Corridor - Grand cheval

What this video is

Released March 3, 2020 — days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Corridor's international tour — this video sits at the intersection of two significant indie cultural moments: Corridor's breakthrough as the first Francophone act signed to Sub Pop Records, and Chad VanGaalen's continued expansion of his role as Sub Pop's de facto resident animator-for-hire. The video's DIY rotoscope aesthetic, executed on…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark for the Sub Pop-adjacent Canadian indie animation tradition, connecting VanGaalen's decade-long practice of DIY music video animation with Montreal's Francophone post-punk/psych-rock scene. The video reinforces Corridor's placement in a lineage that blends…

The director

Chad VanGaalen (born 1977) is a Canadian musician, animator, and visual artist from Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2000. A long-time Sub Pop recording artist, he released his debut Infiniheart in 2004 on Flemish…