Category: BEST MUSIC VIDEO ARFF Paris 2022

Original Film Title: My Window

Director’s Name: Shawy

Writer’s Name: Shawy

Producer: Carl Vermont

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 3 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description:

The animated clip « Ma fenêtre » sketches the luminous gap where the two worlds of musician Carl Vermont and visual artist Shawy meet.

The delightful french-pop ballad written and sung by the former is a dreamy bittersweet lullaby, which finds itself enhanced by the rich graphic universe of the second, thanks to a meticulous mix of paper collage / video / stop motion.

The result is a dazzingly poetic item, in the shape of a mini-odyssey where an infinite canvas of possible reflexions lie : power of imagination, resilience, liberty, death… rebirth ?

Original Film Title: All Your Words

Director’s Name: James Xander

Writer’s Name: James Xander

Producer: James Xander

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

Music video for All Your Words by The Criminal Kid

Original Film Title: Coactors

Director’s Name: RAMESH VARMA

Writer’s Name: RAMESH VARMA

Producer: Pallippuram Sajith

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: Malayalam

Runtime: 8 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

The song belongs to a genre called “Padam”, which is deployed for traditional dance forms like Mohinattam and Kathakali. In which the lady pines for her beloved anxiously, she recalls the blissful times they had spent together. The lady’s message of love is shared with her maid-in-waiting or “Sakhi” (lady friend).

The lyrical love song ‘Ravine’, playing the background, is laced with subtle strokes of eroticism, melodiously touching upon the pain of a lover’s separation from her beloved one.

A flashback in the film takes us to the beginning at the Kalari, training school, where they are provided rigorous training. In addition to getting their bodies toned to sustain the physical challenges of this dance-drama form, to their first act together as lovers, to when they grow up and enact the erotic rasa on stage

Original Film Title: Lo Que Ves No Es Lo Que Soy

Director’s Name: Paco Álvarez

Writer’s Name: Paco Álvarez

Producer: Paco Álvarez

Country of Origin: Mexico

Country of Filming: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 4 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

is a video clip that tells the story of a woman who has worked in film and television since she was a child, putting aside her childhood and involuntarily dedicating herself to working in the entertainment medium.

Original Film Title: One Note

Director’s Name: Matthew Cooke

Writer’s Name: Matthew Cooke

Producer: Matthew Cooke

Country of Origin: USA

Country of Filming: USA

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

A rocker argues with his producer over re-writes of his new song.

Original Film Title: TSUNAMI

Director’s Name: Marie-Claire NEVEU, Ghina DAOU

Writer’s Name: Marie-Claire NEVEU

Producer: Compagnie de l’Armoise

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 4 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

TSUNAMI is a music video and a French song about abortion and women’s rights. Awash with melodies, colors, emotions and dances, it’s full of dance and humanity, it’s a call for more equality (including gender equality) and respect.

Original Film Title: PÉCHO

Director’s Name: Luis Villanueva, Pier Paolo Piccoli, Mason Coburn

Writer’s Name: Pier Paolo Piccoli, Mason Coburn

Producer: Luis Villanueva,

Country of Origin: Philippines

Country of Filming: Philippines, United States

Language: English, French

Runtime: 2 minutes 19 seconds

Film Description:

A bilingual French-English music video inspired by classic French disco and world cinema from Hong Kong to Manila to New York— a non-linear narrative drives the film’s plot as it paints the artists within an imaginative, hallucinatory vignette of love and betrayal.

Original Film Title: Once Again

Director’s Name: Viktor David Samuel Jonsson

Writer’s Name: Viktor David Samuel Jonsson

Producer’s Name: Peter Andersson

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Sweden

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

A constant flash between the life in the water on a sunny day, to the party at night, filled with no regrets.