Japanese Breakfast has shared a video for “Image Window,” a release-day single from For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Girls). Michelle Zauner directed the video, capturing a shadowy romantic brief on the streets of Seoul with actors Kim Gyuri and Omega Sapien. Sapien’s “vitality and appeal had been so readily obvious,” Zauner elaborated in a press release, and “Kim’s “feeling for melancholy and uncertainty turned out to be a beautiful counterpart.” Try the video and assertion beneath.
Michelle Zauner:
Ever since I used to be a younger woman I’ve handled intrusive ideas of family members dying horrible deaths. When somebody is working late or they’ve uncared for a textual content or even when they’re simply wanting over a balcony, my thoughts tends to run to the worst case situation, a reflex solely exacerbated by my expertise of many actual deaths. It may be each a aid and a battle to like somebody who doesn’t share this similar proclivity for anxiousness. “Image Window” explores that dynamic.
We shot the video whereas I used to be residing in Seoul final 12 months. My thought was to observe a pair, continually monitoring left to proper, as one associate costs boldly ahead and the opposite, progressively anxious, turns into more and more reluctant to observe.
Once I met Omega from Balming Tiger, I knew instantly he can be excellent for the primary position, his vitality and appeal had been so readily obvious. Gyuri Kim, along with her feeling for melancholy and uncertainty, turned out to be a beautiful counterpart.
I wished this video to really feel like a brief movie, and watching it again, it’s bittersweet to look again on my 12 months overseas—the great individuals I met, the neighborhoods I cherished and lived in. The fixed monitoring from left to proper is a reminder of how time continues to go irrespective of how forcefully you battle to beat it again or rush to get forward of it. I be careful the window because the surroundings passes, visualizing all my unlived lives swishing previous.
