Hania Rani Instagram – Thank you so much for such a warm welcome to my song “Don’t Break My Heart” featuring amazing Duncan Bellamy.
It is utterly fascinating to me – the process of micro-dosing the “Ghosts” flavours, one by one.
I can just wonder how this combination feels to you now, how it tastes.
I wanted to say a couple of words about the video that accompanies the track because Friday’s premiere felt already tumultuous 🙂
It is becoming a tradition that one of my album’s videoclips is directed by a friend of mine: Mateusz Miszczyński, whose other videos (Glass, Leaving, Live from Studio S2) shaped the visual side of my music.
I offered Mateusz to work on Don’t Break My Heart because he already knew the original version of the song.
He says: “For me the story of DBMH began much earlier than the video itself. It was the very first song that Hania sent me a few years ago, still before her debut album. I remember I was surprised by how different it was compared to the rest of her music. The song somehow stood out and intrigued me. As the topic resurfaced, I already knew that we were working on something personal, perhaps more than ever.”
The main idea of the location came from a coincidental find in Luxembourg, where I was supposed to perform in an old main. The show didn’t happen in the end and also we were not allowed to shoot there ultimately but the idea was so strong and frantic that we kept it alive.
I had this idea to capture me biking in the main’s tunnels, which we thought could refer to the human mind and wandering through our own tortuous thoughts and fixations. It felt completely weird and wry that’s why we thought it’s just perfectly fitting the track. We decided to contrast the unassuming and casual activity of riding the bike with something very opposite: murky and ambiguous: empty spaces, corridors, hallways & elusive characters that pass my way. Colours and feelings were ardently inspired by creators of eastern european tradition of cinematography such as Andrey Tarkovsky or Bogdan Dziworski, & twisted with current nostalgia for early James Blake or Bat For Lashes videos. The video was shot entirely on film (Kodak) with photography direction by Jakub Stoszek. | Posted on 18/Sep/2023 14:58:58
