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A short film inspired by "Tommy’s Congo.” Steve Gunn's album Way Out Weather is available now from Paradise of Bachelors.

CAST
Ana Djordjevic, Fiip Beganovic, Ana Curcin, Viktor Kiss, David Pavlasevic, Djuradj Stevanovic, Janko Tadic

CREW
Writer & Director: Nikola Lezaic
Director of photography: Milos Jacimovic
Production designers: Janko Tadic & Marija Strajnic
Editor: Vanja Kovacevic
Sound FX: Nikola Lezaic
Camera operator: Stefan Djordjevic
Colorist: Nikola Mrdalj
VFX: Nemanja Aleksic

Shot in Belgrade, Serbia in September 2014.

Nikola Lezaic

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A lot of videos bill themselves as “short films,” but director Nikola Ležai?’s clip for Steve Gunn’s “Tommy’s Congo” can make a better case than most. Gunn is a meditative guitarist and Kurt Vile sideman who released a gorgeous album called Way Out Weather earlier this fall. (We posted his video for its title track.) “Tommy’s Congo” is a blissful seven-minute zone-out with a little Joy Division ominousness in its bones. And its video tells the story of a Serbian woman who attempts to get closer to a coworker and finds herself in increasingly desperate circumstances. It’s an absolutely absorbing piece of work, and you can watch it above.
-- Stereogum