CAPTAIN LOOSELY. OSEES
MATT YOKA’s music videos for psych-punk, garage-rock legends the Osees include “Stunner,” “Dead Man’s Gun,” and “Captain Loosely,” a dreamy and meditative portrait of life along the U.S.-Mexico boarder, dedicated to the victims of a mass shooting that occurred at a Walmart in El Paso. His director’s statement for the project reads as follows:
“I’ve been thinking about ways to incorporate documentary filmmaking into music videos. It’s an under explored combination that I want to continue experimenting with. "Captain Loosely" by the Osees was my first attempt. The song was recorded at a studio outside of El Paso called Sonic Ranch. The actual U.S.-Mexico border wall runs along its backyard. I drove out there from Los Angeles and wandered around Southern Texas and Juarez with a camera trying my best to absorb the environment. The journey brought me to a cemetery, party house, bar, Border Patrol station, morgue, more bars, a butterfly sanctuary, and the aforementioned recording studio. Have you ever looked at an old photo from when you were a little kid and wondered if you actually remember the moment the photo was taken or if the photo has become your memory? That’s how "Captain Loosely" feels to me. I remember it all just like this music video.”
Credits:
Matt Yoka
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Matt Yoka is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. His debut feature, Whirlybird, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is the winner of the International Documentary Association's ABC News Video Source Award. His music videos for artists Ty Segall and The Oh Sees have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Indiewire. He began his career as a producer on the skateboarding-classic, Epicly Later'd and often directs commercial content for clients including Google, Spotify and Verizon. Matt also moonlights as a lyricist, co-writing Ty Segall's latest album, Possession.