The Big Moon - Your Light

What this video is

Released on September 10, 2019 — a moment of acute political and social anxiety in the UK (Brexit deadlock, early climate emergency discourse, pre-pandemic unease) — 'Your Light' functions as an explicit sonic and visual antidote to that atmosphere. Frontwoman Juliette Jackson described the song as being about freeing yourself from all of it, just for a moment, and the video literalises this through the physical…

Why it matters

The video is a textbook example of the late-2010s UK indie-pop music video vernacular: naturalistic location shooting, band-as-collective framing, minimal production artifice, and an emphasis on joyful physical activity as emotional metaphor. It sits within a lineage of British indie videos that…

The director

Eoin Glaister is a British director based in London, represented by Stink Films. He is recognised by the BFI as one of the most inventive and prolific directors working in British music videos. His notable credits include Joji: Sanctuary (2019), Glass…