There Is A River
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Adinah Dancyger, Kaya Wilkins
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: contemplative, sensual, surreal
Four music videos for Okay Kaya's album Watch This Liquid Pouring Itself are stitched into a single travel-diary of bodies, water, and mental weather. Locations range from Japanese onsens to European cliffs to a psychiatric ward, all chopped together across Mini DV, Super 8, GoPro, and iPhone.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Music videos pretending to be a film usually fail upward into perfume-ad territory. This one earns the long form by treating every format change as a mood swing.
Four music videos treated as one continuous somatic essay across MiniDV, Super 8, GoPro, and iPhone — Dancyger and Wilkins use format-switching as emotional work, which is a sophisticated move. Okay Kaya's album is good company.
Four music videos for Okay Kaya stitched as one travel-diary across Mini DV, Super 8, GoPro, and iPhone — the format-switching itself doing emotional work on healing/sexuality/mental weather is the smartest possible answer to "album short."