Pissed Jeans - Boring Girls

What this video is

The 'Boring Girls' video was produced in conjunction with the 2014 Sub Pop remaster/reissue of Pissed Jeans' 2005 debut album 'Shallow' — a period when the band's cult profile was expanding through ongoing Sub Pop visibility and critical reassessment of their early catalog. The video's sitcom-parody format aligns with a wave of mid-2010s indie music videos that deployed ironic pop-culture pastiche (especially…

Why it matters

Represents the intersection of 2000s/2010s Sub Pop noise punk and alt-comedy video production. Pissed Jeans occupy a lineage from Flipper, Big Black, and Jesus Lizard into 21st-century post-hardcore; the sitcom-parody video format translates that tradition's confrontational absurdism into…

The director

Los Angeles-based filmmaker working across comedy television, film, music videos, commercials, and documentary. Grew up outside Philadelphia. Started editing under Bob Odenkirk on IFC's 'The Birthday Boys'; edited for HBO, A24, Amazon, Comedy Central, and…