Dating Myself - Amnesia

What this video is

Released November 2013, this video emerges from Vancouver's tight-knit DIY indie punk underground during a period of widespread 90s nostalgia in alternative music. Dating Myself's entire artistic identity is built on a satirical conceit — a 90s bitch-rock trio who time-traveled from 1995 — allowing the video to function as both sincere genre homage and deadpan comedy. With a reported budget of USD $100, the…

Why it matters

Represents the micro-budget Canadian DIY punk-comedy music video form at its most concentrated. Fuses 90s West Coast grunge iconography with satirical retrofuturism, documenting a strain of post-ironic nostalgia prevalent in early-2010s indie scenes. Valuable as an artifact of how low-budget…

The director

Luvia Petersen is a multi-nominated Vancouver-based actor and emerging filmmaker. She is best known for playing Jasmine Garza on SyFy's Continuum, earning a Canadian Screen Award and Leo Award nomination. Her directing credits include the Leo-nominated short…