Eddie Vedder – Cartography (Nick Zinner RFK remix) - Eddie Vedder – Cartography (Nick Zinner RFK remix)

What this video is

Released September 14, 2020, at the height of the US election season, this video sits at the intersection of rock music, archival activism, and documentary film culture. Vedder channeled the gravity of RFK's April 4, 1968 speech — delivered the night MLK was assassinated — as a mirror for the racial and political tensions of 2020. The single's proceeds benefited Fair Fight, a national voter-rights organization,…

Why it matters

Represents a significant meeting point between Eddie Vedder's post-Pearl Jam solo documentary work, the indie ambient remix tradition (via Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner), and the politically engaged music video essay form. The archival montage approach — landscape footage fused with historical…

The director

Julian Gross is a music video director with credits including Depeche Mode's 'Wrong' (2009) and Best Coast's 'Heaven Sent' (2015), per IMVDb. Multiple major outlets — Sub Pop Records, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Consequence of Sound — confirmed his direction of…