MUSIC: "EBLA" BY E.S. POSTHUMUS
VIDEO SIZE: 11 MB
LENGTH: 04:15 minutes
NUMBER OF CLIPS: 82
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Re-Mastered & Rereleased: June 15, 2008
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COMMENTS: This was my first video. I wanted to use the music to direct me to focus on Mulder's emotional trials in seasons 3-4. Specifically, I was interested in his emotional investment in both mytharc and MOTW cases. Mytharc episodes such as NISEI/731 and TUNGUSKA/TERMA were used to compare and contrast with Mulder's emotional highs and lows in MOTW episodes such as PAPER HEARTS, THE FIELD WHERE I DIED, and UNRUHE.
In particular, I wanted to explore Mulder's emotional range and depth in trying circumstances, whether it is confronting Scully's illness in MOMENTO MORI, Scully's kidnapping in UNRUHE, his own near death in THE BLESSING WAY, the kidnapping of a child by a serial killer in PAPER HEARTS, or facing the possibility of amputation in TUNGUSKA.
Known as a feeling character as opposed to Scully's stoicism, I alternated between Mulder's subtle looks of fear, frustration, resignation, anxiety, and relief with moments of action and adrenaline. One of the real treats of watching this character is the subtle array of emotions when he is confronted by trauma and difficult decisions.
I chose a wide variety of clips with large sweeping angles to alternate with relatively static clips that forces one to concentrate on subtle emotions. This is because I felt the music has similar sweeping, elevating moments, with alternating interludes that contrast nicely, both musically and visually.
For these interludes, I picked moments that do not necessarily deal with a direct play of Mulder's emotions, but rather is inferred. These interludes often have a motif pattern in a short sequence. For example, different clips of hands, whether it be Scully's hands feeling up a wall of charcoal drawings in GROTESQUE, Albert Hosteen wiping away a sand painting in THE BLESSING WAY, or John Lee Roche's oddly sensual and creepy exit from an interrogation room in PAPER HEARTS, these images of hands emphasizes the tactile sense in the formation of feeling for the characters, as well as for the viewers.
