No Age - Keechie

What this video is

The 'Keechie' video arrives at the peak of No Age's critical ascent following the Sub Pop release of Nouns (2008), an album that bridged the Los Angeles DIY all-ages underground — centered on the Smell venue — with mainstream indie press attention from outlets including The New Yorker and L.A. Times. The band's consistent embrace of high-art visual collaborators (the Nouns CD packaging was Grammy-nominated for…

Why it matters

Documents the visual vocabulary of late-2000s noise pop at its most art-aligned — a genre moment where lo-fi punk energy was being recontextualized through experimental visual art frameworks. The ultra-slow editing and near-total darkness position this as a video essay rather than a promotional…

The director

Andy Bruntel (also credited as Andrew Bruntel) grew up in Lebanon, Pennsylvania and taught himself animation as a child. He graduated from Maryland's Institute College of Art in graphic design, then interned with film director Mike Mills before pivoting to…