We wanted to know what the new roster was like at DirtyWork, Rattling Stick’s new platform for emerging talent. So we got the six initial directors - Sam Davis, Harry Barber, Pilgrim, Amar Hernández, Eve Mahoney and Nathan James Tettey – to do their, er, own dirty work. The rule was that each director quizzed the next director ten questions until they’d gone full circle.

Fred Rowson has leapt over the picket fences of his much-loved suburban tales to the next level of complex cinematic filmmaking with this film, for Years & Years’ latest album Palo Santo. We talk with the Blink director about the process of collaborating with the band's frontman Olly Alexander and below print an edited transcript of their interview with Munroe Bergdorf at the Bafta-launch of the film

New York-based director Jean Claude Billmaier merges choreographed dance with over hundred VFX shots to portray the explosive tensions and release of our work-driven lifestyles with an original score from R&B singer and producer Toulouse. Interview by Niccolò Montanari

Vincent Lambe’s harrowing brilliant short film, Detainment, based on the transcripts and records of the James Bulger case, won the new director Gold in the short film category, the Special Jury Award and a standing ovation at the Young Directors Award Ceremony in Cannes

1.4 talks with Czech director Marek Partys, Gold winner of the Young Director Award Charity category, about his film of a small boy in Tibet who wants to be as good as Czech ice hockey player Jaromír Jágr. There’s one important obstacle however - he and his friends need to look for their new coach. Will it be Jágr?

After a worldwide trawl by MPC and Saatchi's, Ridley Scott selected 12 directors, a couple with a repeat performance, who made the final cut shown at the Cannes Lions Festival

After a worldwide trawl by MPC and Saatchi's, Ridley Scott selected 12 directors, a couple with a repeat performance, who made the final cut shown at the Cannes Lions Festival

Klaus Welp after a varied career in design, visual journalism, and running a club in Mexico has turned his talents to filmmaking. His first major music video for Finnish band Pohjonen Alanko is sheer joy. Chill and watch

Division director Dexter Navy and A$AP Rocky continue their creative collaboration with this NYC / London clash video , Praise the Lord (Da Shine). And here's a showcase to celebrate their work

The genre that just keeps on giving

When it's a long, long labour of love how do animators keep motivated? Halal director/creative Marlies van der Wel talks about her creative process involved in making her cleverly crafted films

Sébastien Lifshitz’s archive of cross-dressing photography, Under Cover, is currently on at The Photographers Gallery until June 3rd. It’s a fascinating collection of images which led to the director making his feature film Wild Side that tenderly and sometimes brutally explores the lives of Stephanie and her family, her sexuality and gender. Here we have edited a conversation between Sébastien and writer Juliet Jacques discussing the making of the film and his archive

Since documenting the life of a boy-turned-soldier in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict for three years, Cyprien Clément-Delmas drew on his experience there to create a narrative for French electronic band Thylacine who wrote the track specially

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