A fantastically strange video for Lithuanian post-punk band Solo Ansamblis by director Gintarė Minelgaitė aka Dr. Goraparasit. Synthesizing performance art, multimedia and theatre, “Baloje” offers up a cautionary tale about the power of man based on the myth of Icarus. The video follows an Icarus character who commits a brave act that leads to her downfall. The tower from which she leaps also holds symbolic significance for Lithuanians as it references the television tower in Vilnius’ micro-district of Karoliniškės where Lithuania bravely (and tragically) fought for its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. As Gintarė explains further:

“There are more four characters next to Icarus are his angels guardians that are created from being inspired by Dutch Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting, Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) – theme of ‘good versus evil’. Furthermore, in this music video I question the idea of perverse understanding of freedom and captivity, through the direct representation of sea mammals shows, training and hunting. Characters in the music video are all dressed in latex designed costumes. Latex in all of my artworks symbolizes second skin – sensitivity, that I believe is lost in many cases… Ping Pong racket is my interpretation of the self in the eyes of the other – strong existential notions – the idea of stillness while being in the middle of the game with other (‘in a misty gloom one can see my hand / In a misty gloom I can see my hand’).”

Starring
Susana Abdulmajid
Ričardas Myka
Edgaras Miliauskas
Lyja Maknavičiūtė
Milda Vyšniauskaitė

Written, Directed & Edited by Dr. Goraparasit
DOP: Laurynas Lukoševičius
Editing & Colour grading: Karolis Labutis
Illustrator: Edvinas Špetas
Animator: Paula Abrechtaitė
Illustration/animation: Dr. Goraparasit
Art Direction: Dr. Goraparasit
Costume/Set Design: Dr. Goraparasit
Costume Pattern/Design Assistance: Patricija Minelgaitė
Costume/Set Making Assistance/Muscle Scultping: Emilija Pačiūnaitė
Costume/Set Making Assistance: Andrėja Puskunigytė
Make-up & Hair: Dr. Goraparasit
Make-up & Hair Assistance: Jelena Hellenj, Ainė Skudutytė
Director’s Assistant: Milda Vyšniauskaitė
Director’s Assistant: Marijus Mažūnas
Movement & Acting Training Workshop: Dr. Goraparasit
Choreography Workshop: Violeta Da Queen

Special Thanks: Latga, Cinevera, Avelė studio, Julius Navagruckis, Scenos darbai

Producers: Damn Good / Dr. Goraparasit

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

A man insists on being furniture for his wife in this delightfully odd short written and directed by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Randall Maxwell.

Starring
Keene McRae
Rhian Rees
James Earl

Director: Randall Maxwell
Writer: Randall Maxwell
Producer: Christina Lee
Executive Producer: Andrew Laurich, Randall Maxwell
Co-Producer: Ben Rosenblatt, Natalie Sakai
Associate Producer: Craig Archibald
Cinematographer: Filip Vandewal
UPM: Christina Lee
1st AD: Ian Thomas
Production Asst: McLean Mills
1st AC: Nicholas Martin
2nd AC: Alan Certeza
Camera Asst: Alicia Blair
Costume Designer: Patsy Gelb
Hair & Makeup: Taylor Langos
Art Coordinator: Todd Edminston
Art provided by: Susan Foster, Kent Maxwell
Grip & Electric: Gonzalo Digenio, Caleb Harris, Josh Dierks
Production Sound Mixer: Ben Templin
Editor: Randall Maxwell
Music: Jacob Faulkner
Visual Effects Artist: Chris VanArtsdalen
Post-Production Sound Mixer: Rob Tremain
Additional Sound Design: Justin Grizzoffi
Poster Art provided by Susan Foster
Poster Design by Mandy Eastley

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

A lonely gannet falls in love with a concrete statue in this wonderful animated short by Natasza Cetner. “Nigel” is Cetner’s graduation film from the Royal College of Art in London and is based on a true story of a seabird on Mana Island. Cetner states: “His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.”

Animation & Direction by Natasza Cetner
Production Company: Royal College of Art
Sound Design: Yiannis Spanos
Sound Mix: Yin Lee
Animation Assistants:
Kyle Peyton, Tanaka Tiriboyi, Joao Gonzalez,
Sahanshil Dangol, Cassie Amis, Becky Vickars,
Gary Wilson, Melanie Campbell, Silvia Zubrinic,
Asheila Amara, Flora Caulton, Voltaire Joshua Gonzalez

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Lots of lovely shots in this video for Berel by Los Angeles-based director Christian D.K. Long. Featuring cinematography by Andrew Yuyi Truong (previously featured here), “Before You Go” explores the connection between two lovers through space, water, light, and movement — with one representing a guiding light through the cycles of grief into a world of acceptance and healing for the other.

Starring
Berel
Kanea Blockland
Sarumun Hagher
Rhea Sikhand

Written & Directed by Christian D.K. Long
Producer: Loan Hoang
Director of Photography: Andrew Yuyi Truong
Production Designer: Julija Fricsone
Colorist: Gabe Sanchez

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

Great energy to this experimental short by Québec-born, California-based filmmaker Benoit Lalande. Featuring surfer Alex Smith and the eccentric landscapes of Africa, the latest Nomád video offers a sequel to the pairs previous Hawaii edit. Working their way from Walvis Bay, Namibia to Port Elizabeth, South Africa over the course of 3 weeks, their goal was to create something different, as Lalande explains:

“The surf films we see every day are pretty repetitive in my opinion, and I love being able to go completely against the grain with these Nomád videos. That’s basically our direction for this series: do whatever people haven’t done in this industry. I’m sure not showing full waves and using super intense music is a turn off to many people, but we’re just trying to do something different, regardless of criticism.”

Check out “Nomád Africa” above as well as some behind-the-scenes images from the shoot below!

Director & DP: Benoit Lalande
Editor: Benoit Lalande
Aerial cinematography: Ryan Hill & Benoit Lalande
Water cinematography: Benoit Lalande
Additional footage: Michael Veltman
Surfer: Alex Smith
Supported by Imperial Motion & RS Surfboards

Benoit Lalande’s Website

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Marian Hill question their memories as they travel through rooms of their subconscious in this surreal video directed by Mitch deQuilettes (previously featured here) and Bel Downie.

Directed by Mitch deQuilettes & Bel Downie
Production Company: HK Corp
Executive Producer: Sarah Lee
Producer: Christine Melton
Director of Photography: Scott Siracusano
Creative Direction: Bel Downie
Production Design: Kevin Lowry
Production Design Assistant: Blake Broderick
Styling: Jessica Worrell
Choreography: Genna Moroni
Hair: Malcolm Marquez
Makeup: Brittany Leslie
PA: Brooke Olsen
BTS: Lance Williams
1st AC: Quinton Rodriguez
Steadicam: Jose Espinoza
Gaffer: Sebastian Johnson
Key Grip: Timothy Watson
Swing: Connor Burns
Escarpment Studios: Christopher Naab
Label Platoon: Charlotte Baker
Artist Management: Ardie Farhadieh & Max Movish

Dancers:
Sarah Prinz
Dezmin Staley
Vinny Balbo
BJ Paulin
Gina Luccia
Anastasia Bachykala
Kanea Blokland
Julia Rad

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

Nice intensity and build-up to this video for Wax Chattels by New Zealand-based director Dylan Pharazyn. “Career” follows a young woman who disturbs dark forces while out making sound field recordings.

Directed by Dylan Pharazyn
Producer: Emma Mortimer
Director of Photography: Adam Luxton
Featuring: Crystal
Editor: Dylan Pharazyn
Colourist: Adam Luxton
Visual Effects: Stu Bedford
Art Director: Svet Mateev
1st AD: Hellen Robinson
Grip / Gaffer: Spencer Locke-Bonney
1st AC: Michael Paletta
2nd AC: Miten Raichura
Wardrobe: Helen Young-Loveridge
Funding: NZonAir

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

A rupture occurs within the facade of a special performance in this delightfully glitchy video for Declan McKenna’s track “Beautiful Faces” by director Will Hooper of London-based Blink.

Director: Will Hooper
Producer: Rosie Brear
Exec: Laura Northover
Commissioner: Michael Lewin
Production Company: Blink
DOP: Stephan Yap
Production Manager: Rachel Bashford
1st AD: Ty Hack
Focus Puller: Marcus Albertsen
Loader: Jomar O’Meally
Steadicam: Josh Brooks
Gaffer: Will Pope
Spark: Ana Krkljus
Spark: Caio Dias
Spark: Sam Baker
DIT: Stephen Evans
Rigger: Lee Doran
Grip: Llewellyn Harrison
Sound Recordist: Max Berridge
Runner: Max McLaclan
Runner: Miles Lacey
Production Designer: Laura Little
Art Department: Francis Styles
Art Department: Tom Quinton
Scenic Painter: Melisa Wickham
Stylist: Michael Darlington
Hair & Makeup: Jackie Tyson
Editor: Sam Allen @ Speade
Colourist: Richard Fearon @ Black KitePost
Post Producer: Tamara Mennell
Flame: Jack Stone
3D Artist: Alfie Dwyer
Sound Designer: Alexander Wells
Blink Productions

Cast:
Dannan Breathnach
Gabbi King
Will Bishop
Nathan Cox
Isabel Torres

Special Thanks:
Centerstage Studio
Take 2 Films
Quinton Drums

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

Great little twist to this fun short written and directed by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Kirsten Hoang. “Blades of Fury” follows a couple whose relationship comes to a head in the middle of a grocery store parking lot.

Starring
Dylan Sharon
Delaney Marchant
Mike Nelli

Written & Directed by Kirsten Hoang
Cinematography by Cooper Finn
Production Design by Jenna Brewer
Edited by Kirsten Hoang
Music by Scott Johnson

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

A wonderfully retro video for The Strokes by writer-director Mike Burakoff. Co-produced with Benjy Brooke (previously featured here), “At The Door” pays homage to mature animated films of the 70s/80s, specifically Watership Down, Heavy Metal and Time Masters. As Brooke explains further:

“Like Heavy Metal, we approached production as a pseudo-anthology, but with a core team dictating the storyboards and overall look. Additional sequences were produced by 2veinte in Buenos Aires, and Remembers Productions in Paris. The film debuted at Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Rally on February 10, with a performance by The Strokes. The look is intentionally retro, but the goal was to capture our contemporary feelings of anxiety and doom, with a call to action to fight for a more hopeful collective future.”

Written & Directed by Mike Burakoff
Produced by Mike Burakoff & Benjy Brooke
Animation Director: Benjy Brooke
Storyboards: Benjy Brooke & Adam Henderson
Design Leads: Benjy Brooke, Adam Henderson, Mathieu Bétard,
Adam Sillard, Kelsi Phung, Pete Sharp, Victorin Ripert
Typography: ADco
Animators: Benjy Brooke, Peter Lowey, Maxime Jouniot,
Adam Henderson, Adam Sillard, Jose Luis Rosado,
Tyler DiBiasio, Tucker Klein, Ryan Plaisance,
Joao Monteiro, Gaurav Wakankar, Shane Dering
Assist & Clean Up: Camille Guillot, Pedram Taghavi, Giulia Riva,
Julia Lama, Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Jose Goyo Moreno
Compositing: Mike Burakoff
Color Script: Agathe Leroux

Megastructure Timeline
Produced by 2veinte
Creative Director: Pablo Gostanian
Executive Producer: Agustin Valcarenghi
Character Design: Diego Polieri
Art Direction: Pablo Gostanian & Diego Polieri
Postproduction Coordinator: Florencia Cruz
Animation Director: Diego Polieri
Animators: Diego Polieri, Fernando Toninello,
Israel Giampietro, Lisandro Schurjin
Assist & Clean Up: Adrian Peralta, Facundo Garcia, Agostina Salvemini,
Lisandro Schurjin, Eugenia Beizo, Sebastian Garcia,
Facundo Brunella, Yazmin Hanna
Background Design: Sike
Background Paint: Ivan Olszevicki, Nahuel Sagarnaga, Ailen Sbrizza
Compositing, 3D & VFX: Facundo Brunella & Mateo Vallejo

1982 Cosmonaut Timeline
Produced by Remembers
Design: Ugo Bienvenu
Layouts: Ugo Bienvenu
Animators: Ugo Bienvenu, Felix Kerjean, Hugo Lemonnier
Compositing: Ugo Bienvenu
Production Company: MBX

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

Love this video for orion sun by New York City-based directors Josh Sondock and Sam Cutler-Kreutz (previously featured here). Shot by Andrea Gavazzi, “coffee for dinner” follows an astronaut who finds herself alone in a barren, snow-swept world she hardly recognizes.

Directors: Josh Sondock & Sam Cutler-Kreutz
Cinematographer: Andrea Gavazzi
Creative Director: orion sun
Colorist: Parker Jarvie & Company 3
Co-producers: Nick Jones & Adam Braun
Sound Designer: Bobb Barito
Executive Producer: Michael Klein & Circadian Pictures
VFX/Executive Steam Producer: Brendan Regan
Gaffer: Stefan Nachmann
Steadicam: Kyle Derry
1st Assistant Camera: Brendan Bequette
Production Coordinator: Jay Rosenstein
G&E: Renzo Castro, Eric Bujnowski & Eren Gedikoglu
Hair/Makeup: Yukie Nammori
Production Assistants: Joshua Lovins, Lily Mars, Miranda Barrigan

Special Thanks: Zubeyda Muzeyyen, Ron & Laureen Kobli,
Mayor Brad Mhyre, Brendan Shepherd, Geoff & Isaac Stanley,
JR Hoff, Early Bird Coffee, The People of Frenchtown & Milford New Jersey,
Rob Castagna, Mayor Henry Schepens, Karen Dysart, The Ship Inn, John & Kristin Schwarz,
The Potager, Allen’s Antiques, Kristin Anthony, Gregg Gehrlein, Erika Bianconi,
Andrew Tiffen, Allie Tsuchiya, Jason Sondock, Simon Davis, Nate Katz,
Faviola Rivas, David Cutler-Kreutz, Abby Draper, Wes Brooks, Global Effects Inc.,
Jonathan Zhang, Handheld Films, Anne Hubbell, Yolanda Crocker,
Eastman Kodak, Haley Chitambar, Jack Rizzo, Metropolis Post,
Company 3, Circadian Pictures, Syd Hard, Alexis Brown,
September Management, Mom & Pop.

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

A group of depressed clowns go through therapy together in this offbeat video for Circa Waves’ track “Sad Happy” by directing duo Ian Bousher and Theo Gee (previously featured here).

Starring
Kieran Shudall
Sam Rourke
Joe Falconer
Colin Jones

Director: Bousher & Gee
Producer: James Norbury
Production: Zebrafish Media
Production Manager: Jens Nielsen
Production Runner: Alex Felstead
1st Assistant Director: Jonny Pickup
2rd AD: Giulia Balsamo
Runner: Jasmin Goken
DOP: Alex Metcalfe
Camera Operator: Jack Gyori
Focus Puller: Zach Rodgers
Trainee: Matt Ford
Art Director: Jenny Dee
Costume Designer: Anya Magee
Costume assistant: India Rawsthorn
Make Up Artist: Tamara Gitter
Make Up Assistant: Anna Cichon
Make Up Trainee: Claire Golby
Edit: Richard Lozberg
Colour: Sebastian Ziabka
Record Label: Prolifica Inc.

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