Le Ren - The Day I Lose My Mind

What this video is

Released July 28, 2020, during the early COVID-19 pandemic period, this video embodies the era's forced domesticity and resource-constrained production environment. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 by a director doubling as editor and cinematographer, it exemplifies the pandemic-adjacent micro-production boom in indie music video making. The song itself — a Dallas Frazier cover recontextualized through Lauren Spear's…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of the 2020 Canadian indie folk micro-production moment: a genre-crossing folk-country cover rendered through a conceptual, lo-fi video aesthetic. Demonstrates how Secretly Canadian's artist roster deployed visual intimacy and DIY filmmaking to build emotional resonance…

The director

Zoë Robertson is a Canadian director/editor/cinematographer with credits in music video production. Her directorial portfolio includes the 2020 Le Ren video and earlier work (e.g. 'red', 2015) listed on IMVDb. She maintains a personal portfolio site at…