Berlin-based Chinese-German artist LIA LIA shares a new video for ‘Angst’, the title track off her latest EP.
Angst’s theme is identity struggle and mental health awareness with hypersonic punk riffs and sharp lyrics.
“Angst is my big ‘fuck you’ to anxiety, depression & sickness.”
LIA LIA
Directed by visual duo KINOPROBY (Rema/Dior), the video for ‘Angst’ is a mini film with the track elevating it to the next level.
“Have you ever seen the movie “All About Lily Chou-Chou?”, asked Lia on the first call with us. As Asian cinema lovers we felt that it was just thrilling to create the video with Lia in such a sensitive aesthetic. The world of lovers that we visualised is very fragile, full of details, with understatement, including toxic moments. Camcorders were one of the main optics that we used in the video; it helped to sneakily peek into their intimacy. Sometimes love is somewhere between floors while you are inside the old elevator; it’s in quick touch; in manic stalking, it’s hidden in the grass. It’s what we wanted to show.”
KINOPROBY
“I love banality, surreal realism and working with tropes from movies and anime, especially because “the music video genre” is such a short format. You don’t have much time to build characters or stories. With Kinoproby it felt like we shot a whole movie. They build the perfect world for my character to exist in. Usually I’m such a control freak and do everything myself, but I fell in love with them and their vision, so this time, I only did the characters, styling, casting and my make up haha. I’ve never felt so connected, I think we share some neurons in our brains or something.”
LIA LIA
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