CocoRosie ＂Noah's Ark＂ - CocoRosie ＂Noah's Ark＂

What this video is

Released in September 2005, this video emerged at the peak of the New Weird America movement, a loose coalition of anti-mainstream artists including Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Antony & the Johnsons. CocoRosie occupied a singular position within this scene, blending operatic and childlike vocal styles, lo-fi bedroom recording, hip-hop beatboxing, and surrealist lyrical imagery. The Noah's Ark album was…

Why it matters

CocoRosie's 'Noah's Ark' video is a primary artifact of the 2005 freak-folk and folktronica moment, documenting the genre's characteristic collision of innocence and subversion, the handmade and the operatic, the sacred and the profane. It stands as a visual companion to one of the defining albums…

The director

Self-taught photographer and DGA director, born in California, relocated to New York City in 1998. Works at the intersection of art and commerce in photography and music video direction. Known music video credits include Cobra Starship 'Good Girls Go Bad'…