The Tea Party - A Certain Slant Of Light

What this video is

Released in 1993-1994 at the height of the global post-grunge alternative rock wave, 'A Certain Slant of Light' represents the early international push by Canadian rock acts into the Australian market. The Tea Party occupied a distinctive niche: a Canadian trio fusing blues, progressive rock, and Indian/Middle Eastern influences — earning the tongue-in-cheek label 'Moroccan Roll' — at a moment when alternative rock…

Why it matters

Historically significant as both the debut directorial work of Floria Sigismondi — who would become one of the defining music video auteurs of the 1990s and 2000s — and as an early document of The Tea Party's cross-continental reach during their Splendor Solis era. The video's realist,…

The director

Italian-Canadian director born 1965 in Pescara, Italy; raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Studied painting and illustration, then photography, at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Began as a fashion photographer before transitioning to music video direction…