Kyle Craft - Eye of a Hurricane

What this video is

Released in May 2016 to promote Kyle Craft's Sub Pop debut album Dolls of Highland, this video captures a specific moment of convergence between Portland's DIY indie rock scene, queer nightlife visibility, and the mid-2010s revival of glam rock theatricality. The video's candid, event-embedded production—shot at a real drag birthday party hosted by Craft's roommate—exemplifies the era's embrace of authentic…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of the mid-2010s indie rock neo-glam revival: Craft's vocal style, noted by critics as evoking 1970s glam rock range, is here matched with visuals that literalize the gender-transgressive theatricality of that genre's legacy. The video's Sub Pop imprimatur and Portland setting…

The director

Kyle Craft is a singer-songwriter from Shreveport, Louisiana who relocated to Portland, Oregon and signed to Sub Pop Records. Tyler Bertram is a Portland-based freelance videographer, editor, and photographer affiliated with Bridgetown Creative, who attended…