Music Video Musings: LORN - ANVIL

With Halloween having just passed, and finding ourselves firmly in fall in the northern hemisphere, I think this piece about "harvest" is quite suited.

For reference some of the notes in the video's description.

"The year 2100. In an effort to combat overpopulation, the postmortem social network "Anvil" is released."

The monochromatic starkness of the video is quite eye catching, and you can see the obvious respect for other works like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and the works of Moebius.

I am not entirely sure which program they used to make the visuals put has the implied depth effects that I often seen in blender based works, and that oddity to the visuals really helps give a sense of unreality.

While being a very dark and moody piece, there is also a strong element of eroticism, which might be a comment of the the Anvil SMS being self soothing like our own SMS, or a remark on sex's purpose in our existences which are innately tied to death, especially what that would mean in an over populated 2100.

Ghost in the Shell's Author, Masamune Shiro, often uses sex, and sexualized characters in his works as a visual spice, common in manga/anime, but also he approaches it frankly as a part of human nature, and as something that effects our actions, and I think this video does well in reflecting that.

I will note it might feel like it's a piece made to be edgy, and it undeniably is, but I think it achieves that well hewn

gleam sincerely, and in a way that I find some unique value in.

On the note of my own viweing of this, one thing that stand out watching this piece is that I was kinda surprised to realize at the end that it is entirely instrumental, because it seemed to be telling a really weighty story, but used not a word, not spoken nor sung, was said.

The visual direction really plays with beat in a way that I deeply appreciate, but find uncomfortable, which might sum up my experience of this video quite nicely.

Thanks for reading, tty'alll.