“A Calculated Exercise in Squeezing Blood From a Stone”: Director Aidan Zamiri and Composer A.G. Cook on Charli XCX’s The Moment

Brat summer is decidedly over. The mechanics of its disintegration are lampooned in The Moment, a mockumentary cum critical commentary of the hype that propelled Charli XCX’s 2024 album into a full-blown cultural phenomenon. Charli plays an exaggerated version of herself, plagued by funhouse mirror distortions of the anxieties that besieged her during the extended press and stadium tour that ostensibly signaled the peak of her pop stardom. It’s appropriate that Aidan Zamiri, one of Brat’s key visual collaborators, stepped up to direct The Moment, which marks his feature film debut. Though he previously helmed music videos for Charli (notably […] Source