Jane Siberry - Ingrid and the Footman

What this video is

Released in 1988 as a single edit from Jane Siberry's fourth album The Walking (Reprise Records), 'Ingrid and the Footman' represents a pivotal moment in Canadian art-pop where Siberry pivoted away from new wave pop toward Laurie Anderson-style progressive performance art narratives. The video was produced within the MuchMusic ecosystem, which had been a key champion of Siberry since her 1984 breakthrough. Its Juno…

Why it matters

This video documents the peak of Siberry's late-80s art-pop period and the Canadian progressive-pop music video form. As a Juno-nominated video, it is a primary artifact of the MuchMusic video era. The song's lyrical structure — fragmented identity, miscommunication, genre-role parody — prefigures…