Bat For Lashes - Prescilla

What this video is

Released in early 2007 as the third single from Bat For Lashes' debut album Fur and Gold — itself a Mercury Prize 2007 nominee — 'Prescilla' arrived at the apex of a UK critical wave celebrating art-folk and freak-folk artists. Natasha Khan's dream-sourced songwriting, combined with Bruntel's surreal visual sensibility and the American Zoetrope connection, gave the video a transatlantic indie-cinema quality unusual…

Why it matters

A landmark early artifact of the UK freak-folk and art-folk surge that peaked around the 2007 Mercury Prize cycle. Demonstrates how low-budget auteur directors like Bruntel extended the visual grammar of indie cinema into music video, forging an aesthetic template of warm surrealism and narrative…

The director

LA-based filmmaker who grew up in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Studied graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art, then interned with director Mike Mills at The Directors Bureau. Went on to direct award-winning music videos for artists including Liars,…