Carpenter Brut “The Misfits / The Rebels”, directed by Jean Delaunay, is an animated music video with a retro visual style. It follows Lita and Bret racing through Midwichpolis as rebellion erupts across the City of Light.⁠ ⁠ Jean Delaunay builds the video around the language of 1980s and 1990s Japanese anime, not simply through its character design but through the techniques that gave those productions their rhythm.⁠ ⁠ The city never feels like a backdrop so much as somethin

Sean Leon’s “Gravity”, directed by Jorden Lee, places Sean among family and friends while making clear that company is not the same as presence. The absence at the centre of the film is never personified. It is felt in his stillness.⁠ ⁠ Director Jorden Lee gradually allows reality to loosen its rules around him. The levitation is the video’s most elaborate image, but it works because it is treated less as spectacle than as an extension of his state of mind.⁠ ⁠ “Gravity” under

Kim Dracula’s “Make Me Famous” takes one of the darker sides of fame and celebrity culture and pushes it to an extreme. Directed by James Chappell, the video imagines a world where fame becomes inseparable from attention and notoriety. Its chaotic energy comes through in theatrical imagery and dark humour. Kim Dracula remains at the centre, turning each increasingly extreme moment into part of the performance. What makes “Make Me Famous” memorable is the uncomfortable idea be