Modeselektor feat. Catnapp “Dating is in China” – official music video, 3′, 2021

DIRECTORS NOTE

„Dating is in China“ aims to create a futuristic utopian mood through distant and
magical visuals.
Our main protagonists are a team of Acrobatic Gymnasts wearing beautifully
sequinned and sparkling uniforms who perform on a rooftop illuminating a distant
world.

Acrobatic Gymnastics is regarded as a highly competitive sport which combines
the movements of gymnastics and dance. The team is comprised of men and a
boy who carry out particularly daring throws and jumps. Their movements seem
light and detached from reality. At the same time their faces reflect a focus and
effort necessary to perform such acts.

I was very curious about the aesthetic fractures. Men elegantly moving, showing a
very different image of masculinity, broken with shots of iconographic soldierlike
poses on the building top. These poses are borrowed from socialist propaganda
and soviet photography.

The center of each acrobatics team is the lightest and most likely the youngest. In
our video, the boy is our hero performing and singing along to Catnapps beautiful
lyrics.

CREDITS

ACROBATIC GYMNASTS
Yuriy Savka
Stanislav Kukurudz
Yurii Push
Taras Yarush

DIRECTOR __ Maximilian Villwock
DOP __ Moritz Matlik
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER __ Leonel Dietsche, Ruben Meier
PRODUCER __ Oleksii Zolotariov
EDITOR __ Emma Backman
ADDITIONAL EDITING __ Vigdís Erla / S EC Studio
COLOR GRADING __ Jonny Thorpe / Glassworks London
POST PRODUCTION COORDINATOR __ Gwen Teichmann 
CREDITS DESIGN __ Annegret von Feiertag
COMMISSIONED by __ Matthias Klein C/O Magick 
GOODHOUSE FILMS PRODUCTION

Modeselektor “Dating is in China“ is based on the track „Disc“ from the „Extended“-mixtape

Special thanks to S EC Studio & Glassworks VFX London