Meryem Aboulouafa 'Deeply' by Zhang + Knight
David Knight - 25th Aug 2020
Zhang & Knight's video for Meryem Aboulouafa establishes a distinctive mood all of its own - part-Arabic, part-surrealist - to create a wonderfully evocative video for the Moroccan singer-songwriter's song Deeply.
The staging is a stylish set, based on an architecture of courtyards and quadrangles found in North Africa and across the Mediterranean, rendered in serene pastel shades. But within the quadrangle, crowded with people, there is another square - a hole into which dancers teeter and then fall...
Aboulouafa is the elegant centre in this haunting scenario, who eventually looks into the hole and reveals its otherworldly secret. The first video by Hannah Palumbo and Linden Feng - aka Zhang & Knight - since joining Birth for French representation is one of their most exquisite.
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David Knight - 25th Aug 2020
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Zhang + Knight
- Producer
- Hugo Legrand-Nathan
- Production Company
- Birth Productions
- Executive Producer
- Kristin Arakchieva
- Executive Producer
- Alexander Kenanov
- 1st AD
- Boyka Pehlivanova
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Nico Poulsson
Art
- Production designer
- Sabina Hristova
Wardrobe
- Stylist
- Isabelle Bardot
Choreography
- Choreographer
- Simon Donnellon
Editorial
- Editor
- Liam Bachler
Grading
- Colourist
- Daniel de Vue
VFX
- VFX Company
- Eighty4
- Post Producer
- Morgan Mirza
Agent
- Director's Representation
- Birth Productions
- Director's Rep (UK)
- F
Other credits
Line Producer
Thomas Aboulker
Junior Line Producer
Sarah Chayeb
Label Manager
Emmanuel Barron
Sound Producer
Para One
VFX
Nicolas Martinez, Manuel Béard, Coralie Duarte, Stéphanie Dubois Thomas Cureaux, Mickael Lauret
David Knight - 25th Aug 2020