Evanescence - My Heart Is Broken

What this video is

Released during Evanescence's highly anticipated return following a five-year hiatus, 'My Heart Is Broken' arrived as the second single from their 2011 self-titled album. The video channels the band's established gothic-romantic visual language while pushing it into more explicitly surrealist territory, drawing on the dark fantasy tradition of films like Paperhouse (1988). Thematically, the song was written by Amy…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of the symphonic/gothic alternative metal music video form as it existed in the early 2010s — a genre whose visual vocabulary (chiffon, candlelight, surreal landscapes, solo female protagonist, piano) had been codified by Evanescence's own earlier work and was here refined into…

The director

Native of Seattle, WA; BFA from Washington State University; attended Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Launched career in music video direction in 1994. Gained prominence directing Marilyn Manson's 'Sweet Dreams' (1996). Co-founded Los Angeles…