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6th June 2023
Living the Dream
Title of film: Mango x Simon Miller: The Escapade
Director: Tom Dream
Escaping the intense energy of London for the faded coastal charms of Margate on the Kentish coast, RSA director Tom Dream got more than fresh air, a slower pace of life and the beach on his doorstep – he became part of a newly-emerging creative hub and saw his film career take off. Brimming with retro-modern vibes, quirky characters and nostalgic moments, his fashion films, music videos and docu-shorts stylishly blur the boundaries between fact and fiction – leaving the viewer with the curious sensation of inhabiting an imaginary reality. After all, this is Dream’s world – we’re just living in it
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30th May 2023
Creative mash-up
Title of film: Overmono, Is U
Director: Rollo Jackson
Production Company: Somesuch
With a body of commercial work that spans Mercedes to McDonald’s and music projects including album artwork and teasers for electronic duo Overmono, Somesuch creative Rollo Jackson has evidently figured out a way to be everything, everywhere, all at once. Visually his work oscillates between high polish and raw lofi, straddling the divide with poise and confidence to blur the lines between usually distinct aesthetics. It’s precisely this that makes his output so compelling – an intriguing dance of image making between the elevated and the visceral. 1.4 spoke with Rollo to dig deeper into his distinctive creative landscape
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19th May 2023
Six of the best creative music videos – Part 2
Keeping the good ones rolling...
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17th May 2023
Six of the best creative music videos – Part 1
More, much more, marvellous music and madness to come
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12th May 2023
Hume and Nature
Title of film: Des Hume, Onetwostep ft Juicelover
Director: Jordan Clarke
Director and visual artist Jordan Clarke creates fantastical worlds that can only be described as a depiction of the sublime and the hellish all in one. Infused with equal parts fascination and scepticism, his work unpacks the complex intersection of questions around technology, social media and what makes us human. And somehow, he manages to do this with a style and creative perspective that makes heavy concepts utterly compelling to watch. His latest video for des hume onetwostep ft (juicelover) is no different, and may be his third Vimeo Staff pick by the time you’re reading this. 1.4 spent some time on email with Jordan unpacking what makes him tick. Spoiler alert – he may be a genius.
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7th May 2023
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Drink Beer*
Title of film: Synthetic Summer
Director: Chris Boyle
Production Company: Private Island
What better way to start the week than an escape to Private Island, the brainchild of Directimator Chris Boyle and his self-described business sibling Helen Power. Anyone with a phone and access to social media will have found it impossible to dodge the creepy AI beer and pizza party Frankenstein monster ‘commercial’ Boyle released into the wild last week. A bleak and terrifying exercise in mindfuckery (or to put it in fancy words, cognitive dissonance), the spot has crested the wave of news headlines and stoked the ongoing wildfire of anxiety around creative job security, human obsolescence and commercialised happiness on tap. 1.4 spent time with a human presenting as Chris Boyle on a videocall (although it may well have been an AI deepfake) to discuss Lovecraft, neuropsychology and breaking creative models.
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3rd May 2023
Soul Ambition
Title of film: SOULS (Teaser for mini series)
Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich & Alex Eslam
Production Company: Geissendoerfer Pictures
Teutonic efficiency meets boundless creative vision in director Hanna Maria Heidrich – whose cinematic aesthetic and stylised visuals elevate 30-second spots into beautifully conceived films in miniature. In Heidrich’s world, a humdrum car trip makes a handbrake turn right into the pages of a fairytale; scarecrows shake off their shackles and go searching for the perfect home. Recently, she’s been exploring the circularity of life and the tantalising prospect of reincarnation in SOULS, her award-winning mini-series for Sky Atlantic, transporting viewers on a journey between past, present and future to discombobulating effect. She tells 1.4 why she loves the choreography in car commercials, the craft of directing actors, and why she’s founded her own organisation to shake up the pitch process.
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28th April 2023
Fast track directors – Porsche Awards / Part 3
Out of the way, here comes our final selection from the Porsche Awards. This category is Long Advertising Content. Says it all really but we guarantee that there is some brilliant new talent here that you’ve never set eyes on before.
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27th April 2023
Bumper issue: Porsche Awards / Part 2
Our second selection from the Porsche Awards is the Driven by Dreams category with films that get us dreaming of a better world whether that’s social progress or environmental awareness and sustainability.
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26th April 2023
Top of the class: Porsche Awards / Part 1
1.4 visited Film Akademie Baden Wurttemburg in Ludwigsburg for the Porsche Awards of New Directing talent. The competition is open to film school students, schools of art and design, apprentices, graduates and other budding directors throughout the world who have been on the market for less than two years. More category showcases to come.
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24th April 2023
New director: Rosie Bird Smith
Newly signed Biscuit director Rosie Bird Smith garnered widespread acclaim for her quirky parodical short about the consequences of believing everything you hear, including earning herself a Silver medal at this year’s 1.4 Awards. We caught up with Rosie about the joys and challenges of working with animals, her route from agency creative to director, and finding the comedy in awkwardness.
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18th April 2023
A few fabulous fashion films
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17th April 2023
Horror, comedy and punch-ups
Title of film: Killer Workout
Director: Sara Werner
Production Company: Inspired Exercise
Sara Werner, director of the web series Killer Workout, discusses why comedy, horror and a good wallop of BDSM were the best approaches for raising awareness of America’s current economic state. Nicolas Montanari reports
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12th April 2023
Six of the best creative campaigns
Ads that put the heart back into branding
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5th April 2023
Six of the best from Adfest
For those who missed the fest on the beach in Pattaya this year, here is a light selection of films that tickled our fancy
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4th April 2023
Come to grief
Title of film: Walls like Windows
Director: Werner Vivier
When you come face-to-face with humanity’s most harrowing and intimate emotion, to whom do you turn to share the burden? Director Werner Vivier specialises in exploring the intricacies of human emotion and interaction, and his newest project is no different. Limited to a single day, a single house, and the phenomenal talents of Juliet Stevenson and Anthony Welsh, Vivier offers us a beautifully executed short film based on a peculiar premise. 1.4 talks to Vivier about the joy of people-watching, the fine line between comedy and tragedy, and learning from the cast that you are directing.
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29th March 2023
Close Encounters
Title of film: I Am That I Am
Director: Audrey Mascina
Production Company: Crack Films
Despite sex being fundamental to life, it takes a certain kind of director to tackle the subject matter with the perfect balance of tenderness, directness and originality. In I Am That I Am, Audrey Mascina has done just that - creating a physical portrait of intimacy as an escape from societal constraints, without a hint of gratuitousness or voyeurism. Infused with sensitivity and grace, Mascina’s work is also characterized by a deep physicality, born of her background as a contemporary dancer – movement that feels organic, rather than because trends demand it. She tells Selena Schleh about the synergies between dance and sex, and why intimacy is a subject she’s keen to explore on a bigger canvas
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27th March 2023
Road Rager
Title of film: Ashnikko, Worms
Director: Raman Djafari
Production Company: Blinkink
In just a couple of weeks, Raman Djafari’s pedal to the metal promo for Ashnikko’s track Worms has racked up north of 1.3m views and inspired an outpouring of love in the comments section. The most liked fan note comes from The Kittens Room (with a crazy 4.6k upvotes!) and sums it up in a nutshell – “She has a better budget and creative direction than some A list artists.” We won’t ruin the illusion by talking money, save to say Djafari’s video was birthed from within the illustrious walls of the BlinkInk studio, where presumably they’ve managed to master some sort of Rumpelstiltskin-style machinery that makes the impossible seem effortless. Or it might just be pure passion… Stephen Whelan caught up with Djafari to get a glimpse behind the wizard’s curtain of this awesome promo
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22nd March 2023
Body conscious
Title of film: Elena Velez NYFW23, How's My Driving
Director: C Prinz
Production Company: Object & Animal
As a child, C Prinz was compelled to physicalize her ‘incredible surges of energy’ through dance; today, as a choreographer and director, she channels that power into vivid, impactful stories told through the movement of bodies in space. Preoccupied with building worlds where ‘strange’ is the baseline, her work surprises and challenges with unexpected angles, unusual perspectives, and visual juxtapositions: where the difference between ugly and beautiful, softness and rage, is often only a frame. From female violence to gender identity, no topic is off-limits to her lens – defying her non-confrontational nature to feel the fear and do it anyway
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17th March 2023
Six of the Best Creative Campaigns
Clever Creativity + Magnificent Production = Added Value Messages
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13th March 2023
Nailed It
Title of film: Mae Muller, I Wrote A Song
Director: AB/CD/CD
Production Company: OB Management
AB/CD/CD’s new promo for Mae Muller’s Team GB Eurovision entry is, quite frankly, the greatest thing to happen to Franco-British relations since Concorde. A masterclass in pop polish, the elegantly framed diss track, I Wrote a Song, delivers all the choreo and camp you’d expect from a Eurovision entry, filtered through the distinctly Parisian lens of the inimitable directing duo. The promo is replete with whip pans, perspective tricks, five (count them), FIVE, different looks and the nails, sweet lord THREE SETS OF NAILS (these things matter to us gays, they’re our version of Premier League Tables). The non-stop energy of the video and its unique play on seeing things from different points of view matches the sass of the track perfectly. Stephen Whelan shot a bunch of fangirl questions over to AB/CD/CD who indulged us with some Eurovision chat and a peek behind the scenes of the project.
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10th March 2023
Fast track for slowthai
Title of film: slowthai, Yum
Director: Crowns & Owls
Crown & Owls film for slowthai captures the inner dialogue of the artist struggling with his addictions in an unflinchingly visceral way. From the opening shot of the artist clinging to his child, it’s a gripping and warped visual trip that’s perfectly fused with his lyrics.
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8th March 2023
Cross My Heart
Title of film: A Dark Moment of Faith
Director: Zornitsa Dimitrova
Zornitsa Dimitrova’s stomach-turning short impressed juries across the world, winning not only a Gold Award here at 1.4 but also collecting the Special Jury Prize at YDA in 2021. Now, on its public release, Zornitsa tells us about building a false sense of security, the challenges of shooting with just natural light, and cutting her hair to play Romeo.
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7th March 2023
Blaze of Glory
Title of film: Thom Draft, Tense
Director: Thierry Albert
Production Company: Iconoclast
Creative director Thierry Albert aka director Albert Albert shoots a cautionary tale for living life through social media for Thom Draft’s track Tense. Shot entirely on smartphone the video follows L and her fiery superpower after a miserable live-streamed bullying incident. Best watched on smartphone of course!
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2nd March 2023
Tea with Sophie Gold and Josie Juneau
Since opening her LA-based production company Eleanor, Sophie Gold has built her roster into an eclectic mix of filmmakers working with top brands and agencies. Now Sophie has extended Eleanor’s reach across the Atlantic to open a branch in her original hometown, London. 1.4 shares a pot of tea with Josie Juneau who will run the Soho company and Sophie who talks to us about the ethos that drives her success and why the film Moulin Rouge changed her life in a blink
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1st March 2023
Ice Cream Man
A week out from International Women’s Day, RAYE has just dropped an absolutely seismic video for her track Ice Cream Man that addresses her own experience of SA.
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21st February 2023
MrMr: Eat Your Heart Out
Title of film: Eat It
Director: MrMr
Katie and Martha are MrMr. Originally music video producers, the pair founded ‘Stink Rising’ at Stink Films back in the pre-covid world, and left Stink in 2020 to create their own production company, MrMr Films. Since then, alongside producing large scale commercials and music videos - they’ve also been developing narrative work and their own directorial voices. We are proud to premiere ‘Eat It’ - a comedy short with heartbreak and cherry pie at its core. In a full circle moment, the pair are now signing to Stink Films globally as commercial directors. 1.4 chatted to Martha and Katie about ‘Eat It’, Stink, and that time they robbed a gas station in Nashville.
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16th February 2023
Of Sound Mind
Title of film: MacGray, Backbone
Director: Aline Magrez
A foley artist, a goat carcass, and copious amounts of fake blood - what better inspiration for a music video? Belgian director Aline Magrez explores filmmaking’s fundamental and symbiotic relationship between the visual and the aural in her new music video for MacGray, “Backbone”. 1.4 catches up with her about the new piece and we discuss sensitive cinema, queer existence in the natural world, and her favourite colour of blood.
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13th February 2023
Six of the best creative music videos
It's all about love... in all its glorious manifestations from beginning to end
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9th February 2023
Commercial warm up
See some of the Superbowl highlights before Sunday's kick off
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6th June 2023
Living the Dream
Mango x Simon Miller: The Escapade
Tom Dream
30th May 2023
Creative mash-up
Overmono, Is U
Rollo Jackson
19th May 2023
Six of the best creative music videos – Part 2
17th May 2023
Six of the best creative music videos – Part 1
12th May 2023
Hume and Nature
Des Hume, Onetwostep ft Juicelover
Jordan Clarke
7th May 2023
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Drink Beer*
Synthetic Summer
Chris Boyle
3rd May 2023
Soul Ambition
SOULS (Teaser for mini series)
Hanna Maria Heidrich & Alex Eslam
28th April 2023
Fast track directors – Porsche Awards / Part 3
27th April 2023
Bumper issue: Porsche Awards / Part 2
26th April 2023
Top of the class: Porsche Awards / Part 1
24th April 2023
New director: Rosie Bird Smith
18th April 2023
A few fabulous fashion films
17th April 2023
Horror, comedy and punch-ups
Killer Workout
Sara Werner
12th April 2023
Six of the best creative campaigns
5th April 2023
Six of the best from Adfest
4th April 2023
Come to grief
Walls like Windows
Werner Vivier
29th March 2023
Close Encounters
I Am That I Am
Audrey Mascina
27th March 2023
Road Rager
Ashnikko, Worms
Raman Djafari
22nd March 2023
Body conscious
Elena Velez NYFW23, How's My Driving
C Prinz
17th March 2023
Six of the Best Creative Campaigns
13th March 2023
Nailed It
Mae Muller, I Wrote A Song
AB/CD/CD
10th March 2023
Fast track for slowthai
slowthai, Yum
Crowns & Owls
8th March 2023
Cross My Heart
A Dark Moment of Faith
Zornitsa Dimitrova
7th March 2023
Blaze of Glory
Thom Draft, Tense
Thierry Albert
2nd March 2023
Tea with Sophie Gold and Josie Juneau
1st March 2023
Ice Cream Man
21st February 2023
MrMr: Eat Your Heart Out
Eat It
MrMr
16th February 2023
Of Sound Mind
MacGray, Backbone
Aline Magrez
13th February 2023
Six of the best creative music videos
9th February 2023
Commercial warm up
MUSIC VIDEO COLLECTION
Six of the best creative music videos – Part 1
Mette, Mama's Eyes
Camille Summers-Valli
Art Practice
Blaze of Glory
Thom Draft, Tense
Thierry Albert
Iconoclast
Ice Cream Man
RAYE, Ice Cream Man
RAYE
KODE
Of Sound Mind
MacGray, Backbone
Aline Magrez
Six of the best creative music videos
Ashnikko, You Make Me Sick!
Saam Farahmand
Anonymous Content
Six of the best creative music videos
Rita Ora, You Only Love Me
Charlie Sarsfield
Untold Studios
sAy sOMETHINg…. wAtch sOMETHINg bRilliANT
Lil Yachty, Say Something
Crowns & Owls
Happy Place
Show & Tell
Sam Smith, Unholy
Floria Sigismondi
Scheme Engine
In conversation: Adrian Villagomez
Denzel Curry, X-Wing
Adrian Villagomez
Consulat
In conversation: Vincent René-Lortie
Invincible (trailer)
Vincent René-Lortie
Risk and reward
Olivia Dean, Danger
Malin Osafo
new—land
Blades of Glory
Flipper’s Skate Heist. The Official Chronic 2001 Skate by Dr. Dre
Ben Dean
Doomsday
Six of the best creative music videos
ZNTNDR, Untitled Us
Jovan Todorovic
NAKAMA, Emote films
Rave Review
Belief, Dreams
Maxim Kelly
Caviar
Six of the best creative music videos
Josman, Intro (Director's Cut)
Marius Gonzalez
Solab
Six of the best creative music videos
Dermot Kennedy, Kiss Me
AB/CD/CD
La Pac
Six of the best creative music videos
Loyle Carner, Georgetown feat. John Agard
Machine Operated
Pulse Films
Cruel Twists of Fate
Sandór Waïss, The Eyes
Sandór Waïss & Ahllem
Real Strange
Sad Night Dynamite, Vol 11
Lucas Hrubizna
Blink
Six of the best creative music videos Part 2
Eminem & Snoop Dogg, From The D2 The LBC
James Larese
Nathan Love & London Alley
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