In 2020, filmmaker and theater creator Irina Varina had a plan to make a film called I Know What You Did in the Summer of 2020. This ended up meaning that she walked the streets of Philadelphia alone and filmed a lot: strangers, protests, the night sky, her friend Scott Rodrigue. She did nothing with the video until a few months ago, when she asked musician Mira Treatman to write a song inspired by the footage. The resulting four-minute music video gives an idiosyncratic peek into Philadelphia in the strange summer of 2020.
I Know What You Did in the Summer of 2020 from Irina Varina on Vimeo.
This little bit of pure poetry brought me to tears. It portrays the enduring spirit of Philadelphians in a surreal, wartime like atmosphere. No drama, just layin’ it out their for what it was/is.