egeorgi, October 6, 2009 at 8:24:49 PM CEST
Merlinmoon "Yesterday is Gone" Directed By: Erwin Georgi (BUZZEYE)
Merlinmoon "Yesterday is Gone" Music Video Directed By Erwin Georgi (BUZZEYE) from Erwin Georgi on Vimeo.
The "Yesterday Is Gone" video is pure head-trip: images double, delay, fade to gray, melt, and twist, and do so before a backdrop of brilliant white light. Everything seems slightly slowed-down and distorted -- humans in motion become mobiles, action-silhouettes, works of art. Mirrors divide bodies in half, and video effects do the rest: you'll think you're looking at an abstract design until you recognize a torso, or a hand, or a face singing. Even an image of two people of indeterminate gender kissing feels more like a strange and fascinating sculpture than an erotic suggestion. In one particularly arresting shot, his face dissolves to a tableau of fireworks in the sky -- only these pyrotechnics are running in reverse, folding back on themselves, dwindling and vanishing into the darkness of past happenstance. www.vimeo.com