Amen Dunes - Purple Land

What this video is

Released February 8, 2024, as the lead single from Death Jokes (Sub Pop, May 10, 2024), 'Purple Land' marks Amen Dunes' (Damon McMahon) return after a six-year gap since Freedom (2018). The video emerges in a cultural moment when the indie music video has increasingly absorbed the vocabulary of slow cinema and gallery installation art. The pairing of Klincewicz—whose visual language bridges high-fashion intimacy…

Why it matters

Represents the 2020s mutation of neo-psychedelic indie folk into slow-cinema video art. The zero-cut, ~5-minute unbroken visual duration is a formal statement against algorithmic short-form video culture, situating the work within an emerging tradition of durational music videos aligned with…

The director

Julian Klincewicz (b. 1995, Chicago, IL) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, director, and photographer. His work spans music videos, fine art exhibitions, and fashion film. He contributed cinematography to Beyoncé's concert film Homecoming…