No Age - Losing Feeling

What this video is

Released in October 2009, 'Losing Feeling' arrived at the peak of a critically celebrated period for No Age, following their Sub Pop debut Nouns (2008) and its Grammy-nominated packaging. The EP marked a deliberate move toward more experimental, sample-based and electronic arrangements. The video, directed by then-prominent Hollywood feature director Gil Kenan, exemplifies the art-world crossover ethos that defined…

Why it matters

No Age occupied a unique position in late-2000s indie rock as inheritors of both hardcore DIY ethics and art-school conceptualism. 'Losing Feeling' as a video artifact documents the genre's visual language at a key inflection point: noise pop beginning to absorb surrealist and avant-garde film…

The director

Gil Kenan (b. October 16, 1976, London) is a British-American filmmaker who received an MFA in animation from UCLA in 2002. His thesis short The Lark led directly to his feature debut Monster House (2006), executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven…