Jaguar Jonze - Beijing Baby

What this video is

Released August 2019, 'Beijing Baby' arrived during a peak moment of international attention on the Brisbane indie scene, with Jaguar Jonze named an Artist to Watch at BIGSOUND 2019. The video visualises the song's thematic core — facades, materialism, and the psychology of privilege — through theatrical, masked performance. As the work of a Taiwanese-Australian artist processing multicultural identity and personal…

Why it matters

A key artefact of the 2018-2020 Australian ethereal-pop wave, 'Beijing Baby' exemplifies the genre's fusion of spaghetti-western guitar atmospherics, smoky soulful vocals, and cinematic production. The video's theatrical visual language and identity-critique thematics helped define Jaguar Jonze's…

The director

Ben Gerbanas is an Australian music video and commercial director. He is credited as director of Jaguar Jonze's 'Beijing Baby' (2019), produced under Pusher Films. His Instagram handle @bgerbanas has been cited in industry premiere contexts.