Annabelle Chvostek - WALLS

What this video is

WALLS (2021) was released as the lead single from Annabelle Chvostek's sixth album String of Pearls, a cross-cultural collaboration between Canadian and Uruguayan musicians evoking 1930s tango, Berlin cabaret, and Hot Club Jazz. The orchestral arrangement, by Fernando Rosa, was directly inspired by Bob Ezrin's production work on Lou Reed's Berlin and Pink Floyd's The Wall. Produced under pandemic lockdown…

Why it matters

A landmark document of Canadian chamber-folk/cabaret-pop video aesthetics in the early 2020s, WALLS demonstrates how FACTOR-funded independent artists navigated pandemic-era production constraints by pivoting to intimate dance-film formats. The video's fast-cut editing against a slow ballad tempo,…

The director

Carlos Coronado is a Toronto-based, award-winning videographer operating under the banner Coronado Films (coronadofilms.ca). He is an established presence in the Toronto independent music video and arts media community. Multiple sources identify him as the…