Quilt - Arctic Shark

What this video is

Released November 2013 as a music video companion to the lead single from Quilt's sophomore album 'Held In Splendor' (Mexican Summer, January 2014), 'Arctic Shark' emerged during a fertile period for the Brooklyn-via-Boston psych-folk underground. The band — rooted in the Boston noise and visual arts scenes and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts — fused '60s psychedelia, junkyard blues, and dream pop into a…

Why it matters

A key document of the early-2010s psychedelic indie folk revival, 'Arctic Shark' and its video exemplify the Mexican Summer aesthetic: warm, unhurried, anti-commercial, and lyrically cryptic. The video's DIY reverse-motion surrealism — pastoral rather than urban — represents a counter-tendency to…

The director

Merideth Hillbrand and Brandon Andrew are a directing duo credited with shooting and editing the 'Arctic Shark' video for Quilt (2013). Both are active in the indie music video and visual arts space associated with the Boston-to-Brooklyn DIY underground. No…