Frankie Cosmos - Duet

What this video is

Released July 18, 2018, in support of Frankie Cosmos' third album Vessel (Sub Pop, March 30, 2018), the 'Duet' video arrives at the height of the mid-2010s/late-2010s indie pop renaissance anchored by Bandcamp discovery culture, Pitchfork's embrace of confessional lo-fi songwriting, and Sub Pop's indie credibility. The song itself is a re-recording of a track originally released on the 2014 lo-fi cassette release…

Why it matters

Documents the aesthetic grammar of late-2010s indie pop video production: conceptual humor, low budgets worn proudly, urban location shooting, and thematic literalism. Reflects the anti-spectacle ethos of Sub Pop's indie video output in this era, contrasting sharply with contemporaneous pop…

The director

Eliza Doyle is a NYC- and Barcelona-based multimedia and video artist. She holds a BFA in Film/Animation/Video (Open Media concentration) from the Rhode Island School of Design (Class of 2016) and studied Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature at…