Bat For Lashes - Prescilla

2007

Bat For Lashes - Prescilla (2007) Director: Andrew Bruntel Era: Mid-2000s UK Indie Folk Renaissance (2006–2008) - Debut-era art-folk boom driven by Mercury Prize culture, lo-fi warmth, and mythological lyricism High curatorial value as a confirmed early example of transatlantic art-folk music video production, bridging UK Mercury Prize culture with American indie cinema infrastructure (American Zoetrope). The video's warm palette, surrealist narrative, and restrained pacing make it a benchmark artifact for the 2006–2008 UK art-folk boom, and a key document of Andrew Bruntel's formative directorial voice before his later acclaimed short film work. Context: Released in early 2007 as the third single from Bat For Lashes' debut album Fur and Gold, itself a Mercury Prize 2007 nominee, 'Prescilla' arrived at the apex of a UK critical wave celebrating art-folk and freak-folk artists. Natasha Khan's dream-sourced songwriting, combined with Bruntel's surreal visual sensibility and the American Zoetrope connection, gave the video a transatlantic indie-cinema quality unusual for the era. The warm, amber-saturated palette and moderate, deliberate pacing reflect both the artisanal low-budget ethos of mid-2000s music video making and the folkloric, subconscious themes that defined Fur and Gold as an album concerned with dreams, myth, and the inner world. Director notes: Directed and written by Andrew Bruntel. Released March 3, 2007 (United States). Produced by American Zoetrope DVD. Estimated budget of $25,000 per IMDb. The video was made during Bruntel's early music video period, when he embraced the low-budget format as a creative opportunity. The song itself originated as a dream experienced by Natasha Khan, lending the video's surreal, mythological visual register strong thematic grounding.