BEACH HOUSE - ＂CHARIOT＂ VIDEO

What this video is

Released June 14, 2017, the 'Chariot' video arrives as part of Beach House's B-Sides and Rarities project — a self-described archival act of recovery and contextualisation. By self-directing a found footage collage screened at Baltimore's historic Parkway Theatre, Legrand and Scally engage directly with American media mythology of the early 1960s, foregrounding questions of narrative construction, nostalgia, and…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of 2010s dream pop's visual language: slow, low-contrast, found-footage-driven, and conceptually self-reflexive. The self-directed nature underscores Beach House's long-standing artistic autonomy. The video's use of archival media as its sole visual substrate — absent any…

The director

Beach House is an American dream pop duo formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2004, composed of Victoria Legrand (vocals, keyboards) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Signed to Sub Pop Records in 2009, they have released multiple critically acclaimed studio…