Midnight II
This is the second video of the Midnight series. Following the same system of action on cardboard on asphalt at midnight.
The soundtracks to these videos are constructed deliberately using a similar systematic structure. Mixed live, old songwriters pitched down and enmeshed in more current dark beats.
One of it’s concerns is a misreading of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness” as “River of Darkness”:
Tears I never had before
Ribbon of darkness over me
Clouds a-atherin’ o’er my head
Which I misread and chopped/rearranged to be:
Fears I’ve never had before
Bound together in all my years
River of darkness over me
I dubbed out Run-DMC’s “Mary Mary” into a sratched echoy mess, and strung it into the intro for Rick James’ “Cold Blooded”, and held the whole thing together with L-Wiz’s “Girlfriend”. Then I mixed in and rearranged Gordon’s text.
This pulls from several sub-genre I am obviously obsessed with: Screwed and Chopped, Dubscape, Midwestern Hardcore, and Singers and Songwriters of my childhood.
Tags: art, critical, critique, film, openings, production, video