Father John Misty - ＂Date Night＂

What this video is

Released in July 2018 during the peak cultural anxiety around Tinder-era dating and smartphone dependency, 'Date Night' arrives as the fourth video from Father John Misty's album God's Favorite Customer (Sub Pop/Bella Union, June 2018). The video's surrealist animated world of creatures glued to phones and consulting crystal balls for dating advice functions as a psychedelic allegory for the dehumanizing mechanics…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark for the animated music video form within the 2010s indie folk/art-rock space. VanGaalen's sole-authorship animation — a rare practice — connects the video to an artisanal, pre-CGI animation tradition. The video extends Father John Misty's broader project of satirizing…

The director

Canadian musician, animator, and visual artist born 1977 in Calgary, Alberta. Graduated from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2000. Released debut album Infiniheart (2004) on Flemish Eye Records, picked up by Sub Pop in 2005. His sixth Sub Pop record,…