Washed Out - All I Know

What this video is

Released in October 2013 as part of the promotional cycle for Washed Out's second album Paracosm (Sub Pop/Payne City, August 2013), the video arrives at the peak of chillwave's commercial normalization. The genre — pioneered in part by Ernest Greene's early Myspace/blog-distributed recordings — had by 2013 moved from lo-fi internet subculture into the tastemaker mainstream, with Urban Outfitters' co-production of…

Why it matters

A landmark document of chillwave's visual vocabulary at full maturity: the absence of the artist from the frame, the substitution of a cinematic short-film narrative, and the warm, low-contrast Americana palette collectively define what chillwave looked like when it crossed from niche internet…

The director

Born October 1, 1986, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kragh-Jacobsen began directing films at age seventeen and trained at the American Film Institute Conservatory (class of 2013), where his graduation film Turtle was shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards. He…