Watch Courtney Barnett’s Music Video “Kim’s Caravan”
Courtney Barnett has premiered the music video for “Kim’s Caravan,” the single from her recent LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. She describes the song as “an apocalyptic tale of our world painted black with oil and soot, painted red with blood and greed. The song was born when blessed with time to reflect, feeling the frustration and helplessness of the destruction of my environment and the litter of humans within it,” and the music video appropriately conveys that feeling of desolation.
Directed by Bec Kingman, “Kim’s Caravan” sees Barnett wandering around her childhood haunts and presents old places that hold good memories as faded homes of darkness, which Kingman keenly captured after hearing Barnett’s song for the first time. Kingman said of the clip:
In conceptualizing a film clip for the track I am keen to explore the adult attempt to return to that place of childish innocence. If you have ever returned to a childhood holiday haunt in the offseason, it’s likely you’ve discovered the sad realisation that the place barely resembles your idyllic memories. As grown ups we all yearn for a time and place where our biggest concerns were the sand in our bathers and the mosquito’s eating us alive.
You can watch the music video for “Kim’s Caravan” above. Check out Barnett’s tour dates below.
Read our recent feature on Barnett here.