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JP Cooper "Little Bit Of Love" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

Whilst it can be easy to feel overwhelmed or dejected in such a challenging time, people across the world are still finding countless ways to spread joy and positivity. Singer-songwriter JP Cooper is no exception, debuting an infectiously joyous new music video for his latest single ‘Little Bit of Love’. Directed by Great Guns’ Calum Macdiarmid, the promo features a compilation of feel-good moments shot by fans, submitted via JP’s online request for pieces of footage that have brought people joy.

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Vaults "Cry No More" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

Calum’s new music video is an evocative and sumptuous film for Vaults’ new release ‘Cry No More’. The song is about the resolution not to give up, for which the band wanted a video to tell a story of female empowerment.

Calum’s inspiration came from psychoanalytic dream interpretations and the ways it is used to help patients through dream therapy. The technique encourages a patient to confront and change the distressing elements of a recurring dream, gradually leading it to a better outcome and motivating positive behavioral patterns in real life.

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Melody Gardot "Preacherman" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

Many people feel that the spark of the civil rights movement was the tragic death of 14-year old Emmett Till in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. Now, almost sixty years later, director Calum MacDiarmid recreates that incident for Melody Gardot's new song — showing a different kind of intensity than the Run The Jewels clip from last month, but with the same messages conveyed.

Both the song and video have been endorsed by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation.

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Laura Doggett "Into The Glass" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

Calum Macdiarmid has just completed ‘Into the Glass’, his ethereal new music video for singer/songwriter Laura Doggett’s latest track from her newly released EP.

The story of escaping an unhealthy relationship is told through a mixture of conceptual narrative and performance, scored by Laura’s unique, distinctive voice that many in the industry have described as ‘spine-tingling’.

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Chløë Black "27 Club" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

A strange lunch date with death himself that veers from smoky to sexy to surreal... Here's hoping it's not an invitiation to that 27 Club.

Calum Macdiarmid, director: “The 27 Club video was inspired by my obsessions with vintage wet plate photography and the visual aesthetics of French New Wave cinema. I wanted to create a film that was all about bold compositions and manipulation of shadows, so shooting in black and white felt like the most natural fit.

Chloe was a total gift. She was so committed to the concept from the get go. Even the pigs' brains and ants didn’t seem to phase her. Which was lucky given that the ants didn’t always behave themselves, scuttling away, trying to avoid the light, as soon as we put them on Chloe. They weren’t shy about reappearing all over us long after shooting had wrapped though."