#floria sigismundi

[interpol-nyc-documents-blog]

Some images from Obstacle 1 music video to point out symbolism.

1. There is an exit sign behind the woman wearing leather boots and a fur coat. She seems like ready to leave the building. But the music played by the band in another part of this unidentified building of rather cold and clinical vibe, forces her to enter a specific space in the building rather than leave it altogether. Notice the image on the wall depicting two zebras. The color of her outfit and hair corresponds with the color of the animals and when she takes her coat of, she even reveals a striped shirt. Not black and white, but a red and white corresponding to the background of the image.

2. - 3. She starts to dance like she is in a trance of somekind and is captivated by the force and words expressed in the music. The space she enters is made out of wood and has some warm yellow light in it. The space stands out being more intimate and warm than the rest of the building. It is like she still has, or the other protagonist wants to force her back to, imagine, to taste the warmth and electricity of their relationship once more before ending it and leaving the now unintimate, cold lighted, clinical, lofty, empty, white washed surroundings corresponding to what the relationship has now become and thus ended. Notice another reference to wild animals: there are wild big feline cat heads next to her and her pants are like she has been attacked. Makes my mind trip to OLTA art work and wild animal symbolism in Interpol’s lyrics in general representing deep, instictive and powerful forces at work in love relationships. Potential of hurt/hurting, hunter/game .

4. There are wires. Everywhere. It enforces the idea of emotional and sexual connections running throughout the building - the relationship. She is dancing on wires connected with the wires in the room where the band is playing. The band playes in a cold, vast space, telling of cold or violent feelings. When the glass of water (with ice cubes - cold, violent, resenting emotions) is made fall by a wire connected to Paul’s guitar, Sam hitting the drum in the moment when the glass starts to fall, Carlos sliding the bass right when the water starts to fall on to the other room level and Daniel making moves that resemble the moves of the woman - all these bring about a feeling of intense connection, hypnosis, a sense of electrifying force (emotional-sexual relations) and its lethal coupling with broken glass of water (broken heart, bitter, desperate, yearning, violent, controlling emotions, frustration).

5. Captivated by the music she does not notice the water until it is too late. She dies when the other protagonists emotions (water) reach the wires underneath her feet. Just few moment before, Paul slides his hand tenderly and sensually along the mic stand, revealing still deep seated feelings towards the lost love who broke his heart. It reveals the other protagonist’s vulnerability hidden behind the now seemingly cold, controlling and aggressive exterior (which the whole band actually symbolises or is an expression of).

6. At the end we see a reflection in the water resembling the scene in the first picture but now she is standing her back to the camera and suggesting she is actually leaving the building. The thing we just saw happening to her happened just in the imagination of the mind of the other protagonist filled with mixed feelings of hurt, longing, love, bitterness and denial.

#interpol #interpol music video #obstacle 1 #music video #music video analysis #floria sigismundi #breakup #heartbroken #relationship #breakup song

[lookninjas]

What I love in this video:

This building makes absolutely no sense to me.  I just want to get that out of the way.

Remember when we wore t-shirts over button downs?  That was a good look.  We should go back to that.

Carlos.  Classic.  Love the outfit.  Pretty sure he got the belt from Hot Topic and I’m here for that. 

Honestly they all look good.  This was their GQ model phase and boy does it show. 

Still not sure if Floria Sigismundi is going into her own apartment after a long day, if she’s wandered into someone else’s apartment pretending to be a ghost, are they apartments?  I don’t get this building.  Her hair’s super shiny though.  I wonder what she uses.

Dan’s so into it that he drops down to his knees twice.  Commitment!

I get that it’s just an editing choice, but that long shot of the hallway after the water glass falls down makes it seem like the water’s just going all the way through the building to get to Floria Sigismundi, instead of just seeping through the wall like I think it’s meant to.  This building makes no sense to me.  Have I mentioned that?

Also, really should fix the wiring.

Carlos reminds me of one of those inflatable dancing men outside electronics sales, only goth.  And I love him for that.

When Paul smiles before he sings, though.

Really, it’s all great, up to and including the moment you think Floria Sigismundi is going to get electrocuted and then she just slips instead.

But I just don’t understand this building.

#interpol #obstacle 1 #i don't know why this felt like a good use of time but it did #anyway i have to go to work now #sorry for not commenting more on sam's emo hair

[davidssecretlover]

Photo (c) Floria Sigismundi 2013

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#david bowie #tilda swinton #the stars are out tonight #floria sigismondi #2013

[the-order-of-release]

I need to check the dates but I'm 90© sure 1995 was around the time of that Canadian TV show forever knight which was partially filmed in I think that club Floria sigismundi designed (??? I'm not sure but??) and it's like that exact same aesthetic etc, and ofc the show is kind of... terrible but also... I kind of love it...

[dark-and-specific]

Floria Sigismundi directed the Amercan Gods finale.

If only in Game of Thrones they hire female directors.

[clara-darling-blog]

Where all things are perfect and poisonous

You too have the love of things impossible. Sometimes you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as a romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance-that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long some day to feel. So at least it seems to me. And, strangely enough, what comes of all this is a curious mixture of ardor and of indifference. I myself would sacrifice everything for a new experience, and I know there is no such thing as a new experience at all. I think I would more readily die for what i do not believe in than for what I hold to be true. I would go to the stake for a sensation and be a skeptic to the last! Only one thing remains infinitely fascinating to me, the mystery of moods. To be master of these moods is exquisite, to be mastered by them more exquisite still. Sometimes I think that the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and am not sorry that it is so. And much of this I fancy you yourself have felt: much also remains for you to feel. There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.

#Floria Sigismundi #Oscar Wilde

[1001tales-blog]

Wow. Gorgeous 2 min 40 music vid by Floria Sigismondi for new ghd spot

via creativereview.co.uk

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#JustMigrated #Floria Sigismundi

[cosedimusica]

Ed ecco il terzo. David Bowie si avvale ancora di Floria Sigismundi per la regia del video (che però ha scritto lui stesso) di "The next day", omonimo dell'album.

Video ancora una volta molto bello e pulp ambientato in un pub popolato da personaggi vestiti con abiti religiosi, tra fruste e sangue. Protagonisti sono Gary Oldman e da Marion Cotillard.

#David Bowie #Video #Floria Sigismundi #pulp #The next day

[unculturedmagazine]

This short film by Floria Sigismondi, staring Elle Fanning and John Hawkes, weaves together a complicated yet simple story of a father and daughter, lost in the world, trying to find something to run toward. By the end of the film, you see that they have come close to finding this thing - much like the rest of us. We may never know what we're headed toward, but we know something will be waiting for us.

The film uses landscape, clothing, colour and light to communicate and reflect the story being told. All these elements do their job of assimilating into the context well, because the story still has a very stripped-down, bare feel, reflecting the emotional cliff both father and daughter find themselves on.

It's only 12 minutes long, and yet an entire lifetime seems to go by in that span. There are moments of fear and tenderness, i found myself relating to the relationship depicted more and more, and by the closing credits I had felt a shift in my heart. I hope you can take away something beautiful as well.

ps. did i mention music by Sigur Ros? oh, be still my heart!

#film #meredith #elle fanning #john hawkes #floria sigismundi #sigur ros