We like jaw-dropping in-camera feats. We like complex dramas too. And we certainly like funnies. It's all here in 1.4's global round-up of ads

Dream like imagery swims through Alex Browning's short film, After Dark Inferno. We catch up with the new director following the film's screening on Random Acts

SOMEONE'S TURNED UP THE HEAT

In between his commercial work, Danny Sangra is on a continuous roll of making short films with his trusted group of collaborators. The films are connected through characters, themes and storylines that re-emerge into an interlocking body of work. On the release of his latest WAR we talk with the Lief director and discover what makes Sangra so unique and adept at dialogue.

Jodeb brings his fabulously dark mysterious imagination and brilliant filmmaking craft to Jack White's latest track Corporation

Oscar Hudson is the best. He won the 1.4 Gold Medal for Brilliant Filmmaking at our last awards show and his unique inventiveness has now won accolades wherever he drops a music video, short film or ad. He’s a visual trickster. He leads us down paths that are constantly surprising and we can never predict where he’s going to take us except to somewhere unimaginably complicated.

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