Behind Kanye West’s visually stunning Father music video, Bianca Censori is the mind behind the directorial debut that stuns viewers.
With the nearly three-minute clip raking in strong numbers, it leaves fans with more questions than answers as they decode the meanings behind the video set inside a church.
For them, however, Censori has given a few insights.
Despite her first stab at helming a music video, the Yeezy designer had not played it safe.
“As my directorial debut, it felt like a natural extension of my background in architecture and performance art,” Censori tells AD.
Showing surprising direction skill, she reveals that the visually explosive video was shot in a single continuous take.
The goal, the Melbourne native says, is to create a flow similar to a dream, where different characters collide, and reality is unrelated.
She continues, “They captured the video in a single shot, constructing a logic that could only exist within a dream, where unrelated characters, worlds and temporalities collide within one continuous space.”
Censori, deriving from his architecture background, built a unique structure to tell the story.
“Because of this, the architecture of the set was critical. A single frame had to hold and give structure to everything unfolding within it.”
“I approached the blocking architecturally, allowing multiple scenarios to be viewed simultaneously within the same space.”
“Every element, line, perspective, colour and texture was composed to dissolve the boundary between reality and the surreal, creating a spatial language that mirrors the logic of dreams,” Ye’s wife adds.
West’s music video Father is considered one of the most compelling artworks of the modern era.
