Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Moving Pictures Umbrella Tree: New Video for 'Child Bride'
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Umbrella Tree, "Child Bride." Video by derekpearson.
Apparently, this is just the first in a series of 15 videos planned to accompany a new Umbrella Tree album, to be called The Letter C. As someone with a bit of an electric typewriter fetish, I love to see an old Smith Corona in action--an effect that places a pretty heavy emphasis on the lyrical content of the song, as phrases are typed, scrolled and magnified throughout. I'd say a lot of those lyrics lend themselves to visual representation (developing photos, the look of bedroom walls in the morning and so forth), but something about focusing on the text itself creates an odd effect of its own, and really, the song's narrative stays a lot weirder because your only image of it is mental. (Kind of like the way a book is often much more powerful than the film version, because the imagination is limitless the way a picture can never be.)
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