The Absolute Film

Absolute film to me is how I visualize cinema. To me, they are animated music videos with no lyrics, but from a historic perspective I suppose it would be the other way around. I love music videos for the reason that editing to the beat of the music isn't frowned upon as much. I have a screen in my mind when I hear music. On this screen, I have a character lip syncing, usually one of my friends, to the lyrics of the song. The scenery is a recreation of what I imagine the song to look like. The beat of the song dictates the cuts made and sometimes I even imagine choreography.

I can describe an example of this from a recent video I thought of from the song "True Disaster" by Tove Lo. The song is fast paced, electronic, and dark. She is singing about a love that is forbidden yet unavoidable. I picture a black haired woman in her twenty's lying on the perpendicular to the wall with her feet in the air. The entire scene is neon red to represent her inner burning desire to be with the one she loves. She stares at the screen upside down with the camera rotating her face to represent her world being turned upside down over and over again as she keeps doubting herself.

While this description is rough, I hope it creates a clear enough image for how I picture music. I feel this is similar to how creators of absolute film view music, which is why I appreciate it.

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