Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - ＂Take Off Your Sunglasses＂

What this video is

Released in early 2009 to support the October 2008 album Inside the Human Body on Minty Fresh Records, this video emerges from the final years of the MySpace-era indie underground, when college bands could build national audiences through social media before Spotify's dominance. Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, formed at Tufts University in 2006, represented a strain of emotionally raw, literate indie folk-punk rooted…

Why it matters

The video documents the early phase of Ezra Furman's career within indie folk-punk, a genre blending Violent Femmes-style acoustic nerviness with punk energy. Inside the Human Body is now retrospectively significant as an early artifact of Furman's artistry, which would later encompass queer…

The director

Antoine Amadeus Wagner-Pasquier (b. 1982, Evanston, IL) is an American-French visual artist and director. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris, and studied film at NYU Tisch. He assisted Michael Haneke on Funny Games (2006)…