As she embarks on a headline European tour, Polish pianist, vocalist and composer Hania Rani returns with the music video for her newest track Don’t Break My Heart. Originally composed in 2017, the track evolved through a loop created by Portico Quartet collaborator Duncan Bellamy, upon which the original lyrics were layered. Directed by long-time collaborator Mateusz Miszczyński, and shot entirely on film by cinematographer Jakub Stoszek, the video – created with Warsaw based production house SHOOTME – captures Rani biking through a mine and its intricate system of tunnels. Shot on location at the "RIESE complex" – an unfinished underground Nazi fortress in the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia, Poland – the vast mine becomes a symbol of the dreams and memories that occupy it, its eerie, boundless corridors representing the labyrinth of the human mind.

Creating an unsettling atmosphere through its colors and emotions, the video references the Eastern European cinematic tradition, and the work of Andrei Tarkovsky or Bogdan Dziworski. “I asked Mateusz to work on Don't Break My Heart because he knew the original version of the song,” Rani says. “We thought biking in the mine’s tunnels could refer to the human mind and wandering through our own thoughts and fixations. We decided to contrast the unassuming and casual activity of riding the bike with something very opposite: murky and ambiguous: empty spaces, corridors, hallways and elusive characters that pass my way.”

Miszczyński expands, “The video draws inspiration from many different places like Béla Tarr's Sátántangó or even one early photo by Bogdan Dziworski (riding bike in circles), but in the end what mattered the most was to create an image that resembles the nature of dreams and memories - simple yet elusive and hard to define.”