Sigrid 'Don't Feel Like Crying' by Zhang + Knight

Promonews - 26th Mar 2019
Sigrid sits alone in a waiting room, in Zhang + Knight's video for Don't Feel Like Crying - an apt visual metaphor for that time when you're wondering when some heavy feelings are going to kick in.
The directing duo also use a subtle change of bright colour to reflect shifting emotion - and idea that's well executed in Ruben Wooden-Dechamps lovely cinematography, and the grade by Jonny Thorpe.
ZHANG + KNIGHT:
"To us, colour and Sigrid are synonymous with one another; everything in her world is infused with bright, happy colours… which terrified us as our work often inhabits a dark, melancholic space! We reflected on the track for a few days, and suddenly Hopper sprang to mind: his paintings are often sunny and vibrant, but they evoke a real sense of sadness and longing. This happy/sad contradiction really resonated with us, and totally captured the energy of Sigrid’s song.
"That was the birth of the idea: Sigrid is displaced into a saturated waiting room which subtly transforms from being joyful and warmly-coloured to melancholic and blue. So it’s a simple idea which tells the song’s emotional story through bright colours. It was crucial to us that the visual tricks were subtle, so we concealed them during long, fluid camera takes."
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Promonews - 26th Mar 2019