Baby Don't Love Me

Low budget video using self-shot footage. Full edit, grading and effects layers to bring things to life.

My People

Design, shot selection, edit, effects, and grading of footage provided.

Commissioned by Earache Records.

Ajay Mathur - Ungrateful

Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is walk away. "Ungrateful" chronicles the trajectory of a love that once felt infinite – "I touched the stars and the moon, the sky" – before reality intervened. The lyrics capture the painful recognition that devotion and effort can't always save a relationship, repeating the sobering truth: "The harder we try, the deeper we fall… Love is the most ungratful game of all." Yet from pain comes clarity. Driven by a groove that feels both worldly and intimate, the song transforms heartbreak into self-determination as the narrator releases what no longer serves: "Just not my game anymore… I'm free."

Music & lyrics by Ajay Mathur & Mary Lou von Wyl
Published by Ajay Mathur Music GmbH
Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by Provoke Films
2026

The Simpletone - SPIDERS

Spiders is taken from the album "The Eternal Now" (2026)
Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by PROVOKE FILMS

Diva Vox - White Room

What does it mean to be holy in a room by yourself? ‘WHITE ROOM’ is about that stark, self-made altar, and the holiness found in total containment before it inevitably cracks...

CREDITS: Written & Performed by Diva Vox Video Directed by Ciro Ayala Producer: Diva Vox Executive Producer (LA): Victoria Ayala Executive Producer (Reykjavík): Elín Ragnarsdóttir Cinematographer: Jón Þór Stefánsson Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier

Peoni for the room

dp and edited video for the room

All My Love

My short animation for Coldplay's "All My Love"

Diva Vox - The Pulse (Euro Trance Instrumental)

This visual journey for the instrumental version of "THE PULSE" translates its high-energy Euro-Trance rhythm into a celebration of aesthetic form. The video elegantly intertwines the sleek, powerful beauty of architectural design and dynamic color fields with captivating, artistic shots of the Icelandic sensation Diva Vox, creating a hypnotic narrative of desire and movement, where geometry and human presence unite in a storm of pure passion.

Video directed by Ciro Ayala DP: Jón Þór Stefánsson Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier Makeup & Stylist: Guðrún Berg VFX by Provoke Films Produced by Sila Visionary Art Songwriter and Vocals: Diva Vox Producers: Diva Vox and Ciro Ayala Iceland • 2025

Diva Vox - Inner Love

Diva Vox - 内心的爱 (Official Music Video)
Directed by Ciro Ayala Executive Producer: Victoriya Ayala Script by Diva Vox Shanghai Cinematographer: Claire Hövermann Producers: Diva Vox and Ciro Ayala Post-Production by Provoke Films Filmed in Shanghai, Los Angeles and Reykjavík a SILA Visionary Art production 2025

Rio 18 - Impossible

Animated music video for Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18's single Impossible

Chelsea Right to Work

Two cameras, an original Punk band from the seventies and 2 hours in a rehearsal room. What could possibly go wrong. Great fun. Quick turnaround, massive sound.

Commissioned by Cherry Red Records.

Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning (Official Visualiser)

Agency: I'm Your Boss

Director: Chris Curtis

Art Director: Mario Wagner

Animation: Jack Pell

Ginkgos - Say it Anyway

Ginkgos - Say it Anyway

Commissioned by G Major MGMT.

TDWT

They Don't Want This - Junoflo

Directed and Edited by Minh Nguyen

Johnny Stimson 'Holding On'

Official music video for Johnny Stimson.

Set in the aftermath of an extravagant party, Johnny Stimson
performs this heartfelt song on a grand piano in an empty and trashed venue.

Black & White live action film.

Shot at Bush Hall in Shepards Bush, London.

Director / Camera / Editor: Stephen Smith
Assistant Camera: Garry Smith
Location Manager: Alix Perry

Released Sept 2015

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The Revivalists (ft Portugal. The Man) 'It Was A Sin'

Official music video for American rock band THE REVIVALISTS
classic song 'It Was A Sin' featuring PORTUGAL. THE MAN.

Award nominated for Best Film 'Misfits & Mavericks' catagory at the Northampton Film Festival 2026

Asleep in the back of his beaten up car, a cut and bruised man
careers along a precarious track, high up in the mountains.

A story about self destructive behaviour after a traumatic event.

Produced by Concord Records
Released Oct 2025

Commissioned by Concord Music Group.

Rossana - The Entertainer

Rossana - The Entertainer

Client: BaitRecords

Directed by Ângelo Varela, Gonçalo Palma, Alexandre Muge and Rossana

Produced by Luis Pita and Kletick
Concept by Rossana and Rúben Carneiro
Cast: Hannah Mendel, Azeri Agheyeva, Mike Los, and Claire Stenning
DOP/Colour by Ângelo Varela
Camera Assistant: Alexandre Muge
Costume/Set design by Rúben Carneiro
Edit/VFX by Gonçalo Palma
BTS by Paulo Madureira and Rodrigo Santos

The Budos Band - Overlander

For Budos Band's latest single Overlander I revisited some techniques I developed a little while back, putting a fresh twist on them. The foreground animation's built with a virtual set in Unreal Engine 5.5, comped with a whole load of painting textures developed with sd1.5, while the animated background skies and clouds are all classic After Effects, which also covered the compositing as well as a load of visual effects and messy grading.

Incredible project to work on, thanks to Brian Profilio (@b.profilio.art) for working with me to build on his original artwork for the band's new album VII.

The Land Of The Leaf Blower and the Mighty SUV

Directed by Ciro Ayala | Produced by Roger Street Friedman | 2025

Lane 8 - Childish (Official Music Video)

Really delighted to have worked with Lane 8 and their label This Never Happened on this video for their new single ‘CHILDISH’.

Commissioned by This Never Happened.

Steve & Willie - Faithfully (Music Video)

Very honoured to have worked on this video for Steve Perry & Willie Nelson’s new rendition of the Journey hit ‘Faithfully’, released on Dark Horse Records.

You can find out more about the recording here.

Huun-Huur-Tu / Carmen Rizzo / Dhani Harrison - Boidus (Music Video)

Very excited to have worked on this visualiser for Dark Horse Records’ new release from Dhani Harrison, Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu, called ‘Boidus’, the lead single off their collaborative album ‘Dreamers In The Field’ which you can find out more about here.

Sleeping in Public

Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written and Produced by Jefferson Berry

2025

My Passion

Official music video for "Passíónið Mitt" (My Passion) by Diva Vox

Music Video Credits: Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written by Diva Vox

DP: Jón Þór Stefánsson

Executive Producer: Victoriya Ayala

Producers: Elín Ragnarsdóttir and Ciro Ayala

Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier

CGI VFX by Provoke Films

Produced by СИЛА VISIONARY ART (Iceland)
 

WAR

After the collapse, men sacrificed flesh for simulation binding all future sons to an artificial eternity. Women Chose freedom. From the ashes, they forged digital avatars not to rule, but to reveal the truth. For centuries, the battle raged. A war of sexes, of ideologies... Yet neither could see the truth. The virtual world was a cage. The battle, a test. And the architect? Not man. Not woman. A savage god......watching.....learning....

Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by John Sterling
Artistic Vision by John Sterling and Ciro Ayala
Executive Producers Victoria Ayala and Ciro Ayala
Edited by Jean-Luc Fortier and Ciro Ayala
CGI VFX and Post Production by Provoke Films
Mixed and Mastered by Dmitriy Redko

2025

Stop Motion Demo Reel

Sizzle Reel of Stop Motion Goodies

Commissioned by Various Artists Management.

Seen You Before - Music Video

Seen You Before – FuturePast Zine

Looping Music Video for Digital Single | Memory, Distortion & Repetition

Overview

Seen You Before is a looping short music video commissioned by FuturePast Zine for the release of a digital single. Created as a social promo asset for Spotify and Instagram, the piece explores how memory distorts perspective, drawing visual inspiration from Inception-style recursion and spatial paradox.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D (Camera Mapping), After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

Built around the concept of memory loops and fractured timelines, the video features a seemingly ordinary room that subtly shifts and reconfigures each time the camera passes through a door. Though the setting appears unchanged, the objects, lighting, and spatial relationships morph with each cycle, creating a disorienting and poetic sense of déjà vu.

By using camera mapping techniques in Cinema 4D, I was able to texture the space with photographic realism while allowing for animated distortions and transitions. The result is a seamless, loopable video that plays with time, space, and perception — echoing the emotional ambiguity of the track it accompanies.

Process Highlights

• Used camera mapping to project real-world textures onto 3D geometry.

• Built a seamless loop that evolves subtly on each pass-through.

• Composited in After Effects to layer distortion effects and spatial transitions.

• Designed specifically for loop playback on social media platforms like Instagram and Spotify Canvas.

Credits

Client: FuturePast Zine
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Until Venus Returns - Futurepast Zine

Until Venus Returns

Commissioned Music Video & Cover Art | 3D Animation + Mythological Themes

Overview

Until Venus Returns was a commissioned project developed in late 2017, inspired by the mythological return of Venus — the Roman goddess of love. I aimed to explore the intersection of digital constructs and ancient mythology, crafting a visual narrative that reimagines Venus through the lens of technology, glitch, and space-time aesthetics.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

The project draws on themes of love, isolation, and rebirth, filtered through a futuristic and cosmic visual identity. Venus is reinterpreted as a being emerging from a world of glitch, starlight, and data, with a surreal blend of character animation, outer-world landscapes, and abstract tech motifs.

Frames from the animation were repurposed as high-impact single covers, each one distilling the mood and tone of the video into a single image.

Process Highlights

• Directed and produced a fully animated 3D music video, combining narrative flow with atmospheric world-building.

• Designed three single cover artworks using selected video stills.

• Integrated glitch effects, particle simulations, and digital decay to reinforce the theme of technological myth.

• Developed a visual arc that evokes the goddess archetype while embracing digital surrealism.

Outcome

The final output included a music video and three cover artworks, designed for both digital release and promotional visuals. The work has been featured on Behance and served as an early example of my interest in combining mythology, motion design, and speculative sci-fi imagery.

Credits

Client: Futurepast Zine
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner / Ordos
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Quadra 163 - Music Video

Quadra 163 – Fabrice Lig – Spin Coaster

Official Music Video | Brutalist Sci-Fi Environments & Motion Design

Overview

Quadra 163 is a music video created for electronic music artist Fabrice Lig, designed to visually accompany his track Spin Coaster. The piece explores a surreal, post-human narrative set within an abandoned space base—a lone survivor travels to an empty colony in space, they walk inside a vast, brutalist structure, wandering through empty architectural echoes until encountering a single living symbol: a solitary tree.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

This video draws from themes of isolation, memory, and renewal. The environment—an immense brutalist warehouse-meets-space station—evokes feelings of past technological collapse and quiet resilience. Cinematic camera movement and slow-building tension guide the viewer through stark, symmetrical corridors toward a moment of emotional release.

The final encounter with the lone tree acts as a counterpoint to the mechanical world—suggesting survival, rebirth, or even hallucination. The visuals reflect the tension and energy of Spin Coaster through minimal colour, fog, and rhythmic animation.

Process Highlights

• Designed and animated a sci-fi-inspired brutalist environment using Cinema 4D.

• Synchronized camera and object movement with Fabrice Lig’s electronic track.

• Created a visual narrative using light, fog, and architectural repetition.

• Used After Effects for post-processing, color grading, and atmospheric enhancement.

Credits

Client: Fabrice Lig
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

Music Video The City Flight 2N3055

Concept, script, motion graphics, editing.