Source unknown – Title Unknown (201X)
It feels like this clip’s raison d’etre is: Beautiful Agony is cool and all but wouldn’t the format be improved by a more DIY approach.
As you can see there’s trade offs. this avoids BA’s almost universal flatness by setting the action in what appears to be a field in the waning light of the evening golden hour.
Instead of the crisp, clear sound, gusts of wind completely exceed the range of the on-camera mic–resulting in cringe inducing soundtrack blow outs.
Also, I don’t really understand the framing. Yes, it allows reasonably wide coverage wherever the subject moves. But the tripod in the lower right corner is distracting.
Perhaps that’s the point: a sort of Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket-esque meta commentary (the numerous dolly shots that track camera men shooting similar tracking shots); but it comes off as a little too ambiguous to successfully tic that box.
Criticisms aside there are some goddamn fucking phenomenal things to celebrate here. When the sound is clear, there’s texture and timbre to it that conveys a blush worthy degree of explication to any otherwise implicit image. Further, it’s lovely how the cruddy video renders the patina of sweat in the dying light.
But as if that wasn’t enough where this clip actually comes into its own, is when you realize the seemingly orgasmic echoes are the result of a second woman–who is very much like the woman we are watching, positioned facing a camera mounted on the tripod visible in the lower right corner.
Acetylene Eyes 