Algerian-French director Lyna Zerrouki delivers an expansive vision of the meaning of exile in her beautifully crafted video for Palestinian singer-songwriter and rapper Saint Levant.

Described as 'the artistic response to our pain', the video for Exile takes place in an huge empty space, dominated by an ice blue backdrop. Blue represents the cold sensation that comes with being forced into exile, far away from his warm, colourful home.

But this is also a world which provides a creative space where the artist can perform and collaborate with his orchestra - which happens in the latter part of the video.

"Aesthetically, I wanted to create a different world, a surreal world in which art is the solution," says Lyna Zerrouki. "The message is universal, we’re all human beings and we all deserve peace and justice.

"Saint Levant and the orchestra playing under the rain represents a form of resilience. It shows that no matter what happens to us, we will keep playing, we will keep pushing and create beyond the circumstances we are in. To me this song is in part about conquering one’s pain to turn it into something glorious and beautiful."

Inspired by film icons whose colour language she reinvents (Kieslowski and the symbolic impact of colours in Trois couleurs:Bleu), Lyna offers a palpable contrast between the icy blue of alienation and sweet memories. A visual language that is enhanced by the use of other media such as dance, fashion and film direction to create a world that is both poetic and surreal.