Multifandom Video Rec
Jonathan Lapper's Frames of Reference [watch] is a free-association video set to music, with clips from 158 movies.
"following the whipping scenes, I show a Cary Grant reaction shot as if he were witnessing Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner being whipped like horses by Spencer Tracy. If you want a comedic reaction shot to a barely disguised S&M ( Read more... )
"following the whipping scenes, I show a Cary Grant reaction shot as if he were witnessing Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner being whipped like horses by Spencer Tracy. If you want a comedic reaction shot to a barely disguised S&M ( Read more... )
What pings me as "viddy" about Frames of Reference is the way the clips build on and comment on each other. For example, "the split second before we cut to Singin' in the Rain Peter O'Toole kicks his right leg out and at that moment we cut to Gene Kelly completing the kick with his right leg," and the Cary Grant thing I quoted. What pings me as "viddy" about the other one, Eko Bitch -- and I think I'm repeating myself here, sorry -- is how hardwired-to-the-id it seems to be; all about desire and sex and violence. For both of them, the only thing that stops me from thinking of them as vids is that their creators don't call them that and didn't conceive of them that way.
I'm kind of surprised that both you and dbassassin mentioned the scope as what feels non-fannish. (Or, maybe I'm mis-stating in dbassassin's case, but as what feels non-viddish, at any rate.) It would never have occurred to me to think of that aspect as the... what's the word I'm trying to think of. Limiting factor? Distinguishing feature? Differential diagnosis? Because the video is a manipulation of source material which was prompted by a love OF that source material, and there's no part of that that feels un-fannish to me, even if it uses a bunch of sources and even if the creator isn't a part of "fandom." YMMV. And indeed, DOES vary! ;D
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