Helena recently showed me the music video to Tennyson’s Like What. It features Nikita, a blind child listening to the song and then describing what she imagines the visuals to be. The director for the video has then either filmed or used found footage to match as close as possible to Nikitas descriptions – it is by all intents and purposes a visual representation of audio. It fits well with my theme of the impairments of vision. And is something that might be worth replicating, expanding on or experimenting with. What I really like is how beautifully natural the footage is. There is a definite emphasis on nature and it just looks reeeally nice.
As the video states, Nikita has been blind since birth. It is amazing to see how excited she is to be a part of something like this. It seems as though she has accepted the way her imagination works and helps her make sense of the word.
Tennyson – Like What (Official Video) from FANTAVIOUS FRITZ on Vimeo.
– Gabe