Another cinematic piece from by Paris-based director ALIX (previously featured here), this time for French duo Elyo & Assaf aka Changerz. Set in a parallel world where music has been banned, “Silence” follows those with nothing left to lose.

Directed by : ALIX
DOP: Clément Arenou
Produced By: Ubiquity Films & Rhinocéros Production
Editors : Bissane Kim & Alexis Benot
Color Grader : Thibaut Pétillon
Sound Design: Charles Darnaud
Label : GUM
Line Producer : Julie Peloso
1st AD : Bastien Janik
Location Manager : Arthur Voit
Costume Supervisor : Solène Richard
Costumer : Galeane Martinez
Head Make Up Artist : Chloé Demoussis
Make Up FX : Lisa Michalik
Make Up Assistant : Charlie Lambert
Post Production : Captain Prod & Trafic d’Image
1st AC : Raphael Aprikian
2nd AC : Alexandre Agoguet
Key Grip : Robin Gaillard
Grip : Louis Mikulic
Gaffer : Pierre Corvaisier
Best Boy : Thomas Lefourn
Best Boy : Romain Guest
Set Design : Alexandra Jin de Sedouy
Set Design Assistant : Hakim Sahiri
Set Design Assistant : Shayma Aribi
Camera / Lighting Equipment : Skintones & RVZ

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 animation for experimental trumpeter Stephanie Richards by Mexico City-based animator Cossa. Produced by Pomp&Clout.

A charming short by New Delhi-born director Pranav Bhasin. Inspired by the inherent humour of living in a city where public urination and disorganized lamp posts make an evening stroll “similar to playing Temple run,” the plot of the film is similarly drawn from Pranav’s personal experience. As he further explained to us:

“My birthday lies on the same date as New Years, so my social anxiety generally starts to peak a week prior, as the city lights up for Christmas.” 

Produced on a small budget, with a tiny crew and a lot of takes, the film follows a young man navigating the streets of Mumbai and the equally rocky terrain of modern romance. Check out “New Years Eve” above as well as a few behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot below!

Written & Directed by Pranav Bhasin
Performed by Arnav Bhasin
Director of Photography: Ayush Agarwal
Producer: EnterDLP
Assistant Cameraman: Karan Sharma
Assistant Directors: Satyam Samantray, Yash Chaudhary

Pranav Bhasin’s Website

Pranav Bhasin on Vimeo

Pranav Bhasin on Instagram

Really nice energy to this short piece by director Nick Harmsen of Since ’88 and cinematographer Douwe Hennink (previously featured here). Teaming up with photographer Fauve Bouwman and Stieglitz, “Morocco” offers a stunning mix of fashion, landscape and adventure.

Director: Nick Harmsen & Douwe Hennink
DOP: Douwe Hennink
Producer: Daan Dagevos
Edit: Nick Harmsen
Grading: Erik van den Heuvel
Music: Boy Bianchi – Modern Day Composers
Client: Pien Stieglitz & Fauve Bouwman

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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

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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

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