File this one under “not on my 2026 bingo card”: Andrew Norman Wilson, the video artist who penned a viral essay in 2024 for The Baffler, is the director behind British actress and singer Naomi Scott’s new music video for the song “Losing You.”
Scott is best known for portraying Princess Jasmine in Disney’s 2019 live-action Aladdin—yes, the one where Will Smith played the Genie—but she has also appeared in Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal (2022) and Smile 2 (2024). She’s a singer-songwriter in her own right, having released EPs in 2014 and 2016. In March, Scott is set to release her first full-length album, F.I.G., following four singles released last year.
The latest of those singles, “Losing You,” arrived last week alongside a music video directed, produced, written, and edited by Norman Wilson. The result is disjointed, claustrophobic, and strange, with an emphasis on close-ups, mirrors, and an inexplicable roast chicken tattooed with a broken heart.
As Norman Wilson recounted in his Baffler essay, he is a video artist who has achieved a notable degree of institutional success, with work shown at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as well as at several international biennials, including the Gwangju Biennale. The essay was most remarked upon for its unsparing account of the financial precarity facing artists—even successful ones—and doubles as a bleak portrait of the gig economy so many creatives now inhabit.
Anyway, have a look at his video for Scott:
