Washed Out - Time to Walk Away

What this video is

Released June 30, 2020, during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Time to Walk Away' arrived as Washed Out's Ernest Greene pivoted away from a planned Italian shoot — cancelled due to travel restrictions — toward pre-existing personal material. The video, a reworked short film by Blakeway, reflects a broader 2020 indie tendency toward intimate, archival, and personal visual modes born of necessity.…

Why it matters

As the lead single from *Purple Noon* (Sub Pop), this video marks a maturation of the chillwave aesthetic Washed Out pioneered circa 2009–2011 — moving from lo-fi bedroom abstraction toward emotionally grounded, cinematically polished narrative. The warm HD-digital realism and fast fragmented…

The director

Riley Blakeway is an Australian-born, self-taught award-winning filmmaker and photographer who grew up bi-nationally between Sydney and California. Beginning filmmaking at age 12 within surf and skateboarding communities, he transitioned into music videos…