vid: disappear [Star Trek: TNG and DS9]

[raven]

Thank you everyone who helped and cheerled with this. I'm also pleased to have finished this exactly a month after Vidukon, where I seem to remember publicly promising to make it.

[vid] Disappear [Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]
by Raven
With a word, with a line, you only disappear. Identity and violence.

music: "You Only Disappear", Tom McRae, from Just Like Blood
content notes: Star Trek-typical violence; one bright flash of red light
password to stream: wakeup / download from mediafire, 80MB

disappear from Raven on Vimeo.

lyrics:

Close my eyes, I'm moving still
Magazines and dollar bills
And you wake up to a fall of snow
Your telephone, your radio

Baby I'll call up a storm and keep you safe from harm
But you only, you only disappear

I can live with my regrets
Still raise a smile, still raise my head
And a stranger God can be so cruel
And a holy fool is still a fool

But this is all I can say, I have lost my way
But you only, you only disappear

With a word, with a line
With a smile that says goodbye

It's raining now on your street
And I'd walk to you if I could trust my feet

(note: part of the original idea for this vid came from the "mind control" square on my trope_bingo card.)

Comments

[beccatoria]

Wowwww. Beautiful. It's been so long since I've seen the Star Treks that I'm certain I'm losing some of the resonance, but this just makes me want to throw myself back into watching it because it feels deep and rich and thoughtful. And I do get so much.

I love the way you captured the body language, deliberate movements. There was something slow and slightly chilling, like the song. It kept my visual focus really well, which is something I know, as a vidder, I struggle with when I'm using sources that are filmed in an older style, the way Trek can be? So like, mad props on that.

*uses continuity-inappropriate icon, but the only other option was angry Sisko and an angry icon is even less appropriate!*

[raven]

Thank you so much for such a lovely comment! It's really nice to hear that this had some resonance for you even if the canon isn't fresh in your mind. :)