Geneva Jacuzzi ⧸⧸ BAD MOODS - Geneva Jacuzzi ⧸⧸ BAD MOODS

What this video is

Released in 2010 as a companion to the Lamaze album (Vinyl International), 'Bad Moods' arrived at the height of the hypnagogic pop moment — a loosely affiliated underground movement of cassette-distributed, memory-saturated synth-pop centered on labels like Human Ear Music and artists including Ariel Pink, Nite Jewel, and Julia Holter in the Los Angeles orbit. Geneva Jacuzzi's work was distinguished by a more overt…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the hypnagogic pop video canon, demonstrating how L.A.'s early-2010s art-synth underground fused bedroom recording aesthetics with high-concept theatrical video production on near-zero budgets. The video's Salome staging and gold-lacquered DIY set construction established a…

The director

Zev Deans is a Los Angeles-based music video director and founder of Panorama Programming Inc. He served as director, director of photography, production designer, costume designer, and set designer on this video — a hallmark of his early multi-hyphenate…