Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles - Get Still

What this video is

This video emerges from one of the most emotionally documented creative partnerships in recent indie music history. Alan Sparhawk, co-founder of the seminal slowcore band Low, recorded With Trampled by Turtles in the aftermath of the 2022 death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker. The album was tracked at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, with fellow Duluth musicians Trampled by Turtles, who had…

Why it matters

A key document in the 2024–2025 wave of indie folk grief processing, situating Alan Sparhawk's post-Low solo output within a lineage of Americana-inflected emotional realism. The video's restrained visual grammar — slow pace, warm naturalism, minimal intervention — acts as a formal argument for…

The director

Ingrid Weise is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based freelance video artist and photographer, educated at St. Cloud State University. She operates under the banner Ingrid Weise Pictures, specializing in moving image media and music/lyric videos. Her practice bridges…