Hox Vox - Étoile - 07 - Jeanne d'Arc

Track is about a great female historical figure, Joan of Arc, juxtaposed to middle east singers, and a quirky muezzin.
I worked with paint effects on some footages about Crusades, Jeanne d'Arc and east europe (looking like a little middle east) singers. Track is, briefly, about the juxtaposition of western guitar arpeggios and middle east vocals.

My intention was putting together women from both sides in Cusades: a western woman, the "étoile" in this case, which dared to act like a male soldier in a demented inquisition environment; and docile eastern singers. They got no moments of glory followed by dying on a pyre, but a continuous subordination, so actually it's a pondering about women's troubles in western or eastern world. Different ways and degrees of cruelty, same patriarchism.

Clip simply follow this scheme and adds a movie picture support. I needed just a couple of days to finish it as it's a "punk" expression in videomaking. This time I tried to catch the result on the fly, without exceeding in refurbishing every single frame. Not a draft, but a quicker language. And a different subject, it wasn't the right place to unleash some After Effects frenzy quirknesses. At the opposite, I worked on slow motion footages, to achieve a relaxed but a little gloomy mood.

I found quite cruel in the last sequence to put side by side Jeanne d'Arc in flames and a smiling singer. It was not intended as a revenge of muslim on a christian, but the cruelty in life itself. While one is dying, the other is enjoying his art.

Song and videoclip are both released by Hox (Gianluca Missero) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

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Music

Tags:

• Rock in Opposition
• avant
• progressive
• middle east
• world
• post-rock
• joan of arc
• rock
• animation
• cartoon
• toon
• Étoile
• Hox Vox
• Gianluca Missero
• Creative Commons
• Adobe After FX
• animated
• thrash
• Avantprog
• Avant-prog
• music
• cartoons

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[SuperLilith2009]

Penso tu sia veramente bravissimo, una fucina di idee...mi chiedo cosa tu ci faccia ancora disoccupato....