METZ - Hail Taxi

What this video is

Released August 18, 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Hail Taxi' emerged as the second single from METZ's fourth album Atlas Vending (Sub Pop, October 9, 2020). The video's themes of isolation, adulthood, and the impossibility of escaping one's past resonated acutely with global lockdown conditions, though director A.F. Cortés deliberately avoided explicit pandemic iconography to achieve…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark for arthouse visual treatment within North American noise-rock and post-hardcore music video production. The video's black-and-white, near-static, symbolically loaded narrative approach distances itself from genre convention — aligning METZ's 2020 output with prestige…

The director

New York City-based multidisciplinary filmmaker, photographer, and creative director. Founder of NEUPLOT production studio. Directs TV series, music videos, documentaries, and art installations. Co-founded The Vox Collective, a top-25 multicultural US ad…