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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“A.Girl - Do It Again” by Jason Sukadana

Māori-Australian artist A.Girl delivers her unique sound of moody R&B with "Do It Again", and evocative summoning of the contradictions of desire. Directed by director duo VERSUS, the film presents an invocation of the intoxicating convergence of power and passion. Vignettes illustrate the disorienting trappings of rumination and expressions of self preservation.

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“MONETOCHKA - BURN” by Lado Kvataniya

Propaganda deprives people of empathy and turns them into inanimate objects that serve as fuel for the creation of a new kind of society - faceless and soulless.

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“LA BEAUTE” by Argam Gevorgyan

"les yeux de celui qui regarde" - the eyes of the beholder. The eyes of each character: blind, aggressive, unconditionally in love, and brought to catharsis.

Twin brothers meet 20 years later, then tragically say goodbye to each other.

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“3h Company - Adequately” by Leo Goresnhtein

An absurdist, Kafkaesque piece riddled with anxiety and paranoia that oscillates between a wedding and a funeral.

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“REKA WW – WIND OH WIND” by Egor Gavrilin

What you’re encountering is a mantra-song, a spell, an enchantment that turns back the pain and destruction brought by fire.

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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.