Orville Peck - Dead of Night

What this video is

Released in January 2019 as the lead single from Orville Peck's debut album 'Pony' (Sub Pop, March 2019), 'Dead of Night' arrived at a moment of renewed critical interest in queer representation within country music. Peck, a masked, openly gay South African-born artist, positioned himself as a singular outsider voice fusing classic outlaw country vocal traditions with post-punk and goth textures. The video — shot…

Why it matters

A landmark entry in the alt-country and queer country canon, 'Dead of Night' demonstrated the commercial and critical viability of openly queer Americana on an indie platform (Sub Pop). Its 16mm visual language and road-movie narrative drew direct lineage from classic country music video…

The director

Michael Maxxis is a film director and music video director with a career spanning over 70 credited directorial works. He is known for directing the feature film Puppy Love (2020) and music videos for artists including Billy Talent ('Saint Veronika', 2010)…