Multifandom Video Rec

[gnatkip]

Jonathan Lapper's Frames of Reference [watch] is a free-association video set to music, with clips from 158 movies.

"following the whipping scenes, I show a Cary Grant reaction shot as if he were witnessing Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner being whipped like horses by Spencer Tracy. If you want a comedic reaction shot to a barely disguised S&M

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[dbassassin]

That was a lot of fun.

I agree it's not a vid, unless you define his "fandom" as the entire universse of movies and that's simply too broad. He calls it a montage and I think that's probably the best description.

[gnatkip]

It's neat, isn't it. Watching vids has taught me so much about how to understand things like this. Well, I mean, I'm at a pretty elementary stage of understanding, but still. "Oh, this must be the part where people take off sunglasses! Oh, this is where everybody lifts their glass in the air! And this is with the orange skies! This is the part full of raucous laughter!" Hee. Neat.

[la_fono]

Wow.

I was quite unsure of what to make of it the first time around, but by the fainting scenes I'd got a handle on it. :D DEFINITELY worth a second view straight after!

Is it a vid? Ummmm... maybe, if delighting in similar shots and tropes in films is a fandom? heh. So probably not. Like dbassassin said above, it's a bit broad. Perhaps vids need to be fannish to be vids? *chinstroke*

Geese that quack, rather than honk? :B

[gnatkip]

Isn't it awesome! I'm unfamiliar with most of those movies, so I don't get any contextual stuff that may be there, but it's so pretty, even on a surface level. Watching it reminded me of sol_se's gorgeous Filthy Mind, which is also free association and multifandom (26 sources, I think).

What pings me as "viddy" about Frames of Reference is the way the clips build on and comment on each other. For example, "the split second before we cut to Singin' in the Rain Peter O'Toole kicks his right leg out and at that moment we cut to Gene Kelly completing the kick with his right leg," and the Cary Grant thing I quoted. What pings me as "viddy" about the other one, Eko Bitch -- and I think I'm repeating myself here, sorry -- is how hardwired-to-the-id it seems to be; all about desire and sex and violence. For both of them, the only thing that stops me from thinking of them as vids is that their creators don't call them that and didn't conceive of them that way.

I'm kind of surprised that both you and dbassassin mentioned the scope as

[counteragent]

Oh, I have to work now, or I'd be watching this this very minute. You are asking all the same questions that Laurashapiro and Ces and I had to ask ourselves when putting together the Vids that Push the Envelope panel/show we're working on for VVC this year. Are you going to VVC?

[gnatkip]

I'm not going, but wow, that sounds like a very cool panel! And I mean really, with the three of you, how could it not be.