![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
To vid this girl you have to love her
Apr. 19th, 2006 08:02 pmBriefly surfacing because it’s my posting day at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
buffy_love. Which got me thinking about the dearth of Buffy character vids being a shame because the few that exist are all remarkable and in very different ways. So here are some recommendations from the past year or so:
Walk the Walk by Nicole Annell is almost the perfect Buffy song. Although she doesn’t so much talk about being an iconoclast as just go out and be one. Plenty of beautifully edited action with a dip into the horror of it for the bridge followed by the ultimate come back.
Scooby Road by luminosity. Do I need to rec this? It is, as sisabet pointed out in her review, called Scooby and not Slayer road but every track has a Buffy to it according to Lum. Even when she’s only momentarily present as in Something. Seven seasons in 40 minutes. Go. Download. Or if you have it already you know you want to play it again. Go on. It’s just one little click.
Polaroid Millennium by gywnneth. Snapshots of a death foretold. Strictly this is a Buffy-Giles vid but cladistics be dammed it’s a beautiful, elegiac piece of work showing the sadder wiser Buffy of the later years. Maybe it’s the Giles of it but the whole vid has an almost English feel throughout, very Brief Encounter out of For Whom We Serve that acts in poignant counterpoint to the daylight candy colouring of much of the action/inaction.
Without a Sound by Butterfly This one really expresses the resilience of the girl. You knock her down but she gets up again and the ending blending her first return from death with the not quite final shot of Chosen, as she faces her open road, is both inspired and inspiring.
Suburbia by Dualbunny A short Buffy vidlet beautifully edited and again drawing out the links between her beginnings and her end but here focussing heartbreakingly on her darkest before dawn moments. This is my beaten down, existentialist, season seven Buffy who feels every killing of every potential Slayer because it happened to her, she was that girl, she died that death, she knows.
buffy_love. Which got me thinking about the dearth of Buffy character vids being a shame because the few that exist are all remarkable and in very different ways. So here are some recommendations from the past year or so:Walk the Walk by Nicole Annell is almost the perfect Buffy song. Although she doesn’t so much talk about being an iconoclast as just go out and be one. Plenty of beautifully edited action with a dip into the horror of it for the bridge followed by the ultimate come back.
Scooby Road by luminosity. Do I need to rec this? It is, as sisabet pointed out in her review, called Scooby and not Slayer road but every track has a Buffy to it according to Lum. Even when she’s only momentarily present as in Something. Seven seasons in 40 minutes. Go. Download. Or if you have it already you know you want to play it again. Go on. It’s just one little click.
Polaroid Millennium by gywnneth. Snapshots of a death foretold. Strictly this is a Buffy-Giles vid but cladistics be dammed it’s a beautiful, elegiac piece of work showing the sadder wiser Buffy of the later years. Maybe it’s the Giles of it but the whole vid has an almost English feel throughout, very Brief Encounter out of For Whom We Serve that acts in poignant counterpoint to the daylight candy colouring of much of the action/inaction.
Without a Sound by Butterfly This one really expresses the resilience of the girl. You knock her down but she gets up again and the ending blending her first return from death with the not quite final shot of Chosen, as she faces her open road, is both inspired and inspiring.
Suburbia by Dualbunny A short Buffy vidlet beautifully edited and again drawing out the links between her beginnings and her end but here focussing heartbreakingly on her darkest before dawn moments. This is my beaten down, existentialist, season seven Buffy who feels every killing of every potential Slayer because it happened to her, she was that girl, she died that death, she knows.