Mond unveils BZNS about youth, brotherhood, and survival. The Egyptian artist Mond is set to release his new single BZNS today, January 21, accompanied by a music video that pushes the boundaries of MENA visual culture. Shot in stark black and white by Franco-Egyptian director Ahmed Razeek, the music video weaves real bodies, real people, and collective movement to convey energy, struggle, and connection.
Cinematic Brotherhood in Motion
BZNS doesn’t use polished sets and scripted performances. Instead, the camera immerses itself in the improvisational interactions. In the music video, bodies collide, separate, and reassemble, creating a shared physical language of trust, impact, and protection.
The cast, drawn from Cairo’s street-fighting and parkour scenes, are non-actors trained over months to inhabit this collective movement. Mond himself navigates the space as both observer and participant. He embodies the contradictions of the film: softness and fire, silence and tension. The result is a performance rooted in lived truth, where rage and hope coexist in a measured, rhythmic burn against resistance.
Stripped Identity in Monochrome
The choice to shoot in black and white is deliberate. Without color, every line, shadow, and grain of dust is heightened, exposing the raw texture of skin, breath, sweat, and motion. BZNS marks Mond’s emergence from his previous identity as “Muhab” into a fully formed self: stripped of gimmicks, polished aesthetics, and the noise of the surrounding music scene. The video prioritizes authenticity over spectacle, showing emotion as enacted rather than explained.
Redefining MENA Music Visuals
BZNS is as much a short film as a music video, signaling a shift in the region’s artistic approach. Avoiding familiar hip-hop visuals, luxury signaling, literal narratives, or exaggerated symbolism, the video emphasizes discipline, rigor, and physical truth. With contributions from Cannes-nominated cinematographer Mostafa El Kashef. Moreover, BZNS sets a new benchmark for MENA music, treating the camera as a tool to enter spaces where truth already exists rather than as decoration.
A Statement of Youth and Vision
At its heart, BZNS is about youth, brotherhood, and survival. It celebrates young people as a force: messy, loud, fragile, yet powerful and alive. As Razeek puts it,
“BZNS is a project that comes straight from my chest. It’s one of the closest things I’ve made to the world I carry inside me: the chaos, the tenderness, the dirt, the unity, the survival instinct. At its core, this film is about youth and brotherhood, the way young people push each other, protect each other, fall together, and rise together. Their struggle becomes shared. Their joy becomes collective. Their connection forms a universal language, a language spoken through movement, breath, tension, and energy.”
Releasing tonight, January 21, BZNS is more than just a song. It’s a turning point for MENA music and visual storytelling. It marks a future where artists engage cinema not as ornamentation but as a method.