Miike Snow - ＂Burial＂

What this video is

Released in 2009 alongside Miike Snow's critically acclaimed self-titled debut on Downtown Records, 'Burial' arrived at the apex of the music blog era, when Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg (of Bloodshy & Avant, Grammy winners for Britney Spears' 'Toxic') and American songwriter Andrew Wyatt were breaking through as a transatlantic indie-electropop act. The video's location in Varanasi,…

Why it matters

A key early artifact of Scandinavian indie electropop's global breakout moment, the video demonstrates how mid-budget international location shoots could amplify conceptual weight for emerging acts. Its ethnographic documentary aesthetic — warm, fast-cut, location-driven — became a recognizable…

The director

Daniel Wirtberg (b. 1983, Sweden) graduated from FAMU (Czech Film Academy, Prague) and has built a career spanning fiction films, music videos, and VJ performance. He has directed award-winning music videos for artists including Miike Snow, Little Dragon,…