Deep Sea Diver - Wishing

What this video is

Released September 29, 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic's devastation of the live music industry, 'Wishing' and its video represent a direct cultural response to the existential crisis facing independent music venues. The video's crowd-sourced format — fans filming themselves outside 78 shuttered venues nationwide — transformed a promotional music video into a grassroots advocacy document for the Save…

Why it matters

Represents the intersection of Pacific Northwest indie rock and pandemic-era activist music video production. The crowd-sourced methodology anticipated and influenced the participatory video trend that proliferated across independent music in 2020–2021. As a single from 'Impossible Weight,' it…

The director

Peter Mansen is a Seattle-based director, drummer, and editor. He is the drummer for Deep Sea Diver and is married to the band's frontwoman Jessica Dobson. His confirmed directing credits include the 2020 Deep Sea Diver music videos for 'Wishing' and…