vid - Volcano - the l word

[kiki_miserychic]

Vid Title: Volcano
Vidder: kiki_miserychic, miserychic47@hotmail.com
Musical Artist: Damien Rice’s “Volcano” and The String Quartet’s Tribute to Panic! At the Disco’s “Introduction”
Fandom: the l word
Category/Summary: An experimental Shane vid focusing on 4x01 episode “Legend in the Making” and Shane/Carmen
Warnings: Drug use; drinking and driving; and nudity.
Cross-Posted: here(imeem).

Download: 31.7mb

Lyrics:
Don't hold my hand like that
You'll hurt your knees
I kissed your mouth and back
That's all I need
But don't build your world around
Volcanoes melt you down

And what I am to you is not real
What I am to you, you do not need
What I am to you's not what you mean to me
For givin' me miles
And miles of mountains
And I'll part them with sea

What I give to you is just what I'm going through
This is nothing new
It's just another phase of finding what I really need
Is what makes me bleed
Like a true disease
She's still too young

Notes:
A long time ago I saw the most pretentious movie I’ve even watched in all my life, De Fem benspænd (The Five Obstructions). Basically, it’s a metafilm about Jorgen Leth being challenged by Lars von Trier to remake his 1967 short film, The Perfect Human (Der Perfekte Menneske), five times with certain rules. For the first obstruction, Leth has to film in Cuba and can only have 12 consecutive frames from a take. The second has Leth playing “the perfect man” in an extremely miserable place. For the third, Leth has no constraints. The fourth must be a cartoon. He must read the voiceover for a film about him that someone else directed under his name for the last obstruction. I found the film to be interesting on some levels, mostly on a vidding level. I thought it would fun to set constraints on myself. I set 5 obstructions for myself and was forced myself to follow them for this vid. My first obstruction was completing the vid in under a day and a cookie to anyone who wants guess at what my other 4 were.

If anything, this vid is one big “DON’T DO DRUGS!” ad.

Comments

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Whatever the drugs you're on when you made this vid, I want some.

Seriously though, it's amazing and oooh-making and you remain on the fearless frontier of experimental vidding, as always. *worships*

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I really like this. Especially the way that you don't just manipulate the images but also the audio. And I like the way that even though you're *mostly* using S4 footage, the history of how Shane got all fucked up in this way is palpable.

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

And again I say how much I look forward to your vids for how they not only reimagine the source, but the process as well. :D This is gorgeous. Ethereal and uncomfortably physical by turns.

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

Completed in under a day? Argh, I could never, ever do that, especially not with results like these. The overexposed, harsh colorization really fits...great disjointed, disoriented feel in the editing that drives home your "DON'T DO DRUGS" angle. Having vidded a different version of the song, I'm struck by how well this sparse version fits Shane...I love her, but Jesus, such a freakin' mess in 4.01.

From what you said in the description and comments, I'm assuming that having one ep to work with was one of the other four "obstructions" -- I'm interested to hear the others :)

[wistful-fever.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Shane video. From you.

I will be downloading this as soon as possible.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Oh my god.

That was starkly powerful and haunting and... raw. I could feel it, you know? And I've never seen a single episode of The L Word.

It was so plugged into what the character was feeling that it was... well, disturbing is probably the best word I can come up with. But in a way that's so profound it has its own kind of beautiful perfection to it.

I love the contrast in the muted colors and blown-out yellow/red. Really sets the perfect mood. Throughout, you have this incredibly evocative way of using masks, repeated clips, breaks in flow, sudden external motion, *chilling* closeups, and cutting away and back to a scene... that creates a sense of disorientation and despair while just layering on the mood of the narrative.

Need a while to digest it, cause... WOW. After a few views I'd have to say it's among the most powerful videos I've ever seen, period.