The Neighbourhood 'Private' by Ramez Silyan

David Knight - 14th Nov 2025
Ramez Silyan evokes the name of the band and the song, and channels the cinematic spirit of David Lynch and Gregory Crewdson in this gorgeous, beautifully crafted video for Californian band The Neighbourhood.
Shot by Bobby Pavlovsky, the video for Private takes us into American suburbia in all its ominous perfection. The world of Lynch's Blue Velvet - often referenced in videos, but rarely done as well as it is here.
Silyan's twist on the convention is to have the band perform the song within this dream suburban setting at night - a night so dark that it becomes like a dream.
It is beautiful and beautifully artificial - and it's the band themselves that provide the realism, in the unshowy yet impressive performance. They are determinedly rocking out - and that's what gets the curtains twitching in this eerily private world.
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Ramez Silyan
- Producer
- Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder
- Production Company
- SF
- Service Company
- Deep Cut Films
- Executive Producer
- Balint Seres
- UPM
- Quino Taranzo
- 1st AD
- Tyler W Wilson @twwilson01
- 2nd AD
- Ashlee Rose @ashorama
- Production Asst
- Calvin Gibbon, Reggie Ware, Marcus Duarte, Marcus Bell
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Bobby Pavlovsky
- 1st AC
- Eric Ugland
- Film Stock
- K
- 2nd Ac
- Joseph Ashi @joe_ashi
- Loader
- Sergio Torres @sergio____torres
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Nick Durr
- Best Boy Electric
- Justin Roxbrough @justin.roxbrough
- Electric
- Terrell Bradford, Vahagan Guasyan
- Electric Driver
- Noah Shettel @thee_nshet
- Key Grip
- Alessandro Picasso @picasso_319
- Best Boy Grip
- Gary Harvill @harvill0890
- Grip
- Alex Schmidt, Sam Satossky @samsatossky, Daniel Valles @danny_valles
- Dolly Grip
- Rex Kennedy
Art
- Production designer
- Matt Toth
- Art Director
- Kellie Arceneaux @kelliearceneaux_
- Set Dresser
- Devin Di Filia @devindif
- Art PA
- Jonathan Rodriguez, Savannah Toth
- Sfx
- Art Hayes
Editorial
- Editor
- Zaldy Lopez
- Editing company
- Exile Edit
Grading
- Colourist
- Kaitlyn Battistelli
- Colour grade company
- Ethos Studio
Misc
- Grooming
- Gabrielle Alvarez
Other credits
Set Stills
Jake Bottiglieri @ninetyeyes
David Knight - 14th Nov 2025