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Ela Minus releases N19 5NF video
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 16 December 2021
Ela Minus has released a video for her track ‘N19 5NF’, which also features a clip of a brand new unnamed piece of music.
The title of the track is the postcode of the Whittington Hospital in London, where Minus regained consciousness after two days in intensive care in 2019. The opening of the video shows medical notes, explaining that she was brought into the hospital because she was “confused and vomiting” and then had a “tonic seizure” in the waiting room. This experience, she says, is what began the journey towards making her debut album, ‘Acts Of Rebellion’.
“It’s where I believe my life before this album ended and a new life began”, she says. “I found that through the making of this song and video, reality was transfigured. It illuminated it and revealed its true grinning monstrous teeth. Through this transfiguration I was able to find a voice, not a discourse, but a personal voice looking for an ear or an eye to meet. This video is important because of my own story and the empowerment it can give to others through my way of telling it”.
The video was shot in Mexico City with director Losmose. Opening with a disorientating club scene – in which the new track is played – and moving on to body horror and other surreal imagery, Minus says of the making of the video: “I remember looking at the footage and thinking: this feels unlike anything I have done before. This is what a collaboration should feel like – working with someone who makes you feel both confident about your own work and takes it to a completely new place, pushing your own artistry further”.
Watch the ‘N19 5NF’ video here:
