L’ABRICOT – dir. Julia Folio

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Original Film Title: L’ABRICOT

Director’s Name: Julia Folio

Writer’s Name: Julia Folio

Producer: Julia Folio

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 3 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

Pocket Call’s first music video tells the story of a very special casting call.

No One Walks On Water (Anymore) – dir. Matt Ellsworth

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Original Film Title: No One Walks On Water (Anymore)

Director’s Name: Matt Ellsworth

Writer’s Name: Ira Ingber, Steve Bartek

Producer: Ira Ingber

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

The official music video for “No One Walks On Water (Anymore)” dives into a steampunk-inspired world of animated whimsy, perfectly reflecting the inventive sound of BarIng All’s debut album, There Goes My Compass. Gears turn, airships drift, and surreal mechanical seas shimmer beneath a clockwork sky. Through this dreamlike landscape, a lone wanderer searches for meaning in a world where faith and fantasy collide. Playful yet profound, the video captures the essence of losing direction — and finding wonder in the process.

Steve Bartek and Ira Ingber are BarIng All. Conceived, developed, and inspired by their shared desires to journey on musical roads less traveled, their ever-growing body of work surprises, challenges, and ultimately rewards the listener.

With countless years of both recording and live performances as individuals or together in such musically diverse contexts as Bob Dylan, Oingo Boingo, Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Frank Sinatra (to name a few), Steve and Ira communicate nearly telepathically. Oftentimes it truly is telepathy. This happens not only when they play guitars together, but when composing and mixing their BarIng All pieces as well.

Like film directors do, they have cast other musicians for spotlight roles in their songs. Because of the respect they’ve earned from their fellow musicians, the performances these outside artists have brought to BarIng All are notable, not only for their intrinsic virtuosity, but for the ways in which they contribute to the “whole.” They don’t seem to mind being tortured. Just a little.

Featuring

Ira Ingber — Minneapolis-born, Los Angeles-raised guitarist/composer. Ingber recorded his first original at age 15 and went on to work with Captain Beefheart, study at UCLA and LACC, and establish himself as a producer, composer, songwriter and guitar force.

Si tu – dir. Benjamin Fraser

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Original Film Title: Si tu

Director’s Name: Benjamin Fraser

Writer’s Name: Michaele Archer

Producer: Michaele Archer

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Si tu meaning “if you” is the 4th poem in the Garland of 6 poems written by ancient Roman woman poet Sulpicia. Sulpicia has a deadly fever. And in essence says “if you love me I will surely live!”. The music creates more movement in the last verse expressing optimism as Sulpicia ulimately recovers and is reunited with her secret lover Cerinthius in the the next poem

Sugar Daddy Decay – dir. Regina Pigsley

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Original Film Title: Sugar Daddy Decay

Director’s Name: Regina Pigsley

Writer’s Name: Katie DiCicco

Producer: Phil Coates

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

The music video for Skylet Gunner’s “Sugar Daddy Decay” is a surreal, feminist visual narrative that critiques the glamorization of transactional relationships and the objectification of women. Directed by Regina Pigsley and choreographed by Galit Friedlander, the video employs a dreamlike aesthetic inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and Salvador Dalí’s surrealism, a style Gunner refers to as “Spaghetti Surrealism.”

Dream State – dir. Andrea G Tooley

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Original Film Title: Dream State

Director’s Name: Andrea G Tooley

Writer’s Name: Andrea G Tooley

Producer: Andrea G Tooley

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 1 second

Film Description:

Dream State is a short experimental music film that moves between deadpan humor and dreamlike rhythm. Blending parody with atmosphere, it invites the audience into a world where the serious and the surreal overlap.

Timeless – dir. Keanu Cordero

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Original Film Title: Timeless

Director’s Name: Keanu Cordero

Writer’s Name: Emilio T Dot Ace Garcia

Producer: Emilio T Dot Ace Garcia

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

Step into a dream where nostalgia meets heartbreak.
In Timeless, Juic3 opens a book by the pool in modern-day reality — but what unfolds is anything but ordinary. She’s swept into an imagined 1960s world: a life filled with warmth, love, and everything she’s ever dreamed of. A beautiful home. A devoted husband. A life that feels realer than real.

But dreams have their limits.
As quickly as she arrives, Juic3 is pulled back to the present, left alone with a book in hand and a heart touched by what never truly was.

Told through a soulful soundtrack and captured with cinematic, golden-era visuals, Timeless blurs the line between fantasy and reality — exploring the beauty and sadness of the worlds we build in our minds to escape the ones we live in.

💔 Authentic. Emotional. Visually classic.
This short film is for anyone who’s ever loved a feeling that didn’t exist outside their imagination.

“Timeless” is a short film-style music video from rising artist Juic3. Combining soul-baring lyrics with vintage cinematic visuals, the film takes viewers into a fictional 1960s love story — a life of joy, family, and romance that never existed outside the pages of a book. Shot in San Antonio and produced by Blue Lace Productions, the film captures the emotional collision between fantasy and reality, longing and loss, past and present.

Jewish Town, Kraków Ghetto-Winter 41 J.Williams Trio Classic Deluxe – dir. Natascha Akinschin

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Original Film Title: Jewish Town, Kraków Ghetto-Winter 41 J.Williams Trio Classic Deluxe

Director’s Name: Natascha Akinschin

Writer’s Name: Natascha Akinschin

Producer: Natascha Akinschin

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes

Film Description:

In this music film, Natascha Akinschin (violin), Eugen Akinschin (flute) and Maxim Lysov (guitar) of Trio “Classic Deluxe” present their own arrangement of John Williams’ music from Schindler’s List, combined with evocative imagery. The video reflects on the fate of musicians in the Kraków Ghetto during the winter of 1941, showing how music remained a voice of hope and humanity even in times of darkness.

With their intimate trio sound, the ensemble creates a moving interpretation that bridges past and present, taking the audience on a powerful emotional journey.

Say You Are My Lover Again – dir. Cate Kileva

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Original Film Title: Say You Are My Lover Again

Director’s Name: Cate Kileva

Writer’s Name: Cate Kileva

Producer: Cate Kileva

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 6 seconds

Film Description:

Getting music out there in amongst the noise is hard. I always try to reflect and hope I’m not adding to the noise, but perhaps creating a little haven of peace within it.

So I made this clip and I feel it lives in the space between texture and feeling, digital and analog, where memory can become performance and every moment is an echo of the one before. Shot alone in the woods, it explores the tension between the artifice of cinema and the rawness of sensation: a body in motion, a camera bearing witness, and the flickering border between the real and the imagined.

I blended archival fragments with original footage and overlays of recorded screen, and the piece plays with time, light, and emotional as well as layers of visual saturation. It is a meditation on desire, nature, and the ways film can blend with song, both as material and as metaphor, to hold what we can’t always say.

Underwater Dancing | Blooming Strings Official Music Video | Velour

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Original Film Title: Underwater Dancing | Blooming Strings Official Music Video | Velour

Director’s Name: Anna Aita

Writer’s Name: Hannah Rose Vernot

Producer:

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes

Film Description:

I learned how to freedive for this music video and do an underwater dance. This was a scary experience and every time I kept thinking an alligator was going to come get me. I trained before hand, however, the real thing is always a bit unexpected. But you cannot get anxious underwater, because that affects your breathing. I truly enjoyed this project. I wrote this song about love and shot the video in the springs of Florida.