Verdena - Angie

What this video is

Released in 2007 as the third single from Requiem, Verdena's fourth album on Universal Italy, 'Angie' represents a peak moment in the band's integration of Anglo-American psychedelic and grunge influences into the Italian alternative rock idiom. The video's staging—a rock band performing for an indifferent or bemused bourgeois audience on a tourist ferry on a northern Italian lake—functions as a sardonic social…

Why it matters

Significant artifact of mid-2000s Italian alternative and psychedelic rock, documenting Verdena's artistic maturation and their position as one of Italy's most internationally aware independent rock acts. The video's absurdist performance-in-public-space concept aligns with European art-rock video…

The director

Italian director and filmmaker born 1967 in Florence. Debuted as a music video director in 1997 with Litfiba's 'Regina di Cuori.' Known for directing music videos for major Italian artists and for documentary and docufiction work. His debut feature film…