Niccolo Montanari talks with the Spanish director Amanda Lago about her second music video collaboration with Fatal Tiger - an experimental, choreographed improvised dance

Music videos may be staying at home but they're certainly not standing still. Take a look at the latest work from this time of isolation and some others made in the day when it was still ok to be touchy feely

From a family drama in a dystopian world of stilt-wearers to a high school choir with the power to sing people to death, Dylan Holmes Williams’ darkly comic work reveals a knack for telling surreal stories in relatable settings. As his latest short, The Devil’s Harmony, garners gongs galore on the festival circuit, Stink’s latest signing tells us more about his ‘grounded supernaturalism’, the importance of sound design in horror and why he’s worried he’ll never have a good idea again.

"Last week at Stink we realised we were in a pretty unique position," writes global head of Stink Rising Katie Lambert, "with directors, staff and creatives positioned all over the world. This sparked the idea of asking all these people to present some kind of creative offering, showing their situation and perspective. We’ve been overwhelmed with the responses - from poems, through photography to film. And tonally we’ve had toilet jokes, heartfelt love letters, frustration, despair and hope. For 1.4 only we decided to give a little sneak preview of what’s coming up - corners of photos, stills from films - all hints at the work from our global village."

Thierry Albert explores that nurturing space of childhood solitude with this languid beautiful film of his son wandering and wondering in an empty Mallorcan garden.

Between the Activists and the Cynics is the majority of us - those who are steeped in goodwill but also entrenched in our own instinctual and flawed behaviors and are arguably the biggest threat to the planet, says communications agency Futerra. 1.4 asked Amelie Lambert, fresh from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, to highlight how filmmaking can open up our awareness with inspiring narratives. The world maybe falling apart but it’s also a world of hope

The musician Loyle Carner’s videos have featured regularly on 1.4 because the films are creatively sharp. Now Ben has teamed up with his brother Ryan to direct other artists, debuting with this natural narrative for Arlo Parks. The film, Eugene, explores the agony, jealousy and confusion that comes to light when lines between platonic and romantic love blur.

Spanish directing collective RÉALITÉ is rooted in experimentalism. Their style has always been playful; sometimes they’ve expressed nostalgia through collages, other times they’ve contrasted animation with live action or choreography. Their love of incorporating mismatched mediums into their jobs makes their style recognisable but they insist that really, it’s teamwork that they most enjoy about filmmaking.

The London Symphony Orchestra’s latest campaign is a series of spectacular live-action dance sequences reconfigured in post to fit Sir Simon Rattle’s performance of the Rites of Spring. 1.4 talks with choreographer and dancer Ella Robson Guilfoyle about dancing with flares, sparkles, smoke grenades and chucking around a fair bit of chalk dust.

So simple, soooo good. Directors Sam Davis and Tom Andrew’s video for Metronomy trails a retro light searching across the most unreachable and unwanted places to party.

With a background in cinematography, it’s no surprise that Douglas Bernardt’s reel – which spans music videos, commercials and branded content – is a feast for the eyes. But there’s real substance behind the Brazilian director’s style: beneath the surface of beautiful visuals lurk weighty topics like institutional racism, human relationships and cultural preconceptions. Having bagged a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions last year for the brilliant short film Bluesman, the Stink director is back on the music video scene with a powerful promo for Gregory Porter, which explores a young man’s self-empowerment through the metaphor of physical size and the backdrop of the LA riots. 1.4 chatted to Bernardt about his journey from making ‘little, bad films’ to award-winning masterpieces

1.4 has edited an excerpt from Droga5 London’s Chief Creative Officer David Kolbusz’s interview with director Autumn de Wilde which took place at a special screening of her funny wonderful movie Emma. “To describe Autumn de Wilde as a polymath would be to deny her a narrative that separates and highlights each of her abundant talents. Everything she turns her hand to, she excels at. Beginning as a rock and roll photographer, she turned her hand to portraiture and fashion before moving from static to moving image. She has shot iconic album covers, directed iconic music videos and made a handful of great commercials. And now here is her adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. In fact, it is so confident and accomplished for a first feature, and so undeniably her, by rights it should be called, Autumn de Wilde's Jane Austen's Emma,” said Kolbusz in his introduction.

Shake, rattle and rolllll around the world

Our favourite Swedish collaborators director Vedran Rupic and Salvatore Ganacci take the brakes off their latest story of love and yearning

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Photographer, artist and director Florian Joahn has created an idiosyncratic style that melds sensuality and surrealism. Having created visuals for the likes of Nike, Fenty, Vogue Italia, Skepta and Rita Ora, he broke into the world of film last year with erotic short Hormones Are My Master and documentary Whypipo: Mykki Blanco Speaks About Race in Whiteface. Exploring themes of racial bias, black masculinity and queer and transgender subcultures with a delicate yet subversive touch, his work provokes conversation and defies definition. 1.4 sat down with Florian to find out more about the power of portraiture and alternative versions of reality.

New York-based filmmaker Tomson Tee is committed to telling stories that challenge the truths of the world, no matter how difficult they may be to accept. Thanks to a chance incident on the metro, which encouraged him to pursue his interest in moving image, Tee was forced to reflect on his own upbringing and thought patterns. He is now happy to get curious about his own hang-ups and bias to ensure that his work remains relatable, real and most importantly, cuts through.

New York-based director Haya Waseem and her partner cinematographer Christopher Lew explore intimacy between real couples in this beautiful, gentle film shot on 65mm.

Thomas James is SO fantastically dark. We’re still recovering from his film for Ditch, Twisted Ritual, which was let’s face it a menacing horror scream-a-trip, and now he’s come up with this surreal, mesmerising dream-like film for Ghostpoet. It’s weirdly beautiful, even if the director describes it as a moist nightmare.

No surprises Nike is running, but there's a heart warmer from a bank and a heart breaking homage to his cousin from Anquan Boldin

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Northampton-based filmmaking duo The Rest, recently signed to Pulse, is made up of Alex Motlhabane and Lewis Levi. Over the past two years, they have cultivated a reputation for beautifully shot, narrative-driven music videos and music-led short films. The impact their visuals have had in the UK music scene has been huge, serving, for many, as a blueprint for how to make original, low budget, high quality music videos for particularly idiosyncratic UK artists. Kofi Holmes Attivor catches up with Alex to talk with him about The Rest, his work, his motivations and some other reflections.

The long and short of fashion narratives....

With a budget of £100 – food money from one of their mums – students Red Filagate, Samuel Carson, Max Marshall & Zane Crowther spent their summer creating a clay hell hole in their halls bedroom. The result is this astoundingly good stop-frame of 30 little raver figures complete with hoodies, bucket hats and fanny packs. We talk with Max and Red about their work, creating a record label and why they’ll never work in clay again. Expect future wonders.

Sibling rivalry may eat up some families, but thankfully not directing duo The Coles – made up of Sophie and Walker. They’ve skilfully mastered the art of fraternal fighting so that it doesn’t interfere with their artistic ambitions, enabling them to continue stalking the streets for subjects to feature in their reality-twisting films.

Director Dylan Pharazyn plays on the power of supernatural forces between three characters in this mesmerising film for Auckland band Wax Chattels. We catch up with the Sweetshop director about his creative vision but first ask the bands’ bassist and vocalist Amanda Cheng about her lyrics for the film’s track Career.

The Milan-based creativity factory The Blink Fish’s latest fashion film for National Chamber of Italian Fashion (CNMI) is a playful and slightly surreal interpretation of the values of inclusion and diversity championed by CNMI. Niccolo Montanari catches up with Giacomo Boeri from The Blink Fish

Sonia Malfa can’t help but explore her identity through the subjects she portrays on-screen. As a Puerto-American director, a lot of her work harks back to the magical realism passed down through her family and touches on the stories of women and people of colour she’s known and been inspired by. Incorporating her love of nature with her passion for storytelling, Malfa’s pieces are sensually-captivating and incredibly layered with truth and personality.

Love, death and other stories told in cinematic and wonderfully weird ways

Norwegian cinematographer Benjamin Loeb captures that poignant space of early grief when a young friend dies in his stunning short film that quietly breathes with sorrow.

Roll up, Roll up, Roll on through our pick of those videos that make our heart skip a beat