Showing posts with label dark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2009

Trentemoller: Evil Dub -> Moan (Live)


LIVE at P3 Guld full version.

Trentemøller: The Very Last Resort

Collage video by Karim Ghahwagi for "The Very Last Resort" from Trentemøller's album "The Last Resort" as shown on the current worldtour "Trentemøller live in concert".

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

My David Lynch Refixes

Credits:

Directed by:
David Lynch

Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer

Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl

Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer

Cinematography by:
David Lynch

Film Editing by:
David Lynch

Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor

Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator

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Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen

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Plot:

(from imdb user jodiac ):
Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY

David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.

We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.

On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.

Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.
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The Film:

Lynch on The Alphabet



Original Film



The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)





Mulholland Drive: Silencio Dub

"NO HAY BANDA!!! There. Is. NO. Band. But yet we hear a band"

The Original Scene



The Silencio Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)



This is the scene in David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive where the stunningly beautiful Betty & Rita (Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring) go to a late night theater called Club Silencio. The performer does a monologue varying in English, Spanish, and French about how everything is an illusion. I have done a little remixing and refixing to add a slight more musical substance to the scene. Beats and processes all done by myself. Enjoy :-)

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

By far one of the most FU#$ED UP videos I've ever seen. The Aphex Twin has been long known to be strange, unique and his own genre. Here he teams up with legendary director Chris Cunningham to make a dark and grimy surreal world with midgets that all have the face of Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin).

Music video

The accompanying music video (released in October 1997) was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange.[1]. The scene is shot around Tavy Bridge Shopping centre, Thamesmead , which is now being knocked down[when?]. Many of the Dark underground car parking is now gone.

The video opens with an old woman walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the sidewalk, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life. This unleashes a poltergeist from the set, accompanied by a set of small children (all which bear the face of Richard D. James), that constitute the inhabitants of the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, such as trashing an alley, and chasing a man into his car.

At one point, the monster (played by Al Stokes) is birthed out of the television and screams in the old woman's face. After this, he gathers the children around him in a manner reminiscent of a scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.[2]

The acclaimed music video was voted 17th Greatest Music Video Ever by Q Magazine Readers, and one of the 100 Greatest Scary Moments by E4 viewers.