Father John Misty - Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)

What this video is

Released December 2014 as the second pre-release single from I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop, February 2015), this video arrives at a moment when the indie-folk world was grappling with the tension between earnest emotional expression and ironic self-awareness. Tillman's explicit rejection of the viral-content logic (the abandoned kitten-wedding concept) and his embrace of a deliberately amateurish tablet-shot…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark in the DIY anti-video aesthetic within 2010s indie folk: a formally credited directorial decision to use consumer technology (iPad) as the sole production apparatus, transforming domestic intimacy into psychedelic collage. Emblematic of how Sub Pop-affiliated artists…

The director

Josh Tillman (b. 1981) is an American singer-songwriter recording as Father John Misty, formerly drummer for Fleet Foxes, and solo artist as J. Tillman. Emma Tillman is his wife and creative collaborator. Their co-direction of this video marks one of the few…