Marika Hackman - Playground Love

What this video is

Released November 2020 during the height of COVID-19 lockdowns, this video exists within a wave of pandemic-constrained music video production defined by intimacy, stillness, and domestic or minimal-location shooting. The track is Hackman's cover of Air's 'Playground Love,' originally from the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (2000), itself a canonical text of dreamy, melancholic adolescent…

Why it matters

Represents the pandemic-era crystallization of the UK indie-folk video form: near-static, performance-based, desaturated, and intimate. The slow editing pace (avg shot 49.4s, 3 total cuts) positions this as an outlier against the era's dominant fast-cut aesthetic, aligning instead with a tradition…

The director

Natàlia Pagès Geli is a Barcelona-born, London-based filmmaker and music industry professional. She holds a degree from the University of Westminster and has worked as Project Manager, A&R, and Marketing Manager at Transgressive Records — Marika Hackman's UK…