Vidlet crosspost - Playground Twist

[quinara]

Ah, so the internet was slightly on the blink again this weekend, but what did I decide to do? Make a 55-second vid for sb_fag_ends, to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Playground Twist!! Spuffy, naturally; early S5 to be exact; warnings for quick cutting images.

Playground Twist.

Power's supposed to repel people, right?

[Buffy the Vampire Slayer + Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Playground Twist']
[Hi-Def Stream and download link]

Comments

[quinara]

Well, I'm all for solving things! I'm into things having multiple meanings (on a fine-detail level), but really not into things being ambiguous enough to resist meaning, if that makes sense. Like, I would never put something together that actively didn't make sense to me (if pushed, I could explain every clip choice in this vid and mark out the story it's telling), but I want to communicate with the viewer rather than make them nod dumbly while I tell them things. But then I'm happy for a solution to come in the form of a mood (as long as that mood has a narrative/some sort of through momentum) or the expression of another question... The Wasteland is like that for me - I'm not sure I could explain the 'point' of a lot of it, but as I read it it definitely is something to me - and that something is always the same even as it evolves on repeated readings.

One of the reasons I'm not a big fan of lyrics in vids is I feel they can be too show-and-tell, like a commentary rather than part of what's going on (and sometimes, I feel, you end up with the images hanging off the lyrics with no story of their own). I know I tend towards abstract vids (and I think people possibly think that's what I make), but like you I don't watch actually abstract pretty-clips-to-the-music vids because the lack of narrative frustrates me. If my vids are received as abstract, then it's a flaw rather than an achievement, basically...

[laeria]

Mmm, totally, conversations rock, but I really enjoy just being a passive audience too - I'm still in the honeymoon phase where the very form of vidding delights me, and I am only a little bit ashamed that I know all of Scooby Road by heart. (Which, as far as I can tell has no deeper meaning to decypher than "Beatles rock and so does Buffy, yay!" Well, also some vague racial/gender/shipping commentary, but nothing too revolutionary. Except the Willow/Giles bits. I <3 the Willow/Giles bits.)

I adore multiple interpretations. And clearly bogus ones that work. [The Wasteland? Totally about Aragorn, Arwen-as-hyacinth-girl, Numenor-as-Unreal and all.] Emotion-as-solution doesn't quite satisfy me though usually, except in Plath's Tulips for whatever reason.