Festivids recs 2015

[raven]

Here are my festivids recs, from a very scattershot trail through the list. I suspect - and in some cases, know - who made many of these vids, but I refrain from comment on that front.

Gonna Get Through This World (An Adventure in Space and Time)
A vid in praise of Verity Lambert and Waris Hussein. Crisp and heartfelt and with such a sense of glorious promise (I love the brief appearance of Matt Smith).

Galaxyrise (Apollo 13 and others)
A lovely vid, that is not quite fannish in sensibility - it's a vid about the idea of exploration, of what's to come. I wish I'd made it.

Firework (The Gymnast)
For a source I haven't seen and now desperately want to: it's a love story that builds and builds. I love it.

Sailboats (Master and Commander)
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin love each other a lot, though not quite as much as they love the beautiful world around them, and the sea. This one is so meditative, so beautiful.

Rescue (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries)
THIS IS IT THIS IS THE SHOW. Phryne, and Dot, and then also Jane and Aunt Prudence, and how they don't need rescuing! Hearts in my eyes.

Say Her Name (Black Lives Matter)
A vid in praise - and in witness - of black protest, and black lives. Like the vid up above (and like more than one of the Hamilton ones, which I haven't got through yet), it's not a vid with a fannish sensibility: it's a vid that positions itself as a transformative work of art at the nexus of many complexities, many of which are so painful that perhaps art is the only thing. I don't really have the vocabulary for this one, but the vid itself does.

This Sullen Welsh Heart (Pride)
This one just - just - edges out in front to be my favourite of what I've seen. It makes really good use of all the beautiful imagery of the film, and the song choice is perfect, and put all together it's a vid about hopeless causes, and why they matter.

Comments

[purplefringe]

This Sullen Welsh Heart is going in your Revolutions vidshow, y/y? (Isn't it beautiful??)

[raven]

Y! I was literally in the middle of an email to Cathryn about that. :) It's so beautiful it makes me cry, I have watched it four times already.

[lemon_badgeress]

Galaxyrise is an amazing video, and I love that song...until the last few lines RUIN it. /o\

(for me, anyway, because after reading Mira Grant's Rolling in the Deep I have NOPED OUT of deep sea pokings because NOPE)

More seriously, though, I'm going to greatly enjoy working my way through these vids. I like the sorts of vids you highlight.

[pearwaldorf]

I skipped the BLM vid because I was worried it would be awful. I'm really, really glad it's not. It's one of those vids you could cut and recut endlessly because every time I hear the song performed, they switch out different names. Which I suppose is the real horror of it.

[raven]

It's not awful at all, thankfully! It was made for livrelibre, and it made her very happy. :)

[forthwritten]

I haven't even seen Pride - I know, I am a bad gay - but that video is stunning.

[raven]

oh Kat you MUST. But in the meantime, isn't it, though. So lovely.

[riverlight]

OH MAN. That Gymnast one! I am so so so excited about that source.

AND. AND. Pride—with the vidder's commentary—oh, my heart.

So so many great vids here. I wouldn't have seen them otherwise; thank you!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

These are great recs! Thank you; I've really enjoyed watching them.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, hurrah! You're very welcome. :)