Cable Ties - Sandcastles

What this video is

Released January 2020 ahead of the album Far Enough (Merge Records / Poison City), Sandcastles arrived at a moment of intense global debate around activist community dynamics, cancel culture, and the policing of progressive spaces. Cable Ties — a Melbourne trio who debuted in the city's non-binary-inclusive DIY festival circuit — used the single as a critique of gatekeeping within leftist communities. Their signing…

Why it matters

A key document of the late-2010s/early-2020s Australian feminist punk resurgence, Sandcastles bridges the DIY ethics of the Melbourne underground with the international post-punk revival. The video's radical formal minimalism — stripping the music video form to pure human presence on analog film —…

The director

Melbourne-born director and photographer (b. 1987) who studied graphic design before completing a photography degree at RMIT. He became one of Australia's most awarded music video directors, winning St Kilda Film Festival Best Music Video 2016 and Triple J…