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Keaton Henson – Don’t Know How Lucky You Are

Directed by David Wilson, Don’t Know How Lucky You Are draws on Keaton Henson's fascination with the Victorian age. Actress Sophie Thomson gives a stunning performance as a Victorian woman struggling to maintain emotional control at a time when feelings were supposed to be hidden.

Delta Heavy – Hold Me

Delta Heavy’s Hold Me is the latest in a series of beautifully grisly works for dubstep artist/producers by Swedish animator extraordinaire Kristofer Ström.

Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf

This gobsmackingly outrageous video has, not surprisingly, been an instant viral smash. Keith Schofield has said that the first time he heard their track Big Bad Wolf, the image that came to mind was men walking around a city ‘swinging massive four-foot cocks.’

Evelyn Evelyn – Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?

This cabaret-influenced side project of Amanda Palmer from the
Dresden Dolls and Jason Webley. Directed by the LA-based Hoku Uchiyama. It’s guaranteed to have you scratching your head wondering how they did it.

Spoek Mathambo – Control

Nominated for honours at the UK Music Video Awards, Mathambo has reinterpreted Joy Division’s She Lost Control in the distinctive style of dance music (or ‘kwaito’) This superb video is by influential South African photographer Pieter Hugo and cinematographer Michael Cleary.

Lasse Passage feat Johanne Birkeland – Say Say Say

Probably one of the most disturbing we have ever shown at BUG. Directed by Oslo-based Lars Åndheim & Christoffer Lossius. Sweet melodic song accompanied by a dark tale.

These New Puritans – Hologram

Our guest Saam Farahmand has appeared at BUG before,
at our very first show here at the BFI in April 2007 and here is one of his superslick videos for These New Puritans.

Radio Soulwax – Machine

Again from our guest Saam Farahmand. It’s a simple, strong and quite rude idea, involving the melting down of vintage vinyl and a girl…

Francobollo – I Found a Bike Today

Highly entertaining micro-budgeted video for the London band Francobollo by director and bandmember Sam Bailey. It features a wonderful comic performance by Four Lions actor Adeel Akhtar, a man who, as the song says, finds a bike, and then grows enormously attached to it. Indeed, it does feature scenes of a sexual nature, involving bicycles. You have been warned.

DyE – Fantasy

This animated video is by Jérémie Périn, also responsible for the extraordinary vid for Flairs’ Truckers Delight, Syd Matters’ Hi-Life, and the title sequence for the movie Gainsbourg. It
merely confirms that among a golden generation of young French animators and directors doing great work at the moment.