Daniel Martin Moore - It Is Well With My Soul

What this video is

Released January 18, 2011 on Sub Pop Records as part of Moore's album In the Cool of the Day, this video exists within a broader early-2010s indie folk movement that reclaimed sacred and gospel traditions through spare, intimate production. 'It Is Well With My Soul' is a 19th-century Protestant hymn (text by Horatio Spafford, c. 1873), and Moore's treatment — documented here as a near-static, near-dark single-shot…

Why it matters

Represents a documentarian strain of sacred folk video-making in the early 2010s indie ecosystem — where the refusal of production spectacle became itself an aesthetic and spiritual statement. The zero-cut single-take format aligns with the album's philosophy of unmediated intimacy with source…