Kelela and PinkPantheress head to The Bridge
Yasser Abubeker directs Kelela and PinkPantheress in The Bridge produced by Partizan.
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Kelela has released the video for The Bridge, her collaboration with PinkPantheress, directed by Yasser Abubeker and produced by Partizan.
The film is a study in restraint and proximity, two artists moving through the same space, held apart by it, and gradually pulled together.
Set within a dimly lit apartment above moody city, the video opens with Kelela and PinkPantheress in separate rooms, each carrying the same unspoken tension. The architecture does the work of keeping them apart: walls, corridors and doorways frame each performance in isolation, with the camera watching from a considered distance. As the track builds, that separation begins to dissolve. Movement takes over, spreading rhythmically between the two artists and the surrounding cast until the space between them collapses entirely.
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- Production Company Partizan/London
- Director Yasser Abubeker
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Credits
View on- Production Company Partizan/London
- Director Yasser Abubeker
- Editing Avenues
- VFX Bubble TV
- Color No.8
- Producer Will Cousins
- Executive Producer Danny Herman
- Head of Production Ella More O'Ferrall
- Production Designer/Art Director Ranya El-Refaey
- DP Diara Sow
- Editor Amber Saunders
- Post Producer Adam Greydon Reid
- Post Producer Farai Mbudaya
- Post Producer Ruby Douglas
- VFX Artist Mishaal Memon
- VFX Artist Tim Mellem
- Colorist Jonny Tully
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Partizan/London
- Director Yasser Abubeker
- Editing Avenues
- VFX Bubble TV
- Color No.8
- Producer Will Cousins
- Executive Producer Danny Herman
- Head of Production Ella More O'Ferrall
- Production Designer/Art Director Ranya El-Refaey
- DP Diara Sow
- Editor Amber Saunders
- Post Producer Adam Greydon Reid
- Post Producer Farai Mbudaya
- Post Producer Ruby Douglas
- VFX Artist Mishaal Memon
- VFX Artist Tim Mellem
- Colorist Jonny Tully
Abubeker builds the film around a shared physical language. Choreography by Mesh Henry travels through the edit, a gesture that begins in one room and concludes in another, bodies echoing one another across locations, so that the film feels physically interconnected long before its subjects ever meet. Shot by cinematographer Diara Sow, the visual leans into a cool, restrained palette of deep blacks, washed-out greens, and muted cyans, using directional light to carve pockets of illumination from the shadows and to separate figures within a single frame. Production design by Ranya El-Refaey grounds the world in the transitional, intimate spaces where the song lives.
In the final section, Kelela and PinkPantheress occupy the same space for the first time. Their movement becomes mirrored and responsive as the camera circles them in a continuous orbit, tightening the frame as proximity increases — composure and yearning finally resolving into contact.
A London-based filmmaker signed to Partizan, Abubeker is known for cinematic, surreal and emotionally evocative storytelling, blending dreamlike narratives with rich, atmospheric visuals and balancing high-concept aesthetics with raw emotion. His work has a timeless quality, beautifully considered and composed, drawing on a range of modern and classic cultural references. He has directed videos for artists including Shygirl and CKTRL, and is a frequent collaborator with Kelela, a creative relationship that The Bridge continues.
Produced by Partizan, the film marks a confident piece of contemporary music video direction from Abubeker, translating the track’s restraint and tension into a fully realised visual world.
