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Nico de Sola

Director · London

Archy Moor — “Robbery Rings”

Blends real and digitally rebuilt night-time London for Archy Moor’s “Robbery Rings”, the video that won the hip hop newcomer prize at the UK Music Video Awards 2025. Shot by Peter Bishop, cut by Adam Todhunter, finished at Avenues.

Nico de Sola is a London director represented by Diplomats, which also produced his video for Archy Moor, the Nigeria-born, Dublin-based rapper. “Robbery Rings” won Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video, Newcomer at the UK Music Video Awards 2025, and a low-budget prize at the Berlin Music Video Awards followed in 2026.

Two men laughing under a concrete underpass at night, still from Archy Moor “Robbery Rings” — Under the flyover. Still: Archy Moor “Robbery Rings” (dir. Nico de Sola), AI re-angled

The film is a night-time London that keeps coming apart. Real footage and digital reconstructions blend as Moor moves through the city under a single spotlight, the streets around him breaking into fragments. Promonews called it unsettling and fragmented; the 3D motion and VFX were built in-house by Adam Todhunter, Vittoria Belli and de Sola himself.

Silhouette of a man in a cap against a smoky night sky over a housing estate, still from Archy Moor “Robbery Rings” — The estate, rebuilt in 3D. Still: Archy Moor “Robbery Rings”, AI re-angled

Peter Bishop shot it, Todhunter cut it, John Layton graded and post ran through Avenues. It is a small crew for a video that looks this dense, which is the point: the city is mostly built after the shoot. There is more of de Sola’s work on Instagram and at Diplomats.

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