Fan Death - Reunited

What this video is

Released in October 2009, 'Reunited' arrived at the height of the late-2000s indie electro-pop and disco revival moment, when acts like Fan Death, Telepathe, and Little Boots were circulating through the same underground. Fan Death occupied a distinctly eccentric, feminist-inflected corner of that scene, rooted in the Vancouver and Montreal DIY arts communities. The video's celebrity-impersonator road-trip concept…

Why it matters

Fan Death's 'Reunited' is a document of the short-lived late-2000s synthpop/disco-revival underground at its most idiosyncratic. The self-directed, DIY video model — vocalist as auteur — prefigures a broader shift toward artist-controlled visual identity. As a cult artifact within a scene that…

The director

Dandilion Wind Opaine is a Canadian vocalist, visual artist, sculptor, animator, and fashion designer. She co-founded Dandi Wind in Vancouver (2003) with producer Szam Findlay, and later co-founded Fan Death (2007). Grimes has cited Opaine as a major…