Lana: VERY Unreleased (2004)
Edited by Daria Herashchenko in 2025
An exclusive footage of what Lana Del Rey was up to before getting famous

Black and white photo of a woman with long dark hair, wearing an off-shoulder floral top, sitting with her knees up. Overlaid text reads "Lana very unreleased." In the background, there is a framed document on the wall with small, dense text.

A woman singing into a microphone on a television screen, with a date stamp of July 24, 2004 in the bottom right corner.

A young woman with long, wavy hair smiling while holding a guitar and standing at a microphone.

Television monitor displaying woman with curly hair playing an electric guitar, wearing a polka dot shirt, with headphones hanging on the side of the TV, and black cables hanging down and casting shadows on the wall.

A young woman with long wavy brown hair, wearing a white off-the-shoulder top with red floral print and denim shorts, sitting on a black countertop in a room with a white wall, a wall-mounted clock showing 12:09, and a large poster titled "Twelve Tra

This project explores what would an early career footage of a person as well known as Lana look like, if her image was not set in stone yet and she was experimenting with completely polar styles. Here, she is starting off with “West Coast”, then suddenly shifting to “It’s Cloudy Now” by an Israeli rock musician Aviv Geffen. What if she let her sassy sadness flow into an extreme and hopeless sadness? What if she gave into the second one completely?