#the midnight sky

[tinderbox210]

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[twwings]

Big Festivids Recs Post!

Last weekend was the big Festivids GoLive, which meant the release into the wild of 160 brand new small fandom vids (aka fanvids, edits, etc.) Right now the collection's anonymous, but tomorrow is vidder reveals, so I wanted to write up a recs post for some of my absolute favourites from this year's collection. If you know Yuletide, well, Festivids is like Yuletide, celebrating small/weird/underappreciated fandoms! It's an exchange fest, so people ask for the small fandom vids of their heart and, then, receive one.

Honestly the collection this year is SO high quality, you should really go and browse the works yourself in their entirety; there are so many vids that I absolutely loved that I didn't put on this recs list, because I was trying not to get carried away (and also trying to get it done). But just to get you started, here are a smattering of my favourites. I tried to represent a bunch of vid genres and source types here, but ultimately it's just my taste.

RECS RECS RECS!

Andor: Level Up

AHHHH this is a vid about Andor and fascism and collective action and One Way Out and it's so gorgeously done. Perfect song choice, perfect vid, makes me cry and I will rewatch it many times.

Andor: be ready and be brave

Focusing on Ferrix, its history, its people, and its revolution. Absolute chills. Also I'm SO happy whenever I get to watch a vid to a Mountain Goats song.

Mosquita y Mari: como siempre soñé

Such a sweet, soft, slow romance vid. I ACHED for these two. Like reading a 300k slowburn but in three and a half minutes.

Dropout TV: Nothing in my Head

The Dropout TV vid of my DREAAAAAMS! (largely Game Changer but with lots of stuff in there!)

Taskmaster UK: Blood in the Cut

UHHHH. IT'S AMAZING??? It's hot and raw and kinky and hardcore. the vidder has the delicate, precise touch of a bloody scalpel. Yes, this is a vid for Taskmaster, the UK show where comedians do silly tasks. Because yeah, it's that show, but it's also this show.

Slash/Back: Uja

This vidder KNOWS how to vid horror. The way this vid cuts the most terrible images to make them barely-there, more horrifying for being rough slaps against my consciousness . . . yikes. Amazing vidding, super cool and scary, while also maintaining the uplifting, kickass, hopeful tone you want from a collective-action horror movie.

Janelle Monae: I Like That

Glorious, joyful, sexy celebration of being a free-ass motherfucker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Hard Times

Boimler vid about how he's essentially a redshirt who is just slightly too sweet to actually die. Absolutely adorable and hilarious.

Woman King: Upside Down

Absolute BANGER of a vid, great cuts, great movement, great character arc and great Dahomey women being amazing.

Romeo + Juliet: Magnetic

We all agree Harold Perrineau is the best Mercutio, SO, with that in mind, here is a flawless celebration of the best Mercutio.

Knives Out/Glass Onion: 'Til You Hit a Nerve

Brilliant comparison vid putting Marta from the first film together with Helen and Andi from the second one, drawing out the similarities and dissimilarities in a visual feast and with a badass powerwalk. Nothing not to love!

David Cronenberg's Films: body

This one is phenomenal. It takes David Cronenberg's entire filmography and condenses it into a vid about all the sexualized body horror. It is deeply horny and deeply disturbing and deeply fascinated by every single finger going into a hole in a body that shouldn't be there. It's soft and tentative and it's very graphic and violent, all at once.

The Wheel of Time: Velodrome

Tower politics and circularity and being bound to one another in every good way and every bad way; what a beautiful vid. I love how this is about a place, and about how that place draws these people together over and over in their shared experience and love and trauma.

The Midnight Sky: The Laughing Heart

Absolutely gorgeous vid of the film to a spoken word + music rendition of Charles Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart" (there is a light somewhere). I have not seen this film but I found this vid deeply moving.

Moby Dick: Queequeg and I

There are four (FOUR!!!) Moby Dick vids at Festivids this year, and they are all amazing combinations of a huge smorgasboard of sources, I heartily recommend them all, but I'll specifically rec two. This one is Queequeg and Ishmael to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and it is the sweetest queerest thing ever. Queequeg and Ishmael get a happy ending shhhhh they do shhhhh yes this is how it happened they came out of the water they're fine

Moby Dick: a vulture feeds upon the heart forever

This vid is a fucking masterpiece. It is a huge archival multisource Moby Dick vid that weaves all these incredibly different visual together to make a coherent, tragic narrative. And like. The BOOK is not a coherent narrative! This is such gorgeous and amazing fanwork. Don't miss out on it.

Women's 100m Sprinting: Didn't Come to Play

This is GORGEOUS, I don't know anything about sprinting but I know I love these beautiful joyful powerful women running really fast and hugging each other and being amazing. The editing on this is so tight; the vid never stops for a second. Like a sprint?!?!?!

The Golem and the Jinni: סיפור הגולם

This is another book vid, but since this book doesn't have any adaptations, it's using entirely archival source and probably some documentaries and films to construct the story - or, really, construct the vibe of the book, construct the metaphors of the book, and the result is beautiful and powerful and meditative. It's about survival, and making life.

Jesus Christ Superstar: Hope on Fire

This is another umbrella vid, where the vidder is taking a bunch of different productions of the play and mashing them together. This vid focuses on Judas and Jesus/Judas, and it all feels so inevitable and tragic and real and cruel. I really loved it.

Jordan Peele's Films: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone

This is such a wonderful mashup of Jordan Peele's three films, exploring all the parallels and differences and just the rich tapestry of his imagery.

猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin: Put It On Me

I don't know this source but this was just so gorgeously put together; there's a focus on art and art objects, on hands moving and creating, that's just mesmerizing.

[acecroft]

THE MIDNIGHT SKY (2020) dir. George Clooney

[yokyopeli]

younger!Augustine Lofthouse (Ethan Peck) The Midnight Sky (2020)[1.8.2023]

[moontryall]

[trailerspice]

https://blog.trailerspice.com/lists/the-top-10-popular-movies-on-netflix-right-now-january-2023/

[francorebel]

- ti passo a perdere fra poco.

- a perdere?

- sì vengo da te e ci perdiamo insieme dove ti pare.

- e se poi ci trovano?

- ma noi ci perdiamo bene.

- devo portare qualcosa?

- sì, quella curiosità disordinata e bella che ti rende sfacciatamente vera.

La voglia di soffiare via le nuvole dal tuo cielo che da un po' di tempo è scuro.

La forza di fare scivolare via la tristezza che ti ostini a tenere per mano.

Gli abbracci li porto io per quando avremo freddo.

- ho paura.

- ed è per questo che ogni tanto è necessario perdersi, in nuove persone, in altri luoghi, dentro nuovi viaggi.

Perché la vita passi e non ci trovi lì, fermi ad aspettarla.

Per ricominciare bisogna perdere la strada del ritorno.

Per diventare persone nuove bisogna rischiare.

Rompersi e rinascere.

Prendere coraggio e fare quella "cosa" che ci terrorizza, quella cosa che non avremmo fatto mai.

Fare il primo passo per capire che siamo noi a doverci spostare da dove non riusciamo più ad essere, senza attendere che qualcosa per miracolo succeda.

- passa a perdermi.

[cupidsbower]

VID: The Laughing Heart (The Midnight Sky, Teen) by cupidsbow

Title: The Laughing Heart Visual Sources: The Midnight Sky Pairings: Augustine & Sully, Sully & Maya Audio: The Laughing Heart, by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom O'Bedlam; and Kitty Hawk, by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and David Arnold Rating: Teen Warnings: Bright lights, spinning lights, transitions from brightness to dark, blood, drugs mixed with alcohol, (non-explicit) vomiting, implied terminal illness, self-administered medical care, medical exam, pregnancy, total apocalypse. For: colls, Festivids 2023 Summary: There is light somewhere.

Download: MP4 (27.07 MB), MP4 HD (294.38 MB), WMV (46.54 MB), WMV HD (54.15 MB), Subtitle file (SRT) Streaming:Vimeo (Password = life)

[breakbleheavens]

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye 🕊

TAYLOR SWIFT performs BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE SKY for the first time ▸ The Eras Tour — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Night 2) | November 19, 2023

[iced-souls]

Uhm, possible spoilers i think for Marble Sky [made by @somerandomdudelmao in which you should go and check out if you haven’t read rn cause they be very cool very cool and very cool]

but—OMG I LOVE THIS BIRB AUUUHGHGHHGUGHUHURHUEHGI—

IN WHICH THEY ARE PERFECTLY FINE AND WE SEE SO SO MUCH OF THEM NYYYGUUH—

Guys guys guys — please trust meee she is A-OK and she is gonna be a teacher to Oscar as they make a pacifist alien befriending club

I am not in denial i have no clue what you’re talking about—

I ain’t got a clue what these so called ‘jars’ even look like yet but i sketched a thing out immediately and then at that point my intrigueness started to fade, and then the ref came out and for some reason that boosted my interest even further. But i know what a bird’s brain looks like now so thats something.

I just think she seems very cool

I may have also did some other doodles a week or 2 ago that i didn’t post cause the social of anxiety was kickin in high those days but I’ll put them under the cut if thou wishes to see

That is all ok buh byyeeee go see marble skiessssss

[bigchumpus]

"Is it foolish to still hope you'll keep your promise?"

[acecroft]

The Midnight Sky (2020) dir. George Clooney  

[pseudospectre]

[godforbidfate]