Textual Healing? (+ music video!)

Film is a visual medium. And yet, I see more and more efforts to make it a textual one. As a passionate logophile, not just cinephile, I am delighted by these hybrid presentations. A. Jonathan Benny‘s hilarious documentary, OUTDOORSMEN, was one of the first films to make an impression for the emphasis established by short snippets of dialogue being repped on screen in varying sizes and colors. Of course, there have been many such experiments since and some before. (But you never forget your first time, right?)

Music video explores the lyrical marriage of picture and text regularly. Look back to the cue card screed of Bob Dylan‘s Subterranean Homesick Blues in DA Pennebaker‘s influential rock doc or the somewhat glib INXS update, Mediate, that violates and defecates on all that predates… it. Below, a more magical spin on the union of word and image as envisioned by Ross Ching in his ‘unauthorized’ video for Death Cab For Cutie‘s Little Bribes,* a song about what happens in Vegas that needn’t stay in Vegas. Enjoy.

“Text” me your thoughts?

Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

* I discovered this gem on http://www.chrisbrogan.com/. Thanks, Chris!