Jennifer Vanilla - Erase the Time

What this video is

Released October 2019 as the B-side to Jennifer Vanilla's debut J.E.N.N.I.F.E.R. EP on Beats In Space Records, 'Erase the Time' documents the performance-art alter ego of Becca Kauffman, a former member of Brooklyn indie group Ava Luna. The video situates itself squarely within NYC's late-2010s queer underground, where club music, experimental theater, improv comedy, and public-access television aesthetics…

Why it matters

Occupies a rare intersection of NYC acid-house dance-pop, performance art, and conceptual music video practice. The track's acrostic structure — spelling J-E-N-N-I-F-E-R through lyrical mantras over an acid-tinged synth — is both a pop hook and an avant-garde identity mechanism. As a Beats In…

The director

Lisa Bass is a director who collaborated with Jennifer Vanilla (Becca Kauffman) on the 'Erase the Time' official music video (2019), produced in Times Square, New York City. Bass co-conceived the video's multi-format capture strategy alongside the artist,…