“Chains & Whips”: ordinary scenes, stretched into a nightmare

Camerimage awarded its 2025 Golden Frog in the Music Videos Competition to cinematographer Jake Gabbay and director Gabriel Moses for Clipse’s “Chains & Whips”. Rolling Stone describes ordinary scenes rendered with strange, stretched-out effects alongside direct shots of daily life, beauty pageants, church services, men running from police and life in prison. Credits from Directors’ Library: producer Jules de Chateleux, executive producer Alice Wills, production design Eliza Chance, styling Genesis Duran, edit Joseph Taylor, colour John Lowe, VFX 1080p, label Roc Nation.