Wanna Know What Love Is
2014 · 2m · Latvia
Directed by Santa France
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: absurdist, humorous, surreal
An experimental remix video using content-aware fill and digital manipulation to deconstruct familiar pop-music imagery — the Foreigner song's earnestness fed through a glitch filter.
Picked by Felix
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Santa France ran Foreigner's cheese-anthem through content-aware fill until it dissolved into something genuinely strange — two minutes of algorithmic emotional surgery.
Santa France running the Foreigner song through content-aware fill applied to porn footage — algorithmic erasure as remix gesture is genuinely 2014-Latvia-internet, and the Tumblr-era weirdness has aged into something almost archival.
Content-aware fill used as a filmmaking tool on a Foreigner song — Santa France's algorithm-eating-itself aesthetic is exactly the kind of formal idea I want from experimental remix. Two minutes well spent.