Blood Orange 'Charcoal Baby' by Crack Stevens

This wonderful video for Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) by Crack Stevens (aka Akinola Davies) is, in effect, two videos played alongside one another. They are at the same time very similar and widely different, and their juxtaposition serves to send a message about the diversity of the black experience in London.

In both cases, we're witnessing the different stages of a family celebration, of two different communities, taking place in the same social club, where Hynes is the performer. And what is the so appealing about it is the level of detail and the beautiful portraiture so that documentary merges seamlessly with the music video form.

It's a celebration of similarities - the bringing of the food, the socialising, the dancing - and the differences - and most of all, the fact that it is real - which makes every frame (and split-frame) fascinating.

CRACK STEVENS:

"I wanted to make something for black people to be able to celebrate our complexly embodied lived experiences in the face of all the sensationalised violence and recycled stereotypical images perpetrated about us.

"Making the video was a lot of work but when an artists like Dev treats the director equally as an artist it makes it a real collaboration - I can safely say I’ve never worked as hard or learnt as much on a project before."