PREVISUALISATION / MUSIC VIDEO
Anna Rusakova.
Visual concept for the music video.
The protagonist leaves a noisy city through a solitary door and finds herself in open natural space. The boundary between her body and the world gradually disappears: skin becomes earth and bark, the face becomes an island and a rock.
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DIRECTING PRINCIPLE
The music video is built as a continuous transition. The city stays behind the door, and the protagonist’s body separates less and less from the world around her. Surreal images arise inside the story through changes of scale and state.
Grass, water, clouds and birds give the rhythm its pauses. The final image returns us to the door: it empties, grows over with roses and becomes part of nature.
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A solitary door stands in an empty field and at the same time works as a portal: the protagonist steps out of a dense, noisy city into completely open natural space. The city exists only inside the doorway; outside there is only the field, grass, a clear horizon and no houses, cars, roads, wires or other infrastructure.
A low camera position. The protagonist is already on the other side of the door: around her only branches, sky and natural geometry. The body and the surrounding world begin to draw together.
A close detail of the hand: the protagonist touches the earth and plants begin to sprout directly out of the hand. The first physical metamorphosis stays intimate and material.
The scale of the body changes: a woman’s palm turns into natural relief. The surreal frame is built into the story as the next step in dissolving the boundary between body and earth.
The protagonist enters the structure of the tree: body, arms and branches form a single composition. What matters is not a sense of fantastical transformation but of physical closeness between materials.
An enormous woman’s face becomes part of a rocky island. Stone, grass, skin and water exist at one scale; birds strengthen the sense of a living natural space.
After the dense bodily metamorphosis – a pause: only tall grass bent by the wind. Nature does not turn into a separate theme; it carries on the rhythm and the breathing of the protagonist.
The transition to water. The face and the water surface begin to read as one material; the movement becomes slower and more intimate.
A frontal close portrait: the face lies calmly on the surface of the water. This is a simpler and more bodily image of the water phase – without a complex mixing of the elements.
The body goes under the water calmly, without struggle or resistance. Not a literal drowning, but an image of acceptance and of passing into another state.
A giant woman’s face becomes a coastal cliff. A small figure by the water underlines the impossible scale: the person now reads as the landscape itself.
A macro detail of the eye. The sky and birds are reflected in it – nature no longer only surrounds the protagonist but is literally inside her gaze.
The clouds move slowly, light passes through them. The air phase is built through real natural processes rather than through man-made objects.
A flock of birds crosses a large empty sky. This is a visual rhyme with breathing, with the voice and with the sense of release from materiality.
The protagonist stays inside the air phase: a small figure in an enormous open space, the wind moving hair, clothing and grass. What matters here is the scale of the air, not any separate prop.
A giant woman’s arm becomes part of the open landscape. The frame continues the motif of changing body scale and ties the air block to the bodily metaphor.
A quiet surreal chord closer to the finale: a part of the woman’s body now reads entirely as a natural hollow and relief.
The protagonist is no longer in the frame. Only the door is left in the field – the trace of the boundary through which she once entered this space.
The final image: the door has gradually become part of nature and is overgrown with rose bushes, which in the overall black-and-white system read through texture, light and the density of the vegetation. The transition is complete.
Images from the visual concept for the song Voskresenie, provided by the studio. Previsualisation of the music video.
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