Frankie Cosmos - Windows

What this video is

Released June 18, 2019, 'Windows' was the lead single from Frankie Cosmos' fourth studio album Close It Quietly (Sub Pop), co-produced by Gabe Wax at Brooklyn's Figure 8 Studios. The video is a document of a particular strand of late-2010s indie culture: the overlap between art-school DIY filmmaking, Sub Pop's nurturing of lo-fi indie acts, and a New York City urban pastoral tradition. Its Coney Island setting and…

Why it matters

The video is a textbook artifact of the late-2010s Sub Pop indie pop moment — a label-backed but aesthetically DIY production that bridges the gap between bedroom pop's lo-fi origins and mainstream indie visibility. Frankie Cosmos occupied a pivotal position in this ecosystem alongside…

The director

Eliza Doyle is a NYC- and Barcelona-based multimedia and video artist holding a BFA in Film/Animation/Video (Open Media concentration) from Rhode Island School of Design (class of 2016). She has worked as a freelance music video director, video editor, and…