Multi: Flickers by lola

[chaila]

Vid Title: Flickers
Vidder: lola
Fandom: Multifandom (Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Revenge)
Summary: Girls + technology = ? "And with my opened mouth, I join the singing lights."
Reccer's Comments: This one's very recent! It's a really fascinating concept and very focused execution, combining text, including media/academic/feminist theory, technology and representations of women and technology in these shows. Different effects technology have on the young women are explored, from the creepy objectification of them by others through surveillance and technology, to the women taking control of the means of media and technology production themselves. The feeling in the vid is really layered and ambiguous, which I'm sort of fascinated by. It's neither warning nor triumphant girl power, but it does have a strong theme of the power that these young women gain through their use of technology and their connectivity to each other--flickers, like all the screens in the dark.

Dollhouse: Youkali by hazelk

[chaila]

Posting this on behalf of amnisias, who cannot post here with OpenID. Sorry, everyone, I really thought you could post in Dreamwidth comms with LJ OpenIDs, but apparently this is not the case. Sorry for the inconvenience! I am thinking of ways around this. In the meantime, you can PM me with all the html code and I'll post it for you, or you can comment with your OpenID to the challenge post, and I'll either post them separately or, if there are a lot, make some kind of masterpost including those recs. Other suggestions welcome!

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Written by amnisias:

Title: Youkali
Vidder: hazelk
Fandom: Dollhouse
Reccer's Comments: Why haven't I seen this before? What an amazing idea - a dollhouse vid from a doll POV set to a French Weil song - and beautifully executed. I loved the dream-like, disjointed flow of non-narrative that captures the doll experience so perfectly. Normally I'm not a big fan of excessive use of FX, but here they are totally fitting, they perfectly match the FX in the source and are such a great visulal representation of the de/reactivating of the dolls. It visually differentiates the confusion the dolls must feel when they are thrown in or jerked out of a reallity and the -false- sense of clarity and stability if they are in any given reality that is not their own.

I also really like how the vidder used long slow clips and short fast clips to create an interal, visual rhythm that keeps the viewers interest right to the end. It complements the music - by the way, inspired choice there - so well!

I would highly recommend this vid to fans of Dollhouse, to people who like a more avangarde vid style (this reminds me of some of kiki_miserychic's vids) and anybody who is a vidder.

bitch (dark angel by mresundance)

[archersangel]

Vid Title: bitch
Vidder: mresundance
Fandom: Dark Angel
Summary: A celebration of Max, a totally awesome bitch-goddess, and the man who loves her. They wouldn't want it any other way. (quoting the vidder)
Reccer's Comments: i've only watched a few episodes of dark angel, but i think this song fits max.