DEBBY FRIDAY - WHAT A MAN

What this video is

Released March 28, 2023, alongside DEBBY FRIDAY's debut album GOOD LUCK on Sub Pop (internationally) and Arts & Crafts (Canada), 'WHAT A MAN' arrives at a moment of renewed critical discourse around feminist gaze theory in popular media. The video explicitly engages John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' and Artemisia Gentileschi's Baroque paintings as intellectual frameworks, situating a contemporary experimental…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark intersection of experimental electronic music, industrial rap, and feminist conceptual art video practice in the Canadian independent scene. The video advances the Sub Pop aesthetic into explicitly art-theory-literate territory, demonstrating that the post-internet generation…

The director

Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director and screenwriter originally from Vancouver, BC, and a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His debut feature Hello Destroyer (2016) premiered at TIFF and received 4 Canadian Screen Award nominations. He…