Nice sense of the passage of time in this video for Dante Jermaine by London-based animator Jeremy Nixon.

Great look to this video for Hot Flash Heat Wave by Portland-based director Noah Porter (previously featured here). “Grudge” is about the allure of withdrawing from reality in favour of a simulated world. While the West Coast fires earlier this year caused delays that almost prevented the team from being able to use film, the video was ultimately shot on 16mm by cinematographer Scott Uyeda. Both Uyeda and Porter felt strongly that the 4:3 aspect ratio was crucial to the early 2000s, turn-of-the-millennium era they were trying to capture.

Starring Timothy Blanchard & Michelle Gonzales
Directed, Produced & Edited by Noah Porter
Cinematography: Scott Uyeda
Stylist: Stone Jarboe
Gaffer: Joe Bowden
Key Grip: Kanon Havens
Set Design: Noah Porter, Leah Maldonado, Becky Borden
Prop Stylist / Set Dresser: Allie Baumann
Carpenter: Brett Sisun

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

An ethereal follow-up to “ether,” vōx’s previously collaboration with director Grant Spanier. This time around Spanier kept his team small, shooting on 16mm film with his sister assisting. The intimacy of the shoot parallels the delicacy of the track as “This Body” is about ownership, boundaries, and self care, written specifically in response to sexual trauma.

Directed, Shot & Edited by Grant Spanier
B-camera / Camera Assistant: Madeline Spanier
2nd Assistant: Sasha Netchaev

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A lovely short about the uncertainty of adolescence by director Marco Mucig (previously featured here). “Family First” follows a young skater named Marco through the streets of Milan. While he seems to have everything he could wish for — a beautiful girl by his side and friends to share his passions — he’s looking for something else.

Starring
Paolo Skhroba
Eva Lavigna
Ludovico Girardello
Laura De Biasi
Eleonora Siddi
Sabrina Costantini

A Film by Marco Mucig
Cinematography: Edoardo Emanuele
Art Director: Andrea Cippo Rosso
Production Coordinator: Zelda Andreoli
1st Assistant Director: Andrea Colzani
Casting Director: Andrea Cippo Rosso, Valentina Materiale
Costume Designer: Simona Marchini
Steadicam and Gimbal Operator: Federico Vio
1st AC: Rocco Cirifino
2nd AC: Matteo Terzaghi
Gaffer: Enrico Marco Buongiorno
Spark: Francesco Gentili
Sound recordist: Emanuele Pullini
Boom Operator: Michele Brambilla
Makeup Artists: Genny Cecchini
Production Assistant: Gabi Lollato, Robi Siboni
Script collaborators: Davide Angiuli
Editors: Marco Ferrara
Additional editing: Matteo Mossi
VFX Artist: Roberto D’Ippolito
Colourist: Orash Rahnema
Sound Post Production: Lorenzo Dal Ri
Sound Design: Dario Moroldo
Still Photographer: Maurizio Annese
Poster & Title design: Federico Albertini
Filming Equipment: Panalight

Music:
Furtherset “Secrets”.
Courtesy of Iter-Research di Paolo Bigazzi” 2019
Populous “Alala”
Courtesy of Wonderwheel Recordings 2017
L I M “Fire Baby (4 U)”
Courtesy of Peer Music 2018
Populous “Alfama”
Courtesy of Wonderwheel Recordings 2017

Special Thanks:
AIR3 Associazione Italiana Registi, Guido Battaglia, Gianluca Quagliano,
Silvia Orlandi, UBM. Matteo Castronuovo,
Jacopo Farina, Luca Giudici, Nicola Carignani,
Anna Casiraghi, Anna Grassi, Luca Merli,
Roberto Rosolin, Eros Galbiati, Matteo Gallone

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

A group of runaways shed layers of their past selves as they dream of a new beginning in this video for Low Hum’s track “Escape” by Los Angeles-based director and photographer Bianca Poletti.

Directed by Bianca Poletti
Artist: Low Hum
Label: Last Gang Records
Written by Bianca Poletti
Starring: John Hein, Nikki Cano, Sam, Maija E Knapp, Laurel Anne
Shot by: Eric Smith
Produced by: Shayna Gianelli
Edited: Graham Chisholm at Arcade Edit
Color: Michael Gossen at Company 3
Choreography: Maija E Knapp
Line Producer: Julia London
Dir Assistant: Jordan London
Post: Arcade Edit + Timber

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Great offbeat video for Stereopolina about jealousy and its strange consequences. Written and directed by Arseny Kuznetsov, “Last Date” presents a parallel world inspired by late 80s Soviet aesthetics where the object of a young girl’s affection remains out of reach until circumstances mysteriously change.

Written and Directed by Arseny Kuznetsov
Director of Photography: Arseny Kozin
Starring: Zalina Nasyrova, Elgar Guseinov, Anastasia Antonova
Production Manager: Vlada Krylova
Producer Assistant: Evgenya Morozova
Art Director: Adele Ishbulatova
Art Director Assistant: Anita Lyubimova
Set Designer: Ivan Malygin
Focus-puller: Leysan Khazieva
Camera Assistant: Ainur Ainur Galetdinov
Gaffer: Nikita Shchinnikov
Colorist: Dmitry Grigorev
Titles: Ilya Safin
Rental: Fotozoom
Sky Lift: Anvar Safin
Driver: Jamil Khusnullin
Pyrotechnic: David Bulgakov

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

An impressionistic short about a young Japanese-American woman on a seemingly simple quest to track down a specific can of paint for a friend’s boss. Directed by Isaac Ravishankara (previously featured here), and co-written by Ravishankara and the film’s lead Dre Babinski, “Space White” tests the idea that sometimes the simplest stories can provide the richest backdrops.

Directed by Isaac Ravishankara
Written by Dre Babinski & Isaac Ravishankara
Director of Photography: Kevin Hayden
1st AC: Yuya Kudo / Brian Weiland
Locations: John Haggerty
PA: Sarah Vanderwater
Editor: Isaac Ravishankara
Color: Greg Reese (a52)
Sound Design & Mix: Grant Meuers
Original Score: Azniv Korkejian
Title Design: Sebastian Pardo

Cast:
Dre Babinski
Wataru Kudo & Toru Ohmuta
Shu Kakizawa
Shizuka Nagahama
Jessica Lu
Kenjiro Horii

Special Thanks:
Oshi Kunii
Shin Kichi Izakaya
Mitzi Akaha
Ruthie Wyatt
Danny Madden
Pete Ohs
Harumi Babinski

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

Director Haonan Wang creates a delightfully odd world in this dystopian video for Chinese indie band Hedgehog. Inspired by life in quarantine, “Bat” follows a man in search of relief from his day-to-day routine in a mysterious facility run by children.

Director: Haonan Wang
Writer: Haonan Wang, Heran Wang
Producer: Jinming Zhong
Cast: Naughty Xiao
Production Designer: Luyue Meng
Director of Cinematographer: Wenqiang He
Gaffer: Zhengfei Wang
Stylist: Luyue Meng
Wardrobe: Luyue Meng, Huizhen Zhong
Editor: Haonan Wang, Minxing Liao
Director of Animation: Cassie Shao
Director of Puppetry: HIKARU
Colourist: David Rivero Martin (Digital Domain Ltd)
VFX Artist: Pengfei Dang

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

A young man attempts to escape with dreams of a better life after a drug deal gone wrong in this fateful tale by Danish director Jonatan Egholm Keis for composer Frederik Haahr aka 189’s track “Unfold.”

Starring Emil Pettersson & Tino Larsen
Written, Directed, Produced & Edited by Jonatan Egholm Keis
Director of Photography & Colorist: Karl Haugan de Neergaard
Sound Design: Frederik Haahr
VFX: Jens Wahlers
Production Assistant: Martin Fjord

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An ode to all we’ve lost to the pandemic from London-based filmmaker Sye Allen (previously featured here). Narrated by Scottish actress Kate Dickie, “The Empty Chair” features footage from venues like the Rio Cinema in Dalston, Walthamstow Football Club, and other independent institutions that are similarly struggling through economic hardships due to social distancing and lockdown procedures. As Allen states further:

“Unfortunately, many of my close friends have been forced to deal with untimely grief, and conversations with them were the seeds for this project, it will be dedicated to them and all of whom we’ve lost.”

Writer/Producer/Director: Sye Allen
Performed by Kate Dickie
Cinematographer: Sam Care
Editor: Chris Roebuck
Production Company: Burning Reel
Executive Producer: Joe Elliot
Original Music: Nico Casal
Colourist: Jax Harney
Sound Designer: Aaron Taffel
Production Manager: Winston Milton
Focus Puller: David Agha-Rafei
Gaffer: Ryan Delahunty
Script Editor: Ryan Baxter
Music Supervisor: Hamish Duff
Spark: Luke Maund
Spark: Yuri Subotin
Loader: Joshua Dadson
Loader: Josh Hughes
Runner: Sion Roe

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

Director Aube Perrie explores the ambiguity and intensity of emotions between two friends with benefits in this modern Summer romance for Petit Biscuit’s track “Burnin.”

Starring
Kadiatou Mallé
Victor Scarnier
Mehdi Benjelloun
Ilyas Rmili
Léonie Campion
Louison Mondhard
Melvin Malheurty
Pauline Scoupe-Fournier
Tianée Achille

Written & Directed by Aube Perrie
DOP: César Decharme
1st AD: Mathieu Pérez
2d AD: Alicia Ferrieu
Produced by Glitch Paris
Producers: Leslie Dupuis-Mendel & Dorian Salort
Production Managers: Lorette Delva & Timothée Salze-Lozac’h
Production Coordinator: Pierre-Emmanuel Tamarelle
Casting Director: Maylis Ghorra
Location Manager: Grégoire Castegnaro
Location Department: Gaëlle Risch & Sébastien Obrecht
Art Direction: Louise Mekylla Bachir & Aube Perrie
1st AC: Jules Berthe
1st AC – Camera Tests: Léo Brezot
2d AC: Elie Bertrand
Gaffer: Thibault Danjou
Electrics: Lukas Nalti, Thomas Duprez & Iriel Marchal Bedy
Key Grip: Yoan Tintin Amouroux
Grip: Julien Gauthier
Set & Production Designer: Louise Mekylla Bachir
Art Department: Anaïs Profit & Lena Chalbos
Ripper: Quentin Rothan
Construction Manager: Grégoire Lemoine
Construction Team: Jean-Jacques Lefort, Christophe Cunières, Claude Jean Pierre, Alexandre Laiguillon, Mikaël Baudouin
Stylist: Maud Dupuy
Key Hair & MUA: Micka Arasco
Hair & MUA day 1: Jean Buisson-Ramey
Hair & Make-up Assistants : Lorine Mouton & Gaia Bernet Bergeron
Postproduction Supervisor: Denis Brunier
Editor: Gwen Ghelid
Colorist: Anne Szymkowiak
VFX Flame Artist: Sylvian Fabre
Mix & Sound Design: Kouz / Sylvain Pierre
Camera Rental: Vantage
Lighting Rental: Eye-Lite France
Grip Rental: Cinesyl
Loader: Cinecascade
Scan Laboratory: Silverway Paris

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Nice animation by Los Angeles-based director Mitch Pond for Utah-based producer ford.’s track “Fruit&Sun.” Building from the album artwork, the video takes you on a subconscious roller coaster ride through the journey of the song.