Garbage - Big Bright World

What this video is

Released in August 2012, 'Big Bright World' arrived as the second single from 'Not Your Kind of People,' Garbage's first studio album in seven years following their 2005 indefinite hiatus. The band's return was notable for its complete independence from major labels, self-releasing via their own imprint Stunvolume — a significant statement in the early-2010s landscape of digital distribution and artist autonomy.…

Why it matters

Represents alternative rock's engagement with fine-art video direction in the early 2010s, a period when self-releasing bands sought aesthetic differentiation through non-commercial collaborators. The video documents Garbage's visual identity evolution — bridging their 1990s goth-tinged MTV…

The director

Julie Orser (b. 1974, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary visual artist. She holds a BFA in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, 2005). Her practice…