Josh Sondock directs first promo with KODE

The promo was filmed from the inside, out. Sondock filmed the innermost ‘layer’ first from the beginning to the end of the song, before playing back that one-take clip on a monitor and filming back and forth between that monitor and a new one-take setup with Leng. He then would move onto the third, fourth, etc. layers. Sondock and crew filmed six layers in total, wherein all of the zooms, focuses, actions and camera movements were expertly coordinated, synchronised and planned, to ensure that the video captured the ambitious storyline, that of an artist making his own music video from “morning until midnight” (a nod to the name of the track).

Sondock and Leng wanted to create a video that disrupted the preconceived idea of what a director or musician should be, and the expectation for them to present as ‘curated’ and ‘artsy’. With this in mind, the concept for Morning/Midnight was born; we never really know when we get a chance to look at the “real” Leng, as our frame of reference is, quite literally, always changing. The real and performed Lengs exist at odds but also at the same time as one another, capturing how Sondock and Leng feel about the frictions between their work selves & non-work selves.