Partner - Big Gay Hands

What this video is

Released September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Big Gay Hands' arrived as a single from Partner's sophomore album Never Give Up (You've Changed Records). The video's handmade stop-motion aesthetic — achievable in constrained production environments — resonated with a moment when large-scale video shoots were largely impossible. The song emerged from frustration with classic rock's history of objectifying…

Why it matters

Represents a key moment in Canadian queercore's mainstreaming within indie rock, using classic-rock song structure and anthemic hooks to center explicitly queer desire. The video's craft-forward, stop-motion approach extends a tradition of low-budget but high-concept Canadian music video…

The director

Lesley Marshall is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, intermedia artist, and MFA candidate/sessional teacher at the University of Victoria. A communications and media graduate of the University of Ottawa, Marshall's practice spans music video, projection…