Visual narratives of love, lust, torment and wildly good dancing

We talk with director Yags about working on a £500 budget and being padlocked in an old asylum on location while making this film for new artist Luckie.

Men and women behaving badly, the work of Fat Lemon writer/director Jim Owen features an excruciatingly funny carnival of morons. From his painful depictions of first date fails in Panic Stations, to his hilarious Kooples spoof series (The Wankers) plus spots for brands such as BBC, McVities and Maltesers – his work displays a subtlety that gives bittersweet depth to his characters. Carol Cooper talked to the master of cringe comedy about editing his own work, finding the truth and inflating ridiculousness for our pleasure.

SMUGGLER’s latest signing Tom Speers’ debut short film ingeniously captures the unrestrained boisterousness of youth and the dawning of sexuality. We talk with the new director about how you entice your cast to swim in freezing water and the pain and joy of editing the film himself.

Earth is an amazing place, full of incredible things. But being human, sometimes we tend to forget how awesome our planet really is. Created by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for S7 Airlines, VISIT EARTH aims to convince aliens to visit our planet and perhaps, in the process, remind the good people of Earth that we have a pretty great home worth exploring. The long-form episodic content, which has already been viewed over 35 million times in Russia after first launching there late last year, is now available for English-speaking extraterrestrials. Director Mackenzie Sheppard meanwhile beams up answers to a few queries

When Joe Wheatley's grandmother passed away in 2016, a series of happy accidents unearthed decades of home video, chronicling a lifetime of experience, love and loss. The DirtyWork director niftily edited the memories together into this superb short film

Vladimir Baranovsky’s videos are packed with experimental techniques and fast cuts for commissioned work from Boiler Room to Raf Simons. And yet his short film, Ousemane, which has won so many plaudits is a comparatively slow-paced, exquisitely told narrative that he wrote himself.

We chat with Mill+ new director Melody Maker about her musical and fashion background and now her move into filmmaking

Emil Nava is the creative brains and director behind some of pop music’s biggest hit videos. He’s collaborated on 20 promos with Calvin Harris and worked with Ed Sheeran from his first clip to his more recent mega billion viewed videos. Now the director brings his unique eye to long-form documentaries

Brent Foster's film on the empowerment of elderly women in Korogocho in Kenya stunned the audience and jury at the 1.4 show. The Canadian-based director, recently signed to Spindle in London, tells us the story behind short doc

No label, no budget, no bad ideas and no repeat set-ups - Abteen Bagheri's video for Benjamin Earl Turner is 'a barrage of subversive images' that plays with hip hop tropes and takes us on a crazy ride around Detroit

Daniel Henry's latest film for Josh Pan takes us into that awkward world of repressed urges, when the weirdo starts to leak out.

We love young directors who just get out there and make their own work – learning how to edit, use a camera and write a visual narrative, probably on zilch budget. Crafting their own story is the way to evolve their own film language. One such director is Caroline Koning whose particular eye is attracting the big interesting brands

Knucklehead director Fanny Hoetzeneder knows how to create a mesmerising film with a lot of imagination and precision planning. Here she talks about mapping out the beat and street casting in Sheffield for her belter promo, Javelin.

Mackenzie Sheppard’s latest personal project, shot on 16mm, uses the moth as an analogy to humans. “Like a moth to light, we all helplessly cling to technology for life support – without knowing the outcome.”

Watch film student Ben Miethke's astounding trio of films that pay homage to Raf Simons’ definition of an alternate masculinity

A gold star selection of student films from the Porsche International Student Advertising Film Award

Just out from the cutting room is Mui Mui's latest Women's Tale while a few last season but still brilliant films get a whirl too

Brave new world of brilliant advertising

Hernan Corera, through Argentinian production company Mamá Húngara and co-directors Cornas & Cavia, helms a stunningly mysterious and styled music video for French producer Agoria. A gang takes us across plains where motorcycles ride on a farewell journey for their leader.

While there's good fun brilliance from Sam Pilling, Dean Blunt and Calmatic, promos from Spike Lee, Jake Schreier and Savanah Leaf hit home with political messages

Not wanting to make a spec spot, Bernd Faass distilled his own gin and created a real brand for his film, Tears in Heaven, a hit with the 1.4 Awards jury as well as taking the top prize at the Porsche International Student Advertising Film Award. We talk with the new director about his quirky, fastidiously crafted work and the booze in his basement

Blood, guts, and gore; rage, revenge and jealousy; get yourself a nice cup of tea and watch our second round-up of brilliant music videos

Hello 2019. Happy New Year you fabulous people and welcome back to the land of working and watching great films. We've spent the holidays cruising through music videos from the tail end of last year - some you may have seen like this beauty from Filip Nilsson for Justice. Who ever thought you could feel warm and smiley watching a Justice track? We dug deep and also came up with some buried treasures which we’ll be showing over the week.

Sundance loved it. And so did the 1.4 Awards jury. We talk with Georgi Banks-Davies about creating her brilliant short film Garfield. Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a drama about racial divide? It's a film about empathy, says the Skunk director

Marek Partyš’s film Jágrlama, a tale of a Tibetan boy who wants to become an ice hockey star like Czech player Jaromír Jágr, was loved and cheered by the crowd at the 1.4 Awards for its direction, warmth and humour. Marek’s latest work, however, a music video for Son Lux, is minimal, slick and icily cool. It’s also just as stunningly good.

Ian Robertson used to make music videos that we loved to showcase on 1.4 and then he went quiet. We talk with the unsigned director about his decision to go to film school and learn the art of narrative longer form.

Martin Garde Abildgaard's fabulously funny and perfectly observed short film, Lovebirds, was a hit with the 1.4 Awards Jury. Hot off the festival circuit, we are thrilled to bring you the online premiere

Multi-faceted director and creative Sophia Ray is no stranger to the world of music promos, having risen to directorial fame with her animated lyric video for Lily Allen in 2014. Now signed to Partizan, the director has turned her attention to live action and crafting darker narratives that offer twisted commentaries on modern society. Her latest spot for pop singer, Au/Ra, is a case in point in which she experiments with surrealism, researches robotic tendencies and battles tight deadlines.

Arriving to advertising following a career as a model, B-Reel Films director Lina Söderström was fascinated by the filmmaking process and longed to explore a new perspective. We caught up with Lina to chat about her transition into working behind the camera, considering all aspects of the project from the get go and creating a film out of a bookmarked idea.

Though darker than a big dark thing, Kenneth Karlstad’s arresting, award-winning short The Hunger flirts with a gentle humour in its portrayal of a young lad seeking the noir in ‘Norway’s New Jersey’. The Stink-signed Norwegian director’s trippy promos, impactful PSAs and spooky shorts display he’s as adept at menace and magical realism as he at sentiment and psychological truth. Here, he tells 1.4 about ‘the hunger’ in his own youth when he dabbled in petty crime and drugs, and how music and stream of consciousness are vital to his creative process.