vid - Après Moi - Person of Interest

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vid title: Après Moi music: Regina Spektor source: Person of Interest 2x16 - Relevance duration: 3:32 notes: Made for WisCon 2013 in the wiscon_vidparty. WisCon is a feminist science fiction con which had a "gender and technology" theme for the premieres vidshow. summary: After Samantha Shaw, comes the flood.

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I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi, le deluge, after me comes the flood

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi, le deluge, after me, flood

Февраль. Достать чернил и плакать.
Писать о феврале навзрыд.
Пока грохочущая слякоть
Весною чёрною горит.

I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, It's not my choice

I must go on stan-stan-ding-ding
You can't, can't break that, that
Which isn't, isn't yours, yours
I'm not, not my own, own
It's not, not my choice, choice

Comments

[vonniek.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I totally randomly came across this and I don't even watch this show but!! That was Sarah Shahi, making all the Dani Reese faces (I was a HUGE fan of Life) and... and... I thought Person of Interest was a Two White Guys show (generally something I'm not much interested in) but maybe I was mistaken?? This is a terrific vid, full of drama and emotion and I want to know more about this character immediately. You might have just pimped me into the show. :)

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this vid! I love seeing action!Sarah Shahi and her cranky face is what made me love Dani Reese a lot, seeing Sam Shaw in action is like seeing AU!Dani Reese come alive for me and this vid highlights how awesome Shaw is in PoI!

[mswyrr]

Freaking *brill*. Catching up with POI just moved right up my To Be Viewed list. Can't wait to see more of Shahi's character -- your vid really sells the role.

[chaila.livejournal.com]

This is so badass. I love the song choice and the sense that she is coming to fuck everything up

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

wait, this was all from ONE EPISODE of POI?! that is a lot of ass-kicking to cram into 42 (3.5) minutes! I have no idea who this character is, so I just imagined Carmen from The L Word got herself into some trouble, LOL. on a meta level, I REALLY appreciate that you edited out all the slashtastic white dudes and created the Awesome (Femslashy) Lady Show. Woman of Interest?? Regina Spektor's music is so lavish, agressive, and discombobulating -- it meshes really well with your visual style!

[metatxt.livejournal.com]

femslashy torture whaaaaa? nobody told me *this* when they pimped POI. I see your notes below on the two dudes sausage-fest, so I think I'll wait to hear how S3 goes before jumping on board?

That said, this vid *really* worked for me. There's such a powerful sense of Carmen Dani... er... Samantha's grittiness, how memory fragments when recalling how traumatic shit gets done. Also, everyone seems fucking shifty and like Samantha's world is essentially groundless. Not sure about POI yet, but I DIG THIS SHOW.

[softestbullet (from livejournal.com)]

*lets out breath* Whoa, this just swept me along. I don't know anything about the show, but this woman and her nerves of steel still gave me chills.

[pendrecarc.livejournal.com]

Inspired choice of music and fantastic editing - particularly loved the pan at 3:16. Really effective use of a single episode, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

Oh yes, yesyesyes, I've been looking for a Shaw (and Root) vid for a while. <3 I can't wait to see more of them next season. I ship them way too much.

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSS. I love the song choice - I mean, her music is fantastic in whatever context, but in this particular case I love how you've mapped out the changing tempo of Shaw's actions to the song. She improvises and works with hundreds of variables and she's extraordinarily adaptable, but she has technique and operates in systems and patterns AND THEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE and she basically redirects those patterns in the most destructive way imaginable. (YAY.)

I can't wait to see her as a regular this fall. They better not screw it up. *fingers crossed*

[slb44.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[ceares.livejournal.com]

here from Astolat's rec. Terrific vid that just feeds into my desire for a Shaw spin-off.

[spatz.livejournal.com]

I saw this at Vividcon and couldn't believe I'd missed it before! I love how creatively you used the footage from just the one episode, and pulled off such a rich portrait of Shaw. Particularly liked the way you split the fights up over the course of the vid, so they work as a visual representation of her arc (ending with her kicking lots of ass, naturally *g*). Also liked the use of the Russian section for Cole -- like the way she felt about him was a foreign language -- and then she goes on to bandage her wounds and keep going. ♥

Sadly, the download link seems to be down! Would you be willing to reupload so I can have a shiny version to keep?

[incognitity.livejournal.com]

Awesome vid! Would it be possible to reupload it?

[spankulert.livejournal.com]

oooh I liked this muchly!