ISIS - Holy Tears (2007)
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1. ISIS - Holy Tears (2007)
1 year ago
Directed by Dominic Hailstone
Music by ISIS
Starring Douglas Pledger
Produced by Dominic Hailstone in conjunction with Warp Films.
The video portrays the final seconds of a man's life.
It was made on a five thousand pound budget and took six months to make. There were no computer graphics employed in making this video.
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Aaron Turner from ISIS contacted me through a mutual friend and asked me to come up with ideas for a video. He asked for it to be based on the notes that he had made for the concept of the album - In the Absence of Truth.
Warp Films helped out with camera equipment and some production duties but 99% of the video was done by myself. Many thanks to Mary Burke and Ally Gipps at Warp and Douglas Pledger who was hung by his balls for a day to simulate freefall.
I can say that having fallen on my arm and my jaw and broken them, the video is somewhat autobiographical - The video does contains graphic imagery, so you have been warned.
If anybody has any questions please contact me at my myspace or facebook pages.
Cheers,
Dominic.
Music by ISIS
Starring Douglas Pledger
Produced by Dominic Hailstone in conjunction with Warp Films.
The video portrays the final seconds of a man's life.
It was made on a five thousand pound budget and took six months to make. There were no computer graphics employed in making this video.
-
Aaron Turner from ISIS contacted me through a mutual friend and asked me to come up with ideas for a video. He asked for it to be based on the notes that he had made for the concept of the album - In the Absence of Truth.
Warp Films helped out with camera equipment and some production duties but 99% of the video was done by myself. Many thanks to Mary Burke and Ally Gipps at Warp and Douglas Pledger who was hung by his balls for a day to simulate freefall.
I can say that having fallen on my arm and my jaw and broken them, the video is somewhat autobiographical - The video does contains graphic imagery, so you have been warned.
If anybody has any questions please contact me at my myspace or facebook pages.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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I've no idea how you made that without computer graphics!
I read this as an attempt of visualising the entirely non-human nature of an evolution, genesis, cosmos, man, God? The Other is where You cease to exist.
But everyone has this otherness within, and by virtue of that - one is forced to exist. Being a Man - an inescapable fall towards the final wholeness - is being in catastrophic discrepancy with oneself, which is fully resolved only in death.
It is said that some lyrics on "In the Absence of Truth" are inspired by muslim mysticism, namely Hassan I Sabbah. Rummors connected with him, training fanatical assasins, surely are easy to be associated with that grievous events.
Anyway title "Holy Tears" sound very kindred to medieval Middle Eastern poetry and mysticism. And in my opinion that eastern deity and cult are much more "inhuman" (by this I mean no abusive connotations, rather: non-anthropomorphous, non-humanistic, abstract) than we get used to in christian-based culture. So these allusions correspond with my intial interpretation.
There are connections but they're not concious on my part. I was actually quite shocked to see how the lyrics correspond to the video. I only read them a year after the video was made.
One thing is true that Isis music deals with the very existential matters. That "philosophicality" just shines through...
Any way, again I think they are both superb, although I don't really want to watch either of them again, but I think that just means you are doing what you set out to do.
The videos wouldn't exist without the music. Those are the pictures that appear when I close my eyes. The music came first so there's no seperating them.
And they're designed to be watched again and again, sorry you don't feel inclined.