Sevdaliza 'Messiah' by Tanu Muino

Promonews - 8th Aug 2025
Tanu Muino and Sevdaliza's second collaboration, after Heroina, is another stunning visual experience - and even more provocative.
The video for Messiah has the artist and the director reinterpreting religious imagery in a succession of breathtaking scenarios revolving around the idea of deconstructing patriarchal religious iconography - and in reappropriating these symbols Sevdaliza constructs her own unique and personal 'Messiah'.
It starts in stunning fashion, with Sevdaliza hanging from the censer of a tower - a real one, in Tbilisi, Georgia where both this and Heroina were filmed. She then reappropriates the cross, making a powerful visual statement: that women can take that central space of power and redefine it on their own terms.
The cross scenes are crucial in the video - especially when it turns into a swimming pool, designed by production designer and regular Muino collaborator Helen Gadjilova. Sevdaliza gets wet... and eventually immortalised in marble. And once again in a Tanu Muino video, DoP Nikita Kuzmenko crafts every frame - every decision on lighting, framing and movement is meticulously calculated - to support the narrative of deconstruction and empowerment that Sevdaliza and Tanu are going for.
Produced by DRAMA, the video confirms that Sevdaliza is among a small group of pop stars whose artistic identity is wrapped up and often best expressed through her music videos. That invariably involves audacious and controversial ideas and this is no exception. She has found an ideal foil for her ideas in the visions of Tanu Muino.
Promonews - 8th Aug 2025
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Tanu Muino
- Producer
- Karen Saurí Marchán
- Production Company
- D
- Executive Producer
- Karen Saurí Marchán
- Production Manager
- Otson Miminoshvili
- 1st AD
- Masha Khalpakhchi
- Line Producer
- Laura Lepre
- Service Production Company
- Radioaktive X Shelter
- Founding Partners
- Darko Skulsky & Albert Zurashvili
- EP Radioaktive X Shelter
- Gena Shevchenko
- Producer Radioacktive X Shelter
- Yulia Foster
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Nikita Kuzmenko
- Focus Puller
- Manu Elijarashvili
- 2nd AC
- Giorgi Berdzenishvili
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Samsor Mangal
- Gaffer
- Rost Vasyliev
- Key Grip
- Sergi Vasyliev
Art
- Art Director
- George Karalashvili
- Art Director
- Mariam Iakobashvili
- Production designer
- Helen Gadjilova
Wardrobe
- Stylist
- Margarita Shekel
- Stylist
- Jose Carayol
- Hair
- Besarion Gabunia
- Hair
- Viktoria Gigiashvili
- Make-up
- Thirza King
- Make-up
- Anna Gadelia
Choreography
- Choreographer
- Mecnun Giasar
Casting
- Casting director
- Shoka Shon
- Casting director
- Sopho Gagua
Editorial
- Editor
- Aitor Bigas
Grading
- Colourist
- Tim Masick
- Colour grade company
- Company 3
VFX
- VFX
- Guillaume Cottet
- Post production company
- Mathematic
- Post Producer
- Augustin Vernier
- On
- Set Supervisor
Promonews - 8th Aug 2025