Holopaw - Curious

What this video is

Released in 2005 as part of Holopaw's second Sub Pop album Quit +/or Fight, 'Curious' arrives at the intersection of the mid-2000s indie folk revival and a queer underground art-music sensibility rooted in Gainesville, Florida. The video is a product of a moment when indie artists increasingly self-directed their visual work, rejecting mainstream MTV production values in favor of personal, conceptual, and…

Why it matters

Represents the quietest, most formally rigorous wing of 2005 Sub Pop indie folk video culture — a single-take anti-edit work that uses duration and restraint as its primary expressive tools, anticipating the slow-cinema-influenced music video aesthetic that would become more visible in indie…

The director

John Orth is the vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of Holopaw, an indie band from Gainesville, Florida, signed to Sub Pop Records. A practicing visual artist, Orth received an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and held fellowships at…