Janet Devlin - Big Wide World

What this video is

Released on June 9, 2020, 'Big Wide World' arrived in the immediate wake of Janet Devlin's second studio album Confessional (debuting at No.1 on both UK and Irish iTunes Singer-Songwriter charts) and her autobiography My Confessional, published by Omnibus Press. The video was produced entirely under UK COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, making its celebratory outdoor imagery and running motif — a deliberate cinematic…

Why it matters

Represents a significant example of the COVID-era UK indie folk-pop music video: low-budget, high-concept, and community-driven. The video demonstrates how pandemic constraints redirected independent artists toward participatory, fan-integrated production models, and stands as a document of the…

The director

London-born filmmaker and editor with a BA in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London. Starting as a music journalist at Dazed in 2010, Ganfield has worked across 100+ music promos and commercials as director, editor, and DOP. Her work…