I just listened to your interview, and I loved what you had to say. I was so unsurprised to find that you're more of a manga fan than an anime one. Now, I'm checking out your vids. I love your cinematic eye, and it does seem different to me than most AMVs (though I see some people in the fanvid space who overlap more). This video really gives me the feeling of a silent film or a more narratively-focused professional music video. It's the way you aren't afraid to stay on a shot longer as befits this type of music. The more default AMV styles always feel the need to create too much of the rhythm with cuts for my taste instead of picking animation with enough internal motion to use that. It's also the way that your interest in micro-narratives makes you focus just as much on the single-episode characters here, perhaps more on them, than the lead. I do think you've probably seen the crappier end of AMVs, but I really relate to everything you said. I watched some at cons years ago, and they were cool, but I didn't get interested in editing until watching Miami Vice years later, at which point, I started making fanvids, but it was always very much about my personal relationship to editing, not a prior love of other people's vids/amvs. That part of your interview spoke to me too. There's sometimes this expectation that you should care about other people's videos and that it's rude not to, but I think the pleasures of video editing for the sake of video editing are underrated. I was interested in the conversation about community and where to find people not doing AMV house style. There have always been thoughtful amateurs editing, but the more narratively-focused ones are often from insular subcultures that don't splash their stuff across youtube. (And to be honest, some of the earlier stuff is by women who were afraid of publicity and scrutiny.) I think the presence of AMV _contests_ really set the tone for that community. Everywhere has popularity contests, but they're often more implicit with more space for people who are essentially experimental filmmakers to just do their thing. The need to beat the algorithm on youtube just adds to the poison of those contests, creating a homogenized and boring world. (Also, like AMV editors, fanvidders often get all their music ideas from other fanvids, which has always irritated me.) Your work reminds me less of other AMVs and more of Luminosity (for things like Things That Go Bump in the Light or her The Red Shoes vid) or feochadn (for things like Jackson Pollack Made a Vid, which I don't think has ever been on youtube).
I just listened to your interview, and I loved what you had to say. I was so unsurprised to find that you're more of a manga fan than an anime one. Now, I'm checking out your vids. I love your cinematic eye, and it does seem different to me than most AMVs (though I see some people in the fanvid space who overlap more). This video really gives me the feeling of a silent film or a more narratively-focused professional music video. It's the way you aren't afraid to stay on a shot longer as befits this type of music. The more default AMV styles always feel the need to create too much of the rhythm with cuts for my taste instead of picking animation with enough internal motion to use that. It's also the way that your interest in micro-narratives makes you focus just as much on the single-episode characters here, perhaps more on them, than the lead.
I do think you've probably seen the crappier end of AMVs, but I really relate to everything you said. I watched some at cons years ago, and they were cool, but I didn't get interested in editing until watching Miami Vice years later, at which point, I started making fanvids, but it was always very much about my personal relationship to editing, not a prior love of other people's vids/amvs. That part of your interview spoke to me too. There's sometimes this expectation that you should care about other people's videos and that it's rude not to, but I think the pleasures of video editing for the sake of video editing are underrated. I was interested in the conversation about community and where to find people not doing AMV house style. There have always been thoughtful amateurs editing, but the more narratively-focused ones are often from insular subcultures that don't splash their stuff across youtube. (And to be honest, some of the earlier stuff is by women who were afraid of publicity and scrutiny.) I think the presence of AMV _contests_ really set the tone for that community. Everywhere has popularity contests, but they're often more implicit with more space for people who are essentially experimental filmmakers to just do their thing. The need to beat the algorithm on youtube just adds to the poison of those contests, creating a homogenized and boring world. (Also, like AMV editors, fanvidders often get all their music ideas from other fanvids, which has always irritated me.) Your work reminds me less of other AMVs and more of Luminosity (for things like Things That Go Bump in the Light or her The Red Shoes vid) or feochadn (for things like Jackson Pollack Made a Vid, which I don't think has ever been on youtube).
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