In the video Romeo and Juliet (I Wanna Be Claire Danes), McQuilkin recreates the final scene of Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in which she acts the roles of both Romeo and Juliet. With a mixture of irony, seduction, and painful sincerity, she portrays the characters as isolated from each other. The relationship with the camera and the audience keep them from being completely alone. Each character has her moment of cinematic self-indulgent drama, then each one ends her life. In McQuilkin’s words the video confronts “the line between faith and despair and the heartbreaking feeling of abandonment and hopelessness when you cross it”.

The second video, Desperado – in which the artist lip-synchs to her own adaptation of the Eagles’ song – continues her exploration of self-indulgent pain that is solidified by the viewer’s attention.