Kiwi Jr. - Waiting in Line

What this video is

Released January 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Waiting in Line' documents a moment of profound urban stillness: downtown Toronto rendered a near-ghost town by lockdown restrictions. The video's Super 8 aesthetic serves a dual cultural function — as pandemic-era nostalgia and as a deliberate artistic choice consistent with Petrick's analog filmmaking practice. The track closes Kiwi Jr.'s second album 'Cooler…

Why it matters

Represents early-2020s Canadian indie rock's engagement with analog nostalgia aesthetics as pandemic coping mechanism. Kiwi Jr.'s alignment with Sub Pop and critical comparison to Pavement, The Strokes, and Modern Lovers situates the video within a transatlantic jangle-pop/post-punk revival, with…

The director

Laura-Lynn Petrick (b. 1990, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) is a self-taught film photographer, director, and cinematographer based in Toronto and Los Angeles. She has directed and produced 110+ internationally released music videos for labels including Sub…