A woman searches for the source of an unusual light that passes through her house in this video for Daily J’s track “Rocket” by New Zealand-based director Josiah Watson (previously featured here).

Starring Emily Keddell
Director: Josiah Watson
DP/Prod: Jake Munro
1st AC: Ethan James
2nd AC: Mckay Findlay
Wardrobe & Art Department: Molly Scott
Runner & Wardrobe Assist: Grace Gemuhluoglu
Gaffer: Rob Kerr
Gaffer assist: Elyse Phee
Stunt coordinator & Rigger: Ike Hamon
Assistant Stunt Riggers: James Smith
Assistant Stunt Riggers: Andrew Miller
SFX: Sam Mehrtens
VFX: Tash Cowin Wells
Colorist: Matic Prusnik

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

Nice look and fittingly confined feel to this video for The Magic Gang’s track “(The World) Outside My Door” by London-based director Joe Wheatley (previously featured here).

Director: Joe Wheatley
DOP: Rik Burnell
1st Assistant Cam: Kai Newton
2nd Assistant Cam: Liam Reardon
Gaffer: Conrad Russell
Editor: Adam Jones
Colourist: Jason Wallis @ Etc
Label: Warner Music

Special Thanks to:
Mike Watson
Machine Shop
One Stop Films
Pixi Pixel
Joseph Bird
Rob Smalley

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

Lovely video for Pillow Queens by director Kate Dolan (previously featured here). In an effort to challenge the kind of hyper-sexualized depictions of queer desire so often presented through the male gaze, “Holy Show” captures the joyful intimacy between queer women through a female lens. As Dolan explains further:

“Myself and the girls are all queer so when they asked me to direct something for Holy Show we all felt it was time that we made a video that had some positive queer representation…. In parts of the video you see these women in isolated spaces without each other. For me this can be interpreted two ways. You could say that they are remembering this road trip as something from their past that they are feeling nostalgic about. But I also like to think that in those scenes those women haven’t met yet and the visions of the road trip are them projecting their desires. I remember as a teenager, before I was fully out, I would often reassure myself that one day I would be free to go where I wanted, to do what I wanted and that I would find someone who loved me as much as I loved them. Those thoughts really kept me going in dark times and I guess I wanted to capture that feeling.”

Starring Eavan Gaffney & Agnes O’Casey
Produced by Invisible Thread Films (Anna Rodgers & Zlata Filipovic)
Director: Kate Dolan
DOP: Evan Barry
1st AC: Camilla Berto Gomez
Gaffer: Fia Wren
Editor: Cara Holmes
Colourist: Michael Higgins
Stunt Car: Shane Regazzoli
Special Thanks to: Hillview B&B in Lusk, Gino’s Takeaway in Lusk,
& Sutton Park School for accommodating us in COVID times!

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

A minimalist visualization of The Enneagram system of personality typing by Doug Alberts and Jonathan Sichak. The animation presents each of the 9 types used to describe how people interpret the world, manage their emotions, and relate to one another.

Direction, Design, Animation: Doug Alberts
Animation & Design: Jonathan Sichak
Sound & Music: Ambrose Yu

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

Nice look to this video for Arlo Parks by London-based director and photographer Molly Burdett⁣⁣. Set in a hyper-real world, “Hurt” explores feelings of loneliness and insecurity, confusion and disconnection, as Arlo’s dreamy voice acts as a guide.

Director: Molly Burdett⁣⁣
Editor & VFX: Oskar Brockbank ⁣⁣
DOP: Miles Ridgway ⁣⁣
Production Company: Black Eye Films ⁣⁣
Producers: Ed Fairweather & Spencer Young ⁣⁣
1st AC: George Telling⁣⁣
Stedicam: Jake Mcclean⁣⁣
Loader: George Beattie ⁣⁣
Gaffer: Kit Wood⁣⁣
Spark: Shaun Waldie⁣⁣
Spark: Charles Power⁣⁣
Spark: Luke Hambly⁣⁣
Spark: Anthony Matthews ⁣⁣
Starring: Saidu Kargbo⁣⁣
Art Director: Alicia Howitt⁣⁣
Stylist: Suzie Walsh ⁣⁣
Hair & Make Up: Lauren Webster⁣⁣
Colourist: Jess Vile⁣⁣
Label: Transgressive ⁣⁣
Management: Beatnik

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

A delightful meditation on the uncertainty and absurdity of life by Vancouver-based director Kasey Lum (previously featured here).

“Brava challenges our perceptions: of the antiquated and modern, the then and now, and the permanent and temporary — a constant push and pull between our beliefs and our reality. Just when we think we know what will happen next, our expectations are broken.”

Starring:
Lara Secord
Stephen McNaughton
Marissa Fernando
Jordan Cooper

A Film by Kasey Lum
Cinematographer: Bryn McCashin
Hair/Makeup: Nadia Hoecklin
Production Assistant: Jordan Clarke
Transport: Matt Prior
Wardrobe: Araceli Ogrinc
Flower Picker: Alannah Kennedy
Onset Sound: Charles Adams
Sound Design: Oscar Vargas
Colour: Sam Gilling
Special Thanks: Brightside Cinema, Primary Imaging

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

A beautiful visualization of the paranoia that follows the end of a toxic relationship for McCall’s track “One Eye Open.” Directed and edited by Lauren Cabanas, with cinematography by Haley Min Young Kreofsky. Watch above and see full credits below!

Director & Editor: Lauren Cabanas
Cinematographer & Colorist: Haley Min Young Kreofsky
Production Design: Jocelyn Lee
Gaffer: Robert Hunter
Electric: Peter Murphy
VFX: Carter Green

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

A delirium-induced fata morgana brings together two lone friends in this trippy video for Elderbrook’s track “Why Do We Shake In The Cold?”.  Directed by Jára Moravec and produced by Cardel (previously featured here), the visuals are meant to be a timely reminder of the invisible habits and patterns that inform our decisions and impact our lives.

Featuring Antonín Ničovský & Daniel Vitešník
Director: Jára Moravec
DoP: Filip Marek
Executive Producer: Carla Mooney & Delwyn Mooney
Producer: Mojaš Perović
Edit: Katarina Gramatová
Production Manager: Klára Plechsson
1AD: Kristýna Rousková
1AC: Jan “Hofajz” Hofmann
2AC: Richard Krejza
Set Dressing: Helena Liška, Václav Bejlek
Props: Farid Beyzai, Martin Žerdík
Ronin op: Anton Endovshenko
Drone op: Vojtěch Pollák
Gaffer: Tomáš Volter
Electrician: Roman Lety Jabůrek
Costumes/MUP: Aneta Boháčová
Catering: Lenka Egrtová
Transport: Jan Salvet

Production Company: Cardel
Service Production Company: Bistro Films
Thanks to: Lokační.cz, Ondřej Novák, Martin Svoboda,
Rosťa Samec, Věra Bechyňová, Mr. Šimánek

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

Great video for Sydney-based band Fig (previously featured here). Directed by singer Timothy Burnett, an executive producer and director at Entropico, “Smog” is described as ‘an exorcism of the repetitive’ as it reflects the track’s themes of monotony through a visual diary of the band recording the song. The video was shot by Burnett’s frequent collaborator, cinematographer Grégoire Lière, and inspired by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski as well as Lière’s own photography.

Directed, Produced & Edited: Timothy Burnett
DOP: Grégoire Lière
1AC: Pat Wiecks
Production Design: Rachel Mackay
Titles Animation: Simon Jackman
Colourist: Yanni Kronenberg

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

Lovely portrait of an uplifting social justice project from Brooklyn-based director Andrew Price. The sidewalk sale in Greenpoint has generated over $100,000 in donations to social justice organizations in just 5 Sundays. Check out “A Sidewalk Story” above!

Directed by Andrew Price
Director of Photography: Steven Mastorelli
Editor: Sophia Lou
Additional 16mm: Paco
Composer: Michael Beharie
Cellist: Teddy Rankin-Parker
Sound: Bobb Barito
Colourist: Mikey Rossiter
Title Design: Jason Wilkins

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

A simple yet powerful reminder from filmmaker Chris Carboni. “The story of unarmed black people killed by police in the US is really the story of systemic racism in this country. It’s the story of how the systems put in place to protect citizens can often yield the opposite result for many. It’s the story of Americans killed by America, and it’s a story that needs a new ending.”

Created by Chris Carboni
Music and Sound Design by Ambrose Yu

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

Director Adhel Arop investigates her mother’s experience as a child soldier in South Sudan in this documentary short. Commissioned by STORYHIVE — a platform which supports BC and Alberta-based creators — “Who Am I?” explores the effects of war, trauma, and ultimately the things that define us.

“When people look at our story the thing I wanted to avoid was that gaze of ‘poor you’, and look at it like how did you overcome such an obstacle. What made you, what drove you, to see past the sadness and see past the pain and the hurt and be able to gather strength to move forward everyday. As a second generation, this is my mother’s story, and I want you to not look at us with sympathy in your eyes and sadness, we are strong women and we overcame a lot, and we are going to continue to overcome, and we’re not going to let the world’s obstacles take us down. The only way to do that is to stand together, use each other’s voices. My mom has used me as a way to speak because she can’t.”

An image of Adhel and her mother.

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