The shimmering figures and leaping silhouettes in the images above come from a segment of a music video for the song "Swoon", a single by the British electronic act "The Chemical Brothers". The video itself is by directors Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall, and is a recut of a scene in a film, by the same directors, which was scored by the album from which the single in the video originates. However, despite role of music in the formation of these images, I find that the imagery of the video has a kind resonant power all its own. It seems obvious, to my perspective, that there is a representational aspect of the work that recalls the idea of love, through the imagery of a woman and a man falling through space etc. By my view, however, the power of the work exceeds this mere representational possibility. Certain elements of the work, the synchronization of the textures within the silhouettes, or the weightless and dream-like motion of the figures, seem to express to some aspect of the experience of love, most importantly, in a particular way in which language fails to.
Here is a link to the full video (~3:00) just in case anyone is curious and would like to see the the full production, with music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCp_3zw-CxA
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