Iron & Wine - Call It Dreaming

What this video is

Released June 2017 as the lead single from Beast Epic (Sub Pop), 'Call It Dreaming' marked a celebrated return for Iron & Wine's Sam Beam to the stripped-back acoustic folk of his earliest recordings, following years of genre experimentation. The video's road-trip imagery — strangers gathered in a wandering truck — captures a distinctly American mythology of communal journeying and found kinship, resonating during…

Why it matters

A defining visual artifact of the mid-2010s indie folk revival, demonstrating how the genre successfully paired acoustic intimacy with cinematic road-poetry. The video's docu-naturalist approach — low-key lighting, handheld observation, non-theatrical performance — codified an aesthetic language…

The director

Southern-born, Seattle-based filmmaker and photographer. Raised by two professional illustrators south of Atlanta; studied documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and cinematography at USC School of Cinematic Arts. Moved to Seattle in 2005 and…