Take a deep dive into an aquatic new music video directed by Tim Georgeson via NOWNESS
24 Jun 2020
"Tennen means the natural state of things as they are, without affection," she says. "This feeling explains the atmosphere that I wanted to achieve and describes the natural flow of the music."
After directing his first long-form film on indigenous fire practices for Nowness earlier this year, Australian director and visual artist Tim Georgeson returns to nature to capture the motion of water in this atmospheric music video for Hania Rani’s “Tennen”.
A haunting drone reminiscent of Eastern music intros the track and gently fades into the composer’s hallmark cascade of elegiac piano arpeggios. Rani came across the title for the release at an exhibition on tea ceremonies in Japan. “Tennen means the natural state of things as they are, without affection,” she says. “This feeling explains the atmosphere that I wanted to achieve and describes the natural flow of the music.”
Rani and Georgeson met over Instagram and decided to collaborate on this project during the global coronavirus lockdown. Unable to shoot anything new, the director created a mood board of archival footage inspired by the song.
“What came out from our collaboration is not just a music video,” says Rani. “The pandemic brought us an unusual and uncomfortable situation, but we were able to make things happen despite unfavorable circumstances.”
The pair also welcomed onboard editor Will Town, meaning that the entire project was conceived and executed remotely between Warsaw, Montreal and New York.
“The world is small and what makes it even smaller is art and the willingness to do things together,” says the composer. “I really appreciate seeing how other people feel and see my music, and how one song can trigger a whole new stream of images and connections between people.”
