Outlands – “Com Ocean (Mirror Kisses ‘Bad Dream’ Remix)” (Official Video)

Nov 13, 2012 by     11 Comments    Posted under: Sights, Videos  

Virginia’s Outlands are responsible for a track that’s taken on a life of its own this year. “Com Ocean” is of such resplendence it’s invited tons of artists to offer their own interpretations of the original. A remix EP, featuring contributions from by Sacred Animals, Mirror Kisses, Heat Stroke, TEXTBEAK, DEFA, and Tokyo Hands, is out on the 20th of November on the pair’s bandcamp as a free download.

We’ve got the premiere of the video for Mirror Kisses’ stunning ‘Bad Dream’ remix. Directed by Synesthesiae films, it’s a harrowing sequence of patterns and glimpses of reality, like something out of a beautiful nightmare.

Synesthesiae had this to say about the vid:

I was determined to put together something that visually did their remix justice. I was trying to use visuals that touch on themes like the nightmares you could`ve had as a child. things like spontaneous levitation and shifting of environment, or darker themes like people you know, who would never hurt you in real life, hurting and strangling you or killing you…Dreams that you can explain no other way than as just ‘out of place’. A scream you may hear in the micro-second between dreaming and waking in the night and makes you momentarily question:”did I just hear that in my dream, or real life?” 

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  • http://twitter.com/MirrorKissesVA Mirror Kisses

    coool thanks

  • Portals Troll

    Doesn’t Tscherkassky technically “steal” others’ footage as well… seems like an irrelevant argument.

  • SYN_FILMS

    Peter Tscherkassky himself is a found footage maker(ALL THE FOOTAGE FOUND IN ‘OUTERSPACE’ IS SAMPLED!), not sure if you got you`re facts straight but I never claimed to own the footage… and neither does Tscherkassky…

    • http://twitter.com/Cactus_Mouth Ian Stanley

      Daayum!

    • http://www.facebook.com/flyestbuttress Bethany Schmitt

      LOL

    • http://smokedontsmoke.com/ Tim

      laser pointer

  • http://twitter.com/MirrorKissesVA Mirror Kisses

    regardless of whats going on here i dont appreciate the use of gay and fag as derogatory terms

    • http://twitter.com/Cactus_Mouth Ian Stanley

      Your eloquent grasp of the English language is breathtaking.

  • anonymous

    the video is by a filmmaker named Peter Tscherkassky – don’t know who this Synthesthesiae joker is but he basically just ripped it off and put his name on it

    • cockspit

      yea there was already a long comment thread regarding this but these jokers deleted it. also check out his other videos – he rips off a lot of experimental filmmakers – takashi ito, toshio matsumoto .. in some cases doesn’t even edit the videos. really quite offensively lame.

    • cockspit

      yea there was already a long comment thread regarding this but these jokers deleted it. homeboy thinks it’s not technically a rip off since peter tscherkassky is a ‘found footage filmmaker too’. what he fails to realize is that while there is nothing wrong with appropriating footage for your own purposes, the work needs to be your own. for outer space, tscherkassky used an unmodified print of The Entity- aka, the theatrical version of the film, same as you can rent from the store or view online. All of the optical effects you see were created solely by Tscherkassy using a variety of analog processes (NOT WITH A COMPUTER, PEOPLE) that ended up taking him years to complete. point being – you cannot recreate these effects unless you put in the same work, which, again took YEARS. so yea, this fool basically just tinted the whole thing pinkish in after effects and slapped his own name on it. the really offensive thing is that he won’t even credit Tscherkassky on his video, even when prodded, probably because he knows if people saw the original film, they’d realize he pretty much did absolutely nothing. Furthermore, the defense that Tscherkassky is a ‘found footage filmmaker too’ does not hold up in the context of his other videos, because like I already mentioned, he rips off other filmmakers, particularly Takashi Ito and Toshio Matsumoto, both filmmakers who for the most part DID NOT USE FOUND FOOTAGE. For example he used Takashi Ito’s ‘GRIM’ without even editing it. But yea, this comment will probably be deleted, as were the others.