Of Valleys - As The Sun Begins To Fall

What this video is

Released in 2012, this video emerges from the heart of the DSLR revolution in independent music video production — the period when affordable Canon 5D Mark II rigs democratized cinematic aesthetics for underground artists. Central Florida's indie music scene, anchored by Orlando, nurtured a tight network of bands and filmmakers who collaborated across projects. The video's extreme desaturation (15.62), warm shift,…

Why it matters

The video is a document of the early-2010s Central Florida indie underground and the broader national post-rock/ambient indie visual movement. Its production fingerprint — DSLR naturalism, extreme desaturation, fast editing, chiaroscuro contrast — codifies a specific aesthetic grammar that was…

The director

Steven Shea is a writer, director, and photographer born in New Iberia, Louisiana, raised in the Florida Keys, and formerly based in Orlando, FL, where he founded Abyssmal Entertainment. He studied at Valencia Community College and the University of Central…