Change Your Image
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Reviews
M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (1991)
all together now...
I was one of the countless ones who was very nearly ruined for new music and the visual arts by the advent of MTV. Just as avid readers hate the film versions of their favorite books, videos killed the buzz of music for me --- the video that invented itself in my head through the natural flow of the music was always infinitely better than (and unfortunately always replaced by) the video I saw on TV. And now, the "music" industry has morphed into a "writhing super model" industry where those with the most talent don't stand a chance: It's a beauty contest. Imagine my delight and surprise when I accidentally encountered this video / music / dance piece for TV, developed nearly a decade ago. I've never seen a more perfectly synthesized work for the visual arts. It combines visuals, music, and dance in a single-minded vision that seems sprung whole and phoenix-like from the spoils of our decadent popular culture. How on Earth did Greenaway and Andriessen and Craft manage to combine their extraordinary talents so seamlessly to create such a dazzling and unique and unified work of art? A work of art that lies shamelessly orthogonal to the hideous and vulgar and trite trends currently celebrated by our popular culture? My faith in the ability of man to eternally invent new expressions of beauty in life is restored.