With Ciaran Lyons' latest work for Belle & Sebastian collecting global praise we take a look at the Scottish-based director's reel

Eidy Lucy Knowles took a sabbatical from her day job building 3D rollercoasters, went on holiday to Seoul and was inspired to spend the next two months making her own 3D film.

Charlotte Regan learnt her filmmaking craft shooting grime videos for her mates on the East London estate where she lived. Now her short films have been picked up by Sundance, BFI, Bafta, and every other festival that matters. The 23-year old has recently signed to Knucklehead where she has already shot an intimate portrayal for The Autistic Society and now, this stunning film for Wretch 32 which drops tonight

Harrowing heartbreak to hair-raising hilarity, it's 1.4's pick of the world's best

Doomsday director Hiro Murai has always been the master of turning surrealism into reality and reality into a work of art – such as his music videos for writer / actor Donald Glover’s hip hop alter ego Childish Gambino.

Brilliant films to watch your music go by

Stink director Salomon Ligthelm takes Young Father’s love song, Toy, about broken relationships and turns it into political commentary

Celebrated filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa is perhaps best known for, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death a seven-minute video set to Kanye West’s Ultralight Beam. As this critically-acclaimed exploration of African-American identity is still screening in modern art galleries around the world, we focussed on Jafa’s conceived, shot and edited music video for JAY-Z’s 4:44 when we caught up with the newly-signed Stink director

Marco Prestini was still a film student at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena when his work first caught our eye. Now, only a couple of years later he’s created a thumping body of work including commercials, fashion films and music videos, each piece distinctly different from the last.

We’ve watched Halal & Partizan director Emma Westenberg’s progression from her student graduation film four years ago, to her experimental shorts and fashion films. 
In each film her craft became increasingly proficient; her visual voice distinctly growing louder, more out there and imaginative. And now she has directed this hilariously brilliant celebration of women’s sexuality for Janelle Monáe with her girl gang having the best time ever

Three filmmakers go beyond the city’s visual clichés to create intimate portraits of other lives

Here comes a heatwave of creativity

Still completing her MA, Dorothy Allen-Pickard’s films are compelling studies of characters with brave and interesting life-coping mechanisms. It also takes an unflinching eye and courage on Dorothy’s part as a filmmaker to explore these subjects.

Every now and again, like once in a blue moon, an ad comes along that doesn't play by the old rules. It draws you in, it doesn't shout at you, it speaks to you and it feels genuine. And giffgaff's new campaign simply does that to us. We met up with the brand’s director Tom Rainsford and head of advertising Abi Pearl Ward and later caught up with the director and creative director, Ed Morris

Deep down and dirty or exquisite collaborative art, labels are going next level

We last spoke with new director Savanah Leaf a good 18 months ago when she’d just completed her first short film, F Word, and now she’s created this beautiful visual eulogy set to Tiana Clark’s poem The Ayes Have It. 

"To truly develop the next generation of great voices, production companies are responsible for actually nurturing the talent, guiding them on what jobs to take, who to work with, how to be great on calls or on set. There has to be a well-thought through strategy for every new director that a company signs, or the 'signing' is actually a disservice." says Prettybird EP Ali Brown. We also showcase a selection of YDA gold winners from Cannes 2017

We kneel at the creative altar of Martin de Thurah, marvel at the relentlessly brilliant Spike Jonze and Dougal Wilson, while Scott Lyon reimagines boulevard beauty and Megaforce takes off again

We talk with Dictionary director Connor Gilhooly about cracking the Asian markets

Skunk director Filip Nilsson rockets up our charts of most-loved directors with his bloody funny take on everything - from his music videos to Volvo trucks and hot dogs

Amy Allais started her own film company 10 years ago in Johannesburg and now the director's first music video is winning attention on the festival circuit. The rest of her reel is worth a spin too

Fred Rowson's evolving series on mad, bad, eccentric suburbia where the streets and houses are uniform and superficially dull… but the people are anything but.

1.4 talks with the multi-talented directing duo rubberband. (Jason Sondock and Simon Davis) who edit, shoot, and creative arm wrestle with each other until the best idea wins

Following her popular film for Colorscope Orange, we rummage through Emmanuelle Walker's reel to find more gems and talk with the Nexus animator about her creative process

Outsider directors Dom&Nic talk us through their latest film - a rabbit romp set to The Chemical Brothers track

As advertising and filmmakers increasingly refocus on telling women’s stories where the female experience feels authentic, we asked leading international creative directors to comment and select film work, made by either gender, in which the portrayal of women best resonates with them

Crowned best new director at all the best awards shows, there’s more to the refreshingly self-deprecating Matilda Finn than directing brilliant music videos. We talked with Matilda about her latest video, Easy To Do for Bipolar Sunshine prior to its release, to discover a fiercely driven young artist and filmmaker with an uncompromising vision and unique eye.

We talk with Danish director Kristian Håskjold about his festival-loving short film Forever Now, which beautifully dissects the building up and breaking down of a relationship..

It's out at last, our favourite french band's video, Heaven - a joyous fusion of music and visuals, a summer romp in the country side

Halal director Noël Loozen's short film takes us on a fast food ride to love and life in the Dutch countryside.

Director Kathryn Ferguson explores personal ideas of what is luxury with fashion designer Gareth Pugh, American rapper Mykki Blanco and director artist Holly Blakey