Tegan and Sara ：： Call it off - Tegan and Sara ：： Call it off

What this video is

Released in September 2008 as a promotional video for a track from 'The Con' (Sire/Warner Bros., July 2007), Tegan and Sara's fifth studio album and their first major commercial breakthrough, charting at #4 in Canada and #34 on the Billboard 200. The video arrived during a fertile moment for Canadian indie-pop internationally, and for queer visibility in mainstream alternative music. The telephone cord conceit — a…

Why it matters

Emblematic of the 2007–2009 Canadian indie-pop moment, 'Call It Off' and its video helped solidify Tegan and Sara's transition from cult indie act to crossover alternative artists. The video's low-key conceptual approach — a single room, a single prop, two performers — became representative of an…

The director

Angela Kendall began her career in television working in broadcast news as an ENG shooter and editor for New VI and CBC after graduating from the Applied Communication program at Camosun College. Her IMDB credits span directing, producing, editing, and…