Suki Waterhouse - Nostalgia

What this video is

Released October 4, 2022, the 'Nostalgia' video arrives in the wake of Waterhouse's viral TikTok moment — a slowed-and-reverbed version of 'Good Looking' reached #1 on Spotify's Viral USA Chart — cementing her as a key figure in the early-2020s indie-folk TikTok pipeline. The video exemplifies a broader cultural turn toward romantic, landscape-driven European location shoots in indie pop, anchored in Irish pastoral…

Why it matters

Represents the convergence of Sub Pop indie folk-pop with cinematic music video storytelling in the early 2020s. The video's literary and mythological references — Orpheus & Eurydice and Wuthering Heights — elevate it above typical singer-songwriter fare, placing it in dialogue with the…

The director

Iranian-American writer and director born November 22, 1985 in New York City. Known for feature film Buttercup Bill (2014, Raindance Festival) and short film Rufur (2011 Boston Underground Film Festival). Also directed the 2022 film Love, Me. Has an…