Winter in Vermont (where I live) is a heavy thing. It can be suffocating. The concept snapped into my head almost immediately, and I was able to storyboard the whole thing that night. We wanted the video to feel like busting loose, like a guttural scream, like a crescendo of complacency.”

Watch “Armchair” above! Credits below.

Written & Directed by Kayhl Cooper
Cinematographer: Jack Whitney
Band: J Bengoy – Justin Barton, Charlie Hill,
Ryan Jory, Patrick Freeman, Greg Dallas

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!

Channel Tres adds a bit of colour to his hometown of Compton in the video for “Jet Black” by director Anthony Sylvester of NYC/LA-based studio CUTSDATFLO.

Directed by Anthony Sylvester
Cinematographer: Drew Saracco
Asst. Director: Gian Carlo Tovar
Asst. Camera: Evan Stulc
Gaffer: Henry Grenier
Edited by Anthony Sylvester and Ian Friedman
Executive Producer: Nick Sylvester
Record Label: Godmode Records

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The consequences of a heated argument play out in reverse in this video for Satellite Mode by New York City-based photographer and filmmaker Alex Michael Kennedy.

Directed by Alex Michael Kennedy
Producer: Lottie Abrahams
Director of Photography: Isaac Berner
Editor: Alex Michael Kennedy, Lottie Abrahams
1st AC: Johnny Frohman
Production Designer: Alis Atwell
Costume Design: Caitlin McKenzie
Sound Design: Kyle Schmidt
Colorist: Matthew Greenberg at Irving Harvey

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

Director Gosia Herman pairs old Hollywood-style antiquity and classic musicals sets with an ultra contemporary cast to create a dreamy place detached from time and space. Check out her director’s cut for Żabson’s track “Trapollo”above and credits below!

Cast:
Żabson, Ina Hennig, Julia Janulewicz,
Ola Kaczmarek, Ola Korytowska, Sasha Miliar,
Natalia Sierzputowska, Patryk Vete Jagi,
Kamil Kubica, Mateusz Purchała

Directed by Gosia Herman
DOP: Michał Dąbal
1AD: Michał Piss
Camera Operator: Tomasz Lechicki
Focus Puller: Zbyszek Szukała
Camera Assistant: Kuba Dobiasz
Grip: Edwin Wolski
Grip: Jacek Rawa Rawecki
Grip: Rafał Kwiatkowski
Gaffer: Łukasz Głaszczka
Light: Robert Stawicki
Light: Bartosz Szymaniak
Light: Marcin Kosiński
Best boy: Rafał Jakubczyk
Best boy: Paweł Bazylewicz
Camera Rental: Panavision Polska, TPS
Light: Heliograf
Technocrane: Grip7
Set design: Wojciech Zbroja, Jakub Kiewicz, Agnieszka Janukanis / OD NIECHCENIA
Set designers on set: Paweł Rosa, Robert Radomski/ OD NIECHCENIA
Special effects: Confettisystems
Hair stylist: Katarzyna Stefania Zalewska
Make-up and hair: Dagmara Wróbel
Make-up assistant: Magdalena Belczarz
Costumes: Paweł Kędzierski
Costume designer assistant: Anita Szymczak
Editor: Mateusz Rybka
Editing cooperation: Bartosz Bretes
Colorist: Piotr Nowicki / Miło
Post-producer: Natalia Grajcer, Dana Sakaieva / Miło
Online: Paweł Falkowski / Coloroffon
Post-production manager: Magdalena Widuch / Coloroffon
Still Photographer: Alicja Kozak
Making of: Patryk Vete Jagi
Catering: Piotr Iwański / Foodclub
Studio: Studio Las
Production: TRUSKAVKA

Special thanks:
Doom 3000, Sandra Kpodonou, Julia Mirny,
MISBHV, MMC Studio, Dawid Florek, Piotr Popiołek

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

Some really stylish moments in this video for AJ Mitchell’s track “Girls” by director Daniel Iglesias Jr. (previously featured here).

Haunting visuals for Denmark/Iceland-based duo Vil (aka Maria Bay Bechmann and Julius Rothlaender) by dancer and artist Klāvs Liepiņš . Described as an effort to capture air — an element that can only be traced in its movement through other things — “Du Er” explores the subtle dynamics of nature through the wanderings of a faceless figure attempting to make the invisible visible.

Video by Klāvs Liepiņš
Creative Cinematographer: Renate Feizaka
Performer: Klāvs Liepiņš
Costume supervisor: Sintija Mēness
Creative Team: Toms Lazdovskis, Sandis Liass, Linda Krumina
Music: Vil – Du er
Iceland, 2018

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

Really nice look and feel to this video for Idles’ track “Great” by Bristol-based filmmaker Theo Watkins (previously featured here). As Watkins wonderfully describes the mood they were going for:

“We wanted this video to reflect the song’s exploration of a certain type of British nostalgia. It had to look like a seaside postcard, smell like a fry-up and taste like your fourth pint of mild on a balmy afternoon.”

Watch above and see credits below!

Directed by Theo Watkins
Producer: Holly Jackson
Director Of Photography: Jamie Harding
Clapper/Loader: Sophie Powell
Clapper/Loader: Chris Pugh
Camera Trainee: Oliver Cane
Stills Photographer: Iain Allchurch
Edited by Theo Watkins of Old Rope Films
Colourist: Dan Moran

Originated on Kodak Vision3 250D & 500T S16mm
Film provided by Frame24
Processing and scanning by Kodak London

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

A fun animated video for De La Soul’s track with 2 Chainz by New York City-based director Kristian Mercado (previously featured here).

Directed by Kristian Mercado
Creative Director: Brandon Hixon
De Tuco
Script: Sawa & Kristian Mercado & Brandon Hixon
Art Direction: Sawa
Character Design: Sawa – Evelin Unfer
Storyboard: Sawa – Evelin Unfer
3D Supervision: Mariano De Apellaniz – Flavio Bianchi
3D Modelling: Mariano De Apellaniz – Flavio Bianchi – Nico Sparnocchia
Rigs: Flavio Bianchi – Nico Sparnocchia
Shading/Texture/Lighting: Mariano De Apellaniz – Nico Sparnocchia
3D Animation: Pablo Lorenzo, Ignacio Fina, Gabriel Firu Sabsay, Flavio Bianchi, Nico Sparnocchia
Edit & Compo: Claudio Langsam – Fernando Sawa
Prelim Design: Kristian Mercado
Producer: Valentín Alen
Executive Producer: Cecilia Di Tirro
Final Edit: Micheal Reuter
Additional 3D support: Fustic. Studio – Trung Bao, Hai Doan, Nam Le
3D artists: David Manzo, Jason Guerrero
2D Animation: Zach Lydon
SFX 2D animation: Tyler Dibiasio

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