King Tuff - Portrait Of God

What this video is

Released November 30, 2022, 'Portrait of God' arrives as part of King Tuff's return after a four-year gap following 2018's The Other — a period that encompassed the COVID-19 pandemic and a broader indie-rock reckoning with nature, spirituality, and small-town identity. The video's Olympic Peninsula rainforest setting and Bob Ross iconography position it within a 2022 cultural moment of eco-spiritual seeking and…

Why it matters

A key document of early-2020s psychedelic garage rock's synthesis with folk-naturalism and eco-spirituality. Represents Sub Pop's continued investment in eccentric, auteur-driven video aesthetics for mid-tier indie artists. The Giraffe Sisters' surrealist direction brings fine-art credibility to…

The director

Juliana and Nicola Giraffe, known as the Giraffe Sisters, are multidisciplinary directors, artists, and mimes based in Los Angeles, CA. Born in the San Fernando Valley to an Argentine mother and British father, they grew up around Hollywood. Nicola studied…