Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (music video in HD) Veckatimest out now

What this video is

Released in June 2009 alongside Grizzly Bear's landmark album Veckatimest (Warp Records), 'Two Weeks' arrived at the apex of the Pitchfork-driven Brooklyn indie canon. The album debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200 and was ranked #42 on Pitchfork's best albums of the 2000s, with 'Two Weeks' itself landing at #162 on their top tracks list. The video crystallized a mode of indie-rock visual culture in which cerebral,…

Why it matters

A landmark of late-2000s chamber-pop music video production. 'Two Weeks' demonstrated that indie rock could sustain high-concept surrealist visuals without mainstream budgets, influencing a wave of VFX-inflected art-directed clips. The video's YouTube success (over 14 million views) helped…

The director

Patrick Daughters (b. 1976, Berkeley, CA) is an American music video and commercial director. A NYU film school graduate, he began directing music videos in 2003, debuting with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Maps.' His Grammy-nominated video for Feist's '1234' won Best…