Shura - religion (u can lay your hands on me)

What this video is

Released June 12, 2019 as the lead visual single from Shura's sophomore album forevher (Secretly Canadian, August 2019), the video arrives at a pivotal moment of increased queer representation in indie pop. The song is framed as a meditation on queer desire, using religious metaphor to describe physical longing across distance. Director Chloé Wallace's decision to set the video in a villa with two nuns as…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark of late-2010s British queer synth-pop, blending disco-inflected production with emotionally intimate lyricism. The video's unapologetic centering of sapphic desire within a richly aesthetic, non-exploitative frame was widely noted as a culturally significant…

The director

Half American, half Spanish writer-director-photographer born in Madrid. Studied Media & Communications at Goldsmiths University of London; MFA from NYU Grad Film (Willard T.C. Johnson Scholarship Fellow, Maurice Kanbar Scholar). Represented commercially by…