(Another) new vid! "Death and the Maiden," Meet Joe Black/Death Takes a Holiday/Green Table ballet

[bironic]

This is the vidlet I meant to make earlier in the week. It's an offshoot of a larger project that I expect will have quite a different tone. Let's call this one an experiment.

Title: Death and the Maiden
Fandoms: Meet Joe Black (1998), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Green Table (Joffrey Ballet/1981)
Music: Chopin's Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no. 1, performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy (edited)
Length: 1:20
Summary: Three embodiments of Death, seducing and seduced.
Content/physical warnings: No physical warnings, I think. Content-wise, possible to read portions as suicidal ideation. One moment (:36) has overtones of assault.
Notes: For the "danger" square on my Kink Bingo card.

Streaming on Vimeo and YouTube | Download mp4 (10 MB)

Comments and concrit are always welcome.

x-posted to vidding on LJ and vidding on DW

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

POWERFUL. Ooh.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

YAY. I'm pleased you found it so.

(And yay, someone watched it. :) )

[paxpinnae (from livejournal.com)]

Oooooo. This gave me chills. I love the music choice, and the timing was superb.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad. I wasn't sure how to structure this for a while but I like how it ended up coming together.

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of the sources, but I still thought it was very interesting--I liked the echoes between sources especially. <3

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Meet Joe Black was based on Death Takes a Holiday, so the parallels aren't an accident. I could have sworn Joe/Brad Pitt danced with Claire Forlani, though, which "memory" helped shape the concept of the vid, and then when I went to clip it discovered that she only danced with Anthony Hopkins! Whoops.

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

(i'm not sure if my first comment got eaten or something. but well:)

this is absolutely gorgeous, i'm all shivery.
i think i'll be rewatching this forever.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, awesome! I adore this sort of thing and am glad to find some kindred spirits here.

[topofthepiano.livejournal.com]

This was phenomenal. Thanks for posting.