Out of all the great Festivids I've watched so far, these are the ones that've stuck with me most:

Love God Herself (Bitch Planet)
You're So Beautiful (The Get Down)*
Tanz aus der Reihe (Ku'damm 56)*
A New Day (Luke Cage)
The Greatest (Pitch)*
Voodoo in My Blood (The Witch ( Read more... )

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VVC 2013 Playlist Post (The playlists will eventually link to the vid as hosted by the vidder, but these links may not be live yet.)

I haven't seen all the premiering vids yet, but of the ones I have seen, my favorites are:


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Wiscon vid party premieres:

playlist, panel discussion


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Oh, god, I think I have been watching vids for three and a half hours straight, my eyes are going to fall out. And I haven't commented, not even more than a placeholder for MY VID MINE MINE FOR ME!!, because I can't put reactions together.

But so far, these are my (other) favorites:

Past in Present (Chak De! India)
Mother Mary (China Beach)
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aycheb, Nobody Loves YouA vid like poetry. Noir Ellison, black and white, crisp, puts the clues together like a gumshoe does. But the slinky femme fatale he finds (naked, sleek, Brancusi sculpture in motion) is not about sex. All the surveillance footage here: watching watchers watching, Ellison watching Cromartie, Weaver watching Ellison watching ( Read more... )

Ohmygod, people, I am so behind on everything! I feel now that I have FINALLY finished the vid, I can take a breath and look around and ... obsessively focus on yuletide. (Poor Yuletide writer, if you tracked my LJ as I track my assignee's, I swear, I will write the letter this weekend. And if you have already written the story sans letter, I am sure it ( Read more... )

gwyn_r just released an adorable Veronica/Weevil vid, 27 Jennifers (Veronica Mars), which makes a fun use of wipe transitions and square and rectangular frames and an awesothuvia dischanted-highschool-boy song. I didn't go to the Veronica Mars lunch because I am still bitter, but VMars vids are like the show's good-parts version ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to finish up the Vid Review notes for tonight and maybe even (crazy ambitious!) the Dead Dog notes, although I may get distracted by vidding or writing or sleep, and then I'll just have the vidshows themselves to write up. Not sure whether to do a social write-up this year ( Read more... )

Favorite premiering vid
aycheb's "Scarlet Ribbons" - If you are a BtVS fan, download NOW.

Themes and changes
I felt like this year's theme was women and relationships between women (we easily doubled or tripled the vid possibilities for another relationships between women show) and that made me really happy.AAARGH. Had much longer comment on this, but ( Read more... )