World Music: Jarret, "Nedávno"
(Czech Republic) Sometimes the artistic director of a video can take a song to an entire other level. That's what animator/director Pavel Sadilek has done with this enigmatic ballad from Jarret. While the lyric could be interpreted simply as a song about a sad love, the video brings in a gamut of associations though the use of antique postcards. ("Nedavno" means "not so long ago.") The images of people long dead connect the words to questions about mortality and sexual repression. Why should the subject of the song fear her own body, and need the shelter of a hospital? -- Why does the baby disappear? Why zoom in on the child with the horrified expression on her face? The song itself never tells us much, and the video feels like a book from which crucial chapters have been torn, leaving us mystified but moved, all the same.
(Czech Republic) Sometimes the artistic director of a video can take a song to an entire other level. That's what animator/director Pavel Sadilek has done with this enigmatic ballad from Jarret. While the lyric could be interpreted simply as a song about a sad love, the video brings in a gamut of associations though the use of antique postcards. ("Nedavno" means "not so long ago.") The images of people long dead connect the words to questions about mortality and sexual repression. Why should the subject of the song fear her own body, and need the shelter of a hospital? -- Why does the baby disappear? Why zoom in on the child with the horrified expression on her face? The song itself never tells us much, and the video feels like a book from which crucial chapters have been torn, leaving us mystified but moved, all the same.
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World Music: Jarret, "Nedávno"
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