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This fall I made two video clips for two songs from the new ZEA (Arnold de Boer) album We Are Still Each Other’s Only Hope.
Listening to the record unleashed a flood of ideas, two of which presented themselves so inevitably that I couldn't decide which one to choose. In short, I made them both.
Read how Burial Salt was written on the
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Making the video and the animation:
Burial Salt is a heartbreaking song about a fatal accident, in the form of a letter that is read aloud. I wanted to try something with 'animation' and 'writing' so made a video in which I wrote some abstract words and did some drawing, to use as an example for the animation. But I didn't have a good idea yet, and trying something out in animation is a lot of work. So I added the video itself to the music, just to see what happened. Nothing at first, but when I slowed it down and the drawing rhythm coincided with the music, I got goosebumps. Of course I don't know whether it makes such an impression on others, but to me it had that inevitability I mentioned above.
In how many ways does humanity throw itself into the abyss, think of at least ten that's what I thought reading the title Alas for Mankind. When I listened to the song again later, it turned out to be much shorter than I remembered. How do I get all that in 44 seconds!
All at the same time Arnold suggested. So I did.
The already a nice idea about the summary became really an inavitable one because of the absurd fact that it had to fit into 44 seconds. I just had to find out if it was possible!
So now many things happen at the same time, and at a rapid pace, which fits in nicely with the way we work on our own downfall, I guess. Watch/listen more than once, I recommend.
That is, if you like it of course.