Tying Tiffany - A Lone Boy

What this video is

Released in March 2014 as part of Tying Tiffany's fourth studio album Drop (ZerOKilled Music / Trisol), 'A Lone Boy' sits at the intersection of Italian synth underground and German minimal-wave aesthetics. Tying Tiffany — a Padua-born, Berlin-adjacent electronic artist with a career spanning DIY punk, darkwave, and soundtrack composition — represents a distinctive lineage of European female-led electronic projects…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the 2010s European minimal synth / darkwave revival, demonstrating how Italian and German underground electronic artists updated the cold, stripped-down aesthetics of 1980s minimal wave with HD digital production tools. The desaturated visual palette, fast editorial rhythm, and…

The director

Brenda Lien (b. 1995) is a Berlin-based independent filmmaker and music producer. An alumna of the Berlin Talent Campus, her short films have screened at Berlinale Shorts, Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Aspen Shortfest, and Palm Springs Short Film…