Lisel - Mirage
2019 · 4m · USA
Directed by Harrison Atkins
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: surreal, theatrical
A music video for artist Lisel featuring choreography and performance art, with Marilyn Price credited as 'the camera operator' among a cast of four performers. The video blurs performer and crew roles as part of its conceptual design.
Picked by Zoe
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Atkins finds a quiet structural joke in the credit line and then builds the whole visual logic around it — collapsing the camera into the choreography feels less like a gimmick and more like a genuine thesis about what pop video imagery costs its performers.
"Camera operator" as a character credit — clever wink. But it's a four-person performer-credit puzzle where I cannot tell if the conceit actually pays off cinematically.
Harrison Atkins gives one performer the credit 'the camera operator' inside the fiction — collapsing the subject/documentarian distinction within the video's own logic. Wendy Morgan-adjacent and conceptually clean.