Weyes Blood - Twin Flame

What this video is

Released September 18, 2023, 'Twin Flame' is the fourth music video drawn from Weyes Blood's critically acclaimed 2022 Sub Pop album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The video arrives during a broader cultural moment of gothic and analog aesthetic revival in indie music visuals, coinciding with pre-Halloween season programming. Its Bluebeard's Castle narrative engages with longstanding archetypes of romantic…

Why it matters

The video solidifies Weyes Blood's visual identity as a leading figure in 2020s art pop, demonstrating how the genre can absorb gothic horror, medieval fantasy, and analog film craft into a coherent contemporary aesthetic. It extends a lineage of 'castles-and-candles' music video iconography…

The director

Ambar Navarro is a Los Angeles-based director and artist, CalArts Film/Video BFA alumna (class of 2015). She has carved a niche creating experimental and narrative films for galleries internationally and digital spaces, with music video credits including…