EDEN
Speaking about the backstory behind the Ghost In The Shell video, Zhang & Knight said:
“Loving something that can never love you back.”
This is what Jonathon said to us when we first spoke about the song – and the idea stayed with us.
We began asking ourselves: what can’t love you back?
The answer we kept returning to was a memory – a perfect, nostalgic moment you’ve fallen for, but that remains frozen. Passive. Unreachable. You chase it until you’re worn out. And then, somehow, it starts chasing you. That became the seed of the video.
We’d initially imagined setting the story on a solitary, sun-drenched holiday in the Mediterranean – a wistful, looping escape. But our incredible Spanish production company, Grayskull, suggested shooting in Budapest with their creative partners Kinomoto. It was a gift. The city transformed the story and informed its visual world, with the beautiful Danube river at the centre of the video.
From there, the memory begins to unravel. It started seeping into the fabric of everyday life, its beauty twisting into something more obsessive, even ghostly.
We feel incredibly lucky to have worked again with our dear friend Jonathon – and with two wonderful teams across Budapest and London. Everyone brought such vision, love, and soul to this strange, heartfelt project.”
And from artist / lead actor, EDEN (Jonathon Ng):
Ghost in the Shell was written on my tour bus in 2023. I remember having this crushing feeling of wanting something so badly that could never happen. I was overwhelmed. We all love things that can’t/don’t love us back. Years later when I spoke to Linden and Hannah about doing a music video they said it had to be Ghost in the Shell. They had matched the feeling of the music perfectly. It was such an amazing experience to shoot with them again after all this time. The whole team in Budapest that they assembled were a dream to work with (people walking around set with crew shirts from the likes of Dune, Alien, etc.)
I had never believed I could act or be even remotely charismatic enough to work on camera in this way. They sparked a real belief in myself. I loved the process and the attention to detail that they give to everything they work on. Probably my favourite video I have ever done.”
