Conny Hawk & Nadine Kerastas 【CONFIRMED Checklist】

If this is a secret handshake, I’m glad we found each other.

If you haven’t stumbled across the name yet, don’t worry. You’re not late. You’re right on time. Their work together—if you can even call it “work” in the traditional sense—exists in the cracks between lo-fi VHS transfers, forgotten soundcloud playlists, and the kind of 3 AM photography that feels like a half-remembered dream. conny hawk & nadine kerastas

Fans began splicing Hawk’s guitar loops over Kerastas’ silent short films. The result is haunting. A 16mm shot of a payphone ringing in an empty parking lot, paired with Hawk’s whisper-sung line “you said you’d call before the snow” — it shouldn’t work. It works too well. If this is a secret handshake, I’m glad

Listen to: “Drive Home (Empty Passenger)” — Hawk Watch: “Kerosene Morning” (a 4-minute supercut by Kerastas) Feel: The space between what’s said and what’s left on the cutting room floor. You’re right on time

In an era of hyper-curated, sharp-edged content, Conny Hawk & Nadine Kerastas feel like a beautiful glitch. They remind us that art doesn’t always need a press release. Sometimes, two strangers on opposite ends of a country make better art about each other than they ever could together in a studio.

When Hawk’s grainy demo tape “Stairwell Songs” leaked in 2022, someone online noticed that Kerastas had used a still from one of his live sets in her piece “Blue After the Bell.” Neither confirmed it was intentional. That’s when the myth started.