Okay Kaya - Baby Little Tween

What this video is

Released November 2019 as a lead single for Okay Kaya's Jagjaguwar debut Watch This Liquid Pour Itself, 'Baby Little Tween' arrives at the intersection of confessional indie-pop and festival-circuit art filmmaking. The video embodies a late-2010s tendency among female and non-binary indie artists to reclaim self-mythologizing through lo-fi surrealism—here literalized as a doll-twin attached to Wilkins' body while…

Why it matters

Represents a micro-genre of artist-directed art-music video hybrids emerging from the Jagjaguwar/indie label sphere in the late 2010s, where the video functions as short film rather than promotional clip. Co-director Dancyger's festival pedigree (Sundance, Berlinale, NYFF) elevates the work above…

The director

Adinah Dancyger is a Korean-Polish, first-generation American filmmaker from New York City. She holds a B.A. in Film Production from Bard College, where she studied under Kelly Reichardt and So Yong Kim. Her short films—Chopping Onions (Berlinale/Cannes),…