Sarah Neufeld - With Love and Blindness

What this video is

Released March 10, 2021, during global COVID-19 lockdowns, 'With Love and Blindness' arrived as a second preview of Neufeld's album 'Detritus' — her first solo release in five years and her most emotionally exposed work to date. The video, filmed in Corsica in summer 2019, predates the pandemic yet resonates with its themes of isolation, sensory longing, and bodily freedom in open landscape. The song originated in…

Why it matters

Exemplifies the 2010s–2020s wave of composer-performers bridging contemporary classical, ambient, and art-folk. Neufeld's looped violin technique, ethereal vocalizations, and collaboration with choreographers places this work at the vanguard of a movement that includes artists like Nils Frahm,…

The director

Jason Last is a videographer and longtime creative collaborator of Sarah Neufeld. He has directed multiple music videos for Neufeld across her solo album campaigns, building a sustained working relationship documented across press releases for her 'Detritus'…