Popcaan comes across like island royalty in this stately and epic video directed in Kingston, Jamaica by Nabil Elderkin and shot in beautiful b/w by Galo Olivares, who also worked on Roma.
A timely reminder that "Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside," and can be found right in front of you, wherever you are, be you John Legend and Chrissy Teigen at home with their baby, or in Iraq, Orlando, Standing Rock, or the Dominican Republic.
The first couple minutes might have you shaking your head at the routine booty, but it's all set up for the amazing journey that takes us alongside Vince Staples from a video set to an unfortunate conclusion.
"Drone Bomb Me" might seem ripe for an overly political video, but artistic director Riccardo Tisci and director Nabil go for something totally different, enlisting supermodel Naomi Campbell for a devastatingly simple performance.
Come along on a misty mountain hop (see what I did there?) with Lana Del Rey and guest Father John Misty. It's a bit long (11 minutes) and trippy (acid), but the ending water ballet sequence washes away any fears that FJM is gonna go full Manson (Charles) in this Topanga vision quest.
An apcalyptic and surreal journey through The Weeknd's recent video iconography, augmented by the GoPro spherical VR system that works in most browsers and mobile players. Go ahead and explore, because The Weeknd is surrounded by so much mayhem that you probably won't mind the brief runtime.
A passionate embrace by actors Jérémie Renier and Caroline Fauvet looks like nothing more than a memory in this mournful new collabo between Foals and director Nabil.
The Weeknd appeared in a commercial for Apple Music. Collaborating with Director Nabil and The Swordfight, Gloria FX assisted in creating this two-part video.
GoPro jumps into the virtual reality world with the GoPro Spherical ecosystem, which looks to be a pretty damn amazing place when it's Nabil directing a performance video for Foals.
There's a BTS as well, which doesn't fill in too many technical details but it's another piece of Spherical-enabled video which you can explore via nifty in-player controls.
Welcome to Morrocco... Home to a bareknuckle brawler with the savegery of an uncaged dog, a trigger happy girlfriend with poor aim, a relentless avenger, and a magical sect carrying what may be the modern day holy grail — aka the one-of-a-kind secret Wu-Tang album The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, which maybe you'll get to hear in Heaven.
