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Liz Wong 'Rooted' by Ryan Kochberg

Promonews - 25th June 2025

Ryan Kochberg’s video for Hong Kong-born, British-based singer Liz Wong is a paean to mental health, magical realism and artistic resurrection.

Inspired in part by the films of Jonathan Glazer, the video for Rooted was shot with 25 home security cameras hidden in the walls of a modernist London mansion.

The lo-fi monochrome images capture LCDS contemporary dancer Carys Belle cavorting within the rooms of the house in a progressively more violent and self-destructive fashion, juxtaposed with Wong’s plaintive voice, belting out existentialist lyrics.

The dancer's knees bounce off of cold terrazzo floors, sending her body colliding into hard, pointed, virtually anti-human furniture. All of that before she scrambles upstairs and submerges herself in a bath full of roots and vines, whereupon the protagonist is saved by a mysterious white light that seems to emanate from Wong.

Promonews - 25th June 2025

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Production/Creative

Director
Ryan Kochberg
Producer
Harvey Planer
Production Company
Ryan Kochberg Productions
1st AD
Tom Prinz

Camera

Director of Photography
Piero Cioffi
Focus Puller
Josh Hughes
2nd AC
Mara Vodinelic

Art

Art Director
Asli Inkaya
Production designer
Maja Brann

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Troy Choi

Choreography

Choreographer
Carys Belle

Casting

Lead Dancer
Carys Belle

Editorial

Editor
Ryan Kochberg

Grading

Colour Producer
Jamie Gilmore
Colourist
Lee Twohey
Colour grade company
The Farm

VFX

VFX
Ben Dolce

Promonews - 25th June 2025

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