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The Union Forever

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Uploaded on Apr 25, 2007

The Union Forever is a found footage piece I edited in 2004. The song, with the same title, is performed by the White Stripes. All of the lyrics and one of the melodies come from Citizen Kane, which makes it a reimaginging of the film as a song. I thought it would be interesting to use this technique of reappropriation to translate the song back into images. All of the footage comes from the original film, but my editing stays away from the long take. I tried to see if the shots with deep focus could still be effective without seeing them for an extended period of time.
All of my films are available on my website, jackmetier.com, with much higher image quality.

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  • Jefferson Andrade

    it may be a stupid question.. but what is the name of this movie? (and sorry for the poor english, 'cause i'm brazilian, and i'm not that good on speaking english ;) ) ty

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    The movie is "Citizen Kane"

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  • CazzaTheSpazza

    This is awesome.

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  • joefrommo117

    Really nicely done. Bravo.

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  • Bobby Howard

    fuck yes. one of my favorite songs, and an incredible movie. nice editing too

    

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  • Will Landers

    under great white northern lights. loook up that with the union forever and it should show up

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  • Joseph Naps

    Makes me miss Nirvana

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  • MartyMcSuperFly100

    Fantastic song but i still enjoy the live versions; sadly all the ones I have found are of bad quality. Does anyone know where i can find a live recording of this song of decent sound quality?

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  • PedroGuerra0723

    This song always gave me the chills, and this footage is exactly what I imagine every time I listen to the song. Thanks man, you are a genius

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  • Lauren Smith

    Jack and Orson... so amazing.

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  • qtbrown

    excellent!

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  • citizenthom

    Good stuff

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  • JoyGrenade

    This. Is. Fucking. Awesome.

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