DEBBY FRIDAY - Alberta

What this video is

Released August 1, 2025 as a centrepiece visual for Debby Friday's sophomore album The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop / Royal Mountain Records), 'Alberta' arrives as a deliberate tonal counterpoint to Friday's reputation as a club-floor provocateur. As a Polaris Prize-winning Nigerian-Canadian artist, Friday occupies a rare position in underground electronic music, and 'Alberta' documents her public pivot…

Why it matters

Represents a documented fusion moment in which shoegaze-dancehall hybridization is extended into the video art form, with the ultra-minimal editing and Lynchian surrealist reference establishing a new aesthetic register for the deconstructed-club canon. Anchors a key transitional work in Debby…

The director

Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director and screenwriter originally from Vancouver, BC, and a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His debut feature Hello Destroyer (2016) premiered at TIFF and earned four Canadian Screen Award nominations,…