Father John Misty - The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment

What this video is

Released in September 2015 to support Father John Misty's second album I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop / Bella Union, February 10, 2015), which became one of the most critically acclaimed records of that year, placing on numerous best-of lists and ranking among top-selling vinyl releases of 2015. The video arrives at a cultural moment when indie singer-songwriters were deploying sardonic self-awareness and…

Why it matters

The video is a landmark artifact of mid-2010s indie auteurism, demonstrating how the Father John Misty project consistently weaponized the music video format as an extension of its conceptual and lyrical meta-commentary. The single-location, near-static, darkly lit approach rejects MTV-era kinetic…

The director

Drew Pearce is an English filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He co-wrote Iron Man 3 (2013) with Shane Black and contributed to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). His feature directorial debut was Hotel Artemis (2018), a futuristic noir thriller…