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Rosalía ft Björk, Yves Tumor 'Berghain' by Nicolás Méndez

David Knight - 28th Oct 2025

Days before this year's UK Music Video Awards, celebrating all the outstanding creativity that makes it an enduring and important artform, comes a video shows exactly why its still vibrant, why it must be cherished, as Nicolás Méndez introduces the next era of Rosalía. It's a brilliant and inspiring clash of the mundane and the surreal.

The video for Berghain (the lead single from her highly anticipated new album Lux) features the Spanish singer moving through her normal day. And whilst cleaning and ironing in her apartment, walking along the street, and travelling on a bus, she is always shadowed and surrounded by a full orchestra.

Méndez takes us into a world that is still recognisably Rosalîa - as expressed in numerous videos, including the classics he has directed for Malamente, TKN and more. But her new musical direction, with orchestra, elements of opera, the experimentation that sees her involve Bjork and Yves Tumor, has become the path to employ this wonderful device.

In a way, its simple. Crucially, its beautifully executed, with peerless attention to detail, in terms of production and with the bare traces of a narrative, involving a piece of jewellry, which leads us back to explore it again and again.

Meanwhile Méndez takes it to the next level. Returning home, as Bjork starts singing, Rosalia's apartment has become a Snow White-esque interior forest, with creatures. An elevation to full-on fantasy. There's humour, and playfulness - and like all good fairytales, a frisson of horror.

Shot in Warsaw, CANADA's Nicolas Méndez makes us feel we are in the centre of old Europe, full of history and where a lot of magic is also possible. It's a beautiful way to introduce Rosalia's experimentation in classical music. Méndez is a master of this artform and he makes every frame significant. He has made a classic. 

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Nicolás Méndez
Producer
María Rubio
Production Company
Executive Producer
Victor Mata
Production Manager
Agnieszka Dragan
1st AD
Przemek Krawczyk
1st AD
Przemek Krawczyk
Head of Music Video
Callum Harrison
Managing Partner
Alba Barneda
Creative Direction
Rosalía Vila Tobella & Pilar Vila
Production Assistant
Andrew Shpak
PA/ Chaperone Glam Team/Label
Melania Sroka
Chaperone Visiting Crew
Magda Kepa
Chaperone Artist
Michalina Ferencz
Talent Coordinator | Prep
Ania Pastuszak
Talent Coordinator Assistants
Gosia Kowalewska, Martyna Kapral
2nd AD
Katarzyna Wisniowska
Location Manager
Olga Zaborowska
Set Manager
Remik Kubiak

Camera

Director of Photography
Max Pittner
Focus Puller
Marcin Studniarek
Focus Puller
Pawel Zelsko
2nd AC
Antek Luc

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Misha Shashko
Key Grip
Przemek Libermann
Key Grip
Marcin Bębnista
Key Grip
Jarosław Bajer
Grip Ronin
Paweł Zapisek
Gaffer
Misha Shashko
Best Boy
Yevhenii Malik
Spark
Bartosz Baprawski, Andrii Linnik, Robert Kwiecień, Mateusz Gawęda, Sebastian Zurek, Lukasz Cichecki

Art

Production designer
Andy Kelly
Production designer
Jędrek Kowalski
Set Dresser
Maria Dziewanowska-Kowalska
Props Master
Mateusz Zakrzewski
Props On Set
Filip Karczmarczyk
Props Assistants
Martin Idzik, Karol Rębalski, Adam Wąsiel, Jan Magnuszewski, Piotr Lis
Set Construction
Tomasz Trybulski
Graphic
Katarzyna Trzcinska Palenga

Wardrobe

Stylist
Jose Carayol
Hair
Serpiente
Make-up
Isabella Ching
Costume Designer
Emilia Czartoryska Costume Designer Assistant

Casting

Jeweller
Krzysztof Konrad Doctor

Editorial

Editor
Carlos Font Clos
Editing company
Cabin Edit
Assistant Editor
Bernat Udina

Grading

Colour grade company
Metropolitana

VFX

VFX
El Ranchito
VFX/Online
Alvaro P. Posadas & Marta Castillo @ CANADA Additional VFX

Commission

Commissioner
Saul Levitz
Label
Columbia Records

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