🎧 Music Video Week : / Nežni Dalibor - Weekends / original content

This is a music video I directed for Belgrade-based band Nežni Dalibor.
The song is called ''Weekends'' and it's about the illusion of weekend freedom

We sat down with the band and came up with the idea of something like a 'weekend out for the patients from a mental hospital', maybe it's not so straight forward when you watch the video, but you can feel that something is not right when you see a group of six people all different ages childishly playing hide and seek  in the woods with matching raincoats, then in the second scene you see them in the swimming pool and in the last scene you see them take medicine and dancing inside a gym that has so cheap and ugly decoration that it hurts, and then going batshit crazy.
The idea was that at first the video is funny and as the time is passing you feel more and more uncomfortable with what you're seeing.

Some of you will probably notice homages to 'The Lobster' in the first scene and 'Bronson' in the last scene.
The first homage was something that we didn't quite plan in the beginning, it was only a reference in terms of how me and my director of photography wanted the shots and composition to look, but then, night before the shooting was rainy as hell, and weather forecast also predicted rain the next day and we couldn't move the shooting, so we decided to go with the raincoat costumes for the actors and just go all the way with 'The Lobster' homage.

CREDITS

Cast: Bane Jevtić, Bora Nenić, Maja Nikolić, Trajče Nikolovski, Branko Perišić, Joakim Tasić
Director: Marina Uzelac
Director of photography: Igor Marović
Organization & costume : Marija Jaraković
Production design: Vladimir Vićentić i Jovana Pešić
Editing: Rajko Ristanović
Color grading: Nikola Marinković
Make up: Jovana Vasić