Julia Holter released her fifth album Aviary last month on Domino. Ahead of upcoming European and UK live dates, Julia has shared the video for “Whether“.
As with the videos for “Words I Heard” and “I Shall Love 2”, Dicky Bahto takes on directorial duties. He says of the collaboration: “When Julia asked me to make a video for Whether, she said that I should “have fun with it”. I decided to indulge in my love of hand-worked darkroom techniques. Exposing 16mm film prepared with cyanotype solution to the light of the sun on my balcony every afternoon over a couple of weeks, making the work in small pieces, meant that as the fires in Southern California darkened the sky with smoke, my exposures took increasingly long amounts of time to get images ever more faint. Julia wanted me to share this anecdote, since it fits the dystopian theme of the song, which is about the world collapsing around us because of climate change.”
Watch the video for “Whether” below:
Upcoming live dates
2018
24th Nov – Explore The North Festival, Leeuwarden
26th Nov – Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam
27th Nov – Schauspiel, Bochum, Germany
28th Nov – De Roma, Antwerp
30th Nov – Funkhaus, Berlin
1st Dec – Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
2nd Dec – Brotfabrik, Frankfurt
3rd Dec – Kammerspiele, Munich
5th Dec – Petit Bain, Paris
6th Dec – Gorilla, Manchester
7th Dec – Fiddlers, Bristol
8th Dec – Button Factory, Dublin
10th Dec – Summerhall, Edinburgh
11th Dec – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds
12th Dec – Hackney Arts Centre, London
2019
16th Jan – The Rosemont, Perth
18th Jan – Mona Foma Festival, Tasmania
20th Jan – Sydney Festival, Sydney
21st Jan – Melbourne Recital, Melbourne
22nd Jan – The Tivoli, Brisbane
24th Jan – The Tuning Fork, Auckland
19th Feb – U Street Music Hall, Washington DC
20th Feb – Underground Arts, Philadelphia
22nd Feb – Warsaw, New York
23rd Feb – Brighton Music Hall, Boston
24th Feb – La Sala Rossa, Montreal
26th Feb – The Great Hall, Toronto
27th Feb – El Club, Detroit
28th Feb – Thalia Hall, Chicago
1st Mar – Turf Club, St. Paul
4th Mar – Imperial, Vancouver
5th Mar – Doug Fir, Portland
6th Mar – Neumos, Seattle
8th Mar – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
9th Mar – Lodge Room, Los Angeles