Our Lady Peace - Starseed

What this video is

Released in 1994 as the second single from Our Lady Peace's debut album Naveed, 'Starseed' emerged during the peak of post-grunge alternative rock's mainstream crossover. The video's Middle Eastern mystical aesthetic — levitation, turbans, incense burners, and sepia toning — visually articulated the song's lyrical roots in Ken Carey's spiritual text 'The Starseed Transmissions,' positioning OLP as conceptually…

Why it matters

A landmark Canadian alternative rock video that established Our Lady Peace's visual identity as spiritually-inflected and conceptually ambitious at the genre's commercial peak. The sepia-toned, mysticism-driven aesthetic distinguished the band within the post-grunge landscape and helped define the…

The director

George Vale is a Canadian music video director active in the early-to-mid 1990s, credited on IMDB and IMVDb as the director and producer of the 'Starseed' music video for Our Lady Peace (1994). Vale worked within the Canadian major-label video production…