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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Production/Creative
- Director
- Nicolás Méndez
- Producer
- María Rubio
- Production Company
- C
- 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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