CocoRosie - Gallows

What this video is

Released in 2010 as a single from CocoRosie's fourth album 'Grey Oceans' (PIAS Recordings, May 2010), 'Gallows' inhabits the tradition of gothic American folk balladry — murder ballads, punishment narratives, and the supernatural persistence of the dead. CocoRosie, formed in Paris in 2003 by American sisters Bianca 'Coco' and Sierra 'Rosie' Casady, were central figures in the 'freak folk' and 'New Weird America'…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the freak folk / New Weird America visual canon, 'Gallows' demonstrates how the genre's musical hybridity — folk, electronic, operatic — translated into equally boundary-crossing video aesthetics. Emma Freeman's gothic-theatrical direction established a benchmark for…

The director

Australian director and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. Freeman won Tropfest in 2002 with her debut short film 'Lamb', becoming the first woman to win the festival. She built a prolific career in Australian television drama, directing…