(a much belated) Festivids reveal post!
Feb. 11th, 2019 10:34 amLife has been completely fucking awful so this is very belated but hi! I made two (TWO) vids for Festivids this year, both my assignment for my recipient and a treat for them, and had a complete blast. This year's personal theme was apparently: intense creepiness. Which let's be real is an ongoing theme with my vids but usually my festivids are on the perkier lighter side of fandom but NOT this year.
First, my assignment vid was for Ginger Snaps, aka the gory feminist teenage werewolf movies of my heart. They're campy and over the top and incredibly dark, and each movie highlights fascinatingly different structures that oppress young women (from high school power dynamics to how medical institutionalism treats addiction and patient agency to outright misogyny), and I love all of them for many reasons. The through-line for them all though is the relationship between Ginger and Brigette, sisters bound together by fate and love and having each others back against the world, while also being at odds because of aforementioned fate and power structures and how the world will turn you against each other. Also, yknow, werewolfism.
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walkthegale VERY KINDLY gave me the opportunity to vid about alll these feelings, to Vienna Teng no less.
Title: In Another Life (AO3)
Source: Ginger Snaps (2000), Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004), Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
First, my assignment vid was for Ginger Snaps, aka the gory feminist teenage werewolf movies of my heart. They're campy and over the top and incredibly dark, and each movie highlights fascinatingly different structures that oppress young women (from high school power dynamics to how medical institutionalism treats addiction and patient agency to outright misogyny), and I love all of them for many reasons. The through-line for them all though is the relationship between Ginger and Brigette, sisters bound together by fate and love and having each others back against the world, while also being at odds because of aforementioned fate and power structures and how the world will turn you against each other. Also, yknow, werewolfism.
Anyway
walkthegale VERY KINDLY gave me the opportunity to vid about alll these feelings, to Vienna Teng no less.Title: In Another Life (AO3)
Source: Ginger Snaps (2000), Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004), Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Music: "In Another Life" by Vienna Teng
BUT ALSO,walkthegale prompted asking for a vid about The Innocents, and I COULD NOT RESIST. The Innocents is a fantastic black & white sixties horror suspense movie about a Victorian governess who moves to the countryside to take care of two unsettling children in vast, creepy mansion. Spoilers: it does not go well for anyone involved. It's based off the Henry James story Turn of the Screw, which I have not read, so the end really was a kicker to me personally.
As a child I half saw this movie on TV, and the image of Miss Jessel standing far off in the reeds severely haunted me ever since, which seemed like an excellent reason to finally rewatch it so I could make a treat! It was even creepier than I remembered! I definitely did not think an old movie in black and white with no violence or gore would have us vibrating and shrieking in fear but WE LEARNED BETTER. I loved the chance to revisit the movie and immerse myself in how god damn terrifying its ambiance and atmosphere is, and what a masterwork it is in tension and fear.
Also I made this in basically two incredibly-motivated evenings, and it's by far the fastest I've ever made a vid.
Title: Goodbye (AO3)
Source: The Innocents (1961)
Length: 3:30
Summary: And we feel it like the shiver / Of a passing train
Content Warning: canon-typical violence, stabbing, blood, major character death
( streaming + download )BUT ALSO,
walkthegale prompted asking for a vid about The Innocents, and I COULD NOT RESIST. The Innocents is a fantastic black & white sixties horror suspense movie about a Victorian governess who moves to the countryside to take care of two unsettling children in vast, creepy mansion. Spoilers: it does not go well for anyone involved. It's based off the Henry James story Turn of the Screw, which I have not read, so the end really was a kicker to me personally. As a child I half saw this movie on TV, and the image of Miss Jessel standing far off in the reeds severely haunted me ever since, which seemed like an excellent reason to finally rewatch it so I could make a treat! It was even creepier than I remembered! I definitely did not think an old movie in black and white with no violence or gore would have us vibrating and shrieking in fear but WE LEARNED BETTER. I loved the chance to revisit the movie and immerse myself in how god damn terrifying its ambiance and atmosphere is, and what a masterwork it is in tension and fear.
Also I made this in basically two incredibly-motivated evenings, and it's by far the fastest I've ever made a vid.
Title: Goodbye (AO3)
Source: The Innocents (1961)
Music: "Goodbye" by Apparat feat. Soap&Skin
Length: 4:23
Summary: Please put me to bed / And turn down the light
( streaming + download )
Content Warning: creepiness, major character death
( streaming + download )
