White Town - Your Woman

What this video is

Released January 1997, Your Woman emerged from a UK bedroom-production underground (recorded on analogue 8-track and Atari ST) and became a global chart phenomenon, reaching No. 1 in the UK, Iceland, and Spain. Its music video amplifies the song's temporal dissonance — a 1990s electronic track built on a 1932 trumpet sample — by staging a fully committed silent-film pastiche shot on 16mm. The video's narrative of a…

Why it matters

Your Woman is a landmark in 1990s UK indietronica and alternative dance: a self-produced bedroom recording that reached No. 1 without conventional industry infrastructure, prefiguring the DIY digital production paradigm. Its music video is equally significant as a rare sustained exercise in…

The director

UK director and cinematographer whose credits include White Town: Your Woman (1997), Clip Cult Vol. 1: Exploding Cinema (1999), Sandi Thom: What If I'm Right (2006, cinematographer), and Iain Archer: Minus Ten (2007, producer/director). Best known for the…