Hatchie — Her Own Heart - Hatchie — Her Own Heart

What this video is

Released November 2019 as the closing video from Hatchie's debut album Keepsake, 'Her Own Heart' arrived at the apex of the Australian dream-pop revival. The record had been nominated for both the 2019 Australian Music Prize and Triple J's Album of the Year. The video's deliberate minimalism — natural settings, solo performance, no band or stylised staging — was a conscious artistic statement by Pilbeam about…

Why it matters

A key document of late-2010s Australian shoegaze-pop, situating Hatchie within the global lineage of Cocteau Twins, The Sundays, and Alvvays. The video's stripped aesthetic and fast impressionistic edit style became emblematic of dream-pop visual language in the streaming era — intimate, warm, and…

The director

Joe Agius (born 10 March 1992) is an Australian musician, singer, performer, and filmmaker based in Brisbane, Queensland. He is the lead singer and guitarist of Brisbane rock band The Creases (founded 2013) and fronts solo project RINSE (active from 2020). A…