Film Aesthetic Moodboards // Interstellar
We use to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.
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I need you to search up a few Rust Cohle edits on tiktok. That man is fine af 😍
oh mi amor you should have started by saying he was played by matthew fucking mcconaughey. . i have some kind of relationship with that man
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Icarus
Video: The Tree of Life, Interstellar, Sunshine, Armageddon, Knowing, Love, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cloud Atlas, Gravity, Contact
Audio: Varúð, by Sigur Rós
Published: Spring 2015
Edited by: macchinainterna (aka me)
We come to it at last, Icarus, my "opus." A wildly ambitious video that proved to be my undoing. Ironic, I know. What started as a simple, artsy video about the wonder of space over time morphed into my darkest and most nihilistic fears.
Icarus (I Dared), Poem written by Nate Lee
I dared
Not content to suffer my father’s fate
Not satisfied with a life spent in wait
I looked to the sky for escape, for release
Seeking adventure above the moment’s peace
On wings of wax and feather, I took flight
Heart pounding with excitement, fear, and delight
Briefly I recalled the warning I was told
That to challenge nature, for a man was too bold
Still I learned
Onward and upward with wings unfurled
Bravely exploring the uncharted world
Challenging the limits that were set for a man
I looked down at the world as only gods can
Then, in that freedom that no other had known
I claimed the clouds, the very sky as my own
But even as far as I had come to rise
I saw greater heights when I lifted my eyes
Still I dared
When others dare not dream to come so far
I lost myself reaching out for a star
In the cool of the pure, uplifting night air
I forgot my grave warning and abandoned all care
I dared nature, creation, gods above and below
I dared all who would dare say where I could not go
And in daring the moon, it cowered away
Only to reveal the breaking of day
Helios set upon me in silent rage
To usher me back to my earthly cage
Still I dared
I turned my back to the light of the sun
Not yet finished with my brazen fun
But then a sinking in my heart I felt
As the wax of my wings started to melt
The new day declared that I would not remain
That the clouds and the sky were not my domain
I flapped harder and tried, but tumbled and fell
A descent from the heavens down into hell
Still I dared
The words of warning flooded into my ears
Returning with all of my forgotten fears
Having dared so greatly beyond mans’ reach
There was no aim for aid to beseech
The feathers flew apart, sealing my doom
While I glimpsed down at my watery tomb
And even though I was falling so fast
I fought each moment, up to my last
Some say it was foolish to even try
That I was crazed to think I could fly
And while most may only remember how I fared
A few will yet recall my name and know
I dared
Backstory
Icarus spent a year in planning and collecting the sources before I finally began work on the project. Editing it was a huge undertaking having ten video sources to work with and to scan over (hardly any of them short in length either). I found myself rewatching every movie two or three times, memorizing every scene so that I could use it later.
My ambition proved to be too much for me to handle alone, as I felt the video was still lacking something profound. That was when I turned to my childhood best friend Nate for inspiration. The two of us spent over a month going back and forth via email writing Icarus (I Dared), a poem meant to accompany the video and serve as its prologue.
What I never planned for was my IRL struggles at the time manifesting themselves into the video. A long, family blood feud and the severe depression I suffered from it both lead my creativity down a dark path while editing Icarus. Being in this emotional state evoked an existential fear that had long been dormant within me and became the climax of the video itself - nihilism and the futility of my own existence.
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