Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout

What this video is

Released June 9, 2010, 'Bhang Bhang, I'm A Burnout' arrived as the second music video single from the Dum Dum Girls' debut LP 'I Will Be' (Sub Pop / HoZac Records). The video sits at the apex of a short-lived but critically celebrated wave of lo-fi indie pop that drew simultaneously on 1960s girl-group sonic templates (Phil Spector wall-of-sound production, Ronettes harmonics) and 1980s UK indie jangle (The…

Why it matters

The video is a canonical document of the 2010 indie lo-fi girl-group revival, demonstrating how Sub Pop-era artists deliberately reclaimed and recontextualized 1960s pop iconography through a DIY experimental film lens. Turner's direction established a visual vocabulary — overexposed beach…

The director

Christin Turner (b. 1985, USA) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany since 2018. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder (transcendental cinema, analog filmmaking) and a BA from UC San Diego (essay film, feminist cinema,…