Velocity Girl - Audrey’s Eyes

What this video is

Released in 1993 on Sub Pop Records as a single from the debut album Copacetic, 'Audrey's Eyes' arrived at the precise moment Sub Pop was diversifying beyond its Seattle grunge identity. Velocity Girl — a Washington DC-area band formed at the University of Maryland — represented the label's embrace of a more melodic, UK-influenced indie sound. The video's extreme slow pace (avg shot length 63.6s, 3 total scene…

Why it matters

The video is a primary document of the US shoegaze/noise-pop crossover moment of 1993, when Sub Pop's commercial reach allowed formerly underground DC indie aesthetics to achieve wide college-radio visibility. Its durational, near-abstract visual form — influenced by Harder's background in…

The director

Philip Harder (born 1965) is an American music video and commercial director. He operated the video production company Harder/Fuller Films from 1985 to 2005, and was a director at Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Commercials and Music Videos. His video…