narrative music videos

Music is a universal language. We may not understand the words all the time, but we’ll feel the rhythm, the emotion and the soul of a powerful song. The Beyond the Short Indie Music Video winners showcases incredible works of narrative music from a diverse, talented group of artists, performers, music video directors and crew.

Explore our entire curated catalog of powerful, emotionally driven music videos.

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“Si Belle - Andromeda Sinned” by Avi Bhaya

Andromeda is restrained by her mother's iron grip - and she will find out just how far that control will go.

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“Lute - Finding Self” by Juan Felipe Zuleta

In this apocalyptic music video/short film hybrid, an adolescent survivalist befriends a malfunctioning android (North Carolina rapper Lute) and teaches him what it means to be "human" on her journey across a lush, robot-filled wasteland.

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“Ab-Soul - Do Better” by Omar Jones

The video for Ab-Soul’s “Do Better” is an artistic visual reinterpretation of real-life events that have occurred in Soul’s life. It explores the trials and tribulations of a man who has reached his breaking point.

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“Carinho Feito pelas Mãos” by Guilherme Petry

A couple that does not get intimate, a couple that barely look at each other. A lifetime together hanging only by a thread. A music video about caress, touch and affection as a healing process and as a vital force.

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“Zea Mays - Corazón de Tango” by Bárbara Fdez

"Let's fool ourselves" is the motto of this song. Because despite the illnesses we suffer along the way, sometimes you just have to keep going forward without looking back.

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“Foxwedding - Here, At the End of All Things” by Jonatan Egholm Keis

In this magical, melancholic and ode-to-life-like music video about love and death, a widow decides to dig up her deceased husband and make him ‘come alive’ as the two share one final day together doing all the (little) things they used to do when they were both alive and well.